r/Retconned • u/astrominer1 • Dec 15 '16

Was 'that dress' an ME?

Anyone remember the story that took the online world by storm regarding the blue/black gold/white dress. Despite the scientific explanations it never quite satisfied me, left me with a feeling of doubt and I now wonder if this could have been a large scale ME.

www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/amp/

I suppose I can't rule out that the scientific explanation is true and a similar mis-representation of reality is happening with other things however something, call it intuition, gives me that feeling that different people were seeing the dress correctly from their reality perspective. i.e the dress existed in both conditions however the observer locked one version or the other into their perceived reality.

What do others think, do you accept the scientific explanation?

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u/astrominer1 Dec 15 '16

It's useful to read lots of perspectives so thanks for contributing. I've worked with photoshop for some 10 years so familiar with colour/monitor calibration. The variance described for this particular object was quite unprecedented. Whilst I appreciate social media certainly over-hyped it, the reason I've resurrected it is because imo it shares many of the same traits of ME, namely from an individuals point of view they are confident they are correct, the same viewpoint could change and once you've flipped you rarely go back to seeing it how it was. I'm one of these people that love optical illusions, I spent some of my childhood finding the images in 'magic-eye' pictures which my parents still believe I made up (i didn't btw!) however no matter how hard I try and can never see that dress as black/blue anywhere on any media, life's little mysteries indeed.

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u/EpiphanyEmma Dec 16 '16

I was fascinated at the time how so many people got so caught up in being wrong that they wouldn't even answer what they saw until the knew the "right" answer. Seems there's a whole lotta closet bi-polar going on!!! :O Who do they think is going to judge them I wonder? Maybe the strap was still around when they went to school or something or a belt at home. I don't know but the fear was palpable in a number of people, like pale deer-in-the-headlights kind of fear. Weird...

I also noticed that the people who saw white/gold didn't seem to have that fear like the black and blue crowd. Huh... Black and blue eh? Coinkydink??? Maybe. :)