Let me ask you a question.
What colour is Grass?
You’d probably say green, right? But a dog sees it as beige.A bee sees it with ultraviolet patterns.
So what’s the real color?
Well actually there isn’t one.
You think you see colours?
Well no, Colors don’t actually exist in objects. They exist in your brain.
What we perceive as color isn’t some magical property of the object.
It’s just light waves bouncing off surfaces.
Your eyes pick up light waves.
Your brain interprets those signals and gives them a label. “Green.” “Red.” “Blue.”
But these labels? They’re just one version of reality.
To other species, the world looks completely different.
For us Grass is green because ,our retina contains three types of cone photoreceptors sensitive to short (S), medium (M), and long (L) wavelengths of light.
What you call “green” is actually the result of how your brain interprets it.
Dogs only have 2. They see a limited spectrum.What we call green and red looks beige or grayish-yellow to them.
The mantis shrimp?
It has up to 16 types of photoreceptors and can detect polarized light. Their visual world is completely unimaginable to us.
The night sky looks black to us.
But snakes like pit vipers “see” in infrared, detecting warm bodied prey in pitch dark.
Birds? Many species see into ultraviolet, and some flowers have UV markings specifically visible only to them.
In a world where every species sees a different version of reality, maybe there’s no single truth just a thousand beautiful perspectives.
And that’s what makes it all so incredibly beautiful