Color and our Emotions
Color is a fundamental part of our everyday lives. ... our world is color. ... Color affects our emotions, thoughts, feelings and more. There are many factors to how we perceive color. There is light, space, intensity, temperature, color in relation to another color, etc. ... This is where the brain transforms the signals from the eyes into visual sensations of color, form, boundary, and movement. ... The seven million fat cones dominate during the bright, color-filled day. ... Color is a fascinating phenomenon, because color is in fact colorless. ... Color is a psychological property of your sensory experience, created when specialized areas of the brain process the wave length information about a beam of light, which has been coded in neural impulses (Johnson 170-72). This means that the color we see is actually a beam of light that is reflected off of that image. ... The color we see is always the beam being reflected, the one that doesn¡¦t stay put and get absorbed. We see the rejected color and say, ¡§an apple is red. ... Color has been a popular topic of medical studies for many years. ... They have discovered that color can play a great part in the brain¡¦s emotional process. Certain colors can make you feel a certain way depending on the color itself, the space in which you are placed and the light at which the color is viewed. For example let¡¦s say that your living room is a cream color. In direct sunlight the color appears to be cream, in indirect sunlight the color appears to be a gold and in artificial light the color appears to be a deep yellow, (Color Inspiration 1). We use expressions that use color, such as ¡§green with envy,¡¨ ¡§feeling blue,¡¨ ¡§seeing red,¡¨ ¡§purple passion,¡¨ ¡§white lies,¡¨ and ¡§black rage.¡¨ Color causes definite physical and emotional reactions in people. ... Feelings of relaxation or pleasure, tension or irritation, peacefulness or passion are influenced by color. ... The energy from these colors can cause strong reactions, (Influencing Emotions). If you want to feel a certain way then you should surround yourself with a certain color. ... And of course if you want to feel warm stick with reds, oranges and yellows and to feel cool stay in the greens, violets, and blues family, (Emotions of Color).