white gold or blue black dress Here's why people saw “the dress” differently The Science Behind the Black

Without you having to worry about it, your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off the thing your eyes are looking at, and essentially subtracts that color from the "real" color of the object

Other famous examples of this are the duck-rabbit illusion (sometimes called the rabbit-duck or Jastrow duck-rabbit) or necker cub

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I'm confused and scared

But for the past half-day, people across social media have been arguing about whether a picture depicts a perfectly nice bodycon dress as blue with black lace fringe or white with gold lace fringe