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Remember "the dress" that looked gold-and-white to some people, and blue-and-black to others? This is kind of like that, but with three colors. And no one's arguing. Everyone sees all three . . .
An interior designer named Otelia Carmen posted a series of TikTok videos after she bought a winter hat that she THOUGHT was green. But when she got home, it looked RED under her living room lights. But that wasn't the actual color either.
She posted a video showing how it looks red under the lights in her living room. But when she walks to her bedroom, it switches to green.
Then there's a second video where she walks outside, and it looks BROWN in the sun. Which is the ACTUAL color, apparently.
Some people thought the video was doctored. But there's a term for what's happening. It's called "metamerism."
Basically, things look different depending on the color temperature of the light you're in. The lights in her bedroom are LED's with a cooler light temperature, so they make it look green. But incandescent lighting can make it look red, because it's warmer. And sunlight is somewhere in the middle, so it looks brown.
