Theoretical example of what various types of colorblind people likely see

[Stillwater]

http://colorvisiontesting.com/what%20colorblind%20people%20see.htm

I thought this was interesting. Not particularly new or anything, but I always wondered how the world appeared to colorblind people.

The idea makes sense- for a red-green colorblind person, it is like going into photoshop and desaturating the red or the green part of the spectrum. They variance between them fades into a single hue and only value and intensity can be used to distinguish.

Sort of funny that they would totally miss a red berry bush out in the wild. Must have been a terrible disadvantage in hunter-gather days.

[personalreality]

i'm color blind.

i have difficulty distinguishing dark green or brown from red.

i also can't tell the difference between blue and purple, it all looks blue to me.

[Stookie]

Aren't there cases of color blindness being psychological? Like you can't distinguish red because of a haunting moment that's associated with red, or something like that? Maybe it was just a movie I saw.

[personalreality]

i've never heard of that before, but i'm not disputing the possibility.

i do know that all of the men on my mom's father's side are colorblind.

[Ruu]

Interesting. My sister used to tease me about me being colour blind all the time. I can see where the psychological aspect comes in to some cases.

Luke~

[WASD]

Cool site. It would be very strange to see like the images show but i guess it feels normal to the colorblind just as what we see (mostly) feels normal to us.

[blis]

i'm color blind.

i have difficulty distinguishing dark green or brown from red.

i also can't tell the difference between blue and purple, it all looks blue to me.

Is it any different when you're projecting? Do you see a greater variety of colours or anything?

[personalreality]

i gotta be honest, aside from having trouble distinguishing reds and greens and blues and purples, I've never really had any trouble otherwise.  I mean, you all may "see things differently", but to me this is just normal.  Though I don't see colors like they show in those pictures, that's just extreme.  I would think that for the most part I see colors in a very similar way as everyone else.  I also don't really think anyone sees colors in the same way because of personal history with colors (like stookie's psychological colorblindness question). 

but as far as I can tell, there is no difference between the way I see color in waking reality vs. astral projection.  maybe it's something i'll have to investigate more, i don't know.  i never really thought about it before.