Has this photo of strawberries given us another crisis like “The Dress”?

We hope you’re prepared, because it looks like we’ve got another dress situation on our hands. Twitter is going crazy over this photo of strawberries , because no one is sure if it’s red or grey.

Listen, we’ve all been here before, and we need you to remain calm. If you recall, the whole dress situation left us all basically sleepless, with everyone in the world weighing in on what the darn color of the dress was. These strawberries may not spur quite the same outrage, insistence, and bad blood, but seriously, they SHOULD:

Here is the polarizing photo of the strawberries in question:

2色法によるイチゴの錯視。この画像はすべてシアン色（青緑色）の画素でできているが、イチゴは赤く見える。

Strawberries appear to be reddish, though the pixels are not. pic.twitter.com/Ginyhf61F7

— Akiyoshi Kitaoka (@AkiyoshiKitaoka) February 28, 2017

Several people shared their thoughts on the matter last night, with a wide array of opinions. The photo was shared by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, an experimental psychologist who studies visual illusions. Here’s the original image:

The original image of the strawberry cake. My wife made it. pic.twitter.com/RFRpwsDzEQ

— Akiyoshi Kitaoka (@AkiyoshiKitaoka) March 2, 2017

Now here’s where it gets crazy: Your brain is lying to you if you’re seeing red in the filtered top photo.

Kitaoka took the image of strawberries and used an “alpha blending method” using pixels with a bluish coloring, which led to the madness. The viewers that are seeing red strawberries are experiencing an optical illusion generated by the blue color in the background. In reality, the image uses ZERO red pixels.

This is what Twitter had to say about the matter:

https://twitter.com/udfredirect/status/837616085386031104

why don't the strawberries look red to me? I think they look grey!

— Jess (@pixelatedparent) March 1, 2017

LOL the dress is back.

— Fátima🌸 (@LadyAlouette) March 3, 2017

Bevil Conway, an expert on visual perception at the National Eye Institute, explained to Motherboard that this is another example of the different ways human experience color.

"Your brain says, 'the light source that I'm viewing these strawberries under has some blue component to it, so I'm going to subtract that automatically from every pixel,’ Conway said. “And when you take grey pixels and subtract out this blue bias, you end up with red."

The brain’s sneaky method of correcting an image under different lighting is called “color constancy.”

Of course, there’s a lot more science to it than that:

"Imagine walking around outside under a blue sky, that blueness is, in some sense, color-contaminating everything you see," Conway said. "If you take a red apple outside under a blue sky, there are more blue wavelengths entering your eye. If you take the apple inside under a fluorescent or incandescent light without that same bias, the pigments in the apple are exactly the same but because the spectral content of the light source is different, the spectrum entering your eye that's reflected off the object is different."

Crazy stuff. If you want to check out more optical illusions, head over to Kitaoka’s Twitter feed.