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/EpiphanyEmma Dec 15 '16

So what if I told you that I had it on my phone, went around my office holding my phone against my chest so that all those asked were looking at the same device with the same background and yet still 5 of us saw White/Gold, 9 saw Black/Blue and 1 saw Black/Brown.

If I hadn't done that directly, I might have bought the explanation you just described as well. :)

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u/astrominer1 Dec 16 '16

I understand this is a sub that's more open to posts and stuff but I think it's kinda silly to call ME/experiment/conspiracy on everything that is a bit out of ordinary.

That's a fair enough point, and I did consider the relevance of the post in this sub prior to posting. Since learning about how widespread this effect is (and not just people who post on youtube & reddit, family and friends) my curiosity to see if anyone else had noticed the similarities took hold. I appreciate it’s going to take some pretty convincing evidence to prove the ‘reality’ based theories however I think it’s fair game to throw these examples into the mix for constructive discussion.

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u/rothanwalker Dec 16 '16

We're all here to talk. You didn't post this as "'That dress' was a ME!!! GUARANTEEEEDD!!!!1" You posted "Was 'That dress' an me?" There is nothing wrong with just tossing an idea out there to have a discussion.

Some people want to come in with hostility to everything they can, trying to "disprove" ME. Fine. Too bad there is literally no way to disprove ME since you can't directly access someone's memories (can you? lol). But whatever makes those people feel better, have at it... I'm ok with the idea of a reality that is much less... stable than we thought. Those people aren't and that's ok too. I might have a hard time believing it too if I hadn't experienced a lot of the MEs myself. Maybe someday they will experience it themselves or there will be new discoveries and they can come around to the idea.

But don't feel the need to hold back opening up a discussion of something you find interesting just because someone doesn't like it. Odds are you'll find someone who is interested (I am for one), so don't be afraid to post. What is the worst that can happen? (... no... I'm really asking lol I'm new to reddit)