Going off of my last week’s article about our sense of sound, let's talk about our sense of sight. It is an interesting concept; how we all see completely different colors and shapes and how what we see can shape how we view the world. Do you ever wonder how your dog views the world? I tried to explore that concept. Why does my cat sometimes not respond when I call his name? It’s possible he can’t see me, or can’t hear me, but sometimes their eyes are just fixed on something else and if they move they will forget about it. Do they see in black and white? Is it hard to see me? I tried to find research on this subject and nobody really knows for sure, but I do believe that the way they see can affect how they think as well as anything else.
For example, I could look at the sky and think that the sky is blue, but someone else can think the sky is blue as well but they have a completely different idea of what the color blue looks like. So technically the sky could actually be green to me if I were to have the same sense of sight as they do. But, now that I think about it, is the sky actually blue? Or did somebody all my life just tell me the sky was blue because they were told the sky is blue and the people before them were told the sky was blue and basically some guy centuries ago thought it would be hilarious to trick everyone into thinking the sky is blue.
Or maybe this sky is only blue to the human race because our brains view green as blue, but the universe views blue as green, so to us it is completely different than it is to every other living organism.
The real question for me is, what do others see, and how does what they see affect the way they see the world?
Take what I am saying through the perspective of art; red is usually used to represent love or horror, blue represents cold and sorrow, yellow represents happiness and growth, and green can represent life. Is that why we see nature as green? Maybe every strand of grass and every tree is green because it is the life or because people want to feel alive in nature, while maybe the sun being yellow is just because we want to be happy. So are all these colors only being seen how we want to see them?
Does somebody with a more negative mind see the sun as a dark orange or black?
If we were fortunate to be given such a wonderful life do we see a wider spectrum of color and view the world as a happy place, while if we had a traumatic life we view the world as a scary and dark place? Or maybe the experiences in our lives help us discover the world how we see it.
Whatever the truth is, we know that each of us sees different colors and look at the world with a contrasting perspective, and that is such a great thing. We can use this to our advantage by asking others on their view of the world so we can have a better, unbiased understanding of what the world actually is.
If you have the answer to these questions, let me know.
