Thread: Is it possible to dream a new color?

but licity, our brain is limited to a certain amount of colours. ive been comparing the brain to a computer because its the easiest way to describe what im talking about, so ill carry on doing that. when a computer is set to 8 bit colour depth for example, if a 24 bit colour image was to come up, it wouldnt show the extra colours, just the ones within its pallet, and the closest to the other ones.
our brain would be similar, our brain is set to around about 24 bit colour depth...(hold on, psp writin limit)

Originally Posted by slash112

but licity, our brain is limited to a certain amount of colours. ive been comparing the brain to a computer because its the easiest way to describe what im talking about, so ill carry on doing that. when a computer is set to 8 bit colour depth for example, if a 24 bit colour image was to come up, it wouldnt show the extra colours, just the ones within its pallet, and the closest to the other ones.
our brain would be similar, our brain is set to around about 24 bit colour depth...(hold on, psp writin limit)

Where did you hear the brain is limited to a certain amount of colors? The explanation I have always heard for human's inability to see lower than infrared and higher than ultraviolet is the inability of the rods and cones in our eyes.

Also, I notice a difference between 24-bit and 32-bit color depth. How is this possible if my brain is limited to 24?

Licity, its just an analogy. We can see colours that are the product of red green and yellow (or whatever the 3 colors are) and we see millions if not an infinite amount of colours in between. We're talking about a new colour. For example, we might see things that are product of red yellow green and wander. When wander mixes with another colour it makes a colour unimagineable. Of course if wander existed, the universe might be completely different, because if the spectrum is broader than it is (not than we know, whos to say we've found all the colours, well invisible ones anyway) everything could possibly be different. im terrible at getting the point across

i cant remember if its 24 or 32, so maybe i meant 32, but i thought it was 24.

and im not talking about seeing other things in the electromagnetic spectrum, im only talking about visible light, and if our colour depth was raised, we would see more inbetween colours (more RGB combinations), not more types of light.

p.s. i dont actually know if a brain is this similar to a computer, it just makes a lot of sense, so this is what i will believe unless you prove me wrong.