Mildly Interesting

Please explain how the world actually looks

I mean it is a legit philosophical argument. One of my mother's friends, whom I respect very much, told me she saw gold and white. So there is some merit to the conversation.

Definitely green needle

I'll never understand how anyone can possibly see white and gold. You can literally see untinted yellow in the rest of the shop. If the dress was behind some heavy blue filter then how could the rest of the shop be such an overexposed yellow?

It's such a strange thing. For most of the illusions I can trick my brain to perceive both variants. This one is clearly black and blue. I can see that the black parts isolated can appear golden in the light, but for the life of me I can't see it any other than blue. Brains are weird.

when I clicker the link I saw it as black and blue for a split second but all I see now is golden and white 😭😭😭😭

The dress was revealed to be, in fact, blue and black.

This is what finally helped me see black and blue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLxVZ8W-aHY

Correct interpretation: blue and black in an overexposed image

Misinterpretation: yellow and gold in an underexposed image.

The area of the picture that isn't the dress is washed out in white and the overexposure is even bleeding over top right corner.

Anyone misinterpreting must either be bad with visual context or not understand photography.

Paint is compromised, they are in on it!

The one that always gets me is the light/dark image that has the same grey in two places, and on one side it looks like darkness and on the other like light.

Basically, these: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=grey+illusion+light+dark&ia=images&iax=images

Turn your phone horizontal (with locked orientation), now put one finger from your left hand and one finger from your right hand to the areas above outside the boxes.

Voilà! The boxed areas are the same.

The blue and the yellow are the same color (cover up the rest of the picture, there is no gradient in the bar). Same thing for the white and the blue, isn't that strange?

The point is that a black-and-blue dress, when brightly lit, will look eerily similar to a white-and-gold dress, when it's in shade.

Yeah, don't worry, you're supposed to be able to see they're different.

The majority of the image being grey is gives your brain the right context required to perceive each half is being tinted, so the perceived white balance isn't shifted around like in the original "the dress" meme.

This is more of a teardown of the "original" illusion than a demonstration.

Looking at the bridge, it becomes clear that even though you can see in the wider context that the dresses are separate colours - when compared directly under skewed/tinted white balance they become indistinguishable.

Meaning that in the original "the dress" meme, how you perceived the dress' colour depended greatly on how you perceived the tint/white balance in the surrounding areas of the photo (or how it was displayed on your device).