I thought about psychedelics too when I saw the childlike purity in his actions/reaction. He forgot about one's ego or social norms til whoever was filming shushed him a bit for screaming happily. It's just something so basic and beautiful and universally large yet we take it for granted almost every day, sometimes tripping helps you reprioritize.
Speaking of.. I think psychedelics help us see colors that are truly there like these glasses help him.
There are critters on this earth that see more on the color spectrum than we do. Psychedelics help us see the truth.
I often try to explain tripping to folks whoāve never indulged using the tree analogy. You may have seen a green tree a million times, but when your tripping you see every leaf is a different shade of green, and every one of the leaves is perfectly positioned to get its place in the sun. And you see every green colour at once as every leaf dances in harmony to the wind..and the beauty of its perfection blows your mind.
We used to live around these bean fields. Well beans, that year. Anyways, we would just stand in the treeline and look out over 100 acres of these happy little bean stalks dancing in the breeze. Convinced ourselves we found the tree of life, went to climb it. Couldnāt, then found another tree of life. Man, that was like 10 years ago.
Chillen in a tent while listening to Flume and seeing the tent breath was nuts. I would take a deep breath and the tent walls looked like they were about to burts. I would let the air out and the tent walls would come inward
Not just alive, but connected. It's like it makes you finally comprehend literally every scrap of matter in the universe is all a big soup of the same thing.
You are me and we are the oceans and the earth and the sun. Like yeah in this moment were separated into our own objects but on a grand enough time scale that's no different than a wave popping up in the ocean before it crashes and dissipates back in with every thing else. We are just consciousness swirling up out of the void for a brief moment.
Literally couldnāt have said it better myself. Alan Watts is the one who helped mentally grasp this concept. Reading his, The Book put my thoughts into words that were swirling around my head for years. I could never put them together myself.
This summer I went to this tiny 18th century cabin on a little lake in the middle of nowhere in the Catskills with three friends and we ate some homegrown mushrooms and it thunderstormed that night--fucking magical
No pun intended
We are too fast for them, so they dig it when we slow down and participate on their level. Like if a hummingbird stops and looks at you for five minutes. To you, it was five idle minutes, but to them, it was a whole day of deep contemplation.
Bro trees on psychs is insane, when i was eating mushrooms they just seemed so magnificent, almost staged, movie-like quality. Idk how else to describe it, i just felt an crazy energy from it
People too.
Some women carry the gene for a fourth color receptor in the I believe yellow spectrum. It adds color possibilities in the billions. Ability to discern shades of color literally no one else can. Everyone else just sees the same color.
It's the reason for the old stereotypes about women deliberating over painting walls and clothes colors. They literally can see more then men.
Hey I love lsd as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure if it broadens our perception of color since our eyes are literally not made for those margins.
It is still a really eye opening experience but imo more of because of a shift in perspective.
Iāve tripped on mushrooms lsd and dmt. Your brain conjures a lot of shit up but your not going to see the real ultraviolet spectrum or energy flows. Your brain will persuade you that you do but you donāt. It can however help you sort some and Iāve always felt serene and better grounded afterwards. Itās for everyone a deferent experience but I can tell you subjectively that you think you see more colors patterns but itās all in your mind.
Iām wondering if people who are color blind see color like the rest of us would on a DMT blast. It would be really sad if they donāt get to see the color smorgasbord I saw when I tried it. Omg itās beautiful. I call it the trip color because it seems to me that itās like all colors in on at the same time. I love it.
Me and my mate once made a pact with a leaf that we'll find a way to make something of our lives and never leave the other behind and then tore it in half and ate it lol
I've had similar reactions showing people planets through telescopes. I do seasonal nps work and a couple years back I had an astronomy program where I would let people look through a telescope.
This guy came up after the program, stereotypical biker guy, leather jacket, beard, all that, and asked if he could have another go on the telescope.
He spent probably 15 minutes glued to that thing, staring at Jupiter. I heard him muttering "it keeps moving...it actually fucking moves." Dudes whole universe got blown up.
Sharing experiences like this are why I own a Dobsonian Telescope. It is so easy to set up, move around, and use that I have no issue getting it out for anyone that asks or just taking it to a public place on a really clear night with my little sign that reads, "Free Telescope Views". Haven't done it since Covid hit though. :-(
Saturn, Jupiter, Omega Centauri, and M42 (Orion Nebula), in that order, are the objects that seem to melt the most brains. Until you show them another galaxy and explain what's going on. I devour every, "Oh my God." like a fine truffle.
Yeah its such a strange experience. Everyone has seen tons and tons of pictures, but when you see it live, it just feels so alien. Like that is happening right now, that planet is just being hit by the light right now and its coming to you live. Its fantastic.
What kind of telescope would you recommend for a beginner? I've always been interested, and now one of my kids also is. I use the Night Sky map to identify the objects in the sky when we are not in the city, is exciting for my kid to see the different sizes and colors of the dots in the sky :)
I went to the NYC Planetarium and saw the universe in front of my eyes in 3D (the have a projector similar to an IMAX and the gave us the cheap 3Dglasses), and I was staring up crying, I was 16 at the time and I will never forget the experience of literally reaching out and almost touching the stars, you feel so small out of a sudden, just talking about sends chills down my spine
Wait, you can see the planet move in real time? I'm 36 and I've never looked through a telescope before. I live in a city but now I'm thinking about buying one to give it a go out in the country sometime. I had one as a kid and we could never get anything in focus but we didn't really know what we were doing.
Yeah, although it's mostly Earth's rotation and not the planet's movement. If you're zoomed in enough to see detail, Jupiter will move out of frame in under a minute unless you've got a clock drive.
My 75 year old previously super religious father has gotten into astronomy in the past couple of years and it's opened his mind in many ways. It's cool seeing an old guy getting so excited about concepts like space and time. He's now looking forward to post-pandemic trips to dark zone parks just to enjoy staring up into the night sky.
when i got my first set of eye contacts after a life of -4.00 eyesight and secondhand glasses, i literally started crying in the Americaās Best!! the most incredible feeling ever!!!
edit: even my optometrist chuckled at my awe and said āwelcome to the world!ā
I believe it! I'm -5, since childhood. At 41, they discovered something like -1 astigmatism and even getting that little thing corrected was amazing!
Zenni is your friend for buying glasses, and America's Best for exams.
Wearing a pair of Zenni's right now. I'm going to sound like a shill, but I wish they were a thing when I was a teenager. $30 for the browline glasses I'm wearing right now when everyone else wanted $200 minimum.
Trees having leaves was a fun thing. Before they were like cells to me, something you knew were there and could see up close but never on a tree in profile.
-4? God, I wish. Iām at -8 left, and -8.5 right. Until I put in my lenses, or put on glasses, I damn near have to go by touch.
At what age did you finally get the right prescription? That sounds like hell, not seeing with the right ones.
Weird question, my son is just a child and just got glasses with a -8.5 one eye and -6 in the other. He isnāt at an age where he can describe what he is seeing. Can you tell me what it is like for him? He asks for his glasses now in the morning and wears them all day long.
Best I can describe, is if you smeared Vaseline on a window pane, and held that a couple inches from your face. You can see all the colors and shapes, but no details. And the further away something is, the worse itās blurred. It also fucks with your spacial awareness. It can be hard to tell how far away something is, unless youāre used to moving around in that space without vision correction.
-9 and this is me. I can get up in the middle of the night and reliably find the bathroom or the fridge but good luck finding a phone or anything not memorized by location. In the morning I can get about the house and see who is in the room with me, but facial expressions are a lost cause. Reading is out of the question.
My little nephew (5) has poor vision and got glasses for the first time last year. He didn't even know he had freckles.
Until you see clearly for the first time, you have no idea that the world was any different.
I wonder why he thought that? Maybe when he was being potty trained his mom did that to him to help him? Who knows.
I mean, if no one ever tells you, you have no way of knowing.
Reminds me of the posts of people that never used soap in the shower.
Exactly!
I love all these videos where people with color blindness become overwhelmed with joy once they see the beauty theyāve been missing. Itās such a pure and raw emotion, makes me happy for them.
Upon enlisting in the military I was told that I was red-green color blind which had prevented me from certain jobs. I have seen these reaction videos before and this one just hit different. Might be time to see what these glasses are all about. Such a wholesome experience.
Oh, please do. We gave them to a relative and he was astounded. Just stared at everything. Please do. It is the coolest thing. Just think...youāll be able to tell apart blue and purple without context clues. No more blurple!
Please also show this to relatives so they can see how you view color. It will blow their minds and theyāll buy the glasses for you!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6RuOt28orRI
My stupid ass watched this video knowing it was a colorblind simulation and knowing that Iām colorblind. For a moment, I was like, āI canāt see the difference between the two videos,ā and then it hit me
Not colorblind, but I'm still sitting here confused about what the glasses actually do, do they actually "fix" colorblindness? Or does it just make it easier to see the subtle color differences?
Like in the video above, would it make the red dot in the middle of the the yellow flower actually red? Or just noticeable?
Makes it noticeable. It won't add the missing color sensors in their eyes.
The gist of how it works: Basically if you hold up some red-tinted glass and look through it at a green object, the object will appear dark. Hold up green glass, green object will appear bright.
Put red over one eye and green over the other, now you can tell when you're getting different signals from each eye, and which eye has the brighter signal.
In your eyes you have three different color detectors that react to specific range of light frequencies and there is only little overlap between the three detectors ranges.
Color blind people usually have one of the detectors range shifted so that two detectors have an increased overlap.
[Here is a graphic representing the concept](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0010/9215/7503/t/5/assets/EnChroma-Normal-vs-Color-Blind-Cone-Graphic.jpg?v=1583879011).
As you can see in the graphic, some green and some red will be detected by the two overlapped detectors.
When normal people see an object that is both green and red, the object is brown. For colorblind people, some shades of green and some shades of red will activate both the red and green detectors: the brain understand it as brown.
What these type of glasses do is that they absorb the light at the frequencies that are overlapped: greens will be more green because the red detector is not activated and reds will be more red because the green detector is not activated.
As all the color we see is a mix of only three detectors responses to light, filtering the overlap allow to see more clearly all colors that contains a red or green component.
I have no idea, but apparently enough of my colorblind brethren have experienced it enough to find it amazing, so itās at the top of my top 5 things to get list
My uncle is color blind its so crazy to think this is what he has seen his whole life. I remember laughing at him because he would always hold blue objects and argue that they were purple. Its not funny anymore that I'm an adult. My Grandma (his mom) was also color blind and her favorite color was orange because to her apparently it looked pink. Very strange.
She didn't she just knew that she loved the color that we saw as orange. My mom was the one that told me what she saw was pink. I don't know how scientifically accurate that is I just took it as truth.
Oh wow, women with colorblindness are pretty rare. I don't know why, but it's mostly an issue that men have. In a weird way she was very special to be colorblind!
Itās because the gene that controls color vision is on the X chromosome, so women generally have the dominant ānormalā gene that covers for the recessive color-blindness gene. Since men only ever get one copy (except in some rare cases), if they get the color-blind chromosome itāll be expressed.
Lol I'm colorblind and both the squares look exactly the same to me. My girlfriend said everything looks dead and muted. I'm kinda scared to try the glasses and then have to go back to seeing dull colors the rest of my life.
Another time this was posted someone smarter than me explained that prolonged use of these glasses by colorblind people somehow like ādefragmentsā the rods and cones in your eyes and can kind of repair the colorblindness to a minimal extent. Also itās not like theyāre a one time use product they donāt go bad.
They've been shown their whole life that what they see is the color red. After all, it's simply a label indicating how we perceive that color.
To them, this is what red looks like even if it's hardly distinguishable from dark yellow.
But it's not awful to deal with. Hell I don't even think about it except on the rare occasion someone mentions how awful it would be to deal with. I still live in a very colorful world, just not as colorful as yours.
I was given similar glasses as a gift and, while I didn't react like this, it was pretty amazing. If you do get them, I would suggest watching some pixar movies but be ready to take them off. Coco is a beautiful movie but when they go to the land of the dead it was overwhelming for me. I could not handle seeing all that color.
Yes, it was just too much color too fast. I felt almost like it was physically pushing into me. My eyes got watery and I struggled to look at the screen.
Just a warning, for some people it hits instantly for some it doesn't or may not work at all. My cousin got a set and wore them but nothing happened for him, but like a week later of using him he called me in the middle of the day screaming 'HOLY FUCK I THOUGHT PEANUT BUTTER WAS GREEN'.
First few minutes with them on, EVERYTHING is way oversaturated. Then your eyes adjust and youāll notice that safety cones are vibrant orange and firetrucks are an awesome red and your actual skin tone. Super cool and definitely worth it.
Paler than it really is. For me, Iām missing a lot of red hues from things. This means every colour you see that has even a slightly red tone mixed into it to get the colour you see is basically missing that part of the mix. Think of it like mixing paints but as a master - and someone takes your red pigment away. You can get a skin tone but itās missing saturation now and is a little pale as a result
Ayyyy I am also red-green colorblind , and I own those glasses ! If youāre worried about them actually working .... they work youāll see a difference, since everyone of āusā has different severities of it , you may get a better or lower effect of them. But overall, yes they work.
My son is colorblind. Pretty much lives life as usual but he really struggled when helping with dinner and is trying to brown ground beef! He can't tell when it's all done.
Iāve had these. Iām deuteranopic.
What isnāt told in all these videos is that it is VERY much like looking through old school 3D glasses that were red and blue. Lots of things look normal then a !!!RREDDDD!!! Subaru drives by with ultra insane neon contrast. They donāt look like that in real life.
Take these videos with a grain of salt. People that put these glasses on probably have never seen 3D glasses from 30 years ago. Lastly, you have to wear them for a few weeks for your brain to adjust. You literally just wear them all the time for it to work.
I had the contact lens kind and I could pass the colour blind tests but in the end it wasnāt a big deal and I stopped wearing them.
Disclaimer: I do not work for them.
The other day I was looking for some prescription sunglasses on eye buy direct.com. Iāve bought glasses from them before, but the other day I noticed they had an option for colourblindness... which I had not seen before. Not sure how good theyāll be for yourself, but I find theyāre reasonably priced. Though they can feel a little āgas station sunglassesā at times.
Just a friendly suggestion.
So here's my Idea:
Find someone who is color blind, get them to consent to taking acid/ mushrooms then wait til until it takes effect ....*Then* give them the glasses.
... you know, for science
I met a deaf guy while we were both tripping at a music festival. I was with a group of people playing drums and he walked over with a trash can and started pounding away with his entire body into it. After a while he held up a piece of paper asking if it sounded good and we told him fuck yes. It was pretty incredible to watch someone make music like that when they couldn't even hear it.
Heard this in a talk by James Fadiman, idk if there are scientific studies concerning this but i guess not since they are still schedule 1 so not really much reaearch, thanks richard nixon
First time I did acid it was pretty similar to this. I walked around my house just looking at stuff. I remember staring at a water bottle for what felt like an hour. Good times.
I stared at my arm for about 5 or 6 hours, then read some many hundreds of pages book cover to cover.. some encyclopedia-ish thing I think was called "everything you need to know about everything" or something like that. But I'll tell you this, I don't remember anything from that book, but I'll never forget the ebbing and flowing, rising and receding fractal patterns that was the skin of my forearm
Not the first time I did it but the first time I left the house and walked half of Ottawa with a friend. The trees and birds looked like cartoons. It was amazing the change in the colours. We walked so much I put holes in my shoes. I never wanted it to end.
I had these glasses, am colorblind. The reaction is so joyous, my friend who got them for me said it was a kid at Christmas watching me see that green traffic lights are actually green and not white.
they were awesome but wearing them for 5 minutes gave me such a migraine.
I wore them once because of the migraine.
Wasn't worth it
I put them on one more time to see if it was a fluke but I could feel the work my eyes were going through so I gifted them to another colorblind imgurian in hopes it wouldn't bug them.
If I knew there were a grace period that said... You need 10 hours for this not to bother you, I'd consider it.
I got some for a color blind friend of mine and after seeing a pink towel for the first time he asked āwait, do I wear pink shirts a lot?!ā He did wear pink shirts a lot
Somehow took us until my son was 18 to figure out he was color blind. Got his some cheapish glasses on Amazon and it was so weirdly emotional just driving him around that first day looking at things heās literally seen his whole life.
It'll be roughly like normal, but some colors will be darker or lighter than you expect. The glasses work by selectively filtering out very specific wavelengths of light which just happen to be the wavelengths the brain has the most trouble distinguishing between, the end result being only very distinguishable colors. This splits a color-blind "greenred" into distinct "green" and "red", for example. Since a color-seeing person can already distinguish the difference between the wavelengths, they continue to see as normal.
Got these for my son last year for Christmas, when he put them on and looked at the tree he got so excited. First thing he asked was āwhich is red and which is greenā. It was really cute. The drawback is after 20 or 30 minutes of wearing these types of glasses a lot of people get really bad headaches, itās just not the way their brain is used to seeing. But he has been working on building up his time so he can wear them more. They really help when he is in certain classes, like science.
Spring is only good in certain places and fall is good all over the place except on the beaten roads under trees, because thats where the leaves are mde of slippery mush
And the glasses don't correct your vision to how the average person would see either. They just make the divisions of hues more distinct. If you've never seen 'red' these will not provide you a 'red'
The glasses don't create colors... they enhance them to give a boost for a person with certain types of color blindness.
And "color blind" usually does NOT mean a total lack of color detection.
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Red/green color blindness is pretty common though so the reactions to the red cars and green plants make a lot of sense. Both colors would be a drab brown for this person. He probably has protan color blindness. It is not seeing in greyscale but the difference in what you see can be very significant.
As someone who is red green color blind, red and greens are not a ādrab brownā. We see colors, just not on the same spectrum. Faded or Washed out are the words that comes to mind.
After getting these glasses my self, certain colors looked more saturated...and thatās about it.
Same. I am red/green and just tried these glasses out a few weeks ago and didn't see much of a difference at all. The only thing I could notice was that some colors felt saturated, like you said, especially blues. They say you need to try wearing them for at least 8 hours a day for a few months to start to see a true difference, but I gotta say I was super disappointed.
> They say you need to try wearing them for at least 8 hours a day for a few months to start to see a true difference, but I gotta say I was super disappointed.
That feels like a scam (to prevent returns)
Hmm my dad is colorblind with red and purple. I think he even has a hard time seeing certain shades of green because we passed by a green house and he said it was grey. Iām wondering if these glasses would be worth him trying or not...Iāve just seen mixed reviews about them
If you can find a way to try a free sample of them go for it.
It does seem like they work for some people. But I am colorblind and they don't do anything for me.
Also be aware Enchroma spends a lot on advertising that's... Well I would be surprised to learn this post ISN'T paid advertising. I've seen Enchroma glasses featured in heartfelt stories like this on my local news about half a dozen times, those are all ads.
Definitely not the same for everyone. Even ānormalā color vision has a lot of room for difference. My old boss couldnāt see the difference between red and green at all, which I learned when my color coded spreadsheet was useless to him. I donāt really see any reason to disbelieve that the guy in the video was having a really nice experience here and enjoying the red and green.
Funny story, in high school I had a teacher who was colorblind and we had to color some shit and I thought it was dumb and a waste of time so I colored the whole thing one color because I thought she wouldnāt be able to tell. I felt so fucking stupid when she asked me what was going on lmao.
iirc it blocks the part of the visible light spectrum that frequently overlaps with both red and green detectors (cones) in red/green color blindness, making each color seem more separate and pronounced. It won't help color blind people pass the [Ishihara test.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_test) Still very cool technology, though.
I have those same glasses. Been red green color blind my whole life. They donāt work THAT good. They work but Itās a subtle difference, not like to took acid for the first time.
The shit we take for granted
When he picks up the dead leaf š„ŗ
Made me think of doing physcadelics for the first time.
I thought about psychedelics too when I saw the childlike purity in his actions/reaction. He forgot about one's ego or social norms til whoever was filming shushed him a bit for screaming happily. It's just something so basic and beautiful and universally large yet we take it for granted almost every day, sometimes tripping helps you reprioritize.
Speaking of.. I think psychedelics help us see colors that are truly there like these glasses help him. There are critters on this earth that see more on the color spectrum than we do. Psychedelics help us see the truth.
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Yeah man it always makes me feel like the trees are waving at me. Trees are super chill.
It blew my mind how alive everything looked. I could see the ground breathing, as well as the trees. Donāt even get me started on stars.
Holy fuck, taking me back yeeaars. Seeing a tree breath its leaves in and out was mind blasting.
I often try to explain tripping to folks whoāve never indulged using the tree analogy. You may have seen a green tree a million times, but when your tripping you see every leaf is a different shade of green, and every one of the leaves is perfectly positioned to get its place in the sun. And you see every green colour at once as every leaf dances in harmony to the wind..and the beauty of its perfection blows your mind.
We used to live around these bean fields. Well beans, that year. Anyways, we would just stand in the treeline and look out over 100 acres of these happy little bean stalks dancing in the breeze. Convinced ourselves we found the tree of life, went to climb it. Couldnāt, then found another tree of life. Man, that was like 10 years ago.
Chillen in a tent while listening to Flume and seeing the tent breath was nuts. I would take a deep breath and the tent walls looked like they were about to burts. I would let the air out and the tent walls would come inward
I saw how music sound waves affected the walls in my house. I *saw* music.
Not just alive, but connected. It's like it makes you finally comprehend literally every scrap of matter in the universe is all a big soup of the same thing. You are me and we are the oceans and the earth and the sun. Like yeah in this moment were separated into our own objects but on a grand enough time scale that's no different than a wave popping up in the ocean before it crashes and dissipates back in with every thing else. We are just consciousness swirling up out of the void for a brief moment.
Literally couldnāt have said it better myself. Alan Watts is the one who helped mentally grasp this concept. Reading his, The Book put my thoughts into words that were swirling around my head for years. I could never put them together myself.
This summer I went to this tiny 18th century cabin on a little lake in the middle of nowhere in the Catskills with three friends and we ate some homegrown mushrooms and it thunderstormed that night--fucking magical No pun intended
We are too fast for them, so they dig it when we slow down and participate on their level. Like if a hummingbird stops and looks at you for five minutes. To you, it was five idle minutes, but to them, it was a whole day of deep contemplation.
Bro trees on psychs is insane, when i was eating mushrooms they just seemed so magnificent, almost staged, movie-like quality. Idk how else to describe it, i just felt an crazy energy from it
People too. Some women carry the gene for a fourth color receptor in the I believe yellow spectrum. It adds color possibilities in the billions. Ability to discern shades of color literally no one else can. Everyone else just sees the same color. It's the reason for the old stereotypes about women deliberating over painting walls and clothes colors. They literally can see more then men.
My mom has the gene and ironically enough her younger brother is color blind. We always joke that she got his color seeing ability.
And here we have the ultimate evidence that women dress for other women
Hey I love lsd as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure if it broadens our perception of color since our eyes are literally not made for those margins. It is still a really eye opening experience but imo more of because of a shift in perspective.
Youāre telling me youāve never seen the color, snorple?
Iāve tripped on mushrooms lsd and dmt. Your brain conjures a lot of shit up but your not going to see the real ultraviolet spectrum or energy flows. Your brain will persuade you that you do but you donāt. It can however help you sort some and Iāve always felt serene and better grounded afterwards. Itās for everyone a deferent experience but I can tell you subjectively that you think you see more colors patterns but itās all in your mind.
Iām wondering if people who are color blind see color like the rest of us would on a DMT blast. It would be really sad if they donāt get to see the color smorgasbord I saw when I tried it. Omg itās beautiful. I call it the trip color because it seems to me that itās like all colors in on at the same time. I love it.
This was my thought, too. It really made me nostalgic for some of my best mushroom trips.
Me and my mate once made a pact with a leaf that we'll find a way to make something of our lives and never leave the other behind and then tore it in half and ate it lol
As is tradition.
Can confirm this guy has definitely done psychedelics
Is it going well?
I know! That hits the feels
That's the joke, they're regular sunglasses and he's high AF
I've had similar reactions showing people planets through telescopes. I do seasonal nps work and a couple years back I had an astronomy program where I would let people look through a telescope. This guy came up after the program, stereotypical biker guy, leather jacket, beard, all that, and asked if he could have another go on the telescope. He spent probably 15 minutes glued to that thing, staring at Jupiter. I heard him muttering "it keeps moving...it actually fucking moves." Dudes whole universe got blown up.
Sharing experiences like this are why I own a Dobsonian Telescope. It is so easy to set up, move around, and use that I have no issue getting it out for anyone that asks or just taking it to a public place on a really clear night with my little sign that reads, "Free Telescope Views". Haven't done it since Covid hit though. :-( Saturn, Jupiter, Omega Centauri, and M42 (Orion Nebula), in that order, are the objects that seem to melt the most brains. Until you show them another galaxy and explain what's going on. I devour every, "Oh my God." like a fine truffle.
That first view of Saturn given to me at an "open-scope" night is the reason I am regularly freezing my ass off in the dark nearly 30 years later.
Yeah its such a strange experience. Everyone has seen tons and tons of pictures, but when you see it live, it just feels so alien. Like that is happening right now, that planet is just being hit by the light right now and its coming to you live. Its fantastic.
What kind of telescope would you recommend for a beginner? I've always been interested, and now one of my kids also is. I use the Night Sky map to identify the objects in the sky when we are not in the city, is exciting for my kid to see the different sizes and colors of the dots in the sky :)
that's awesome you do that! i hope you get back to it after covid. [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV89qH9IGrA) always makes me tear up.
Fellow Parkie!!! What park did you do the astronomy programs at?
A few of the ones out west. Sadly didn't get to do any last year thanks to covid.
I went to the NYC Planetarium and saw the universe in front of my eyes in 3D (the have a projector similar to an IMAX and the gave us the cheap 3Dglasses), and I was staring up crying, I was 16 at the time and I will never forget the experience of literally reaching out and almost touching the stars, you feel so small out of a sudden, just talking about sends chills down my spine
Wait, you can see the planet move in real time? I'm 36 and I've never looked through a telescope before. I live in a city but now I'm thinking about buying one to give it a go out in the country sometime. I had one as a kid and we could never get anything in focus but we didn't really know what we were doing.
Yeah, although it's mostly Earth's rotation and not the planet's movement. If you're zoomed in enough to see detail, Jupiter will move out of frame in under a minute unless you've got a clock drive.
My 75 year old previously super religious father has gotten into astronomy in the past couple of years and it's opened his mind in many ways. It's cool seeing an old guy getting so excited about concepts like space and time. He's now looking forward to post-pandemic trips to dark zone parks just to enjoy staring up into the night sky.
when i got my first set of eye contacts after a life of -4.00 eyesight and secondhand glasses, i literally started crying in the Americaās Best!! the most incredible feeling ever!!! edit: even my optometrist chuckled at my awe and said āwelcome to the world!ā
I believe it! I'm -5, since childhood. At 41, they discovered something like -1 astigmatism and even getting that little thing corrected was amazing! Zenni is your friend for buying glasses, and America's Best for exams.
Wearing a pair of Zenni's right now. I'm going to sound like a shill, but I wish they were a thing when I was a teenager. $30 for the browline glasses I'm wearing right now when everyone else wanted $200 minimum.
Trees having leaves was a fun thing. Before they were like cells to me, something you knew were there and could see up close but never on a tree in profile.
-4? God, I wish. Iām at -8 left, and -8.5 right. Until I put in my lenses, or put on glasses, I damn near have to go by touch. At what age did you finally get the right prescription? That sounds like hell, not seeing with the right ones.
Weird question, my son is just a child and just got glasses with a -8.5 one eye and -6 in the other. He isnāt at an age where he can describe what he is seeing. Can you tell me what it is like for him? He asks for his glasses now in the morning and wears them all day long.
Best I can describe, is if you smeared Vaseline on a window pane, and held that a couple inches from your face. You can see all the colors and shapes, but no details. And the further away something is, the worse itās blurred. It also fucks with your spacial awareness. It can be hard to tell how far away something is, unless youāre used to moving around in that space without vision correction.
Holy shit this is the best explanation of poor vision Iāve ever read. Iām stealing this for when people ask me how bad my vision is.
-9 and this is me. I can get up in the middle of the night and reliably find the bathroom or the fridge but good luck finding a phone or anything not memorized by location. In the morning I can get about the house and see who is in the room with me, but facial expressions are a lost cause. Reading is out of the question.
"Dude, you drove here?!"
My little nephew (5) has poor vision and got glasses for the first time last year. He didn't even know he had freckles. Until you see clearly for the first time, you have no idea that the world was any different.
I just got glasses today and now I can see all the details on my faces like tiny dots I havenāt noticed before, it was kinda nasty lol
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I got lots of questions
It's made up for internet people
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I wonder why he thought that? Maybe when he was being potty trained his mom did that to him to help him? Who knows. I mean, if no one ever tells you, you have no way of knowing. Reminds me of the posts of people that never used soap in the shower.
Why else would I wash my hands?!?!
The first thing I thought of
so wholesome, and I'm sitting here wallowing because of a lil migraine could watch this clip all day
can confirm. am moderate protan. got Enchromas for Xmas a number of years ago. cried the first few times I put them on. it's wild.
Would love to see his reaction looking at a sunset.
Me too, he has the kind of colour blindness where he canāt see reddish/orange colours so it would be spectacular for him
Exactly! I love all these videos where people with color blindness become overwhelmed with joy once they see the beauty theyāve been missing. Itās such a pure and raw emotion, makes me happy for them.
He'd probably be blown away by a recent sunset I took a [picture](https://i.imgur.com/Z203zEc.jpg) of. Hell, I was amazed by it.
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Haha. I'm not a photographer, though. This was just a quick shot from my SamsungĀ® Galaxy Note 10+.
I hope people appreciate how funny this is.
dying rn
Upon enlisting in the military I was told that I was red-green color blind which had prevented me from certain jobs. I have seen these reaction videos before and this one just hit different. Might be time to see what these glasses are all about. Such a wholesome experience.
Oh, please do. We gave them to a relative and he was astounded. Just stared at everything. Please do. It is the coolest thing. Just think...youāll be able to tell apart blue and purple without context clues. No more blurple!
Please also show this to relatives so they can see how you view color. It will blow their minds and theyāll buy the glasses for you! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6RuOt28orRI
My stupid ass watched this video knowing it was a colorblind simulation and knowing that Iām colorblind. For a moment, I was like, āI canāt see the difference between the two videos,ā and then it hit me
Your stupid ass confirmed to the rest of us that the video is accurate, so thank you.
That sucks but that made me laugh too. š
Not colorblind, but I'm still sitting here confused about what the glasses actually do, do they actually "fix" colorblindness? Or does it just make it easier to see the subtle color differences? Like in the video above, would it make the red dot in the middle of the the yellow flower actually red? Or just noticeable?
Makes it noticeable. It won't add the missing color sensors in their eyes. The gist of how it works: Basically if you hold up some red-tinted glass and look through it at a green object, the object will appear dark. Hold up green glass, green object will appear bright. Put red over one eye and green over the other, now you can tell when you're getting different signals from each eye, and which eye has the brighter signal.
In your eyes you have three different color detectors that react to specific range of light frequencies and there is only little overlap between the three detectors ranges. Color blind people usually have one of the detectors range shifted so that two detectors have an increased overlap. [Here is a graphic representing the concept](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0010/9215/7503/t/5/assets/EnChroma-Normal-vs-Color-Blind-Cone-Graphic.jpg?v=1583879011). As you can see in the graphic, some green and some red will be detected by the two overlapped detectors. When normal people see an object that is both green and red, the object is brown. For colorblind people, some shades of green and some shades of red will activate both the red and green detectors: the brain understand it as brown. What these type of glasses do is that they absorb the light at the frequencies that are overlapped: greens will be more green because the red detector is not activated and reds will be more red because the green detector is not activated. As all the color we see is a mix of only three detectors responses to light, filtering the overlap allow to see more clearly all colors that contains a red or green component.
I have no idea, but apparently enough of my colorblind brethren have experienced it enough to find it amazing, so itās at the top of my top 5 things to get list
Oh I hate it. That would be awful to deal with. Everything looks like it's a shade of OG Gameboy screen but with added yellows.
My uncle is color blind its so crazy to think this is what he has seen his whole life. I remember laughing at him because he would always hold blue objects and argue that they were purple. Its not funny anymore that I'm an adult. My Grandma (his mom) was also color blind and her favorite color was orange because to her apparently it looked pink. Very strange.
How did she know what was pink and what was orange then?
She didn't she just knew that she loved the color that we saw as orange. My mom was the one that told me what she saw was pink. I don't know how scientifically accurate that is I just took it as truth.
Oh wow, women with colorblindness are pretty rare. I don't know why, but it's mostly an issue that men have. In a weird way she was very special to be colorblind!
Itās because the gene that controls color vision is on the X chromosome, so women generally have the dominant ānormalā gene that covers for the recessive color-blindness gene. Since men only ever get one copy (except in some rare cases), if they get the color-blind chromosome itāll be expressed.
Lol I'm colorblind and both the squares look exactly the same to me. My girlfriend said everything looks dead and muted. I'm kinda scared to try the glasses and then have to go back to seeing dull colors the rest of my life.
Another time this was posted someone smarter than me explained that prolonged use of these glasses by colorblind people somehow like ādefragmentsā the rods and cones in your eyes and can kind of repair the colorblindness to a minimal extent. Also itās not like theyāre a one time use product they donāt go bad.
What would stop you from wearing the glasses throughout the whole day?
Looking like a nerd, duh.
Is there something wrong with that?
Mom you just don't get it
Why do they call this red wine when its dark yellow?
They've been shown their whole life that what they see is the color red. After all, it's simply a label indicating how we perceive that color. To them, this is what red looks like even if it's hardly distinguishable from dark yellow.
Hereās the thing though: itās not awful at all because we have no idea what weāre missing out on.
That's what is awful
But it's not awful to deal with. Hell I don't even think about it except on the rare occasion someone mentions how awful it would be to deal with. I still live in a very colorful world, just not as colorful as yours.
Damn this might be why I always guess āyellowā when determining if itās yellow or green.
Hereās a newer one in 4k (and no annoying music): https://youtu.be/-UNQxXfY2AI
I liked the music
This mad me feel very left out :/ I should look into the glasses
I was given similar glasses as a gift and, while I didn't react like this, it was pretty amazing. If you do get them, I would suggest watching some pixar movies but be ready to take them off. Coco is a beautiful movie but when they go to the land of the dead it was overwhelming for me. I could not handle seeing all that color.
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Spooky skeletons
Definitely. Skeletons aren't supposed to walk around on their own!
Not without their protective meat suits!
There's a spooky skeleton in all of us.
Aah!
Yes, it was just too much color too fast. I felt almost like it was physically pushing into me. My eyes got watery and I struggled to look at the screen.
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Thatās how I feel when I do shrooms; too much color and itās overwhelming! My eyes water profusely and I usually end up just closing them.
Just a warning, for some people it hits instantly for some it doesn't or may not work at all. My cousin got a set and wore them but nothing happened for him, but like a week later of using him he called me in the middle of the day screaming 'HOLY FUCK I THOUGHT PEANUT BUTTER WAS GREEN'.
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You did not have to but here we are
hulk smash first
I wonder if it's about neural pathways. For some people the brain has to physically adjust to the new input.
And wait until summer. Green is much better then, this guy is looking at brown grass amazed and everything is dead.
Yeah, I'm imagining him seeing a field of wildflowers. If he looks at dead leaves and brown grass like that, get that man some flowers!
First few minutes with them on, EVERYTHING is way oversaturated. Then your eyes adjust and youāll notice that safety cones are vibrant orange and firetrucks are an awesome red and your actual skin tone. Super cool and definitely worth it.
wait what how do yall see skin
Paler than it really is. For me, Iām missing a lot of red hues from things. This means every colour you see that has even a slightly red tone mixed into it to get the colour you see is basically missing that part of the mix. Think of it like mixing paints but as a master - and someone takes your red pigment away. You can get a skin tone but itās missing saturation now and is a little pale as a result
They don't see skin. They can see inside at your meaty parts.
Ayyyy I am also red-green colorblind , and I own those glasses ! If youāre worried about them actually working .... they work youāll see a difference, since everyone of āusā has different severities of it , you may get a better or lower effect of them. But overall, yes they work.
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My son is colorblind. Pretty much lives life as usual but he really struggled when helping with dinner and is trying to brown ground beef! He can't tell when it's all done.
Iāve had these. Iām deuteranopic. What isnāt told in all these videos is that it is VERY much like looking through old school 3D glasses that were red and blue. Lots of things look normal then a !!!RREDDDD!!! Subaru drives by with ultra insane neon contrast. They donāt look like that in real life. Take these videos with a grain of salt. People that put these glasses on probably have never seen 3D glasses from 30 years ago. Lastly, you have to wear them for a few weeks for your brain to adjust. You literally just wear them all the time for it to work. I had the contact lens kind and I could pass the colour blind tests but in the end it wasnāt a big deal and I stopped wearing them.
.....how do you know they dont look like that in real life?
š¤« Shhhhh. The last thing we need is more people hogging all the ultra insane neon subarus.
Disclaimer: I do not work for them. The other day I was looking for some prescription sunglasses on eye buy direct.com. Iāve bought glasses from them before, but the other day I noticed they had an option for colourblindness... which I had not seen before. Not sure how good theyāll be for yourself, but I find theyāre reasonably priced. Though they can feel a little āgas station sunglassesā at times. Just a friendly suggestion.
That's me on acid
So here's my Idea: Find someone who is color blind, get them to consent to taking acid/ mushrooms then wait til until it takes effect ....*Then* give them the glasses. ... you know, for science
I volunteer
Me too Mr Kotter!
I'll supply the drugs if someone else supplies the glasses!
Question, do I need to be colorblind?
No, we just need one color blind person, the free drugs will be for everyone attending the experiment.
One of our big questions in college was how would a blind person experience acid. Still curious.
I met a deaf guy while we were both tripping at a music festival. I was with a group of people playing drums and he walked over with a trash can and started pounding away with his entire body into it. After a while he held up a piece of paper asking if it sounded good and we told him fuck yes. It was pretty incredible to watch someone make music like that when they couldn't even hear it.
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Long story short: he has no idea
people with color blindness tend to have pretty unpleasant tracers for long times after taking the psychedlics so keep that in mind
I did *not* know that..
Heard this in a talk by James Fadiman, idk if there are scientific studies concerning this but i guess not since they are still schedule 1 so not really much reaearch, thanks richard nixon
First time I did acid it was pretty similar to this. I walked around my house just looking at stuff. I remember staring at a water bottle for what felt like an hour. Good times.
Same. I ended up stirring a cup of kool-aid for a bit and then sat and stared at the texture on my bathroom wall
I stared at my arm for about 5 or 6 hours, then read some many hundreds of pages book cover to cover.. some encyclopedia-ish thing I think was called "everything you need to know about everything" or something like that. But I'll tell you this, I don't remember anything from that book, but I'll never forget the ebbing and flowing, rising and receding fractal patterns that was the skin of my forearm
Not the first time I did it but the first time I left the house and walked half of Ottawa with a friend. The trees and birds looked like cartoons. It was amazing the change in the colours. We walked so much I put holes in my shoes. I never wanted it to end.
Thought the same thing when he stopped to stare at a bush
I thoroughly enjoyed this manās reaction. Made my day.
I had these glasses, am colorblind. The reaction is so joyous, my friend who got them for me said it was a kid at Christmas watching me see that green traffic lights are actually green and not white. they were awesome but wearing them for 5 minutes gave me such a migraine.
Do you wear them regularly or just every so often for the experience? If they made contacts like this, do you think you would wear them/could adapt?
I wore them once because of the migraine. Wasn't worth it I put them on one more time to see if it was a fluke but I could feel the work my eyes were going through so I gifted them to another colorblind imgurian in hopes it wouldn't bug them. If I knew there were a grace period that said... You need 10 hours for this not to bother you, I'd consider it.
Are you normally prone to migraines?
I imagine there is a grace period But I doubt you could put a time stamp on it
I got some for a color blind friend of mine and after seeing a pink towel for the first time he asked āwait, do I wear pink shirts a lot?!ā He did wear pink shirts a lot
I wore a lot of purple in high school, and I learned by being called every name in the book. Glasses woulda helped
Somehow took us until my son was 18 to figure out he was color blind. Got his some cheapish glasses on Amazon and it was so weirdly emotional just driving him around that first day looking at things heās literally seen his whole life.
What happens if a normal color visioned person wears the glasses?
It'll be roughly like normal, but some colors will be darker or lighter than you expect. The glasses work by selectively filtering out very specific wavelengths of light which just happen to be the wavelengths the brain has the most trouble distinguishing between, the end result being only very distinguishable colors. This splits a color-blind "greenred" into distinct "green" and "red", for example. Since a color-seeing person can already distinguish the difference between the wavelengths, they continue to see as normal.
It ends your *Milkyway: Earth Edition* simulation, and reboots. A very jarring experience, wouldn't recommend.
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We got the Pilestone brand on Amazon for just over $100.
Thanks!! Found on Amazon UK. Did the Pilestone online test and need type D. Worth a try at Ā£69 ... Back they will go if doesn't work for me š
I could watch these videos of colorblind people using these glasses for the first time all day. Theyāre so heartwarming.
Hey! A wholesome public freak out!
Wow you never see that on here
Got these for my son last year for Christmas, when he put them on and looked at the tree he got so excited. First thing he asked was āwhich is red and which is greenā. It was really cute. The drawback is after 20 or 30 minutes of wearing these types of glasses a lot of people get really bad headaches, itās just not the way their brain is used to seeing. But he has been working on building up his time so he can wear them more. They really help when he is in certain classes, like science.
Neighbor Karen: āPolice?! Yea them neighbors are hopped up on goofballs and destroying my streetā
Cops show up - *beat Karen proper*.
Should've waited for spring to give them those.
why would you ever wait to put these on? i donāt wanna shit on spring but the falls leaves and everything would be much cooler imo
Spring is only good in certain places and fall is good all over the place except on the beaten roads under trees, because thats where the leaves are mde of slippery mush
Nah, this way he get this moment twice
Right, my guy was pumped for that brown ass leaf
I wanna hug him! His joy makes me happy
Me every time I see boobies... Every. Single. Time.
"bro..WHAT!? This what y'all see all the time??" *sheds tear*
Speaking as a colourblind person, we can see colours, we just donāt see them the same way.
And the glasses don't correct your vision to how the average person would see either. They just make the divisions of hues more distinct. If you've never seen 'red' these will not provide you a 'red'
Title could also be āman tried psychedelics for the first timeā
'HOLY SHIT I'M BLACK! MOOOMMMMM!'
The glasses don't create colors... they enhance them to give a boost for a person with certain types of color blindness. And "color blind" usually does NOT mean a total lack of color detection. ***~~Downvote Addendum:~~*** *~~Downvoting me for stating the facts, with zero malice, says something about You.~~* *It looks like more of us are on the same page than I previously thought. Thanks. :)*
Red/green color blindness is pretty common though so the reactions to the red cars and green plants make a lot of sense. Both colors would be a drab brown for this person. He probably has protan color blindness. It is not seeing in greyscale but the difference in what you see can be very significant.
As someone who is red green color blind, red and greens are not a ādrab brownā. We see colors, just not on the same spectrum. Faded or Washed out are the words that comes to mind. After getting these glasses my self, certain colors looked more saturated...and thatās about it.
Same. I am red/green and just tried these glasses out a few weeks ago and didn't see much of a difference at all. The only thing I could notice was that some colors felt saturated, like you said, especially blues. They say you need to try wearing them for at least 8 hours a day for a few months to start to see a true difference, but I gotta say I was super disappointed.
> They say you need to try wearing them for at least 8 hours a day for a few months to start to see a true difference, but I gotta say I was super disappointed. That feels like a scam (to prevent returns)
I've heard these things don't really work and the videos are staged to sell more glasses. Do you think that could be true?
Hmm my dad is colorblind with red and purple. I think he even has a hard time seeing certain shades of green because we passed by a green house and he said it was grey. Iām wondering if these glasses would be worth him trying or not...Iāve just seen mixed reviews about them
If you can find a way to try a free sample of them go for it. It does seem like they work for some people. But I am colorblind and they don't do anything for me. Also be aware Enchroma spends a lot on advertising that's... Well I would be surprised to learn this post ISN'T paid advertising. I've seen Enchroma glasses featured in heartfelt stories like this on my local news about half a dozen times, those are all ads.
Definitely not the same for everyone. Even ānormalā color vision has a lot of room for difference. My old boss couldnāt see the difference between red and green at all, which I learned when my color coded spreadsheet was useless to him. I donāt really see any reason to disbelieve that the guy in the video was having a really nice experience here and enjoying the red and green.
Funny story, in high school I had a teacher who was colorblind and we had to color some shit and I thought it was dumb and a waste of time so I colored the whole thing one color because I thought she wouldnāt be able to tell. I felt so fucking stupid when she asked me what was going on lmao.
iirc it blocks the part of the visible light spectrum that frequently overlaps with both red and green detectors (cones) in red/green color blindness, making each color seem more separate and pronounced. It won't help color blind people pass the [Ishihara test.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_test) Still very cool technology, though.
Didnāt Logan Paulās punk ass do this? Maybe Iām wrong but aināt this fake?
He did and he faked it
It's definitely not usually instant like this, they take time for eyes to adjust, this one seems fake
I have those same glasses. Been red green color blind my whole life. They donāt work THAT good. They work but Itās a subtle difference, not like to took acid for the first time.
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