Thread: Some things you just simply cannot do?

Originally Posted by csol

The thing with this is that colors follow science, i.e., the electromagnetic spectrum. The photoreceptors in your eyes can only pick up ROYGBIV colors, and if you've forgotten your 1st grade education, that's Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. So any mix of those, plus or minus brightness and saturation, are the colors that you can see. One could imagine that there ARE different colors, such as if one could somehow see higher- or lower-frequency wavelengths, but your human eyes can't do that. Sorry.

I'd like to see how there are arguments on that.

Well you kind of gave an arguement against it in your last few sentences. In a dream, theoretically you could make yourself see in these frequencies. I agree, though, I don't believe it is possible. I don't think someone's imagination could come up with a new color.

Here is an old thread on it:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...venting+colors

I'm too lazy to find something more recent.