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Blood Red Sky

Jan 16, 2008 music cassettes
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Blood Red Sky

Our world is made of different colors. We associate blue with the sky and green with the grass, and when we think of red we imagine blood or the intensity of love. This is how we learn to beware certain things when they are marked with red, which usually means forbidden. Colors help us very much in our everyday life and persons who don't distinguish colors correctly sometimes feel as if they had disabilities. It suffices to think about the drivers, which must be able to recognize the green light and the red light in traffic.

While in the outside world colors are supposed to have a violent impact on us, to draw our attention towards banners or traffic signs, in our homes we expect colors to be relaxing and soothing. When we decorate we are free to choose the colors surrounding us according to our personal preferences. But you need to remember that choosing to buy a red dress is not the same with painting your home red. Because a red dress might give you self confidence when wearing it, while a room with red walls will soon make you angry and agitated.

That is the reason why if you are not hiring a professional decorator, you should do a little research regarding the way colors influence our mood when we are exposed to them for a longer period of time. Most of the people agree that the most relaxing color for the human eye is green, dark green. This belief is based on the fact that green reminds us of nature with all its abundance of grass and leaves. Another color which is very friendly for the eye is white. Tests proved that persons living in white rooms don't loose their temper and don't get headaches very often.

On the other hand even if colors like bright yellow, orange or red are not the best choice for our bedrooms they can be used in spaces like the kitchen, or a playroom. On long term they have bad effects on our eyes but when we are exposed for a shorter time to these colors they tend to awake us, make us more active. Besides these colors an emulsion with sharp smell will produce headaches, too.

Whether you are painting your bedroom, or your office you should think about colors which won't fatigue your eyes even if you spend several hours in that room. There are many options and many varieties of colors which producers will offer for you to make the best choice.

The Crowns Emulsion smell makes redecorating enjoyable; change your home using Crown's wide range of colors and ideas.

Would we see colours in the same way if we were under a red sun instead of a yellow one?

I enjoy the books by Marion Zimmer Bradley - especially the Darkover series and it has a red (blood red) sun. I just wondered if the colours would be seen in the same way under a red sun? That is, would the grass still be seen as green or would it be a different colour and would the sky be seen as blue or another colour? When we see colours as blue, green or whatever, is it because of the colour of the sun or something else?

Well, that is a tough question. On the surface, it would seem that a red sun would just produce more red light and much less green and blue light. In that case, obviously things that are green would all look pretty dark, blue things would look even darker, and red things would be much brighter.

But if you think about it, we would have evolved under that red sun, so chances are our eyes would be sensitive to lower frequencies of the spectrum. Currently, our sun is considered "yellow" because that's the strongest frequency that comes out of it. If it was "red", then we could guess that our eyes could see frequencies from hi-infrared to greenish-blue. Then it would determine how we interpreted these frequencies. If we did so in a similar fashion as we do now, then nothing would look the same. Colors would all be mixed up, some things that we see now would look black, and some things that we couldn't see before would now appear red.

So you can use a red light to see what things would look like under a red sun, but to know what things would look like if we had evolved under a red sun would be much harder to imagine.

Oh and I'm of course not mentioning the fact that *everything* would be different. Plants may not even be green anymore (and what we see as green would appear blue to our red-sun-evolved counterparts anyway)

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