Hyper-Sensitive Eyes That Can See Colors Others Cannot

'I See Colours You Cannot Perceive or Imagine.' 

Some women are born with hyper-sensitive eyes that can see the world in ways most of us cannot even imagine. What’s it like to live with this gift?

David Robson | March 17, 2016

A few years ago, the artist Concetta Antico discovered that she was carrying a genetic mutation that gave her astonishingly sensitive perception of colour – seeing a spectrum of distinct shades where we only see one.
As she told BBC Future in 2014, even the dullest pebble on the road shimmered like a kaleidoscope.
“The little stones jump out at me with oranges, yellows, greens, blues and pinks,” she says. “I’m kind of shocked when I realise what other people aren’t seeing.”

"The detailed colour in Concetta Antico's artwork may help us to imagine what she sees." Source: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160316-i-can-see-colours-you-cannot-perceive-or-imagine

<more at http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160316-i-can-see-colours-you-cannot-perceive-or-imagine; related articles and links: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140905-the-women-with-super-human-vision (The Women with Superhuman Vision. A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive, discovers David Robson. How do they do it? September 5, 2014) and http://www.imbs.uci.edu/~kjameson/JamesonWinkler2014.pdf (Preliminary research report on the results of Concetta Antico’s psychophysical color vision testing and its relation to her photopigment opsin genotype. Kimberly A. Jameson and Alissa D. Winkler. 2014)>