THE COLOURS OF GETTING RICH IN THE BATH

 Why are colours of nature the colour that they are and why do we all see roughly the same colours?

 Already I’m not making sense.  Colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, blue yellow and others.

 

 Colour derives from the spectrum of light distribution of light power verses wavelength in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors.  

 

So we have the cone cells and the retina, or scientifically speaking chromatics. It includes the perception of colour by the human eye and brain, the origin of colours in materials, colour theory in art, and the physics, and the familiar  colours of the rainbow include the colours that can be produced by visible light   people all over the world have been shown to perceive colours  in the same way. Gosh this fascinates me as I guess to simplify colour interpretation is too easy, I love to look out of the box and think some would say too deep into matters when in fact there is an easy explanation.

 

Look it the situation like this, we look to the sky, yes we see blue? The grass is green, or is it?          

    

The color of an object depends on both the physics of the object in its environment and the characteristics of the perceiving eye and brain. Physically, objects can be said to have the color of the light leaving their surfaces, which normally depends on the spectrum of the incident illumination and the reflectance properties of the surface, as well as potentially on the angles of illumination and viewing. Some objects not only reflect light, but also transmit light or emit light themselves, which also contribute to the color. A viewer's perception of the object's color depends not only on the spectrum of the light leaving its surface, but also on a host of contextual cues, so that color differences between objects can be discerned mostly independent of the lighting spectrum, viewing angle, etc. This effect is known as colour constancy.

 

The human eye can distinct about ten million colours. Well, I know I can’t see now, but when I could, I would be knocking quite a few zeros from that number!

 

Aristotle and other ancient scientists had already written about the nature of light colour vision it wasn’t until Newton that light was identified as the source of the colour sensation. In 1810 Goethe, published his comprehensive theory of colours in which he ascribed physiological effects to colour that now we understand as psychological. Helmholtz studied colour blindness, interesting I never realised that is why the hospital I visited in Moscow for so many years was named after him. And I say was, as if it’s still up, it must be with elastic bands. 

 

The ability of the human eye to distinguish colours is based on the changing sensitivity of different cells in the retina to light up different wavelengths. We have rods and cones and the rods is the other light sensitive which has a different response curve.  In normally sighted people rods play almost no roll when             light is bright enough to stimulate the cones, but in dim light, the cones are under stimulated leaving only the signal from the rods, resulting in a colourless response.

It’s the rods and cones that are affected in my eye condition Retinitis pigmentosa.

 

Humans have three types of colour receptors some animals have four.  Reptiles, some fish spiders, birds and marsupials, where as other species are sensitive to just two axes of colours, or do not perceive colour at all;    

 

Now if we were all just an accident, why or why, humans are built the same way, though some parts don’t work, and all animals in their groups are the same too. Accidents are mistakes. This is not a mistake. This planned and created. By whom? Not sure, no one is.

 

Some colours are named after the object like lemon, orange and salmon.  Whilst other colours are abstract, like red!

 

Then we have colour psychology. Attempts to identify the effects of colour on human emotion and activity.

Red the colour of blood and fire, so   we associate it with war, fire, danger, energy, passion and love.

Hmm. There is a lot of red in my house.

Red is a very emotionally intense colour, it enhances    human metabolism and increases respirational rate and blood pressure.

It has high visibility this is why traffic lights are red, fire equipment and warning signs.

 

In heraldry    red is used to signify courage.

Light red, my kitchen, is sexuality. Sexy in the kitchen? Mwah?

Dark red, my guest room, is a sign of vigour, rage, willpower longing and leadership. Haha.

 

Orange, my downstairs toilet, oh yes, we have to feel like this in the loo. A sign of happiness, creativity, enthusiasm and so much more I don’t really want to think of when I am reading a book. Like stimulation? Appetite? Hehehe.

 

Yellow, don’t paint a baby’s room this colour, studies have shown babies cry more with this colour.

 

Green, my conservatory and main bathroom. Safety, that’s good, as especially when Fifi Blogget is taking a bath. Money? Hmm. I’m not going to get rich in there for sure, perhaps in my conservatory?  

It stimulates freshness this is good, and fertility, keep my Son out of there if he ever gets another girl? Well, at least until a ring is on their fingers. Haha. I’m so old.

Green also represents growth. Oh heck. I’m keeping out of there.

On the other hand, green is told to improve vision.

Now, where’s me paint brush?

 

As for blue, teens bedroom?

Em apparently stimulates tranquillity and calmness. My teen?

 

According to studies, 75% of preschool children prefer purple. I wonder why?   

   

So we have the science but in short it’s our brain that sees light which translates that into colour. Now, then jelly fish don’t have a brain they say, and they see colour.

 Firstly, apples and fire engine are not red.  The sky and ocean are not blue and no person is black or white.  What exists is light. That is reality.

Some would argue that colour was our best creation.  One that is created to our past experiences.  This is why you see optical illusions.  Looking at an image that is consistant, with your past experience of reality, the brain behaves if the objects in the current images are also real in the same way!  This kind of corresponds with what I was saying yesterday about waking up believing I can see. My brain still wakes up for less than one second believing my eyes see. Sadly then it goes back to sleep again. Haha.

 

So colour is complex and we continue to dispute origins and reasons.

 

May you find your gold at the end of a rainbow.