Do colours effect you mood?
 

I never can have blue around me any more. It has been a few years now.
I had my room all done in blue, the curtains, the spreads, the sheets, everything. It was at the height of summer. For about a month the temperature here hits 110F/44C.
I thought it would be pretty and cool.
But it coincided with one of my most severe depressions.
Then from within myself I felt the need to surround myself with warm colours.
Since then my room has been all the sunshine colours, - reds, yellows, oranges, and chartreuse. Even a hint of blueish green bothers me; as does purples, mauves and lavenders.
At present my favourite is yellow.

It is all very strange 'though, because I have Lupus, I have to avoid the sun. I love sunlight, not the high Indian Summer sun, but the sunlight of 25C/78F. I have to avoid that too, but I cheat and find some shade, with approximately an entire bottle of SPF 50+ lotion slathered all over. That also, more often than not, triggers a flare, but sometimes I still dare to suffer.
But after the one I am going through now, I think in the future I'll have to pass. :mad: :Sob:

I do love the blues and greens of nature, and I love the rain or snow.

Do any of you find colours effecting your mood or health?

NO BLUE AROUND !???

Do you mean not even BlueMajo !? :D

No Blue, for you I'll wear coloured glasses so you look bright and shiny and happy.

out of touch with myself right now
 

Hi,
Not as sensitive to colors as most people.

But for years I liked blue and hated the reds, yellows, and oranges.
The morning TV talk/ news shows have lots of orange on the sets. I guess the audience is supposed to feel warm and cozy. I turn off the tv if I am ever up at those hours.

I still have some sheets and a bed cover in blue that I loved for a long time. Blue used to calm me.

If I could do a bed room from scratch I might do earth tones because I feel the need for grounding. I would hate to try to do something like that by myself and end up in a room of mud.
I'd need a professional to get the right mix.

And oh dear, we will soon have Christmas colors anywhere we go out for the next two months. That gets exhausting because green and red and white lights are jarring.

M.

Yes it can.:)

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html

http://psychology.about.com/od/sensa...colorpsych.htm

http://iit.bloomu.edu/vthc/design/psychology.htm

My moods affect my colors, for sure
 

I know there are color associations which affect mood, and even transient emotional state. Like green is supposed to be calming - and it is the easiest color on the eyes for some reason. Red is supposed to incite aggression (it is suggested not to wear a red shirt at interviews for instance). There are probably evolutionary reasons for these - I would guess.

Jo, i just took a quick glance at your links... cool stuff, will read those more thoroughly. they do seem to coincide with what i've heard, as far as i got so far, anyway ;) Thanks for those.

Isis, I don't know, but if you like(d) blue - especially if you mean pastel, rather than dark blue... it sounds like you may have ended up in a depression quite coincidentally, but now, because of the past experience, you associate the two... got conditioned. interesting that you are averse not just to blue itself but to all the "cool/cold" colors."

I sometimes CRAVE pastel blue... when... when i am upset, agitated, or somehow not right. It helps soothe me. conversely pink or orange upset me more. complex prints are out of the question. However i think if i associated any color with a period of particularly bad depression, that color and hues of it might re-evoke some of those emotional states. luckily or unluckily for me, i have had bad depressions in the middle of all different surrounding colors... so i never made an association like that. (if i had, i would probably need everything to be colorless by now!)

As for what i started out saying.... the reverse:

I definitely feel like my moods affect my colors. In a sense i dress to my mood a lot. Or, i used to do this when i had a wardrobe that fit, and colors to choose from. Since gaining weight i have very few clothes. But indeed, for instance, when i am

very depressed: black. past few years i've hated not having a black jacket to wear, and being stuck with brown ... too wholesome... it "lies" about me right then. And forget about wearing red then, too! lol. Now, dark blue, that goes with it more, esp for mild/moderate depression or simply a glum or "low-profile" day. But bad depression i usually want black. ALL black from head to toe. generally all plain color (no stripes/prints). i might wear the odd t-shirt with a tame design on the front, dark color scheme though.

hypomania: you name it i'll wear it... sort of orange (preferable to red), yellows, greens, golds and the tendency to mix colors or wear prints.

mania (or a very pronounced hypomania as i have rarely become manic), bright red, or fuchsia, turquoise, emerald, white, and contrasting colors, stripes and prints also.

mixed moods: it depends on what's in the mix and how strong the mood is. it can be a lot like the hypomanic stuff but with tendency for contrast, and with "strong" moods, i've often found myself drawn to wearing black, red and purple, period. of course i may wear other colors but contrasting colors are usually there, and purple.

~ waves ~

Have you ever read about or done your own colors?
The spring, summer, fall or winter colors that will best complement your skin tones? { for clothes & makeup}

some fun info -
http://www.style-makeover-hq.com/sea...-analysis.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...or_season.html
http://www.carolejackson.com/html/Te...t_Complex.html

You are very probably right Waves. It has now got to a point that I make sure that there is not even a touch of blue in anything around me. That episode was a bad one. I loved black I still wear it, but always with a bit of colour around my face, a little jewelry, perhaps a bright scarf in the winter. I do wear an electric midnight blue in the winter 'though, and blue Linen trousers in the summer.

Jo, thanks for the links. Interesting!

I do feel like colors affect my mood to a degree. I can't wear bright colors if Im not feeling bright, otherwise I feel confused...like my insides dont match my outsides, so which do I honor? Though sometimes I force myself to dress bright to perk myself up.

Very interesting thread. Why would you wear so much White then.

That seems to be one color I have.

Donna

Why White?
 

Donna, that is something I have thought a lot about over the years.
For a couple of years I only wore white. It was not enforced, I just did not want to wear any other colour.
That was also the time I was at my most introspective.

In hindsight I think white represented for me a clean slate, that I drew different colours of different moods on.

In most religions the clerics always wear white so they can react to any situation - physical, mental or spiritual - without the memory shaped by experiences of a life lived before entering the Monastry.

In India, those who want to join some religious orders have to spend ten years in white clothes as a novice.
It is expected that in those ten years they will experience and absorb the nature of a true monk.
Only if they appreciate and accept what that life means can they begin to wear saffron. Many leave because they are not able to live how they are expected to.

It is on the neutrality of white that the enourmity of a new life is imbibed.

An interesting point here - before they earn their saffron robes they have to participate in their own funeral to signify the death of their material existence and nature.

Saffron is worn by a Monastic who has renounced all material attachments (including ALL relationships) to give himself to the Lord and his work.

Love

* - rambling on.