black dress blue dress ZAPAKASA Women and Satin Long Formal with 3D Flowers One Shoulder Mermaid Prom with Ruffles The Dress": Why People See

The bright background could be interpreted either as a light source, or as glare (without you even realizing that your brain is making this calculation)

"What's happening here is your visual system is looking at this thing, and you're trying to discount the chromatic bias of the daylight axis," Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who is now a senior investigator at the National Eye Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health, told Wired at the time

This made sense, especially because there are so few cues in the photo no skin color or other objects without which the brain has to invoke a hefty dose of prior experience to interpret the color

The controversy over dress-gate began on a Tumblr page where a user asked others to help her decide the true color of the dress

Whether you saw blue and black or white and gold, one thing is certain: #TheDress remains an icon

This may be a laid back wedding dress but hes still going to be blown away