Would you like to be invisible?

The idea seems fantastic, but really it is very simple. To be invisible, all you need to do is cover yourself with a colour humans cannot see.
Humans can see many colours, but there is a limit. Somewhere beyond the colour Teal is a colour our retina's cannot detect.
So you fill your pool with the stuff and jump in, naked of course, when you emerge, you are completely invisible.

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

Sometimes it has felt like I was. I could be in a room with other people who spoke as if I wasn't there, walked around me, and looked through me/past me to someone clearly more noticeable behind me and speak to them. Fortunately, this has been infrequent. That kind of 'invisibility' is unwelcome.

I am considering the very practical suggestion made here, but I guessing finding a tube of colouring of the hue described will be a challenge...because it's invisible.

JamesBugman

@FreddieUK Yea, but all you need to do is reach your hand out, and if you feel it, but cannot see it, then you likely have found it. Maybe your hand sinks into it and when you pull it out your hand is gone.
I bet that would be worth more than gold.

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@JamesBugman So...expensive as well. 😀 I'm not sure that running around naked in order to be invisible will work well in the rain which is typical of the British weather. Unless the substance is waterproof.

JamesBugman

@FreddieUK Hmm yea, probably not good to go out in rain, or when it is really cold, and keep in mind that the background behind you will vanish if someone looks at you. They won't see your dangly bits, but they will see your outline, so it is still not total invisibility.
Perhaps the best approach would be a suit you wear that takes what is behind you, and projects it on the front of the suit.

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@JamesBugman Yes, the research needs a bit of a tweak.

JamesBugman

@FreddieUK Sure does.. see through AND invisible, now that would work.