I'm trying to figure out how this could have been evolved. I like it though. However, what you are describing could very well be an effect of what I described in the OP. It seems logical that colorfulness should first have acquired status before the affluent began wearing it. I'm thinking of spring rituals where maybe some equivalent of medicine men wore spring colors, to welcome to spring and ensure a fertile year.
yeah and me, i love the smell of welsh hills, and the beach they make me happy, but i do like the colour black (doesnt make me happy or sad) and i love blue
well, wouldn't a bright red apple be better than a dark brown one? Maybe we evolved the response for health reasons :shrug:
Unlikely, brightly colored berries are often poisonous. A really good example (although not a classical fruit) is the Fly Agaric, brightly colored red with white spots and deadly poisonous. On the other hand brightly colored fruit is brightly colored so it stands out more, so animals can spot it more readily. I think you suggestion has some merit but only to point out that color vision has evolved because it was a distinct advantage. It doesn't say anything about why brightly colored things or colorful things make people good-natured in general. What do you think about my suggestion in the OP ?
bright is happy because people fear darkness. darkness is sadness. love is fire. fire is red. lion is fire. check zodiac. the ancients understood it. darkness is not fun because you can't see anything.
I don't like to wear bright colors, I look stupid. You will never catch me wearing yellow for instance.
People that look stupid don't like to wear bright colors ?? Because you blend into your environment too well ? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I mean I don't think I look good in a lot of bright colours. I look good in a bright Pink T shirt, yellow I feel like big bird.
lol I know what you meant Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! It seems nobody here can answer the question though. Everyone is talking about something else.. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Ok, I will try and answer the question. I think it is to do with what you unconsciously associate with a colour. If you think of black as mysterious and primordial, you will probably like it, if you associate it with death, you probably won't.
And why is it that some colours clash while other accommodate. Orange and purple dont go...for some reason. I believe this is universal for all peoples of the world. Why is it that vibrant colours are fine for a child's bedroom, but one has to add small amounts of black to mute them for the parents room.
I seem to thrive in that type of environment for the nightime is the right time for making love! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Maybe God said so? We should ask SAM... Seriously, what answer are you after? The primary affect is going to be due to nurture, if you grew up with your parents telling you to associate red with Valentine's day, you will think of red with love. If you were raised in a war torn zone of Bosnia, you may associate red wtih blood and death. With the exception of the physiological affects noted in my earlier post, there does not seem to be much emperical investigation into this phenomenom. How else can we help you, besides speculation? Perhaps you can imagine gray being associated with drab, drear days in your childhood, trapped inside by rain. Maybe a mixture of yellow and green, "institutional colors", evokes a feeling of nausea in people because it reminds them of puke? (By the way, by my research, this is the most universal color reaction, observed in most populations) Point is, it is primarily a cultural issue, influenced by how and where you were raised. Beyond that, we just don't know....
some think that pink is a color for girls because humans have made it that way. but in reality, pink = girl, because they share the same essence. they are the same type. soft color. girls are soft. boys are hard. why is up positive and down negative? we subconsciously feel that down is "bad", so we created expressions like "are you feeling down today?". soft = sensitive hard = insesitive, "cold" the ancients said that yin and yang is in everything. i seem have the answers for everything, so how young can i be?
