I will make you think...

[Turi]

Okay, so my teacher, Ms.Dolan is TOTALLY AWESOME!

So, in class while we were reading 'the giver' and going over how they don't see color, but just shades she told us that what if... the way i see red is the way you see orange... or like.. like... your light is MY dark!

Hmm? creepy huh? It's funny because I asked my friend Fiona B. the other day to say, How do you see red? She said,

"As red"

And how do you see it? Explain

"I DONT KNOW! .... a close color to orange?"

--Lol, she gets mad easily.

But that's Fiona for ya! LOL

So, have you ever thought of this? And also I have NOT done this in a while, but have you ever just SAT in one place and litera;;y just thought about how you are existing and how it would be like to NOT feel air.. "You can't imagine that" and basically if there was nothing... i mean nothing IS something.. so how could there be nothin if there is something? and how could there be something if there is nothing?

-Please post your comments-

 

[Chatterbox]

Okay thank you SO much for making this topic!

I've wondered about this for so long...like what if my green is someone else's pink? Like even when you read that sentence you may be thinking a different thing than me? What if when I see a blue car, to that person the car is my 'red'? It drives me insane.

And yes I have spent endless hours thinking about my existance...and it usually ends up in tears

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[Turi]

Yes! exactly, and what if we could you know, like see in someone else shoes! it would be SO cool! My teacher says that she's trying to cut open our heads.. with her minds lol.. brain surgery.. get it? HAHAHA!

....yeah..

 

[TigerLily013]

It's definitely something different to think about, that's for sure, and it comes up from time to time. I remember asking my mother one day how we get headaches exactly and we were coming up with ideas on how it works in our head since many things can trigger a headache.

One thing though is I did not like the book The Giver. We read it in Grade 7 and either my teacher's approach was just poorly done (she wasn't a great teacher to start) or the book was just...I don't know. It makes you think yeah but I didn't need that book to wonder that deeply before lol.

 

[Turi]

Well, my teacher has A GREAT approach on the book, and I thought it was SO boring, at FIRST but not anymore. I think that: people get headaches from stress, or like when too much blood flows to your brain and it starts to hurt.

 

[~Rebecca]

Yeah, I think about it all the time.

And as for existance?

Well, I know the answer to that question.

 

[Turi]

I mean.. not how we're made if that's what you mean.. i mean the existance of humans... its hard..to explain

 

[~Rebecca]

Oh, I know. I have it worked out in my head. My existance, anyway. Considering if I belong here or not, etc, yeah.

 

[cluck_cluck_chicken]

Yes i have. I completely think about that. I think about my exsistense and think about what ifs....

 

[Tamaland_Kitty_Kat]

lol, I always think about that, and also, what if the world wasn't created? There would be nothing... Or would there be air? But how could it be when there's no-one there to feel it? It drives me craaaazzyyy!

 

[Rayy]

Oh, so I'm not crazy.

It's a scary thought.

And there would be no way to tell...unless you possessed someone and could see through their eyes or something xD

 

[TigerLily013]

Well, my teacher has A GREAT approach on the book, and I thought it was SO boring, at FIRST but not anymore. I think that: people get headaches from stress, or like when too much blood flows to your brain and it starts to hurt.

No I meant how headaches chemically get initiated and start in the brain due to stress. Noone really has an exact answer that's why we come up with guesses and thoughts about it. Interesting theory though on blood flow...

 

[Turi]

Lol.. I'm stil in 7th grade but... I sort of get what you mean though lol..

EDIT: Well, here's the thing.. In Science class right now we are learning about stress and the alarm stage and adrenaline. 7 things happen when your body lets out adrenaline

-your digestive system slows

-your pupils widen to let in more light

-your hearing ability gets better

-your muscles tense allowing more blood to flow to your muscles

-your sweating increases

Umm.... *looks in science book*

-Heart rate increases

-More blood goes to brain

So, maybe people get headaches from that.. and that's why people get headaches when they're stressed.

p.s.: 100% ON THE TEST! YAYY

 

[blue♣slip]

Oh, so I'm not crazy.
It's a scary thought.

And there would be no way to tell...unless you possessed someone and could see through their eyes or something xD

same.

 

 

 

and for adrenaline..... cool, so we turn into superhumans x]

 

[spiffy]

Yay, I like these topics. Well, actually I think everyone sees the same. My pink is your pink. It may seem a titchy bit pinker or a little bit less, but basically it will be the same pink. The only cases in which this will differ will be with colour blind people.

I'll try and explain why I think this:

1]Rods and cones

People's retinas are made of rods and cones. Rods pick up the shading, light and dark. They are more sensitive which is why we see in black and white at night. Cones need more light, more stimulation, but they send colour information when there is enough light. There are only three types of cone however, cones that pick up "shades of blue", cones that pick up "shades of green" and cones that pick up "shades of red". So a light of a certain colour, when it hits the retina will stimulate different cones depending on its type.

Colour blind people have the absence of certain cones (missing the red cones or the green ones are most common, and people often confuse those colours. People with no cones at all see in black and white), often by birth. There is also another type of colourblindness where you have one type of cone in much less proportion than the rest. That is, they can see all the colours when they are very intense, but they can confuse them. People with this type of colourblind often turn up the contrast of their TVs and computers to be able to watch them better.

2]What is colour?

When we look at something that is blue, it is not really blue. When we look at something that is red, it is not red really and the same goes for all colours. Nothing has a colour. However, when you shine a white light on an object, the colour that comes back is the light that is bounced off. That is, the object will absorb some parts of the light, and reflect the rest. A white object reflects all light and a black object absorbs it all. Of course, if we shine a green light, the object will look green because we are only shining a light with the frequency of green light. To explain this...

3]What is the spectra?

I'm sure everyone knows what the rainbow is... Anyway, light is a wave, and waves have frequencies and amplitudes. The bigger the amplitudes the more intense the light is, however, the colour as such is determined by the wavelength frequency. Light starts from infrared, goes through visible light (rainbow ) and then to ultraviolet and gamma rays.

The human eye is designed to only be able to pick up a certain series of light frequencies. The light we can see we call visible light. The ranges of wavelength that we can say go from 780 nanometers down to 390 nanometers. Wavelength is the distance between the highest point of one wave to the next, so that is a really short distance. A human cell is about 200 nanometers so you get an idea of how small that is. Any light with a higher or lower frequency than that we cannot see unless we use special cameras.

Ultraviolet light and X-rays have a higher frequency, so even though we cannot see them they are still dangerous because they have a lot of energy. Gamma rays have an even higher frequency. If you were to be hit by a very potent gamma ray one could be actually disintegrated (however, I don't think anyone is going to be hit by one).

On the other hand, other light have longer wavelengths, and are called infrared rays. They have way less energy and are in the "red zone". Nocturnal vision usually uses infrared rays because they can pick up the little light there is and use little energy, as well as be less disturbing. Haven't we all noticed how looking at a red light is less disturbing than staring at a blue one? This is because one has more energy than the other.

So anyway, when we see something that's visible light, the part of the spectra that we can see, we will see a colour. When it is not, we won't see it (when we connect tamas, we cannot see light joining them, or we can't see the Sun's rays going through our skin, but we do see the results).

4]We all see the same...

The cells and genes that make our eyes and cones in the retina are more or less the same in everyone. These genes were passed on by our parents, and are therefore copies of how our parents would see and so it would go on backwards till the formation of the first eye like ours. And also because of said before, a blue light is because all other shades of light were absorbed, so the blue light will excite the blue-light-cones and they will send the message to our brain and we will see blue, and not pink, nor yellow.

Sorry for this being so long and scientific. I tried to explain it as simple as possible (grade 10 science), but if you don't understand something, feel free to ask me.

Here is also a website I found which will probably help with this subject:

https://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS...ght/u12l2b.html

Although simply typing "Visible light wavelength", "electromagnetic waves" etc. in google will provide plenty of useful websites.

 

[Turi]

Soory :furawatchi: I think otherwise. I think we MIGHT see different, except for dark and lights, because when it's light.. your pupils widen.

 

[Chatterbox]

Wow spiffy that was a great explanation But that makes me think even more *flail* Thanks though

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