Think about the gold/white and blue/black dress. It's not as if one person thought the dress was blue and another thought it was more of a turquoise. Gold/white

Think about the gold/white and blue/black dress. It's not as if one person thought the dress was blue and another thought it was more of a turquoise. Gold/white and blue/black are distinctly different colors and are nowhere near each other on the color spectrum. This wouldn't have gone viral if some people heard "Lauren" and others heard "Laura", what's amazing is that "Laurel" and "Yanny" are phonetically distinct but somehow different people perceive different sounds. If you find this interesting, I recommend checking out the Radio Lab episode on "Colors". They go as far as speculating that ancient cultures perceived fewer colors than we do, because colors like "blue" aren't common in the natural world so we never learned to "tune into" the visual stimuli that tell us something is blue until we started to create more blue things.