I've heard of people comparing colours to tactile sensations even taste (I
think blue was like italian ice).  I've been fortunate enough to feel blue
but usually only alone. I definitely felt yellow once or twice - most often
in the dark when it is hard to see.  On some of my exceptional days, I could
even feel (in the)pink.  I didn't really feel green as much as show green.
Except for some colour-blindness, I've been pretty happy with the seeing of
colours but I always try to avoid bright lights - too many colours at once.
 
Charles
 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 6:56 PM
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Subject: Seeing color
 
 
   Maybe you got this before, but I think it got lost because I
didn't get it my own self. (We've been having a bad-hair-day in
Cincinnati, 10 inches of snow on the ground and five more predicted,
and blowing and drifting, and doing all sorts of other mean things.)
    But what I wanted to ask was in regards to the discussion of
colors on shells. The question is: Do mullusks themselves perceive
color? If they don't, the idea of color being a sexual stimulant goes
out the window---into the snow. Do things that prey on Mullusks
perceive color? Can color (at depth) be perceived in any other way
than by eyesight?
     Art