The Dress: Black/Blue or White/Gold?

It has to do with your monitor and, in some cases, your color vision. Most monitors will skew blue/black when viewed from below, while IPS monitors designed to not change color from different angles get more consistent results. Back when this was big we looked at the exact same picture on my Android, my sister's iPhone, and her Macbook, and the color was slightly different on each.

My current display shows blue and a weird olive color when viewed straight on, blue/black from below, and white/gold from the right.

The first time I saw this pic as a year ago with my friends and we had disagreement over the color. He saw it as black and blue, and we were using the same screen. Just recently, I figure out that viewing it from my laptop and from a lower perspective of the screen can cause me to see black and blue, but once I view it from the front again, I see white and gold again.

There are some possibilities here:
- We really see things differently and if this is true, there might be a chance that cognitive functions somehow play roles in the situation. Or at least there is a correlation.
- The way we perceive the color is actually influenced by the way we observe it at the first instance and this creates our first impression. The impression sticks with us as consistent as possible because our brain is such an efficient machine.

Time for the revelation... The actual dress colors were blue and black.

sitbone: As far as I know, I'm not colorblind to any degree, but I've always seen the dress as white and gold.

The dress looks black and blue. I can see a hint of the gold shimmer but how are people seeing this as white? Confused /) I missed the big debate too I guess... just now seeing this dress for the first time.