Not intentional. It's clearly their unconscious visual processing systems that are making exactly the interpretation you describe. Some people undoubtedly do that "calculation" consciously, but from my own experience, that isn't always the case. I saw it as white and gold initially myself and I couldn't tell you why, exactly, but it wasn't any kind of "calculation" I was doing consciously. In fact, I only started seeing it as black and blue after "calculating" that it was so and squinting at specific parts of the image. Now I can't see it any other way, but before that it really did look white and gold.
They say that it depends on to which part of the image your eyes glanced first. If on the background, you’d try to attribute the blue to the lighting, etc. Since you can’t un-see things (except for Star Wars apparently, because I am watching it now for the first time, for the second time, since I apparently blocked it all out the first time around), you would forever-after mentally compensate one way or another. If you saw the background first, apparently you see a white dress after.
I might be naive but calling something with a blue tint “white” can only happen if you calculated it so.
Aren’t you a tiniest-bit curious as to why people would call a blue dress white? It’s blue. And very clearly so. But people call it white. Even though it always retains a blue tint no matter the lighting conditions. It’s blue, and very obviously so. So what causes people to say otherwise?
I stated how thankful I was for the temporary brain impairment that allowed me to understand people who can’t recognize shapes before.
I sincerely would like to gain the same understanding of those who think it is a white dress. I sincerely want to know: Are they really seeing white? Are they calculating it to be white? Are they over-thinking it? Under-thinking it? What is it like to see that image and think it is a white dress? I truly want to know.
Very polite of you to insinuate that anyone who doesn't perceive the world you do is broken in some way, though.
Very polite of you to insinuate that when I see a blue dress where there is a blue dress, it means that my perception is the ultimate authority on all matters even outside of the blue dress. Calling you an idiot for that comment doesn’t seem outside the bounds of reason, but I’ve always been known as the forgiving one. Live and let live, I always say.
People who perceive the world as I do are broken.
I don’t see some optical illusions that people should see if their brains are processing things in the correct order. I saw them correctly as a child, but 2 days ago I watched a video full of them and in many cases I had already seen them, yet this time around the effect just didn’t happen for me.
This is supposed to create a nifty-puff effect:
It did as recently as 2 years ago.
It doesn’t anymore. Now it’s a flat image to me. Same as several other images that used to have “movement”.
Anyone who perceives the world as I do is also going to suffer the same fate as I will shortly. Fuck you for considering that my way is the non-broken way. But I can still see a blue dress as being blue, not white.
L. Spiro
