so i quit church today

[Ikeni]

if green is soothing, is it because of our herbivorous past? i can still feell the "hunter gatherer" pull in my life to rejoice in spring and 'hibernate' in the winter. when its cold and snowy i have a terrible time getting out of bed, i can wake up momentarily, but i wont fully wake till i get out of bed. so long as there isnt cold/ snow i can wake up and hang out in bed untill i want to be up and be just fine getting out of bed when ever. but as soon as that first flake caresses the air i just want to sleep until the sent of crocus wakes me in the spring. its not depression, so its not seasonal depressive disorder (i know people who have that so i KNOW i dont)
same story in the spring, as soon as the dead looking brambles start waking up and just before they pull that thin green vial over them selves about a week before the crocus come up i feel massively alive, impossibly powerful, overly energetic, and with a drive to live life to its fullest.

taking those to yearly experiences into account i would hypothesis that green is soothing because of our hunter gatherer past, or maybe even something further back.

Personally I think we have our opinions on certain colours due to our own life experiences, our thoughts and imagination as a result of that and exposure to interpretations involving colours via the media, such as black being considered a colour representing evil. I however don't think that our stance on colours is something ingrained in our DNA though, because to make for an example while we may consider black a colour representing evil, in ancient Carthaginian society the colour white was considered one of death; the Sacred Band used white on their shields.

Suffice to say, I think our attitudes in regards to certain colours is based on subjective interpretation of the connotations which each of them provides in regards to its context.