[firefoxd]

These are the type of problems that are completely invisible to someone who doesn't experience it. I wouldn't have even known it was a problem to solve.

A few years back we played an escape room game online with the whole team. One of the clues was in one of my colleagues "room". All he had to do was read it. "Come one read it man, we can win this." He froze. We all insisted he reads it. He could not read it. We thought he had an internet connection issue. Somehow we managed to escape the room and kept going.

The next day he told me he was embarrassed because he couldn't understand what we were talking about. He could not see the note we were talking about because he is colorblind.

[seizethecheese]

I’m colorblind and the weird thing is that it’s somewhat unpredictable when I will not see things. It’s not so simple as “can’t read red on green”. Shading and lighting matter enormously. An orange frisbee is harder to find in grass then a red one.

The strange thing is that I somehow convinced myself that I wasn’t colorblind during my childhood, in spite of obvious evidence, because I often could figure out colors. Then during an eye exam at 19 years old I failed 11/12 vision tests.

[kristjansson]

> An orange frisbee is harder to find in grass then a red one

same for ungulates. hence, tigers

[stronglikedan]

I always offer to drive because otherwise I'll surely make myself sick by browsing on my phone for something. Even if just conversing with the driver since almost all conversations end up with me inevitably looking something up on my phone.

[albedoa]

> He could not see the note we were talking about because he is colorblind.

A similar thing happened to a friend who was over for game night. We were playing the Monopoly Deal card game when he put a brown and a red card next to each other with kind of a confused silence. Look at this:

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/374991_dc4dfa2a6f0d4ebb81...

(Pictured: Three red property cards next to two brown property cards.) They use only color to indicate property group. I was surprised that such a recognizable brand would allow this to get through. About one in twelve men cannot play this game without assistance.

[thi2]

At my first job our project manager was colorblind (red-orange/yellow). One day he dropped a photo of his cars dashboard at a red light with an orange "check engine light"

> "Quick, is this red or orange I need to know if it'll blow".

I'm sure it's a really annoying condition but at the time it was pretty funny and he joked around with it a lot

[SoftTalker]

Just FYI, the check engine light (orange or yellow) is never an emergency. It's normally something emissions-related. Oil and temperature, yes those are much more critical but those are separate (red) indicators. You don't need to rely on color if you know this.

[somehnguy]

Solid color yeah. A flashing check engine light can be an emergency if you want to avoid more costly repairs later

[dyauspitr]

Yep my check engine light went straight to flashing when I was driving once. I drove to the nearest garage (about 2 miles away) to get it fixed. A spark plug had blown up/exploded and pieces of ceramic from the spark plug had completely scratched up the inside of my cylinder over those 2 miles rendering that engine unfixable.

[nothercastle]

I don’t think the 2 miles mattered. Once it exploded the engine was done

[lsaferite]

I mean, they can generally re-sleeve a cylinder. Did no one offer that solution?

[behringer]

google lens can probably answer these kinds of questions for him, but uh, he should be aware not to trust his car blowing up with AI!

[sandworm101]

Being colorblind and having motion sickness are totally different things. One cannot get over being colorblind. It can never go away. Motion sickness (99% of cases) can be managed. Exposure therapy works. Look at every navy ship. They start the voyage with half the crew seasick. But after a few months it practically disappears.

One interesting stat from the miltary: cadets who were competative swimmers generally dont get motion sickness. The combination of 0g floating and constant head rotations along diferent axis (flip turns) normalizes the sensations.

[tokai]

Being from a place with many fishermen and navy personel I can assure you that it does not necessarily go away with exposure. Some sailors are just sick when they are at sea.

[sandworm101]

Yup. Lord Nelson was famously sick every day of his time at sea. But such cases are exceptions. Most do get over it with time. My father was always sick on boafs, unless he was driving. Then he was fine. Each person is different.

[anon_acc5415]

> One cannot get over being colorblind. It can never go away.

Bizzare and fascinating thing, but that's perhaps not as rock-solid as it might appear.

Some (or at least 1) people have reported improved color perception post magic mushrooms.

> Though the subject reported intensification of colors while under the acute effects of psilocybin, his score on plates 1–21 improved only slightly to 15 at 12 h post-administration. However, by 24 h post-mushroom administration, his score reached 18, above the cut-off of 17 required by the Ishihara Test for classification of normal color vision,” the report states. “His score peaked at 19 on day eight post-administration. At approximately four months post-mushroom administration, his score remained elevated at 18,” the researchers write.

From https://www.mdlinx.com/article/can-magic-mushrooms-solve-col...

Now, you might say, "Well, that's hogwash, maybe that guy was lying."

To which I say... I experienced it myself! During the experience, colors were significantly more vivid and saturated. (I actually think I "saw" how women for eg see more subtlety between different shades.) Sure, the breeze felt amazing, and nature and trees were peaceful... but I spent a disproportionate amount of time staring at the street and marveling at the colors.

Want a twist? I'll give you two.

1. I'm not color blind, afaik. I've done a number of (admittedly basic) tests and passed them all.

2. The substance I (alledgly) took was not mushrooms. It wasn't even a plant based - or illicit thing! It was a prescription drug/medicine!

I'll leave you to guess it if you want, semi-spoilers below.

It was a drug used (and famously known) primarily as a wakefulness agent for narcolepsy, and I might have taken the R-enantiomer of it.

[anon_acc5415]

Damn, I really didn't expect to get a downvote on this. Anything I said wrong, or someone just disagreeing?

I'd think the concept of "brain tweaks can improve color vision" is a good thing.

[Rychard]

I think the issue is that color blindness is typically the result of a physical abnormality with the rods/cones in the retina.

Your claim is essentially akin to saying a black-and-white printer could somehow print in color. It's a physical impossibility. Whether certain substances could trick the brain into believing it can see colors is another story altogether.

That said, there are forms of color blindness that are caused by neurological issues, but those are far more rare.