Do colors affect your body temperature?

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Do colors affect your body temperature?

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When looking at cool or icy blue images on my monitor, my body tends to feel colder. I kid you not.

Just now while messing with some images and giving them a bluer color balance, I felt slightly chilled. This has happened many times before.

I've also heard things about certain colors messing with your emotions and behavior. Pink is supposed to calm you down, while red evokes strong feelings.

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I'm not bullshitting you, I feel colder when looking at blue hues on my monitor.
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I was joking in my above post. Brain functions and emotions have been linked to body functions and perceptions. i'm too lazy to dig up a study on it now though so you'll have to take my word.
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Hamel wrote:I'm not bullshitting you, I feel colder when looking at blue hues on my monitor.
Feeling is subjective. Shove a thermocouple up your ass and monitor your core temperature while looking at different colours if you want an objective determination of whether this effect is real.
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Darth Wong wrote:
Hamel wrote:I'm not bullshitting you, I feel colder when looking at blue hues on my monitor.
Feeling is subjective. Shove a thermocouple up your ass and monitor your core temperature while looking at different colours if you want an objective determination of whether this effect is real.
I do not think the effect is real. It is all about perception. For example we all feel cold shivers run down our spines when we are scared to death. But our actualy body temperature stays the same.
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
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Darth Wong wrote:Feeling is subjective. Shove a thermocouple up your ass and monitor your core temperature while looking at different colours if you want an objective determination of whether this effect is real.
Hows the wife, Mike? :)

Its subjective, but its real. You ARE indeed FEELING colder, its your responses that are changing tho, not the temprature of your body.
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