안녕~

And then there are the so-called “forbidden colors” called red-green and blue-yellow, because scientists suck at naming things. We know they exist, but our retinas piss all over the very idea by crudely approximating them to their base colors when sending the signal to the brain. In an experiment conducted in 1983, researchers figured out they could make volunteers actually see these colors using specifically constructed striped images where one half of an eye’s retinal cells could only see one color while the other saw the other, basically overloading the eye until it went “screw it” and unleashed the forbidden hues.

The volunteers saw colors they had not seen before, but had no words for what they were looking at. It sort of broke their brains for a minute.

-Don’t look now, but I see the most beautiful girl in the world!

-Where?

-To the left, don’t turn too fast!