What Would Watching a Blue Sunset Feel Like — Would it Change You
By: Lynda Coker
Tags: Astronomy, Science, Colors, Sunset, Emotions

What Would Watching a Blue Sunset Feel Like — Would it Change You

Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay

“When your world moves too fast, and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset.” ~Christy Ann Martine

The beautiful and awe-inspiring crimson, gold, and orange sunsets that paint the skies just before the shadows of the approaching night morph the colors to grey are a free gift from an artistic creator.

Those colors wrap us in both a visual and emotional warmth that is soothing and inspiring. The canvas of an evening sky conveys a message of infinite hope through its silent artistry. Have you ever found yourself reaching your fingers toward the intense hues as if warming your hands in front of a fire?

“The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don’t want the sun to set. We want it to stay right on the horizon — not below it, not above it — just right on it.” ~Mehmet Murat ildan

Since we humans are so in-tune with the color spectrum of our earthly sunsets, how would it feel to view sunsets painted in shades of blue? Where do we need to go to experience such a sunset?

Welcome to Mars — home of the Blue Moon Sunset

Have a look for yourself in a photo captured by NASA’s Spirit Mars rover in 2005. Eerie isn’t it? And that brings us back to my original question.

What Would Watching a Blue Sunset Feel Like — Would it Change You

To answer that question we need to think about how we humans see and experience color. Recently I read an article that shed some light on how we experience color. Here is a small excerpt.

Color is the property of a perceptual process. Because color cannot be reduced either to physics or to psychology, we are left with a blue sky that is not simply inner or outer but somehow in between. This idea has implications for the understanding of conscious perceptual experience. ~Source

I’m not a scientist or the brainiest nut on the tree, but I do understand that color affects our emotions. Who of us doesn’t know what feeling ‘blue’ means? It equates to sadness and loneliness.

Many other attributes are attributed to the different shades of blue.

Light blues can be refreshing and friendly. Dark blues are more strong and reliable. Blue is also associated with peace and has spiritual and religious connotations in many cultures and traditions… Source

So, What would it feel like to watch a blue sunset? I can only answer from my own perspective, which in this case is an imagined one. I would feel uncomfortable, lethargic, and a little weepy. I love the color blue, but in the way that is normal to me, as in brightly lit baby-blue skies that give me a sense of wellbeing.

Evening or nocturnal blue skies could never fill me with the same excitement and wonder that a blazing red sunset does.

I have to answer yes to the second part of my question. Would it change me? Seeing such a vista with my own eyes would be a rare siting. It would deepen the awe and respect I have for the designer of a universe, in which I am only a speck or mere dust on a scale. It would give me way more questions about life than I already have, and that’s a lot!