It was white and gold when I opened the post. I use dark mode in Lemmy. Then I opened Wikipedia and read about it for a few minutes in light mode. When I came back, the dress was black and blue suddenly.

I can’t usually switch it on command, but it does switch for me.

And as of posting this and looking at Lemmy in dark mode, it’s white and gold again…

…and now it’s blue and brown.

ive seen it as both. it depends on several factors (brightness of screen, environment, eyes). basically how your eye adapts with the picture.

the picture was taken with the perfect conditions in order for the problem to be a real problem (lit dress with an overly blown out background light) to cause eye adaption to trigger for some and not others.

I’ve never seen it as anything but white and gold.

Try squinting. I see white and gold normally but blue and black when I squint.

I cannot at all see the white. I can see it as blue and gold (from the top) but from the bottom, it definitely looks more like black and blue to me.

I constantly switch between seeing both.

I’ve seen both. The first time, the colors changed as I was looking at it. That was freaky

It’s weird, back when this was trending, I always saw it as white and gold, but, looking at the picture above on my phone, it does kinda look blue and black

I just forced myself to. Kinda turned my phone away at an angle and tried covering the right side of the pic and forced myself to see it as blue and black. Then I couldn’t stop seeing it unless I did a mental reset.

Few times it literally changed as I was looking at it, from top to bottom

It’s white from the top down, but blue from the bottom up

Literally same. I’ve gone back and looked at it a few times, and I can’t see white and gold anymore. I think my brain broke.

And it for real isn’t.

That’s all I see.

It’s still gold and white to me damn it!

There is no consensus on why the dress elicits such discordant perceptions.[31] The neuroscientists Bevil Conway and Jay Neitz believe they are a result of how the human brain perceives colour and chromatic adaptation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#Scientific_explanations

The interesting thing, for me, is how people’s reactions to the dress sparked that many studies of the phenomenon.

I can’t see blue and black

Nope, never seen this fugly thing before