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The Dress.

What is the color of this dress?

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[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's just not possible for it to be white and gold.

[–] EherNicht@feddit.org 29 points 2 months ago

And it for real isn’t.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

🎵 Whether you hear it as Laurel or Yanny,

Whether you prefer Oliver or Annie,

Brainstorm, Green Needle

Terrence Howard, Don Cheadle,

Still white and gold to me-e-e. 🎶

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I can't hear it.

Edit: I can hear it now.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Brainstorm Green needle one is fun, because you can also make it say Brain needle and Green Storm as well, its interactive.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social -4 points 2 months ago

Have fun being wrong!

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is no consensus on why the dress elicits such discordant perceptions.[31] The neuroscientists Bevil Conway and Jay Neitz believe they are a result of how the human brain perceives colour and chromatic adaptation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#Scientific_explanations

The interesting thing, for me, is how people's reactions to the dress sparked that many studies of the phenomenon.

[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The interesting thing for me is how badly I want one side to be wrong and one to be right. It's weird that that feeling is there and so strong... for something seemingly insignificant

[–] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I mean we do know what color the dress actually was: Blue and black

Edit: https://www.roman.co.uk/thedress

[–] Mango@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alright buddy. I'll fight you. It's definitely white and gold.

[–] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You can perceive it however you want but the manufacturer was found and it was blue and black. Kinda figured that would be common knowledge by now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

The dress was black and blue, but the conditions of the photograph caused many to perceive it as white and gold, creating debate. Within a week, more than ten million tweets had mentioned the dress. The retailer of the dress, Roman Originals, reported a surge in sales and produced a one-off version in white and gold sold for charity.

https://www.roman.co.uk/thedress

[–] akakunai@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bruh...it still looks gold and white.

[–] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Sorry your brain isn't processing the image right

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

You will fit right in here at Lemmy... :p

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Me neither. Usually I can twist my brain to see illusions the other way, but even covering up the surroundings doesn't flip it

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that's interesting. Like you I can usually flip these back and forth. I only know it can be seen differently because half the world reports they see it differently. Weird, eh?