2006-12-26 06:22:41 · 27 answers · asked by Answerguy 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Purple is like warm melted vanilla frosting being poured over your fingers. It smells sweet and feels smooth.
Purple is like stepping in mud with bare feet. It feels wet and soft and sounds like the squishing suction sound that happens when you pull your foot out of the mud.
Purple is like chewing on licorice. It tastes sweet, feels sticky, and provides slight resistance with no crunch.
2006-12-26 16:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by k 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Can't. But there's a wonderful scene in the movie Mask (with Cher and Eric Stoltz) in which the main character, Rocky Dennis - who was born with a progressive disease which really distorts his face - goes to help at a summer camp for blind kids. There he meets a character played by Laura Dern, who went blind when she was six, and he finds that he can't describe the world to her as he would like to because she doesn't know colours and she doesn't know what 'billowy' clouds are.
So he fixes with one of the cooks to take her into the kitchen and first gives her a very cold stone - 'that's blue' - and then some earth with grass growing - 'that's green' - then a hot stone - 'that's red ... when it cools down it'll be pink' - and some cotton wool for 'billowy' and the delight on her face when she says she's beginning to understand is wonderful.
So I guess if I had to explain purple I'd take this route and then ask you to combine your experience of 'red' and 'blue' while perhaps smelling something like lilac.
2006-12-26 06:37:13 · answer #2 · answered by mrsgavanrossem 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Eat a ripe plum, a handful of red grapes or drink a glass of grape juice. Smell lilacs. Stand outside on a summer evening as the sky is just starting to darken, slightly warm slightly cool twilight feeling. Describing how it looks wouldn't help. You'd have to experience it with your other senses. Put one hand in a bowl of cold water, the other in a bowl of warm. Purple is a mix of the two (blue & red, cold & hot colours).
Would be difficult! It's difficult to describe colours even to someone who can see! We just name them. Without sight, they really don't exist or have any relevance.
2006-12-26 08:24:06 · answer #3 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A frequency ranging from 790-680 Teraherts
2006-12-26 06:39:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One cannot describe a color in abstraction. Right now think of a color as itself without objects of any kind. Can you do it? Of course not. The word purple is a label used to describe one element of an object in order to communicate the element to another. Without the object there is no color purple. There is only the label purple.
2006-12-26 06:50:44 · answer #5 · answered by amy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is a mixture of colors lets say textures
you feel stuff that is really smooth and stuff so so rough it really hurts to touch it, OK red is at the beginning of the color chart, but in the family of purple, and if you have eaten a grape, they are purple, and a plum they are purple, and as you know BLACK is what I guess you see, so a little less black and going towards the color red, like blood color... purple is sometimes described as a soothing color, a passionate color..man two different things..yes it is... and purple is going towards the end of the scale of colors that they teach children in school....if you know what HOT is, that is described as a very yellowish red, and purple is much darker than red...with some blue and green in it,
this is a tough one
smile
good luck
2006-12-26 07:32:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Purple is what you do see, if you have been blind since birth. Unfortuantely it is also the only description that can be given to you for black or even white.
2006-12-26 06:26:29 · answer #7 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Purple feels like a dark velvet coat with a dash of mysticism. It suggests depth and is not particularly playful. It is the color of wizards and royalty. It is cool and dense, like pudding. It is a long low tone sound like growling dog.
2006-12-26 06:38:38 · answer #8 · answered by Emily C 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you could feel purple, it would feel like a soft, fuzzy pillow.
If you could smell purple, it would smell like morning dew on a flower.
If you could taste purple, it would taste like a grape popsicle - much too sweet but irresistible.
If you could hear purple, it would sound like kids bouncing around and playing in a bounce house.
If you could see purple, it would look like all of these things combined.
2006-12-26 07:37:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The color purple is soothing, warm, funny, and silly. It is a color that one can relate to as "comfort"...mentally and physically. It can bring out the child in you, however, define you are a strong individual, just by believing and understanding from within.
2006-12-26 06:40:48 · answer #10 · answered by uniqueandintriguingtreasure 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋