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Credit: SWNS / Kris Sipe

This is the moment a man became overwhelmed with emotion after trying on colour blind glasses for the first time.

Kris Sipe, 47, who has been colour blind his whole life, bought the glasses on a whim without knowing whether they would work.

Video shows Kris trying on thhe eyewear in his home and immediately becoming captivated by the colours around his living room.
Transcript
00:00I've never seen a rainbow! I've never seen a rainbow before!
00:05Oh!
00:06Okay everyone, I am colorblind.
00:10I've got my colorblind glasses clip-ons.
00:13I'm fixing to see what y'all see.
00:16And the video will continue.
00:19Alright, go ahead.
00:21Alright, I'm flipping them down.
00:24Oh my god.
00:31This is what y'all see.
00:37Oh shi-
00:43Oh my god.
00:46What?
00:50This is what y'all see?
00:52Oh, is that it?
00:54Oh my god.
00:56Holy shi-
00:57Look at this!
01:02Different colors!
01:04Different colors!
01:07Look!
01:08Look!
01:09Hang on, this is a horse in a red coat color.
01:12It changed colors!
01:14What colors?
01:16What color is that?
01:17What is that?
01:18That's purple.
01:20That's purple.
01:21A really bright purple.
01:25Look at that!
01:26The horse!
01:28Different colors!
01:29Different colors!
01:32Look!
01:33Look!
01:35What color is that?
01:36Yellow.
01:39Oh!
01:42I gotta hurry.
01:43I've never seen a rainbow before.
01:47And I got that rainbow- I mean, I'm colorblind.
01:53Oh, that one's blown away.
01:55There was one there.
01:56Now there's yellow, red, blue, purple.
02:00I've never seen a rainbow!
02:02I've never seen a rainbow before!
02:04Oh!
02:08I only see yellow.
02:09I only see yellow.
02:10Usually.
02:11Yeah, I do.
02:12It's always.

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