For those who are color blind, what color does the sky appear to you?

This is a really good question….

The sky is what I call my perceptions of it.

So is blue.

Neither care for what I name them. Neither should you. Unless we need to communicate.

Yes, I’m supposedly color blind. That’s what they tell me. I’m a photographer who’s never thought twice about it. Just tell me what color it is, and I’ll agree with you. I’d rather concentrate on the tonalities.

I’m only partially color blind. I have trouble with green, blue, and brown. I understand that many more men share that affliction than women. I think that I see bright colors much better than darker shades. For instance, the sky is, what I believe, is blue. I’m not sure if I see blue the same as other people. The difference between green and brown is very difficult for me to see. I think that my perception is about the same as @RealEyesRealizeRealLies I have a pair of sun glasses that seems to improve my color perception. For instance, tree leaves are more distinct and I think that I see what others see without the visual aides.

Blue. (when its blue. Some times its white when its cloudy, red in the evening when the sun is just setting etc etc).

I have a friend in Scotland who swears the sky is tartan, not sure if he’s colourblind or permanently drunk.

lol, what color is tartan?

@Ron_C The reason men have a tendency to be colorblind while women don’t is is that women need the recessive colorblindness gene from both parents to be colorblind. Men only need the recessive gene from one parent.

It would depend on what type of colorblindness the person has. Red green colorblindness is the most common type, so a good portion of colorblind would still see a blue sky the same as someone without colorblindness.

I’m not colorblind though, so that’s as much of an answer as I can give.

@cheebdragon Think kilts & you’re more or less there :-)

By color blind, what do you mean? There are many types of color deficiencies, and a color deficient person may be able to see blue just fine.

Plus, our minds are amazing things, and sight is largely a psychological phenomenon. If a “color blind” person knows the sky is blue because it’s common knowledge, that’s the color with which they will identify.

As for the comment – the FACT is that the sky appears blue. It doesn’t matter if you see bright orange, it’s still blue.

Funny thing, is that there is no such thing, as a sky. What we see is just a reflection combined with dust particles. Depending upon the light source, may appear blue, red, yellow, gray. But at night, we don’t see the reflection. We see black space.

@amujinx “tendency to be colorblind while women don’t is is that women need the recessive colorblindness gene from both parents to be colorblind. Men only need the recessive gene from one parent.”
I find that fascinating. I thought the difference between men and women happened by what “hormone wash” they experienced in the womb.

I am color blind. I “know” the sky is blue because that’s what I’ve been told my whole life, so I just go with that.

If I had to guess, I’d say that women are more likely than men to pursue fashion and interior design. I wonder if that may be attributed (in part) because men are more likely to be color blind.

I’ve wondered before that if I could literally see through someone else’s eyes if I would see the same color—or different shades of the colors. Yes, if what you’re seeing is what other people would call yellow, but all of your life you’ve seen it as blue, then as far as you’re concerned, that color is blue.

Colors vary depending on the person. A person with colorblindness might see blue as red (and vice versa), so their word for what we see as blue would be red and their word for what we see as red would be blue. So if they see the sky as what we would call red, they would know it as blue.
So if nobody told them any different, the answer you would get would always be blue. (Unless the type of colorblind someone is changes every so often).

I don’t think this question can be answered. A person who was color blind would have to know what blue actually looked like in order to tell you that it doesn’t look like that.

Is the same true for people who are colorblind and have blue eyes?

Remember that the label we attach to perceptions of commonplace objects and aspects of the environment are so strongly influence by social learning that it is difficult to distinguish our perceptions from what we know to be to commonly accepted answer. Some of us watch television for years before colour TV was available to us. We never has trouble “knowing” what colours things were.

@Dutchess_III Well some people go color blind later in life, so maybe they would know what they see now compared to the blue that they knew before.

Good thought @genjgal.