Hi everyone. I’m a little late participating in this week’s Sunday Confessionals, as rather than Sunday, it’s Monday night. However, as someone who only “sees” color as it’s presented to me synesthetically, I felt the prompt of “feeling blue” appealed to me.
Blue, as I see it, is not a sad color at all. As such, “feeling blue” has never truly had its intended connotation to me. Blue is the color of clear skies (at least, in our perception). I associate it with inward-directed energy. As such, blue is the color of the letter T, which represents “Thinking” in the MBTI. It might be associated with introspection, but it’s definitely not associated with depression. I’d choose grey for that instead.
I am not a color-to-emotion synesthete, although if I want to, I can describe the feel various colors have to me. Red is angry, as one might expect. Yellow, on the other hand, isn’t as upbeat as most people associate the color to be. I would describe it, depending on its shade, as slightly content in a light shade to optimistic in sunflower yellow. Give me green as the representative of joy anytime. And purple, and especially lilac, is authentic, even though there’s no purple letter in that word.
What do you think? Do colors have emotional meanings to you?
A Multitude of Musings 
I also associate blue with peace, water, sky, calm days… not sadness. I guess grey is a sad color because it makes me think of rain & tears. Black is for depression because of the nothingness aspect…
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Yeah, that makes sense! I’ve never been so depressed that I felt nothing, which may be why I associate grey with depression.
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I have thought for a long time the saying “feeling blue” was odd as blue is such a lovely colour, black is for depression and seething anger, red is for instant anger. I do thing of happiness and blowing the wind with the colour yellow. I also think hot pink is trashy
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Ah yes, hot pink… I love baby pink, but hot pink is ugly.
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I find all shades of blue calming and green too. Love purple, violet and indigo too.
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I love indigo too! I don’t think I was ever able to see a real rainbow but I remember learning about indigo and loving it.
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Thanks
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Thank you for sharing this, I too do not see or feel Blue as a sad colour, but in my case, because I am colourblind and in most cases cannot see blue from gray, I dont associate gray with depression either. Red, on the other hand, I do not see as angry, but as something completely raw and outward. Always fascinating to me to read how other perceive or interpret colours ❤
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Yes, it’s definitely interesting. It’s also intriguing to read about your associations as a colorblind person. It may’ve been apparent from my post, but I’m totally blind and have always been legally blind. I lost most of my color perception at around age eight and all of it at age twelve. I do still have some memory of colors and my synesthesia is helpful too.
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