mananana

I see big discussion "is the author right or wrong", so I will just quote one of the comments from the page:

- People, when the author says that this is the "first time in [his] life I can imagine how the world looks like from the eye of someone who has color-blindness? he (yes, I'm assuming, sue me) is NOT saying "this is the first time in my life I've seen what a color-blind person sees"! The sentences, and their meanings, are quite different. What the author IS saying is that he is not color-blind and has no real way of knowing what it is like, but he knows that it is different from the way that he sees the world, while still retaining the same shapes and (usually) still seeing color.

No, this is not how color-blind people see the world. But these pictures give the author an idea of what it's like to see the world a different way. I'm pretty sure none of us see the world in infrared every day. He is "imagining". This is what people do when they have no way of experiencing what someone else experiences - they do their best to come close. And you would realize that this is what the author means if you took more than half a second to read what he wrote. If you know know of any sites that could show us what it's actually like to be color-blind, do link to them, because I'd love to see them, and I'm sure the author would too. But for now, stop being anal and enjoy the pictures.