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I'm a tetrachromat if that counts. That means instead of seeing just the regular six color groups most people see, I can see 25% more colors on top of that.
Here's me with my red-green deficiency already jealous of standard colour vision
Honestly, practically-speaking, you aren't missing out on too much. Color isn't as crucial a detail outside of aesthetics. Plus I imagine you have the perfect excuse for running a red light and committing fashion crimes.
Haha unfortunately on the red front I can see red, but I miss many of the shades. It's not so much can't see red but all reds look the same, reddy browns just look brown, pinky reds just look pink, purples are harder to distinguish from blue.
No getting out of red lights, unfortunately
You must be a woman. As far as I can tell, that only happens in women.
This is correct. In fact, the same gene manifests differently in men even if they had it. In men, if anything, it hinders color. Or so that's what my doctor told me.
How did you and your doctor confirm you are tetrachromatic? I find all your replies here fascinating, I hope you don't mind another question!
It wasn't my doctor that first found out, it was my school. Just as there are ways people can realize someone is colorblind, there are ways people might realize that someone is a tetrachromat. I remember often feeling something was off when we were describing colors in school and little me was like "wait a minute, why does this feel incomplete?"
Very interesting! Thanks for the response.
Nice! You should read the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks if you like Fantasy novels.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/291662-lightbringer
Yes, every superchromat should read this series.
I'm apparently one of the only men in the world who have something akin to that, it's similar but not as strong from what I've been told. Never once met another man with a better colour sense than me.
I am weirdly envious. That sounds so cool!
could you elaborate on what you mean by "more colours"? like infra red or ultraviolet? or do you mean your eyes have an extra colour cone that gives you more precise information about colours so that it's easier for you to tell them apart?
A human's eyes see color because of cones in the eyes. Each one corresponds to a different range of wavelengths; one cone corresponds to red, one to yellow or green, and one to blue. Tetrachromats have four cones.
Look outside at the nearest flower. To you, it could be just yellow, but we might see some cyan or teal that other people don't. This is how crows, which we typically assume are all identically black, often recognize each other so well; they have five or six color cones I think, and amongst themselves, they look like they have the colors of a parakeet.
We can see new colors too. They are difficult to describe, though the best way to describe them is to ask you to think of the most neon-esque colors you can think of and think of all the dimensions and hues you might have never seen and which take on a life of their own. These new colors stretch beyond the ordinary boundaries of the rainbow but loop around in the same way.
fascinating!
no need to answer if you don't want to, i don't want to make you feel like it's an interview or anything but i do wonder -
how does art look to you? do you sometimes see colours that are wrong that someone has used without knowing they're there? do digital things look inherently less colourful since they only emit the light that 3 colour coned people can perceive?
Yes, I do occasionally see colors in art that aren't there. Not to scare people, but in traditional art, it almost seems like smudges, and I can actually attest even some very classic works of art have some peculiar color arrangements when you see them in person. In digital art, you would be right; it's like a regular person watching one of those lowkey noire movies or sports movies that voluntarily reduce the color output.
woah! thank you for answering! :D some really cool eyes you've got there
What does the color addon look like?
What do you mean, like the add-ons for technology? Technology, as it turns out, is biased towards trichromacy. When using a device or watching footage, you just get the red/green/yellow/blue experience because that's all that's programmed in the pixels. It's to me what watching a noire movie is to a person who sees the normal range of colors.
This is absolutely insane to me as a trichromatic person. I envy the richness of the world that you see