Is perception reality?

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I am color blind too giff and yes we percieve colors differently than everyone else.For instance I have trouble seeing different shades of red,green,and pink.I see bright red as orange and bright green as yellow so as far as colors go giff we do percieve things differently.

Pardon me. Usual lurker here, but I must ask.

If you are colorblind, as I am also, how do you know you see bright red as orange or bright green as yellow? What do you see orange as? How are you distinguishing that orange color that you call bright red? How do you know it's bright red and not orange?

I'm guessing others have told you this as I have had folks tell me, for instance when I point out what appears to be a pink car, that what I am calling pink is not pink but a light colored red or some other funny named color I have no idea what it is, like fusia or some other such goofy named color.
But that's not consistant. I'll say "That's pink!" They say no it's light red. Next one I see I'll say "That's light red!" They say no that's a dark orange.

Eyeball doctor told me I see many many different shades and since childhood I've learned these different shades names, like orange and red being different shades of the same "color".

Anyway, it's late, (actually early morning) I can't sleep so here I am jabbering about my colorblindness. So to stay on-topic, no, perceptions are just that, perceptions. One's perceptions about the world around them does not reality make.


My perceptions about the round circles of dead grass in my lawn are that UFO's landed there and kilt the grass. Reality is it was just grubs.