Do people with different eye colours see colours differently?
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Biology will tell you no, but think about this...\n\nI have always wondered, what if the color you see as yellow is the color I see as green?  See, we are all taught colors, so if I was seeing "green" but my parents had always told me it was "yellow,"  I would learn to call it yellow.  So colors could theoretically be relative.  We are taught that they sky is blue, but if we had always been told that they sky was orange, we would think the color blue was called orange.  See what I mean?\n\nThere is probably some biologist out there who can find some way to argue with me about wavelengths of light and ours eyes and something else to try to prove that we all see the same color, but for arguments sake, I like the theoretical argument better.
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heterochromia\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color#Heterochromia
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I don't know the answer to your question exactly - it's more a demographics question. But eye color is inherited independent from hair color. There are many genes affecting each, not just one or two.  Dark hair and eye genes are dominant, so they tend to appear together if they were together in the parent (which they often are due to "race"). So it might seem as though dark hair and light eyes together is rare, simply because of incomplete mixing of types in the group you're looking at (assuming there are light-hair-and-eyes types, and dark-hair-and-eyes types to begin with).\n\nThere are some groups of white people in which dark hair and light eyes are common - the so-called "black Irish" come to mind. If they exist, it is because of thorough mixing over time, of light-hair-and-eyes types with dark-hair-and-eyes types.
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Try this - you'll be surprised how many people have a degree of colour-blindness without realising\n\nhttp://128.121.139.89/SWF/ColorBlind21.swf
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There's a peak absorbance of rods and cones in the retina.  Humans have three peaks which represent the primary colors (for light) red, green, and blue.  The colors we see are our brain's interpretation of input on those three colors plus general light level input from rods.  Based on the numbers of rods and cones and the absorbance spectra of the different cones, researches can get an idea of the color vision of different animals.\n\nMost mammals are dichromatic (two colors).  Note how non-colorful they tend to be.  Certain primates are trichromatic (three colors).  Birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects are also trichromatic or more.  Note how colorful they tend to be.
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Some people experience a phenomenon known as synaesthesia. That occurs when people perceive multiple senses in repsonse to one stimulus. For example, many synaesthetes report being able to smell the colors they see, even if there's no chemical around to cause them to smell something. It's just a quirk in their brain.\n\nI can "see" loud noises if my eyes are shut. Loud clattering and crashing sounds cause me to see a flash of white when my eyes are shut. Likewise, I perceive colors when I think of certain numbers. \n\n0 = white\n1 = black on a white field\n2 = yellow\n3 = green\n4 = light blue\n5 = red\n6 = brown\n7 = magenta\n8 = dark blue\n9 = brown
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Yes, the colour of the eyes can change by using contact lenses. I don't know if it can change by a physical way.
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Eye color is the pigmentation and reflections of particles in your eye. Basically the lighter the eye the less pigmentation is in that eye.  BLue eyes have less pigmentation than brown eyes. The way that the color is reflected gives the different apperance of the eye color. \nMy eyes are green. They arecool.
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I'm colour blind actually....I have a very hard time with shades and red-greens.  I see colour differently than you do.  Or don't see as the case may be.
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I haven't seen that personally.  Actually, according to scientific studies, people with lighter eyes (especially bright blue) tend to have more eye problems than any other eyecolor.  There could be some vitamin or mineral deficiency that Asians have that I am unaware of though.
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yes, they do! but they see two objects not just one!\n\nps: i'm not cross-eyed.
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The color you see is that light that reflects back to your eye.  People with darker skin absorb more of the light that comes their way.
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Humans have three types of color receptors (light-sensitive cells) in the retina.\n\nDogs have only two.  So dogs are not (as some people say) completely color blind.  They can distinguish between blues and yellows ... but not between reds and greens.\n\nThe technical terms are that humans are 'trichromatic', and dogs are 'dichromatic.'
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every colour\nif eyes are beautifull no matter what colour hey have.
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We don't know that your subjective experience of the color green is the same thing as my subjective experience, anymore than we can know if your experience of the taste salty is the same as mine.  What we can know is that, if we were to show pictures of the same object to a number of people, and asked them to identify its color, there would  be a great deal of agreement in the answers.  But it would not be 100%, because one person might consider a color between red and orange to be red, another would call it orange.  It's interesting to me, as someone who is red-green colorblind, to see people, usually ones with normal color vision, insist that there are rigid definitions of colors.  Like, they will insist that the colors of the rainbow are, precisely, red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet. (Roy-G-Biv, the physical science teachers call it.)\nIn fact, the potential frequencies of visible light, in other words the colors of the light, vary continuously from just above infrared to just below ultraviolet; there is no hard and fast definition of "yellow". And different cultures divide up that spectrum differently.\n\nGetting back to your question, I suppose scientists could do experiments with the chemical receptors that detect color in light.  People with normal color vision have three different kind of receptors, which are sensitive to three different colors of light.  (I only have two kinds of color receptors.)  It is the levels of excitation of each type of receptor that determines what color is being perceived.  That is why we can model any given color by mixing together just three colors, as in a TV set.  Scientist could probably determine if chemically these receptors were the same in various individuals; for all I know that research may have already been done.
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There IS no guarantee. In fact, it has been proven that people DON'T all see color exactly the same way. But it doesn't really matter, because there's no way to communicate how I see red to someone else, even if they see my perception of red as yellow.
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The genes for eye color determine the amount of melanin, a dark brown pigment, produced in the iris of the eyes. Blue eyes are due to a lack of melanin, while brown eyes indicate melanin-rich irises. Thus, people with darker hair and skin have higher levels of melanin and tend to have brown eyes, while people with lighter hair and skin have lower levels of melanin and usually have lighter colored eyes.