What is the colour of red? This question sprung in my mind as I lay thinking. For that matter, what is the colour of blue, green, yellow, and all other terms which people identify as colour or hues? As I heard my kid sister in her eagerness to please her teacher memorizing, 'The colour of the sky is blue', 'The crow is black', 'The leaves are green' I tried reasoning with her and asked her to interchange all the colours and learn -- (afterall that would be fun ) -- but in vain.I often do wonder why colours are so fascinating. People always seem to be fretting that a few colours look best on them and a few don't? Do colours have such an impact on the human mind? If so, why? What is that which captivates them? Why do mothers point at a rainbow to pacify a crying child?Are the colours of a rainbow so aesthetically appealing? I fail tocomprehend. I guess that must be what people term as colour psychology. Making an attempting to understand I asked my friend to define colour. Incredulously, as though I didn't know such a simple thing, she said that colour is a sensation which reflects our emotions. Feeling superior about her newfound knowledge, she called me a subtle, subdued kind of a person seeing my T-shirt, which she called, as blue. Blue, she added on, is a cool colour, for calm people, who always recede from a group. Red is a vibrant,dynamic colour which is much closer to people and so it is an advancing colour -- she stopped there running out of her knowledge.When colour is a sensation, then each one's perception differs. Each onethinks different, feels different. His/her understanding of colours to suit his/her emotions will obviously differ. When it is that way, how can we group people's emotions to a 'colour' and to top it all, give it a name like 'red', 'blue', ' green' etc. Allright. Accepted that a distant mountain appears blue and that it has a receding effect on us. But, during a hot afternoon, the sky is supposed to appear blue and physically close to us as it radiates maximum heat. We feel the heat more in the afternoon than during sunset, though the colours are supposed to be warm or advancing. Considered that snow makes us feel cold. I haven't heard anyone associate a colour with that feeling and say that white is cold. Here when we don't associate feelings with colours, how on earthcan we link our emotions to colours? So colour is in mind, not in the world.Oblivious to my reasoning my over enthusiastic friend was talking of writing a thesis on the 'cosmic effect of colour on the human mind'. Okay, I am not commenting. On things which are not my cup of chai I don't formulate opinions. I guess I can be excused -- I was born blind.


wat do the blind percieve colours to be??? when we close our eyes we see colours we know them we name them. wat about the blind wat do they see???? i mean not seee... maybe u know u just don need eyes to see a lot of things...