Can you imagine a color you have never seen before?

Answer 1

There are no colors we haven't seen before that we could see. The visible light spectrum only covers so much territory.

Answer 2

Ummmm No. It can't be done as there is no basis for it. All colors that are visible are made of Red, Green and Blue (additive) or Red, Yellow and Blue (pigmented), black and white.

Some creatures are able to see beyond the spectrum visible to humans, so they could be able to be considered to see other "colors" which are simply different segments of the electromagnetic spectrum.

It's possible to add to the visible spectrum artificially by using IR goggles. Still, that only translates other "colors" to those already humanly visible.

Anyway, we can't imagine colors that we haven't seen anymore than we can imagine a pitch that we haven't heard. We simply don't have a reference for it.

Answer 3

No. At best, I can imagine a color that is a modification of a color I have seen before. Nor does a person who has been completely blind from birth imagine what color is.

Answer 4

1. Imagination can be done based on past experience .
2. So if you have not seen similar color in past , then mind can not imagine the new color.

Answer 5

I imagine, since this is in the spirtual and religion section that you are questioning something a little deeper and a bit more metaphorical than "colors". And my answer would be yes. But I am awaiting someone or something to show me that color. And then, it just may become my favorite.

Answer 6

Not accurately. I have a very poor sense of smell and there are scents that I can't detect. No matter how much someone tries to explain it, I really can't imagine it with any accuracy. 30 years ago, my sense of smell was much worse than it is now, and as I detect each new scent, there is a sense of wonder. Imagination doesn't help much when one doesn't have enough similar experiences to draw from.

Answer 7

I am legally blind and yet I can still see, as far as I feel, fine. I have spent hours describing colors to my blind friends. One of them, when questioned later by another , mutual friend who had never met a blind person, described colors to HIM and he was almost in tears at how well the descriptions fit. So , yeah, you can understand colors to an extent without seeing them, I believe. Christy did and she made Philip see them... in a whole new way!! I don't know how I showed Christy .... but I did and she has thanked me a bunch of times for it.

Answer 8

It is difficult to imagine any type of sensation that we cannot or have not experienced with our senses in this physical incarnation. I think we live within these limits in this dimension because we are here to expressly experience these. Any other sensations are filtered so that our physical senses are not overwhelmed in our limited physical capacity on earth. I think that there is more to see, hear, feel and experience than we could ever fully imagine in this dimension, but right now, in this form, it is all too much for us to take in.

Answer 9

Possibly, if you compine colors in your head. Like shades of blue. You could have never seen navy blue before, but you could have taken baby blue and made it a whole like darker. But to see blue on its own without the aid of red and purple (for example) would be a very difficult task if not impossible

Answer 10

Wow this is complicated to think of. in case you close up your eyes and place your palms firmly over your eyes, you will discover many shapes and hues, yet i won't be ready to photograph any shade that i haven't already seen. does no longer each and every of the colors of the spectrum in straightforward terms produce ameliorations of the colors that it contains? For me, this is a 'blue international.' I luv blue.