The Dress was more than a meme: it was a global phenomenon, challenging our perceptions of reality. Let’s see what talk show hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers have to say about it.

You know that dress everyone’s talking about? The gold and white – err, blue and black – no wait, gold and white – no, stop! We get it! People see it both ways.

A picture of a blue and black (…at least that’s what they want you to think) dress has divided the world, making its way around the social media platforms and confounding everyone who sees it. Because as Facebook has revealed, just over half the people who look at that picture are convinced that the dress is in fact white and gold.

It seems impossible to imagine that others might legitimately be seeing the world differently from you. And yet this one picture proves that sometimes, information traveling from our eyes to our brains is processed and manipulated in such a way that the end result can vary from person to person.

We’re all looking at the same image, we’re all seeing the same pixel values, and yet our minds interpret those visual clues in different ways and we end up with completely different results. We are unwavering in our beliefs that we can’t possibly be wrong, because we’re used to taking what we see at face value.

Unsurprisingly, late night hosts are getting in on this fascinating topic too.

In this humorous segment, Jimmy Kimmel clearly reveals his bias (Team #WhiteAndGold!):

Since the dress’ true colors are blue and black, it seems especially hard for the people who saw those colors to begin with to comprehend that it’s really possible to see it as white and gold. Many people have gotten into heated arguments about it, and some simply refuse to acknowledge the validity of the debate.

But Kimmel shares an excellent argument for why it shouldn’t matter what color the dress really is: “What’s important is that we learn to recognize that our way of seeing is not the only way of seeing. And just maybe, that realization can help us to understand and love each other.”

It sure beats taking to Twitter to call others wrong, color-blind and stupid when they don’t see what you see.

Meanwhile on Late Night With Seth Meyers, they take a more scientific (ish) approach:

Meyers’ fake scientist does attempt to explain the phenomenon, but more importantly, the segment points out how intolerant people can be in situations like this.

One thing’s for certain: The Dress is more than a meme and bad-joke generator. It’s visual proof that you can never see things through someone else’s eyes, and that you shouldn’t always assume that your way of seeing the world is the right one.