Have you ever seen anything appear and disappear as quickly as the buzz about the color of the dress? It fascinated me because in the daytime, I would totally see it as gold/white; at night, black/blue. Rather than thinking it was all silly hype, I saw it as a clue to the way our brains perceive, well, anything.
Case in point: seeing the color blue appears to be a “modern brained” thing.
“Until we have a way to describe something, even something so fundamental as a color, we may not even notice that it’s there.”
~ Kevin Loria in the article The Color Blue and How do we see color?http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2
Information is registered through our physical senses but then has to be translated by our brains.
According to the article linked above, there are no ancient languages had a word for the color blue, an indication that people couldn’t perceive it.
Strange as that possibility may seem, there are people I have met who called things blue or green that I perceived as just the opposite. I started wondering if perhaps everyone sees what their brain tells them, each of us seeing a completely unique view.
In a way, that’s got to be true since each of us will focus on different details in our experience and the rest will essential remain invisible; a different world for every person. How many colors exist that are beyond our awareness?
Bringing forth certain details can be practiced and developed. Writing 4 items in a gratitude journal each night causes a person to focus on things they’re grateful for, just to have something to write! Re-framing situations, refusing to lay blame, asking to see the blessing, each of those tactics will actually begin to change what you see.
Brains. You actually have more control over what they do than you might think.
Why not make up a few new colors today?
Love,
Nancy
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