What Color is this dress, Blue & Black or White & Gold? Perception Explained: Why We See things Differently., This 2015 photo broke the internet by revealing something wild about how your brain Contrast Panel Bandage Mini Dress in Black and Gold SOUR FIGS Remember when the internet went absolutely nuts on the colour of a dress? The dress was blue and black. The original viral poster, Caitlin McNeill, later said it was a black and blue dress This explains how the blue black white gold dress illusion was possible. But it doesn't explain why some people saw it one way and some saw it the other, and no one seemed to see