How I Flipped My Brain's View of the Black and Blue Dress Jeff Greenhouse The white gold or blue black dress: The widely published original Download Scientific Diagram The Truth About the Dress: Black and Blue Explained White and Gold or Blue and Black Dress Explained & Busted Debate rages over color of dress photographed in rare light Features dailyrecordnews.com The actual dress was black and blue. The confusion came from how lighting and color perception tricked people's brains, making some see it as white and gold. It became a viral example