Friday, 4 January 2013

Is your red the same as my blue?

 Well I very much doubt it you say? On a serious note however, scientists seems to have 
discovered that in fact our eyes won't receive colour in the same way as someone else. The 
thinking that we all see colour in the same way is from the idea that a humans brain has a 
default way of processing light that hits the cells in our eyes, however, Jay Neitz a colour vision scientist suspects otherwise, "recent experiments lead us down a road to the idea that
we don't all see the same colors". The scientist see it possible that one persons green could well be another persons yellow, although they do state that a persons feeling to their version of the colour would not change despite the possibility of the colour being a completely different interpretation compared to someone else.

 Considering this is mind it is amazing to think of all the possible variations of colour in day today life. What if the skies were red (or at least our own version of red) or the grass was blue. Such alterations would seem like we were on a completely different planet. Maybe some people are!

The BBC filmed people explaining their favorite colours. I found this interesting just thinking about how individuals are drawn to certain colours over others.




A neuro scientist, conducted an experiment to see how peoples perception of colour differed. The volunteers took part in eight different experiments veering from whether colour had an impact on time passing, to looking at how people made different colour patterns in mosaics, to what emotions people associated with different colours - red for anger, blue for tranquillity? Beau found that colour really can impact the passing of time.

Volunteers were asked to stand in three different colour pods bathed in either blue, red or white light, and Beau found that blue light made time pass more quickly and red seemed to slow it down.
"Red makes us highly aware of our environment and so time slows down in your mind".

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