The Light Show of Illusions

[CCoburn]

What if we all see different colours but have always known our personal version by the same common name.

How do I know my Red isn't your Green, but maybe you see Red grass and call it Green.

Crazy Colours eh. I blame Rainbows, shifty things.

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It's true. It can be rationalized that we are all seeing the same thing, but technically color is an internal experience, and we cannot observe what is in the mind of another individual. It seems that the object itself is of key importance here.

There is a unique frequency for every color so it does seem like the same frequency would produce the same result, but it's actually the physical properties of "the object itself" that alters the frequency of the incoming light wave so that when it is reflected away from the object the frequency has been altered to represent the color of the object.

And sometimes differences in perception WILL crossover to different names e.g. sometimes I call dark gray what others call black, or what I see as very dark blue someone else sees as black. Black is absence of frequency, so either the object has absorbed all light, or the frequency change is too subtle for some to detect.

This kind of reminds me of the old Hermetic axiom "As within so without.". The color is an internal experience(incoming; within) that is projected(or perceived) as an external experience(without).