I realize that this is a lame post, but thanks for the article. I had never heard of this before.

Elliander said: “I wonder if this is similar to seeing an extra color on a prism. I remember being in Elementary school and being shown a prism in class. The teacher told us the names of the colors, and I noticed she only said 7, but I saw 8. I asked what t
he last color was, and she said it was Violet. I said, “no, after that.” and pointed to what I saw and the teacher didn’t really say anything after that and moved on. I have always been able to see an extra color, but I can’t really be sure if the extra color I saw was beyond violet or between some other colors because of how subjective a finger point can be in a case like this.

P.S. – I am a male, so if it is similar there must be a different mechanism than the one described. I’m a 4.0 student with a major in “Biochemistry” and “Biological Sciences: Genetics and Cellular Biology” so maybe someday I can just study myself and compare it with a sample of these women to see if there is any similarity.”

Remember that the article mentioned men with a shift in their color attractors. You shifted so slightly to the violet end of the spectrum, you still saw most of the colors others saw. Go buy a prism, put it in the window, and check again to see if your other colors are continuous, or there is a gap.

The other possibility is that you are an XXY, or a merged fraternal twin Chimera with XY in parts of you below and XX in your head. Chimeras are far more common than you think — with horses it’s a lot easier to catch one, because they look brindled are wildly patchy if the two merged twins were different colors. I had a friend with both a mare and her daughter who were merged chimeras. Both were bay in the front half, but greyed out to white in their back halves. Judges would walk over after a show class and ask her just what her mare was — pintos don’t look so 50/50, appaloosas have secondary mottling that wasn’t present in her two mares, and greying always starts on a horse’s head and spreads to the body, not vice versa, and these mares’ heads never greyed out to white. Unless your family is biracial, or you are a chimera split on each side of your head, and each twin had a different color hair, it’s usually very hard to tell — unless, of course, you are a hermaphrodite, or your DNA doesn’t match your child — really suspicious when you are the mother of a baby you saw emerge from you. Some people are one DNA in their skin and another in their blood.

Have you fathered a baby yet? XXY’s are usually sterile (calico male cats are). It might be worth getting your DNA done.

I found another article (elsewhere, I believe) that stated that color-blind soldiers are the best ones to hang out with in combat because along with the decrease in the ability to see red, there is an increased perception in the green/khaki range allowing them to pick out people wearing camoflage clothing much easier than people with normal color vision can- this possibly was an advantage to early man because they were better able to see animals (be they food or predators) that were hiding amongst leaves, either up in the trees or on the ground.

Where you and I look at a large green grassy field and grunt at the seeming uniformity of it, horses see a grey field, highlighted with various hues of yellow, red, blue, and white, making it super easy to locate the varieties (and degrees of sun exposure) of foliage that are most edible.

P.S. – I am a male, so if it is similar there must be a different mechanism than the one described. I’m a 4.0 student with a major in “Biochemistry” and “Biological Sciences: Genetics and Cellular Biology” so maybe someday I can just study myself and compare it with a sample of these women to see if there is any similarity.