Am I colour blind or there was something going on??

[cheez_2806]

about two hours ago I was heading home in a car I was driving along happily then on a red light I was checking out the rear view mirror and saw this grey Porsche.

So I thought why do most people buy their Porsche grey, then I looked at it again and thought hum...its quiet flat then I thought I wonder if my dad could fit in...then I looked at the rear view mirror again it was gone. It changed lanes to my right then the car was actually red.

Then I went huh? wasn't it grey before??
I don't know it could be the sun or light but there was no sun today , its cloudy with a bit of showers today...
it could have turned somewhere but I was on the highway packed with cars becoz of peak hour. it could merge but there wasn't any places to turn not until after this traffic light.

Has anyone had similar experience or know whether this is a phenomenon that could occur even though I could be seeing some elses car...no..I know what I saw...I think...

Si

[folotheflo]

it could have been a good pearlescent paint job, although it need's to be sunny to work best. or maybe they have worked out how to replicate the pigment changing cell's in nature. it could have been a hologram, hell, in today's world, it really could have been all sort's of things. keep your eye's peeled bro !

[Tony]

As a artist I find colour fascinating. I maintain that true colours cannot be seen, as they are always seen in some light source. Either sunlight, or blue sky or grey day. Then there is the reflection from other objects. I've come to the conclusion that colours can only be seen in a blackened room..with no lights on!

Perhaps that is where I should be kept!

[NeverMind]

I've come to the conclusion that colours can only be seen in a blackened room..with no lights on!

Only, they do not actually exist when light is absent.
The configuration of molecules of each object that makes light observable as this or that "colour" exists, of course, but without the wavelength of light there is nothing to bring them out. They do not exist.

Isn't that mind-boggling? :)

P.S. I drew a great laugh in a classroom when I was around thirteen and I asked the teacher about the "inherent" colour of things in total darkness (I did not use the word "inherent", :)). It was then that I realised for the first time that teachers can be stupid.
A few years later, however, another teacher showed me that not every teacher is stupid. :-)

[Setras]

is your rear view mirror anti glare, does it darken the reflection at night or when you have the headlights on, if so where your lights on and was the colour change evident in a different mirror?

[KosmicKat]

As a artist I find colour fascinating. I maintain that true colours cannot be seen, as they are always seen in some light source.

What we see is not the color of an object, but the color of the light reflected from it. Depending on your point of view, the true color of an object is the color of the light which it absorbs. So a beautiful grassy lawn is really magenta!

[markpierre]

about two hours ago I was heading home in a car I was driving along happily then on a red light I was checking out the rear view mirror and saw this grey Porsche.

So I thought why do most people buy their Porsche grey, then I looked at it again and thought hum...its quiet flat then I thought I wonder if my dad could fit in...then I looked at the rear view mirror again it was gone. It changed lanes to my right then the car was actually red.

Then I went huh? wasn't it grey before??
I don't know it could be the sun or light but there was no sun today , its cloudy with a bit of showers today...
it could have turned somewhere but I was on the highway packed with cars becoz of peak hour. it could merge but there wasn't any places to turn not until after this traffic light.

Has anyone had similar experience or know whether this is a phenomenon that could occur even though I could be seeing some elses car...no..I know what I saw...I think...

Si


I had a Matchbox car, I believe it was a Firebird, that when you held it in your hands for 20 seconds or so would turn from orange to purple. No kidding.

But kidding(?) aside, the past few months I've had a number of anomaly experiences with my visual perception. Enough so that I picked up on it and remembered eventually to try to stop and really study whatever ithe glitch was. I've always had weird things happening to me, but I never paid much attention to them until recently. So I don't know, maybe that's part of our minds changing or we're losing our grip on how we perceptually organize what we want to see. Like maybe there's a weak resister in the holodecks circuit board

Or maybe BOTH of us are crazy. Or maybe you should see the optometrist.

[Tony]

I used to be an illustrator, and remember painting a shiny red car, with loads of reflection and shadows. I could hardly find the actual colour anywhere.

[cheez_2806]

is your rear view mirror anti glare, does it darken the reflection at night or when you have the headlights on, if so where your lights on and was the colour change evident in a different mirror?
No its not antiglare just a normal rear mirror and it wasn't dark during that time so I didn't need to turn the light on.
I didn't look in another mirror I didn't think it would change color when I was looking at it so I didn't check different mirrors...

[cheez_2806]

about two hours ago I was heading home in a car I was driving along happily then on a red light I was checking out the rear view mirror and saw this grey Porsche.

So I thought why do most people buy their Porsche grey, then I looked at it again and thought hum...its quiet flat then I thought I wonder if my dad could fit in...then I looked at the rear view mirror again it was gone. It changed lanes to my right then the car was actually red.

Then I went huh? wasn't it grey before??
I don't know it could be the sun or light but there was no sun today , its cloudy with a bit of showers today...
it could have turned somewhere but I was on the highway packed with cars becoz of peak hour. it could merge but there wasn't any places to turn not until after this traffic light.

Has anyone had similar experience or know whether this is a phenomenon that could occur even though I could be seeing some elses car...no..I know what I saw...I think...

Si


I had a Matchbox car, I believe it was a Firebird, that when you held it in your hands for 20 seconds or so would turn from orange to purple. No kidding.

But kidding(?) aside, the past few months I've had a number of anomaly experiences with my visual perception. Enough so that I picked up on it and remembered eventually to try to stop and really study whatever ithe glitch was. I've always had weird things happening to me, but I never paid much attention to them until recently. So I don't know, maybe that's part of our minds changing or we're losing our grip on how we perceptually organize what we want to see. Like maybe there's a weak resister in the holodecks circuit board

Or maybe BOTH of us are crazy. Or maybe you should see the optometrist.


yeh... everyones crazy to me in their own way i guess~ I don't know...Like you now, I am getting all sorts of weird things. Recently during a day I feel some what like deva ja vu...

@_@

[cheez_2806]

I used to be an illustrator, and remember painting a shiny red car, with loads of reflection and shadows. I could hardly find the actual colour anywhere.

for example if you paint something red - if it doesn't only reflect its red color but some other color can it just reflect all range of colors or there's a specific range of colors that it will reflect. Such as if it was red the reflection will only give off orange, yellow, black but it won't show white, green or whatever to the human eye???

[Orph]

There is actually a special paint for cars that does change color. Pretty sure it's a trademarked paint, and I think the name for the paint is simply "magic". Depending on the light, it will look red, purple, green, gold, or whatever ................. It's just trippy the way it changes colors.

[meeradas]

I have noticed the same effect here at night in my street. Nothing wrong with my eyes though.
The streetlights are kind of orange, no white lights here - and this light is "cancelling" out all red coloured cars, which all appear to have a somehow dirty greyish paintjob. Looks strange.