Jan 17 2008
Why the skin sees in technicolour
Electromagnetic Colour
Four thousand years ago, the Egyptians built healing temples of light. Bathing a patient in specific colours of light produced different effects. Today we know that a blindfolded person will experience physiological reactions under different coloured rays. In other words, the skin sees in technicolour.
This fact was confirmed by the noted neuropsychologist, Kurt Goldstein. In his modern classic, The Organism, he notes that stimulation of the skin by different colours leads to different effects. He states, “it is probably not a false statement to say that a specific colour stimulation is accompanied by a specific response pattern of the entire organism.”
In order to understand this, we must begin with the fact that colour is a form of visible light. It is electromagnetic energy. The graph below shows where color is positioned in the range of radiant energy.
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
| Wavelength in meters | Name | Uses |
| 10-15 (size of a nucleus) 10-11 |
Gamma Rays | Cancer Treatment |
| 10-10 (size of an atom) |
X-Rays | Materials testing Medical x-rays |
| 10-8 | Ultraviolet | Germicidal, “black light”, suntan |
| 10-6 (diameter of a bacteria) |
Visible Colour
Link to more info. |
Optics |
| 10-5 - 10-3 | Infrared | Human body radiation |
| 10-2 (size of a mouse) |
Microwave | Microwave ovens, atomic clocks |
| 10 0 (one meter, the size of a man) |
. | Radar, Television, F.M. Radio, International Short-wave |
| 10 3 (size of a village) |
Radio frequency (RF) | A.M. Radio |
| 10 6 (distance from Washington D.C. to Chicago) |
Audio frequency | Long-wave broadcast |
| 10 8 (distance to the moon) |
. | Brain waves |
No responses yet
