Colorblind Man Watches Sunset With Glasses That Show Correct Pigments (VIDEO)

First Posted: Aug 18, 2015 11:53 AM EDT

Most of us have seen a sunset. No big deal, right? Aaron Williams-Mele has, too. But not in full color. He is colorblind and in a video you're about to see, he's going to look at a sunset for the first time with the help of his new EnChroma glasses while standing beside a beautiful lake and meadow. A friend filmed him trying them on for this first time at Whitehurst Beach in Norfolk, Va., according to Fox News.

First thing's first: What exactly does it mean to be colorblind? Does this mean you can't see any colors at all? Or just some?

It's a bit complicated because there's more than one type of color blindness. However, according to Colour Blind Awareness, a person with color blindness can have trouble seeing red, green, blue, yellow or mixtures of these colors. The most common type is red-green color-blindness, where red and green are seen as the same color. Though most color vision problems are inherited and are present at birth, various injuries involving trauma to the eye and even some diseases can cause color blindness to develop in a person of any age. Some types of cataracts may also result in color blindness, as well, and overall, colorblindness is more common in men, at approximately 1 out of 12 males and 1 out of 20 women.

The glasses that Williams-Mele is wearing in the video work via a special mathematical formula that boosts color vision. Though the EnChroma glasses were originally used to help protect surgeons' eyes from lasers while working on patients, they now help those dealing with colorblindness, as well, according to EnChroma.com.

Want to see Williams-Mele seeing the sunset in complete color for the first time? Watch this video, courtesy of YouTube.