Whoa….

Does everybody see the same colors? Does my blue look the same as your blue? Or if I were to see blue the way you see it, would I say “that’s not blue, it’s red!” Or to me would it be some shade completely unrecognizable and possibly indescribable?

Because if you think about it, it really doesn’t matter how we see colors. All that matters is that we learn to recognize them the way we’re taught. I point at a color and tell my daughter “green”, and she learns what green is, but that doesn’t mean her green looks anything like mine. I only know what green is because my mom pointed at a color and said “green”. No one can see through another’s eyes (or with another’s visual cortex) so we have no way of knowing.

Think about that the next time you’re really high.