Thread: Outside the Visible and Audible Light and Sound Spectrum

Years ago I was curious about what the light outside of the visible light spectrum looked like. I originally assumed that the color before red (near infrard) was pink and I also said that pink was after violet (ultraviolet). They say the wavelengths of infrared are too long, and wavelengths of ultraviolet are too short to be seen or detected by the naked eye.

Well, for some reason I decided to stare at the sun for about one minute. Then when I looked at the colors on my computer and all the colors seemed to shift to the left of the light spectrum. Green was now yellow, yellow was now orange, and red was dark red and brown. So I guess dark red and brown comes before red. Any way I wouldn't do it again as it's obviously not good for the eyes.

Concerning ultraviolet, I've read that people had seen "red violet" after "violet" after cataract removal.

I'm also synaesthetic. I like to associate different wavelengths of sound with different colors. If I try to look at the order or arrangement of each note from A to G as if it were a rainbow: it would begin as "A" (dark red) to "Bb" (bright red), "B" (orange) "C" (yellow) "C#" (white) "D" (light blue) "Eb" (deep blue) "E" (a mix of red and blue) and "F" (pure red). Unfortunaelty I'm not completely clear what the synaesthetic color of "G" might be. I guess I get a visual sensation of grey, with the next note "G#" being pure white.

Now if the arrangment of colors of light are anything like the arrangement of colors of sound; I could come to the conclusion that the colors of light and sound repeat themselves over and over again as you travel to to the left of the spectrum, with each decreasing octave until it is too dark to be seen. And the colors of light and sound also repeat themselves over and over again going to the right until it is too bright to be seen.

What do you guys think?