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What does color say about you?

I still haven’t gotten over the topic of color. After reading one of the comments in the forum about who we really are and thinking about reality, I came across color. It seems that color isn’t what we think it is? Yellow apparently isn’t yellow. Blue isn’t blue. It all depends on your perspective and what your brain is interpreting that your eyes are seeing. My obstacle for the week brings me to the concept of what does your favorite color say about your reality and about who you are? If you see an average of the wavelengths of light being sent to your eye and your brain is interpreting those signals. What does that say about your favorite color.

Your favorite color is obviously part of your personal reality but what does that say about you as a person. It seems like it says nothing or is that just my interpretation. Is there some neurological reason that our brain interprets one color as better than another? If so is that like astrology where your sign tells your personality or could it say what your favorite color is?

How do one’s visual preferences work? Are they neurological signals or is there more? It seems so difficult as to believe we are just an organism running on electrical signals and chemical signals. We see what is not there and we believe that we see what is not there.

How does this work. Can Color be the door to one’s mind or is it just random or does the amount of exposures of certain color dictate what your favorite color will be.

Why? How? There are no answers and there is nothing more confusing than answering a question with a question. There is no end just a new beginning that never does away.

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