This article was originally published in The Daily UW on March 14, 2019. Read it here.

To about 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women, the world doesn’t look quite the same as it does to others. Red — the color of blood, cherries, lipstick, anger, love — is blocked from the brain’s visual input from birth, rendered indistinct from various hues of blue and yellow. The resulting world looks uniformly like a scene from a David Fincher film: dull, desaturated, neutral. People with colorblindness experience the same things as everyone else, but not everything looks as vivid as it may feel.