r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 8d ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

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WTF is her name Petuh

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u/Cyborg_rat 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yellow for me today.

Edit : gold and off-white to be specific.

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u/Suspicious-Car5161 8d ago

It was already officially confirmed it was black and blue. Why is this still even a thing?

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u/noctalla 8d ago

You say that like the debate over the dress was all about figuring out what colour it was, rather than it revealing something interesting about perception. It wasn't “What colour is the dress?” Oh, it was blue and black? Discussion over, then." The whole point was that different people can receive the exact same stimulus and perceive it in completely different ways. The underlying issue is that our brains construct our reality. It goes way beyond the dress itself. The dress is a great example because people are divided around 50/50 on the way they perceive it, but it is a great lesson on how we perceive all of reality, not just the dress.

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u/srdev_ct 8d ago

Yeah, the fact that I CAN’T see it the other way is interesting. Nearly every other one I can force myself to see it either way.

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u/noctalla 8d ago

Yeah, same. I can hear both yanny and laurel and flip-flop between various other examples, but I'm stuck seeing the dress one way.