Does colour affect your mood?

Does color affect my mood?
Oh it really does!
For me, it's always a few colors that set the mood.
It's clear for me that the combination of colors I post here is setting a very positive mood in my head and mind.

 

So what about the red light district???
Should it be blue?

 

OOh beautiful Mystic. Do you have a favourite colour?

I will post the ghost story I promised you. xxx

 

My fave colour

 

Red Womens Bras and Panties certainly changes my mood Gal
To Horny!

 

Mmm xxx

 

Yep I have loads. x

 

I think if they are trying to change the color, they'll get loads of comment.
People are used to red, they know whats going on there.

 

Red Light Spells Danger
Hands!

 

You shouldn't believe all they sing and say.....

 

Love that. xxx

 

................Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain...................Run Off You Girls Boys In View

 

I believe I've read mixed reviews on the efficacy of colour (pains me to spell it this way) theory when applied to logos and advertising. But it seems most businesses ascribe to the notion that color can influence mood and behavior to an extent, for example, I see a lot of red color schemes in logos for restaurants. As is mentioned in your op link, some of this is cultural.

Psychedelic experiences tend to produce vibrant colors and are very emotive experiences, so I'm inclined to think there is a correlation. This qualia or what it's like to experience... is very powerful on psychedelics but I think also influences our normal perception in subtle ways.

However, I am not as confident in saying that the influence of color on mood is static or fixed. I don't think the parts of the brain that most prominently process color are the same as the parts of the brain that process emotion. There is some dynamic quality in this stuff but I believe the occipital lobe processes color, which is in the back region of the brain and the temporal lobe is integral in processing emotion which is in the bottom center of the brain.

 

Excellent reply. We must all debate this further.
I am too far gone tonight, but welcome further debate soon.

 

colors, shapes, patterns, level of detail, level of irregularity of detail.

avacado is happy, optomistic and relaxing, all at the same time,

red is scarry and not at all pleasant,
pumpkin is high visibility and good for both ends of buses and trains,

turquoise is sky (usually unless there's a storm or we're on another planet) and good for a living room,
raw sienna is the earth we walk on. grey is the sidewalk. yellow and gray also works for a kitchen.

pink is for a clean bathroom but makes me think i'm smelling too much deoderant, even if i'm not.

darker greens are the leaves of plants, except for the new growth in spring, which is 'avacado' again.

white is something that usually doesn't stay that way for long unless its washed frequently.
(not a good color for anything that travels cross country, better color then pink for a bathroom though)
living things look naked without fur, not in a good way, like there's something wrong.

i wear avacado shirts with brown/sienna pants and coat/jacket. its not quite camo, but people generally don't notice me if i stand still.

 

resistor and other component color codes in electronics: bad boys rape our young girls but veronica gives willingly (for) silver and gold;
black=0, brown=1, red=2, orange=3, yellow=4, green=5, blue=6, violet=7, gray=8, white=9, silver=5% tolerance, gold=1% tolerance.

 

For me, it's very contextual. Seeing a warm or soft color in the wrong context won't have the same effect on me that it does when done well.

One thing I've noticed is that lately I like black. That's really strange because I didn't used to like black at all. The boarding school I was sent away to for awhile to had a rule against wearing black clothing; the rationale being that it was the wrong self-image for us. That stuck for a long time and I became really judge-y in high school about goths or people who wore all black.

Lately though, it just feels right. Lol! I'm so melancholy!

 

That brings back memories of the introduction of audio frequency 27 band (third of an octave over 9 octaves) analyzers and Dolby A and SR type noise reduction.

We needed 0.1% on board tolerance, so the wastage was colossal, with 90% of resistors and dry tantalum capacitors being wasted.
A system was developed where components were selected using NPL (national physical laboratories) calibrated test equipment to divide components into 11 categories, from -0.5 to + 0.5 in 0.1 steps. This way, everything was fine so long as every component on the board used all components from the same category codes, reversing the tolerance between resistors and capacitors.
With SMT (surface mount technology) and flow soldering, along with components on both sides of the boards, you can imagine the complexity of production, with every board needing to be coded in case of repair. The production required more than 200,000 components per day and used robotic component placement.
Testing needed a probe at every junction so every board from all over the world had to be returned to the US factory for fault testing and repair.

Working with the design engineers was great fun, after years of R&D, they could answer problems while they were asleep. However they could never remember how to shave or select 2 socks that were the same colour.

SR prototype board that we tested in London. For 70mm, each output processor required 7 boards and cost £27.000 in 1987.
We really did say "Thank god for 256 bit digital".

 

If you were a Woman Soul I would be singing this song for you.
But as your a Man.
Forget it!

 

All very interesting but a bit over my head Wilsjayne, but I have always been interested in the highest fidelity sound I could get within my budget.

At the moment I have Naime2 Uniticute and Atom amplifiers.
They are run into Kef 1-2 speakers for the 2 and ProacAC8 speakers for the Atom.
I pay for Amazon Music HD which sends the music out as FLAC files over Apple Airlpay and or cabling so no loss of fidelity.
I feed the telly from NETFLIX and Sky and others at 4K and UHD to the amplification and the sound is lovely.
It might seem a bit 'odd' having floor standers up on the TV unit like that, but I can tell you that it works for us!
The TV is 75" so the spacing of the two sets of speakers is fine at 9' apart at the widest point.




Wifey and I just LOVE our music as life without music would be awful.