Is it normal to think the stoplight is confusing..

Every time I go to it I see pink, orange/brown and blue. I've learned it's red, yellow and green but sometimes it's confusing. It's like learning the crosswalk sign man is white and not purple and the hand is red and not orange .-. Am I the only one to think that? Doesn't anyone else think it's confusing?

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  • You have some unusual form of color blindness.

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  • Why would it be confusing? The position remains the same, therefore the meaning remains the same.

    Am I just unaware that sometimes traffic lights are inverted or something?

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    • Sometimes the light changes upside down. I just have trouble remembering what when the pink is close to orange and orange is close to red. So I see two same colored lights and a blue one...

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      • The light changes upside down? As far as I know the stop, go and caution lights are in the same position everywhere. Even "downunder" (I hate that expression!) here in Australia they're the same as everywhere else, not upside down!

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        • they can go sideway) I meant. A lot of them are different in America with different signs and symbols depending on where you are at. Usually the same color though, but sometimes when both colors are similar and I'm terrible with colors I'll get confused

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  • $5 for a hand job

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  • It doesnt need to be colorblindness. It can be a dysfunction by your brain.

    Light has different wavelengths and intensities. The object which sends light to your eye just gives your brain the information that it is there. Your brain makes the object appear colorfull to seperate it from surrounding things.

    Colors dont exist outside of the brain.

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    • Why is everyone who speaks actual truth downvoted and liars are upvoted? I hate this community.

      You didn't even say anything offensive. I think they just hate reasoning, science, and logic.

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      • Red-green color blindness rides on the Y chromosome, you twit.

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        • I'm no anatomy or whatever expert. I just thought ond wrote my thoughts. you twatwaffles should calm down

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        • Twit. How creative. All he said was to have an open mind to other things it can be. Only a "twit" would focus on one cause and rule out any others.

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  • Guyiwthaname is onto something. The gene for colorblindness is on the X chromosome, which makes it a sex linked gene that females are highly unlikely to get traits from. A disorder of the part of the brain controlling visual processing makes more sense.

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  • "You should see a doctor."

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  • Yeah, sounds like bullshit. Color blindness like that doesn't exist.

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    • My eye doctor diagonsed me with tritanomaly. Yet though I think the stoplight is confusing because sometimes the yellow light isn't just orange or brown. Or the pink light looks brown. So I see two of the same colored lights and it makes me off. It doesn't help when some lights are sideways or a different direction >_<

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  • Interesting post, but I suspect too abstract for most of the contributors to this site.

    I remember feeling my brain nearly explode many decades ago when I came across the concept that when I see a sky as blue, other people also seeing it as blue are in fact seeing the same colour as I am. And then of course there's that tree in the forest falling and not making a sound unless someone/something is there to hear it.

    Thanks for giving my brain some early morning stimulation!

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