Recall/awareness By Color

Hello.

I have a crazy idea that might work. I was wondering if looking at certain colors can have a recall boost.

It has been known that certain colors make you do things. Yellow and red are supposed to make you hungry. Pink very relaxed. So there might me a color that makes you remember things. Or think of things.

If there is a color that makes you recall easier, you could look at it when you wake up or look at a picture that is monochromatic of the color.

The experiment would be 2 weeks long.
First off we'd need to look one of the following colors each day.

-Pink
-Red
-Orange
-Yellow
-Green
-Light Blue
-Dark Blue
-Violet

Then we'd try the best 3 colors that worked for us 2 more times, to see if it works again.

To make sure placebo isn't what causes the better recall, we won't post any results until the 2 weeks are up.
Hopefull we can find that certain colors might help people recall easier.

The date I'm hoping to start this experiment is Colored light experiment[/b]

Red generally makes us alert and aware. It's an alarming color; That's why our Blood is Red.

However @ your Color Technique for recall. It's got my interrest since Recall and Clearity is something I would like to increase as well. How about trying to find Small Colored Lights of a couple of Colors. Bright enough to penetrate the Color through your Closed eyelids so you can actually see it while you're sleeping. Yet not so bright that it illumiates your entire room and keps you from sleep. And see if it is possible to Incubate a Certain Color into your Dreams that way. Maybe if some color, such as Red, manages to have it's effect on you while you're asleep this way, it may serve to increase awareness and alertness: Something Desirable for Lucid Dreaming.

Perhaps some of you Own an Atmospheric Red Light? Try sleeping with the light on next to your bed to see if it increases alertness and awareness. This would be my experiment. I think I'll fabricate my own Red Light Lamp by simply placing a Lightbulb into a Glass tube Painted Transparently Red. I think I could add mirror-tiles to it to direct the light into a large projection of Red light on the spot where I lie with my Head while sleeping.

Now since this Topic is about the Mental Effect of Colors anyways I'm not going to give this Experiment one of it's own. Anyone in with the Colored Light Experiment? It's gotta be a colored light that's bright enough so that when you sleep next to it and close your eyes, you still obviously see the Color, instead of just ''the blackness''. Also try meditating, sitting with the lamp on in your room for about 20 minutes with your eyes open and see if it has changed or affected your Mood or awareness in any way.If you've got a lamp up for that Job, or make one yourself as I prescribed above, and you're in for this Colored-Light Experriment, let me know. Also post what Color Lamp you'll be using.
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-Color experiment

Pyrox
sweetshoes18
Twoshadows

- Color light experiment

SKA

Sounds interesting, but I think I have read something similar before.

I like the idea though. Elaborate it a bit more and I think we will have an experiment


I'm in.

Thanks! I hope someone hasn't done this already. :oops:

So what I'm thinking is we wake up in the middle of the night or in the morning and gaze at the color while thinking about our dream. Each time we write our dream, put the color, and put the vividness or how easily we recalled it in our own dream journals (not online dream journal). When we are done with the 8 colors, we pick out the best 3. Say they were green, light blue, and red. We'd cycle green, light blue, red, green, light blue, and red. After the 2 weeks we'd post results.

What we are looking for is either

1 Universal memory boosting color that everyone can look at and recall easily.

2 If each person has a certain color that works for them.


The way this could help us :

We could buy a notebook with either the cover or the pages the recall color. Each time we went into the journal we'd see the color, which might help us recall.


Time sleep affects our recall. We might need to have a certain hour range. But for now we should just write how many hours we get each night. Try to get in the range of 7-9 hours a night.

Thanks for helping with this! :yumdumdoodledum:

Interesting Idea.
People that have responded to the color quiz ,as I know you have Pyrox, can revert back to their information to possibly help with this.

Sure, I'll give this a try.

I usually recall dreams while laying in bed with my eyes still shut. It will be interesting if this makes a difference.

But this means I won't be writing in my online journal for two weeks? But adding them in when it is all over?

I Noticed that the color Green, especially that of fresh summer grass, has a very calming effect on me. I noticed this while watching a Soccergame once: The green grass had a calming effect. Same for when I enter the city park downtown and I see all the green grass. It really calms me down and makes me happy.

Red generally makes us alert and aware. It's an alarming color; That's why our Blood is Red.
For the other colors, and Red too, they mainly makes us feel like something we associate them with. Our Brain Associates everything with anything.
Blue - Ice, Cool, Water>>> Relaxed, Chill
Warm Yellow - Sun, Warmth>>> Love, calmness, Joy
TerraCotta-Red/Soil-Brown - Soil, Mother Earth, ''Earthlyness'', Nature>>>Soul, Closer to Nature, Peacefull

I agree it WOULD be a good Experiment to figure out more on how Colors can affect us.
I guess if someone wants to do this scientifically and grand they'd have to do it something like this:

Have serveral rooms.

Room 1 is completely Dark Red, Ruby-tone red. The walls, ceiling, the Furniture and everything in somewhat the same colortone. Red bedsheets and Red pillows. Have someone sleep, awaken and try to remember his/her dream in that Room and check for the results.

Room 2 is completely painted SkyBlue bottom to top, left and right. Furniture in somewhat the same colortone. Bedsheets and pillows also blue. Have someone sleep in that room, awaken and try to remember their dreams there. Check for results.

Room 3 is Completely Leaf-Green, Furniture in somewhat the same color tones. etc....

You get the idea. That way Colors will certainly have most effect; When they surround you completely. And that with alot more Colors, Each a Room. There should also be an option to sleep with a light on or not to see if Colored Light may influence your Dreams as well.People should sleep in a completely white room 5 days prior to sleeping in the colored room to see if any differences are noticed in their Dreams and DreamRecall.
Maybe a good point to write down all noticable differences experienced of dreams dreamt in a Colored Room to see if the Colored Room and Colored Light did anything noticably different to your dreams and DreamRecall. Perhaps it also effects the Nature of and the Emotions involved in the dream.

Maybe something the Lucidity Institute would like to experiment with? For them it would be only a small experiment. They got some rooms, spose they can afford some paint and matrasses. That's all it takes really.

However @ your Color Technique for recall. It's got my interrest since Recall and Clearity is something I would like to increase as well. How about trying to find Small Colored Lights of a couple of Colors. Bright enough to penetrate the Color through your Closed eyelids so you can actually see it while you're sleeping. Yet not so bright that it illumiates your entire room and keps you from sleep. And see if it is possible to Incubate a Certain Color into your Dreams that way. Maybe if some color, such as Red, manages to have it's effect on you while you're asleep this way, it may serve to increase awareness and alertness: Something Desirable for Lucid Dreaming.

Perhaps some of you Own an Atmospheric Red Light? Try sleeping with the light on next to your bed to see if it increases alertness and awareness. This would be my experiment. I think I'll fabricate my own Red Light Lamp by simply placing a Lightbulb into a Glass tube Painted Transparently Red. I think I could add mirror-tiles to it to direct the light into a large projection of Red light on the spot where I lie with my Head while sleeping.


Now since this Topic is about the Mental Effect of Colors anyways I'm not going to give this Experiment one of it's own. Anyone in with the Colored Light Experiment? It's gotta be a colored light that's bright enough so that when you sleep next to it and close your eyes, you still obviously see the Color, instead of just ''the blackness''. Also try meditating, sitting with the lamp on in your room for about 20 minutes with your eyes open and see if it has changed or affected your Mood or awareness in any way.If you've got a lamp up for that Job, or make one yourself as I prescribed above, and you're in for this Colored-Light Experriment, let me know. Also post what Color Lamp you'll be using.

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Sure, I'll give this a try.

I usually recall dreams while laying in bed with my eyes still shut. It will be interesting if this makes a difference.

But this means I won't be writing in my online journal for two weeks? But adding them in when it is all over?
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I guess you can write in your dream journal online, just don't add anything about the color you did that day.


SKA that's a good idea, I'd like to hear results

Right...I'll just mix up the order of the colors.

I just found out that I may have to go out of town part of next week. On the days I'm away it may be better not to try the experiment. So I may finish a few days behind.

That's fine, no problem. Where are you going?

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I am going to help my aunt sort through some of the things in my grandparent's house that she inherited when they died.

Oh, that can be hard to go through. Yeah but don't worry about it if you are late. :)

And I wanted to add on the idea. Since some people that will be participating can recall easily, it would be better to look at it a little before you go to bed. While you are thinking about what you'd do if you became lucid you could be gazing at the color.


SKA, I can see another side to your experiment you could experiment with -

It could possibly used as a dream sign. I've read the myth about how we dream in black and white. The thing is people did dream in black and white back then. The reason it changed is because we now have color TVs. I guess we gained color in our dreams, because we would see more color before we went to bed.

You could use this to your advantage by using a color and meditate on the fact that if you see too much of the color you would know you're dreaming.

I will add more to the first post about your experiment if it's ok.

Howetzer, this could help our research alot! We could use it to figure out what color most dream about, and use it to remember by looking at the color. This could also help SKA's experiment. Thanks