Skittles

It's ironic that we perceive our surroundings in color when color doesn't exist. It's just the result of our brains trying to interpret the reflected wavelengths of light- how that translates to color, God only knows. When lights dim, the colors around us change, and when the light is off completely, everything becomes a dark neutral color. In fact, it could be argued that everything loses its color since there's no light being reflected and black is a shade.

I once heard this theory mentioning that what may be one color to someone may be a totally different color to someone else, but the colors are labeled as one. For instance, my blue may be your green, but we both call it blue. Now here's a weird idea- what if my entire set of colors are completely different from yours? Could each person have an individual set of colors that everyone else can't see?

Later, I heard about color-healing: a method using colors to generate or degenerate feelings and health issues. For instance, red causes excitement and yellow gets rid of constipation. If these principles are universal, then the color theory I mentioned earlier doesn't seem so accurate. They seemed to gather evidence that everyone gets somewhat excited when they see the color red, so we must be seeing the same thing. Perhaps the theory could work to a lesser degree, like seeing different shades of the same color, but our color sets must be the same for everyone. Blue is blue and green is green.

So maybe our favorite colors are just the feelings we associate with them. These feelings could be linked to the color because sometime in the past we experienced something we probably enjoyed, and there happened to be lots of that one color there.

In reality, blue doesn't exist. Neither does red or orange or yellow or green or purple or whatever colors go in between. We make stuff up- nay, our brains make stuff up- so things around us are easier to comprehend, whether it may be colors, noises, or stereotypes... basically, we're not always going to see the truth.

(Oh, to clear up why this is called Skittles-
Skittles are colorful. And yummy. But it's fake food. Like how colors and other stuff are cool but fake.Yeah, ok fine, maybe I did just want to title it Skittles because Skittles are pretty great. Let's pretend there's a metaphor.)

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  1. SNovember 19, 2017 at 4:09 PM

    Jenna, you're blogpost is so interesting and the the idea that colors don't exist is pretty mind blowing. Yet, it's power over the mind is huge, to the point where analyzing the use of color motifs in novels is so important. I love the explanation for your title too- it's hilarious.

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