Are the colors we see real?

Colour is not a physical property of an object - it is a sensation, just like smell or taste. Colour is generated only when light of a particular wavelength falls onto the retina of the eye and specialized sensory cells generate a nerve impulse, which is routed to the brain where it is perceived as being colour.
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Do humans see true colors?

Light receptors within the eye transmit messages to the brain, which produces the familiar sensations of color. Newton observed that color is not inherent in objects. Rather, the surface of an object reflects some colors and absorbs all the others. We perceive only the reflected colors.
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What colors do you actually see?

As we know, the human eye has three types of cones that allow us to see a certain range of light, and, therefore, colour, on the electromagnetic spectrum—i.e., the visible light spectrum. These colours are blue, green, and red. Of course, we see much more colour than just these three.
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Is color real or an illusion?

Colour is not a physical property of an object - it is a sensation, just like smell or taste. Colour is generated only when light of a particular wavelength falls onto the retina of the eye and specialized sensory cells generate a nerve impulse, which is routed to the brain where it is perceived as being colour.
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How many colors actually exist?

It all sort of depends on what exactly you mean by “infinite.” It has been determined by people who determine such things that there are somewhere around 18 decillion varieties of colors available for your viewing enjoyment. That's an 18 followed by 33 zeros.
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Which colour Cannot be seen by humans?

Red-green and yellow-blue are the so-called "forbidden colors." Composed of pairs of hues whose light frequencies automatically cancel each other out in the human eye, they're supposed to be impossible to see simultaneously.
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What colors we Cannot see?

The human eye can only see visible light, but light comes in many other "colors"—radio, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray—that are invisible to the naked eye.
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Are we all color blind?

About 8% to 10% of the male population is colorblind. Colorblindness is most present in males due to the way genetics work (see footnotes). Only an estimated 0.5% of the female population is colorblind. Tritan-type colorblindness is not gender specific, women and men are equally affected.
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Do some colors not exist?

The Black Sheep In The Grey Area: The Chimerical Colors. Magenta doesn't exist because it has no wavelength; there's no place for it on the spectrum. The only reason we see it is because our brain doesn't like having green (magenta's complement) between purple and red, so it substitutes a new thing.
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Can color blind people see blue?

There are different types of colour blindness and in extremely rare cases people are unable to see any colour at all, but most colour blind people are unable to fully 'see' red, green or blue light.
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Do color blind people see black and white?

The colorblind don't see the world in black and white, they can see color, but they a narrowed color perception. Colors lie closer to each other and are not as vibrant or bright as someone who isn't color blind would see it.
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What color isn t real?

Rather, it is physiologically and psychologically perceived as a mixture of red and blue. So technically, magenta doesn't exist. Our eyes have receptors called cones for three different colors: red, green, and blue. By combining the three colors in different ways, secondary colors can be created.
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Why is pink not a color?

If colours were simply a naming scheme for wavelengths then pink is not one, because it is made up of more than one wavelength (it's actually a mix of red and purple light). If you took a laser and tuned it across the visible wavelengths, from infrared through to ultraviolet, you would not pass pink on the way.
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What colour is hardest to see?

Blue is the hardest color to see as more light energy is required for a full response from blue-violet cones, compared to green or red.
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Is it possible to discover a new color?

There are no new colors in the world to be discovered — at least that's what anyone who's ever shopped for paint might think.
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What color does the human eye see first?

On the other hand, since yellow is the most visible color of all the colors, it is the first color that the human eye notices. Use it to get attention, such as a yellow sign with black text, or as an accent.
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What is the slowest color?

Because the colors of light travel at different speeds, they get bent by different amounts and come out all spread out instead of mixed up. Violet travels the slowest so it is on the bottom and red travels the fastest so is on the top.
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Why do boys not wear pink?

Because they're not treated the same as girls who wear blue. When it comes to gender, not all colors are created equal. As we all know, pink is the chosen color for girls and blue for boys. They're colors set in stone by decades of cultural stereotyping and gender-based, pink-blue marketing.
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Why is pink not for boys?

In old catalogs and books, pink was the color for little boys, said Leatrice Eiseman, a color expert and executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. “It was related to the mother color of red, which was ardent and passionate and more active, more aggressive.
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Is there a fake color?

A fictitious color or imaginary color is a point in a color space that corresponds to combinations of cone cell responses in one eye that cannot be produced by the eye in normal circumstances seeing any possible light spectrum. No physical object can have an imaginary color.
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What is the most unloved color?

Orange. Above all other colors, orange took home the medal for the most-hated Color.
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What is the rarest color on earth?

1. Lapis Lazuli. Lapus Lazuli is a blue mineral so rare that in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance it was actually more valuable than gold.
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Do blind people dream?

Although their visual dream content is reduced, other senses are enhanced in dreams of the blind. A dreaming blind person experiences more sensations of sound, touch, taste, and smell than sighted people do. Blind people are also more likely to have certain types of dreams than sighted people.
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Do blind people see total blackness?

The answer, of course, is nothing. Just as blind people do not sense the color black, we do not sense anything at all in place of our lack of sensations for magnetic fields or ultraviolet light. We don't know what we're missing.
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