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Can't remember colors? What's wrong with me?

deleted_user
deleted_user
Since I was little I've struggled with a red-green color deficiency. I accepted this diagnosis just fine until I got older and realized that I just can't remember colors.

There are colors I get right far more often than others... pure yellows and navy blues are my strongest colors. Reds, Greens, Purples, Browns, Oranges etc... I get wrong almost every time but never wrong in the same way. There's no consistency to the way I screw up my colors. One day I'll get a color right... the next day I'm way off.

The way I was taught was that if I learned a color to be a certain way.. like I see Red the way I see Red.... then I should always know it's that red. But this is not the case with me. I'll see the same Red Object in my office every day of my life and sometimes it looks pink... other times it's a rich red.

I heard of an issue where people can't remember faces. That's how I feel. I can look at a tree and I know it's supposed to be green... but where is the green? Someone asks me what color that tree is.. and I say green... but I have no idea where to start.

Once I owned a Dodge K car... it was a brown car. I owned it for years. And I lost my parking spot one day. A friend was near by so I asked him to help be find my "green" car. He had no idea... I went right by it but I was looking for a green car and went right by my own car. I did NOT see it the same way I had always seen it that day. Almost like my stress of losing the car made me lose focus of the color.

Someone please point me in the right direction here. Google shows nothing. Eye doctors stick a color chart in front of me and ask me what numbers I see and then they go no further with it.

There's no way I'm in the same color blind box they try to me in.

Thanks,
Chris
Flicka
Flicka
Wow, I don't have any answers for you, but I sympathise completely and I want to follow this discussion. My husband has varying results on the same colour-blindness tests. Such a strange phenomena.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hello Chris. Since I was little I have had issues telling colors. My siblings used to make fun of me because they thought I did not know my colors. I had an eye doctor tell me I never learned my colors. I told him to f off. I cannot read any of the numbers on those silly colorblind test cards. If I could read the color charts I would agree with him. Colors look different at different times for me also. Although I have always been able to find my car. LOL Browns and greens do pose a special challenge for me though and I have never owned a brown or green car so... Before I was married I always needed help from sales people in stores to select colors. Now I am facing retirement. I pretty much made it through without much difficulty. Something funny, when I was in the Marines they made me a radio tech where nearly everything is color coded. I managed to cope. Also, when I was kid I was always one of the first killed in the woods when playing cowboys and Indians with my friends. I always wore my red hooded sweat shirt. Sheesh, no one told me not to wear red. I could see it was red but the color red did not stand out in the woods. Lucky the Marines made me a tech. I would have never survived combat in the jungles of VietNam. Not that I would have wearing red of course but I don't think I would have been able to see the enemy. Fate has mysterious consequences. I have always wondered what I have missed in life by not seeing correct colors. Surprisingly, the one person who shed light on my condition was the person who tested my eyes when in boot camp. He told me I had "color confusion". Ya think??? That term sort of sums it up. Good thing he didn't let the folks who made me a tech know about it. LOL If I was ever to find a genie in a bottle who could give me 3 wishes one would be to see colors properly. Maybe someday there will be a cure. One of my cousins did the geneology for my family. In the family history she found there was some inter marriage between cousins. They had kids. No one knows, but she thinks that may be a link to the color confusion. Anyway, I feel ya bro! Go with the flow!!! Best, pokey
iWantToBeAboy
iWantToBeAboy
Hi,i can relate to your problem;i am also colorblind.I wanted to be a chemist but they didn't let me go to the high school for that cause i can't see some shades of colors.I was very angry about that.But no matter how many times i tried to peass those tests with numbers and colors,i allways failed.Also,i can't see colors on traffic lights.I have problems with blue,green and purple.I oftenly have to ask others what color is the clothes i am wearing...
arnab2015
arnab2015
Why you want to learn or trick to remember colours, when you can go for homoeopathic treatment and identify colours by your own eyes.
arnab2015
arnab2015
colour blindness is a wrong term it is colour deficiency. Deficiency can always be corrected. we see colours so it means we have cone cells. Only problem we being colour blind have is in discriminating colours.
I am Arnab I and my 2 brothers are live example of being cured by homoeopathy. I know a doctor who treats colour blindness in India. I got cured 8yrs back and even my children are free for colour blindness by the prophylactic treatment.
Nishant3Agarwal
Nishant3Agarwal
Hi, Actually I had no idea on Colour Blindness. But, Recently I read one blog on Red and Green Colour Blindness. In this blog, there is clear information on causes of Red-Green color blindness and Diagnosis tests. I think this blog will help you a lot to free from color blindness.
Here I’m sharing the blog for you - https://goo.gl/wBhC8D
peacebringer78
peacebringer78
Know I am late to the conversation however, it’s not something you can easily predict or Learn, colors are on a spectrum(a range) and the confusion overlaps over various points on the red to green color vision range and therefore one green May look yellow and another orange may look green, a purple may look blue while another purple doesn’t look blue and it’s because the colors are not all the same, no two greens are the same and it all depends on how close they overlap in the areas your eyes have the color confusion, most likely you cannot learn it because you can’t change the way you see
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