Mine eyes hath deceived me once again

[Sumguy]

Yeah...so I'm red/green colorblind (not totally, thankfully), I didn't find this out until bio lab my senior year of high school. This entails fun things, like making you think peanut butter is green and wondering why everyone agrees certain shades of blue are, for some reason, "purple". Theres also a general consensus that traffic lights are "green, yellow, red" even though its more like "white, yellow, funky ass orange-like color".

So, my brother's favorite color happens to be dark green. I'm getting him a 1TB HDD and a green enclosure...except its actually grey. Forgot about the colorblind issue when I ordered it.

Damnit!

Edit: Anyone want to help me with a link to a green external?

 

[techs]

If there's a point here, I just don't see it.

 

[Ika]

If there's a point here, I just don't see it.

the point is: life SUCKS/BLOWS when you're colorblind.

 

[darkxshade]

If there's a point here, I just don't see it.

I'm afraid you're pointblind

 

[Ns1]

Lol

 

[T9D]

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[dullard]

Is there a term for someone who sees colors when there aren't any? I have a pair of slacks that are as steel grey as steel grey gets. Yet my wife always talks about my brown pants. There isn't a single bit of color ANYWHERE in those pants - just grey, grey, grey. If I were to squint, maybe there is a hint of a blue fiber running through it (you can see the blue fiber when they are inside-out. But nothing even close to resembling brown. No one I ever asks thinks there is any brown. The spectrometer at work in a room lit by broad-spectrum light emitters doesn't show up any of the reds when I measure my pant color. So, is there a term for seeing colors that don't exist? Something the opposite of color blindness?

I'm afraid you're pointblind

 

[T9D]

..

 

[Sumguy]

If there's a point here, I just don't see it.

Really? I kind of covered it pretty well with with the title and first few words...

 

[Mrvile]

Is there a term for someone who sees colors when there aren't any? I have a pair of slacks that are as steel grey as steel grey gets. Yet my wife always talks about my brown pants. There isn't a single bit of color ANYWHERE in those pants - just grey, grey, grey. If I were to squint, maybe there is a hint of a blue fiber running through it (you can see the blue fiber when they are inside-out. But nothing even close to resembling brown. No one I ever asks thinks there is any brown. The spectrometer at work in a room lit by broad-spectrum light emitters doesn't show up any of the reds when I measure my pant color. So, is there a term for seeing colors that don't exist? Something the opposite of color blindness?

I thought colorblindness meant that you see colors differently, not that you see colors as black/white/gray.

Though I doubt your wife is actually colorblind, it's pretty rare in women.

 

[AdamK47]

You haven't lived until you've seen a nice shade of green.

 

[T9D]

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[Mrvile]

Well my friend sees them in black/white/gray. He had an accident when he was little. In other instances it may be called colorblind because you are missing parts of the color spectrum. So you still see some colors but not others.

Well the majority of cases that I'm familiar with (which are all genetic) just involve something like, red looks like green, or brown looks like blue, etc. I don't really know how it works, though.

 

[ViviTheMage]

here's a green external enclosure, but it's only 2.5"

http://www.sourcingmap.com/usb-ide-external-hdd-hard-disk-drive-enclosure-case-p-25061.html

 

[Sumguy]

Is there a term for someone who sees colors when there aren't any? I have a pair of slacks that are as steel grey as steel grey gets. Yet my wife always talks about my brown pants. There isn't a single bit of color ANYWHERE in those pants - just grey, grey, grey. If I were to squint, maybe there is a hint of a blue fiber running through it (you can see the blue fiber when they are inside-out. But nothing even close to resembling brown. No one I ever asks thinks there is any brown. The spectrometer at work in a room lit by broad-spectrum light emitters doesn't show up any of the reds when I measure my pant color. So, is there a term for seeing colors that don't exist? Something the opposite of color blindness?

Well, actually, being colorblind can cause when you just said to happen. Obviously in my case I saw grey as green. Its REALLY rare in women. I've only known one girl who was colorblind versus 5+ other guys (surprisingly all red/green).

 

[GrumpyMan]

Well just because I am not color blind doesn't mean that I see colors exactly the same as everyone else. I mean what if my green is actually blue to you. But when you point out that color we both call it green.

 

[Howard]

Is there a term for someone who sees colors when there aren't any? I have a pair of slacks that are as steel grey as steel grey gets. Yet my wife always talks about my brown pants. There isn't a single bit of color ANYWHERE in those pants - just grey, grey, grey. If I were to squint, maybe there is a hint of a blue fiber running through it (you can see the blue fiber when they are inside-out. But nothing even close to resembling brown. No one I ever asks thinks there is any brown. The spectrometer at work in a room lit by broad-spectrum light emitters doesn't show up any of the reds when I measure my pant color. So, is there a term for seeing colors that don't exist? Something the opposite of color blindness?

If your wife sees blue weakly you might get brown from grey (red+green+less blue).

 

[MotionMan]

So, my brother's favorite color happens to be dark green. I'm getting him a 1TB HDD and a green enclosure...except its actually grey. Forgot about the colorblind issue when I ordered it.

It seems odd to me that you would forget that you are colorblind. but, since I am not colorblind, who am I to judge?

Carry on.

MotionMan

 

[Ika]

It seems odd to me that you would forget that you are colorblind. but, since I am not colorblind, who am I to judge?

Carry on.

MotionMan

He's had no experience with normal color vision; imagine if you were born without being able to see any colors at all. When selecting an item based on how "dark" it is, would you consider what color it might be?

 

[MotionMan]

He's had no experience with normal color vision; imagine if you were born without being able to see any colors at all. When selecting an item based on how "dark" it is, would you consider what color it might be?

If I knew I was colorblind and was picking something based on its color, like OP was trying to do, I might take some sort of precaution to make sure I was picking the right color.

I doubt I would have "forgotten" that my eyes do not work correctly.

MotionMan

 

[uclaLabrat]

try being red/green AND blue/yellow. I let my wife dress me. And thank god I'm an organic chemist. If it ain't white, it ain't right.

 

[Sumguy]

If I knew I was colorblind and was picking something based on its color, like OP was trying to do, I might take some sort of precaution to make sure I was picking the right color.

I doubt I would have "forgotten" that my eyes do not work correctly.

MotionMan

It doesn't actually interfere with life as much as people think. I got to the age of 18 without fully realizing "hey, my eyes are kinda weird".

Its a new discovery for me and, unless someone directly states that I'm messing up my colors again, I'll not think twice of it. That, and I honestly thought the color was unmistakably green and didn't have anyone on hand to confirm it.

To clarify I can still see some shades of green and red (stated in first post I'm not completely screwed), only it will look slightly different for me. Its about the mid-range that it starts to get bad.

 

[TallBill]

So how did you discover that it was grey?

Really I'm just fascinated by your handicap.

 

[weflyhigh]

http://www.clickshop.com/product/29...nclosure/pink/?sort=&user_length=6&cat_id=166

Enjoy!

 

[MotionMan]

It doesn't actually interfere with life as much as people think. I got to the age of 18 without fully realizing "hey, my eyes are kinda weird".

Its a new discovery for me and, unless someone directly states that I'm messing up my colors again, I'll not think twice of it. That, and I honestly thought the color was unmistakably green and didn't have anyone on hand to confirm it.

To clarify I can still see some shades of green and red (stated in first post I'm not completely screwed), only it will look slightly different for me. Its about the mid-range that it starts to get bad.

Link to enclosure on the website you bought it from, please.

MotionMan