Comments on: How is this possible?

By: allana

allana — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:13:20 +0000

any other details about the medical for pilots? i’ve always known i’ve got better eyes than most (and is it true that a much higher percentage of males have colour-difficulty than females?) but i’m not sure what else they require of you. someone told me you essentially have to be a muscle-bound gorilla type to get into the military’s pilot program.

By: Thomas.S

Thomas.S — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:18:22 +0000

I searched the web once for a friend who thought he might be colorblind. I learned that there are a lot of varying degrees of colorsightedness. I found the following to site quite helpful and entertaining at the same time:
1. sorting colors: https://www.univie.ac.at/Vergl-Physiologie/colortest/
2. matching colors: https://www.colblindor.com/rgb-anomaloscope-color-blindness-test/

I’m curious to read more from you about this, since your pictures show clearly, that you are better with colors than most.

By: Arynn

Arynn — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:16:41 +0000

Don’t worry. I can barely read any of them myself, and I’m pretty positive I see all colors in the visible spectrum…

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:43:03 +0000

Yeah, it’s weird, because I can do that test — so I’m thinking it’s some neurological thing with the ishihara tests.

By: Tera

Tera — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:54:57 +0000

It’s interesting you can name the colours.

try https://www.opticien-lentilles.com/daltonien_beta/new_test_daltonien.php

it tests for multiple types of colour blindness and should give you more information

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:31:44 +0000

Tell Dave I said Hi!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:09:52 +0000

That has to be really crazy to find out that you’re color blind late in life. I work with a guy who is color blind, and myself and some of my other coworkers regularly ask him questions about it. We’re also pretty mean, so we make sure to diagram stuff on our white board in red and green :)

Check out this page: https://www.ryobi-sol.co.jp/visolve/en/ I haven’t downloaded the program, but they do have some really good examples of what color-blind people see.

By: Cid

Cid — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:47:09 +0000

Lol.. Shannon was the middle one a joke?

Fuck the Color Blind?

Does a professional testing office for a pilots license really have something like that? LOL!!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:56:30 +0000

would this not be similar to certain people not being able to view certain illusion pictures?

By: estrojenn

estrojenn — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:14:39 +0000

i haven’t seen rave dave since york u!!!

By: jason

jason — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:53:14 +0000

Haha, also agree with WLFDRGN, how would you know? Ask a fish, what is water?

I wore a grey jumper everywhere I went for about a year until someone took me aside and told me it was pink.

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:52:02 +0000

Aw you’re like that kid from Little Miss Sunshine. He wanted to be a pilot and when he found out he was colorblind he had to give up his dreams. I hope you don’t have to.

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:28:31 +0000

Omg, Dave, he has grey hair now..wow, I haven’t seen him in forever!!! say hi for me :)

As to the colour blind issue, I agree with WLFDRGN youshould go set up an appointment with a good opthemologist to be 100% sure

By: ed

ed — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:17:23 +0000

I cannot make out any of those magic eyes posters. I know it’s not the same, except that its very frustrating when everyone sees stuff I dont. Good luck on your appts.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:08:17 +0000

I was surprised that I could read all three! I’ve known that my color perception is off (not blind, just strange) and have failed several tests because of it.

The idea behind the test is to use images that do not have clear discernable edges to demonstrate that you can differentiate actual colors and not shapes. Your failure may be more related to shape recognition than to actual colors. I find that the closer I get to the image, the easier it is to “see” it. I had a little trouble with #3 until I got closer to the screen.

One thing I’ve noticed from your paintings (which I like by the way), is that you use bright colors and not too much shading. It’s possible that is an “indication” of your color perception issue.

I just wish my eyesight was good enough otherwise to get a pilots license. I flew a plane when I was about 8 just before my eyes went weird. (Yes I actually did fly the plane. I was in the front seat with my parents in the back on a “joy” ride with one of my parents friends :-) and the pilot, who was a professional commercial, instructor, private, and military, gave me the controls with which I immediately banked to the right to look down giving everyone a brief “thrill”!)

One more thing, I understand its possible to “practice” these tests. Obviously, if you can’t distinguish the different colors, it won’t help, but if its just a matter of accustoming yourself to seeing the image, then it should help.

By: Twwly

Twwly — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:26:48 +0000

I hardly read the middle and I couldn’t make out the sides.

I seem to have done okay in life doing colour correction though! Ha.

By: Marjorie

Marjorie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:43:10 +0000

this is prety interesting if accurate

https://colorfilter.wickline.org/

By: Marjorie

Marjorie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:40:06 +0000

The first and last one i find really confusing, i can guess what they are but honestly i have a hard time recognising the numbers… weird stuff. The one in the midle tho is prety clear.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:38:08 +0000

My brother had to get glasses at 24 and realized that for the last 24 years hes beening seeing everything a little wider then it really is. He had no idea. Very odd thing. .. Do you think you have had it your whole life ? Or is this a side effect from tattooing your eye ?

By: wlfdrgn

wlfdrgn — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:56:25 +0000

How would you know you’re color blind if you’ve always been colorblind your whole life? If you are colorblind, you’d have learned them that way from the start, so you recognize the colors, can work with them, just don’t see them differently.

I think finding this would bother me a lot, too. Set up an appointment with a good opthemologist to get a better exam?