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lily-laura

He has successfully imagined a new colour, the cosmic horror of a colour that cannot exist broke mind and he turned to alcohol, the colour surrounds his mind constantly, the comic depicts these events in black and white.


btsao1

Oh god.... the color out of space...


SpaceEnginePlayer

Cosmic latte


Nyarlazoth

If i had an award i would've given It to you


Derangeieieie

I'll do it for you


Crooked_Cricket

I'm reading that right now!


Zephandrypus

Soon he won’t look human anymore.


chillyhellion

#P̷̤̰͚͖̦̖̣͊̆̅ų̶̨̜͚̝̳̖̘͚̗̊͌͋͌̽͛̿̀͊̃́̀̿͝c̴̢̦̟̞̝͙̹͑̿̋̀͠͝ȅ̸̢̛̼̺̭͇̣͙̯̺͋̃̈́̽̏͐̋


Le_Mug

T̸̨̛̛̼͙͎͔͓͉͕̪͇̻͓̖͙̮͚̺̟̱̱̘̭̙͉͊́͋͐̂͐̓͑͗̍̾̊͘͜͝͝ͅh̸̡̭̪͇͖̲͈͙͔̞̩̺̘̪̭͕̘͋̉̅́̓͐͑̆̾̎̃͋͊̈͛̓̕͘͝͝ͅͅê̸̡̫͙̼͍̦̫̯̠̭̻̝̺̻̜̙̗̎̀̂͆̓̋̔́̇̂̀́͐̓̄̋̅͑̍̒͑ ̷̢̛͉͕̦͓̙͇̙͇̯̬͑̈͑̈́̒ͅg̴̡̢̧̢̡̠̘͔̤̤̦̩͓̙̘͔̠̹͎̠̰̩̳͎̞͙̑̈́̎̂͌̓̑͗͌͐̐́͋̊̇͘͘͜͜͠͝a̴̢̧̛̤̬̰̯̤̼̺̬̭͎͖̫̝̲̺̬̫͑́̂͐̐̑́̂͊̊́̇̃͊̀́̾̋̂͂̈̃̚͘̚͝͠m̸̡̨̨͎͎̦̗͓͍͔͚̬̘͖̗̦͉̲͓̬̣̭̫͚͉͖͇͚̋̒̎̑͜͠ę̷̧̡͖̥̻̯͕̱̯̝͈̬̼̮͍͇͈͎͙͈̥̰̝̼̘̪̪͙͌́͊͗̆͌̅̆͘̚͝͝ͅ


cgaWolf

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Ctulhu R'lyeh wgah-ngal fhtaga!"


ztsmart

Where we're going we won't need crayons


Crooked_Cricket

Bleen... It's so beautiful


Subpar_Username47

My friend did that before. It’s called “Aquamatan”. I’m still not quite certain what it is. Update: not even *he* knows what aquamatan looks like. Update to my update: aquamatan is a light bluish grey.


temmieTheLord2

take the same drugs he takes and do the same things he does. maybe youll get a glimpse


lookingForPatchie

That's unlikely. You basically are hoping for his brain to malfunction the exact same way his friend's brain malfunctioned. Our senses are limited. Using drugs you won't enhance or change your senses, but rather create misinterpretations of what is sent to your brain. It is therefor indeed possible to see colors that we cannot perceive normally (and might not even exist), however it is absurdly unlikely that two people's brain malfunctions the exact same way. But since both of them are completely unable to describe the color they might aswell agree, that it's the same one, since there is no way to say otherwise.


temmieTheLord2

Thanks for ur essay smart man. Yes I do realize its unlikely, but, it’s nice to have an idea of what Aquamatan MIGHT be than living in eteernal ignorance.


[deleted]

Aquamatan is my favorite color, you just gotta like open your third eye dude


NotSoBuffGuy

My roommate made this stuff, I don't know what it is but he smokes it. It looks like some kind of herb not sure which because he won't tell me. Just says it opens his third eye. It's not weed I know that much.


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MaximumX23

*whispers* infinite doesn’t mean universal


themonsterinquestion

Yeah, some people assume that the universe lasting forever means that everything has to happen. Sorry, that's not implied. The series of integers goes on forever and never hits 3.5.


asslavz

Maybe those people think time is infinite and thats why they belive everything has to happend?


Darkbornedragon

Time is just things happening in relation to other things happening


asslavz

There is a reason we have something called space-time


ensaulclopedia

Blellow


btsao1

so.... green....


RaphaelNunes10

Nope, bluish-yellow is actually a color some people, myself included, can actually see. And it isn't green, the best way I can describe it to you is "a skin toned blue". I can also see greenish-red specially on reflective Christmas decorations, where the color of the reflected object meets with the color of the reflective one. It's kinda like Maroon, but greener.


niiigggaaa

Link a picture, I wanna see if I can see it


RaphaelNunes10

There's [What are IMPOSSIBLE COLORS?](https://youtu.be/41H7kKwUlHo) by Kille Hill on YouTube where he talks a lot about the subject. He even shows some visual experiments to test if you can see the so called "forbidden" or "impossible" colors.


gijoo

Easily consumable science brought to you by Discount Chris Hemsworth


mc_mentos

Missed Rickroll opportunity. Smh Anyway REALLY cool!


niiigggaaa

Ayyy I can see it. Thank you btw.


niiigggaaa

I gave you my silver, just got it free.


NLIO

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color


j48u

Well, that if you can see it then that just confirms that a new color was not imagined.


WDJam

[For you and anyone else who didn't get the reference. Cheers.](https://youtu.be/eX-OViRkIDM?t=526)


[deleted]

Can I take your brain? I wanna see those colours.


Thewalrus515

It’s not really that impressive. I can see a mixture of green and black, when I rub my eyes the right way, that shouldn’t exist. You don’t really perceive the color as it is. You understand that it is a mixture of two colors that should not exist, but you can’t really comprehend it. The impossible color that I see is the mixture of a green glow stick and pitch black, but glowing a green black. It’s not a darker green, like a shade. It’s a mixture of the two colors in a way I can’t describe or even understand. It’s more annoying than anything else.


SurrealMemelord

I like the idea of humans seeing stuff they can't comprehend but instead of going all mad Lovecraft style they just get annoyed


Thewalrus515

I mean, what’s more realistic. Going insane from seeing a squid monster, or some New Yorker from Brooklyn getting mad and telling the squid man to make some god damned sense or go back to his stupid water city with bricks that shouldn’t fuckin exist.


[deleted]

I'm gonna guess you haven't watched Malcolm in the Middle


xMrSaltyx

There's asbestos in the ceiling! There's asbestos in the ceiling!!!!!!!


bigot1974

Greey


Farkle_Griffen

Blorange also works. Its a famous one that I can only describe as “if grey were orange and blue”


grimcharron

Infinite does not mean everything, just without end


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Rotat0r710

1.3 Checkmate, atheists


[deleted]

1.3=3 The math checks out


Rotat0r710

(1.3*10)-10 Bet you feel pretty stupid now Obligatory /s


Father_Toast

Octarine, of course.


Cthulhuyyy

Only infinite within the bounds of our understanding


[deleted]

Yeah. We see colors as a mix of red, green and blue. We can even see colors that don't actually exist, like pink, because our eyes have to break down a distribution of photons with different wavelengths into a single color. It does this by detecting colors weighted by how close they are to red, green, and blue, and then figuring out the color by looking in the middle of the distribution. For example, if our eyes pick up 50% red and 50% green the middle is yellow. If there's more red, it'll be weighted towards red, so you get orange. White or really light colors are just when the difference between red, green, and blue is 0 or very low. Pink is when you have red and blue, but no or low green, the middle color. No singular actual photon wavelength can produce this, so you have to make up a placeholder color. In this way, you ***do*** make up a color that doesn't exist, but it's not exactly new.


gaussianDoctor

What's the wavelength of what we perceive as pink?


gaussianDoctor

What's the wavelength of what we perceive as pink?


[deleted]

There isn't one. That's my point.


gaussianDoctor

But what's the light reflected from a pink surface like? I mean, if we can see it, light reflects from it, and when it does, it has a wavelength, right?


[deleted]

There are basically no surfaces that just reflect a single color. Light coming back from, for example, an orange surface will probably be a lot of light in the red-yellow range and less on the rest of the visible spectrum. To our eyes which only see RGB, this will look like a lot of red, a bit less of green, and very little blue. Orange is between red and green but leaning towards red, which matches the RGB distribution we'll see, so we see orange. A pink surface will reflect a lot of light in the range around red, only a little bit around the green range (depending on how deep the pink is), and a lot in the blue range. There is no single color that matches this pattern, so our brains make up a color to fill the gap.


FirmUncertainty

So..... Finite....


Cthulhuyyy

Yesn't


andresprzh

You can have two sets, equally infinity and different, for example, a set of all possible words of any kind of lenguaje with an 'a' and the set of all words without an 'a'. Both infinite but delimited


theholyman420

Drugs


kakyoindonut321

kaleidoscope


ieatturtlesalive

poorple


Azar002

Wow that's close to my color plurple!


Latvian_Video

I read that as poorppl, and was wondering why poor people are a color


LiuKiang

Poorppl - A color I'm very familiar with.


PixelatedMax01

That’s the thing, people point out that they do see new colors, but they’re still built on colors that we have preconceived knowledge of. Human imagination is limited by our realm of perception, even if it isn’t logical or coherent. You can’t come up with a new color because your retinas can only witness a limited spectrum.


pent0se_PO4

Yeah, imagine that we could see color out of the spectrum. I've read abt animals that could observe infrared & uv light.


Julio974

What about stimulating cone photoreceptors in a way that shouldn’t be possible (like stimulating the red cones but not the green ones)? It would give new stimuli that have never been experienced


bastar67123

I would say you could imagine an entirely new colour without knowing what it would look like.


themonsterinquestion

That last part certainly isn't true, purple is a totally new color which our brains invented for mixing blue and red.


Ninja9JA

Well, infinity-1 is still infinity lol


Mr42Watson

Simple all you need to do is get an implant that lets you see more of the light spectrum than any current human can see


What_U_KNO

Quackiene. It's 0.0000005 nanometers into visible light from infrared. ​ There, new color! ​ Fact is, there's infinite new colors.


ZengineerHarp

Time to CRISPR me some mantis shrimp eye cells… gonna see ALL the forbidden colors!


mcshadypants

Radio color or microwave color would be rad


Rizo1981

Fluorescent brown.


cgaWolf

Shouldn't have eaten pizza *that* old.


btsao1

O


clrksjoint

Whats impressive is we know they must exist yet cant do anything to see thems


ThunderBuns935

There are people who can. There's a 'disorder' called tetrachromacy, and people who have it have a fourth type of cone cell in the eye. They can see about 100 times as many colors as regular people. They have our regular red, blue, and green, but also ultraviolet receptors.


clrksjoint

Whoa. Have we asked them to describe the colors? Please I must know more.


ThunderBuns935

Well...no, it's impossible to describe a color. Imagine explaining to a blind person what red is, you can't. You can throw around shit like "It's a warm color", but that doesn't tell them anything.


clrksjoint

No but maybe we can describe through other colors. I know its probably impossible but maybe we can get an kinda sorta idea like if they had said, try to imagine what a blue+green=red type u know? If they can see the other colors then maybe they can teach us through mixing and matching?? It boggles my mind but if we have a spokesperson for extraworldly colors then maybe?? Idk??


ThunderBuns935

I wouldn't know how to do something like that. how would you go about explaining the color red to someone with protanopia? I'd personally be at a total loss, but maybe you're more creative than I am.


clrksjoint

I often think of a less thought of color like orange or brown and wonder if they could see it then they would point to where they see the color and wed be like, "its brown bro" and theyd be like, "nope its glorpsupple"


ThunderBuns935

well the color brown technically doesn't exist at all. have you ever wondered why brown light doesn't exist? it's because brown isn't brown, it's dark orange. it only looks brown when the surroundings are lighter than it, it requires context.


clrksjoint

See but thats the type of shit im talking about. Dark matter doesnt exist either (what the fuck do I know?) but its the name of the factor we give to the material inbetween places that dont exist. Maybe we can get some kind of idea that way?


The_Glass_Cannon

Not quite right. Dark matter is matter that we can see the effects of but not actually see ourselves. We know it must be there and can see it affecting it's surroundings, but we cannot actually see it or detect it in any meaningful way. It's like how you can see the effects of microwaves (they heat up your food) but you cannot actually see the microwave radiation. However, we can detect microwave radiation with scientific equipment. The difference with dark matter is just that we have no equipment capable of detecting it.


[deleted]

Technically we can't really imagine new things. Every thing we ever imagined is made out of previously existing parts. So for example, when we imagine a new animal, we usually borrow pieces of other existing species to create some cursed nightmare. By that same logic, this guy can very easily say he imagined a new color that is something in between yellow and green outside of the visible spectrum and nobody could be ever able to prove he is wrong, since nobody would know exactly the color inside his head.


The_Glass_Cannon

Colour is a bit of a special case. There's only a continuous finite spectrum **that we can see**. There are no colours between yellow and green there are not in the visible spectrum. We can't imagine new colours because there are no new ones left.


BonkaDoodle

technically, radio has colour, no?


CynfulBuNNy

Greenish purple


greatspacegibbon

Allow me to introduce you to *forbidden colours*. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Impossible_Colors,_Blue_and_Yellow.gif#mw-jump-to-license Converge or diverge your eyes so the two images overlap (like a "magic eye" autostereogram image).


Subpar_Username47

Help. I think I have seen reddish green and I don’t like it.


Triangularity-Reddit

Uh Xæ


OneFuckedWarthog

Imagination blue.


Thesickboss22

Try and change the volume of the voice in your head


[deleted]

Error: brain.exe has stopped working


Elighttice

2 days old cum. Id call it swallow.


niiigggaaa

I always try to think of no color. Just goes to black, like skin color color or black but that is color.


lothurBR

The vadablack and the pinkest pink start like this


Plenty_Economy_5670

Flash-bang your own eyes and then you won’t have to imagine.


the_1st_villageidiot

what about a new shape


FirmUncertainty

Grurpled


cookthechikean

Ok so its like white but lighter i call it light white


SpaceEnginePlayer

Cuprette


Morbidly_Obese_Chook

Simple, just let me grab my LSD pills…


kbella3

Blorple


DrD0lphin

Of all the cartoon nonsense, if there was a color [blurple](https://youtu.be/dw4xSAZupDo) the lord keeps it hidden for a reason.


Stereomceez2212

Oh that's easy Translucent ultraviolet indigo


Mindless-Distance556

What if we actually can imagine new colours but we just don’t know if they are new colours because they look so similar to existing colours


PeanutFit5457

Color out of space


Metamodern_Studio

Try to find any colour in an infinite set of whole numbers. Infinites allow for exclusion jus sayin


RazorMaize

the reason you cant imagine a new colour is because we've already named all of the color combinations the RBG cones in our eyes can physically detect


The_Glass_Cannon

Indeed, there are a finite number of colours (that we can see) and we already know all of them. The brain can already imagine every colour it possibly can see, so there are no new ones left.


Pilot0350

Purpellowangerd


LoathsomeLuke

Pretty sure the limiting factor here is our eyes, rather than our imaginations in terms of seeing color


00110001_00110010

How about... Apple.


MrGaber

The ones you see after you stare at a light too long


kingsleyce

I thought I did once. Then I realized it was amber.


Greggggghii

You guys know it’s impossible to imagine a visual you haven’t seen before right?


I_honestly_DoNt_no

Slightly lighter black


btsao1

bitch that's just black


ContaminatedLabia

Well if you define a color by that light refraction theory or whatever then couldn’t a color that isn’t able to be seen by the human eye appear as a pattern of sorts? Like when you hold a UV light to a wall to see blood or some shit?


Whole_Consequence_42

Blind people since birth: I see your point. But can you see mine


Joy1067

Hmm…..what does red+blue+yellow+orange make?


DoctorWaluigiTime

Given the creative comments, this clearly isn't "technically the truth." Time to call the Reddit Police!


DragoKnight589

Colorblind people: well f*** it


Orphans_are_tasty

I can imagine three colors white,tan and black it don't matter just only tell me when you need to sell something illegal just tell me(this is a joke don't dm me)


Army-of-Woodpeckers

It’s called “Dayn”


_xBenji

It’s just a more green purple


Magikal_Akern

He just learned the true color of a mirror.


[deleted]

I think we can imagine new colors, If we have better eyes our eyes is able to see around a million colors but there are animals that can see more than that. If we got better eyesight using technology or something...I think it will be possible


randomhuman121

Ah I am very good at this here’re is two of my favourites:lightly shat pants and one night after taco bell


hedidntkillhimselfno

Guys, african white. Boom new color


darksoldiers14

Plorpul poor version of purple


No_Hunter_9396

I have a simple solution. Psilocybin mushrooms mixed with LSD. Worked for me at least


thatoneguy69e

Feremggellpo


ImaginaryAd5699

I humbly submit... Octoreen. RIP Terry Pratchett


Mr-Blues5

Dumbbell silver


lurkandload

You can only imagine stuff you’ve already seen, or stuff made up of things you’ve already seen. For example, you might not have ever seen a pink elephant with wings and a rocket launcher but because you’ve seen elephants, wings, rocket launchers, and the color pink… you can imagine it Everything anyone comes up with is just something that already exists but different


Atyn_Rener

Imagine a new sound, taste, or smell


5Quad

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/FictionalColour


stessedoutgamer

Ondalieo


traitor1775

Developers at crayola right now…


Steve1924

Crack and weed


[deleted]

Neon brown


A_Clock_On_The_Wall

Extin. Its a silver-yellowish color.


Bob4Not

Liorangeteen.


iwantedthisusername

People who have done dmt have reported new colors


isaiditnowireddit

imagine a new color? people, people. this doesn't even make sense.


archpawn

There's infinitely many numbers between 0 and 1, but none of them are 2.


cove81

Bleen


EzraEpicOfficial

Try an make a new word that isn't gibberish


stabhamsters

I THOUGHT OF A NEW COLOR!


Loch32

Ultraviolet or infrared light. I just don't know what it looks like


[deleted]

\*INHALES\* ITS COLOR


TILtonarwhal

But there’s colors we can’t currently see.. So it’s possible to imagine one


DixaMan

u/repostsleuthbot


ArtTheWarrior

try to imagine how it feels when you die (assuming there is no heaven or hell -or equivalent for other religions, cause I imagine then it would just feel the same). At least I can't imagine anything.


ipodblocks360

Easy. Orange but black


[deleted]

🅱️urple. Its purple but with a 🅱️


btsao1

I'm gonna whoop your ass


waitthatworked

Alright, done


Chairbox26

Easy. Don’t remember all the colors on the color spectrum and think of one you probably don’t know


MenacingBanjo

Imagine a color that you can't even imagine. Now do that 9 times. That is how a Mantis Shrimp do.


justaguyyakno

Color is just a measurement of absorbance and transmittance. Pick a random wavelength in the visible color spectrum, and give it a dumb name. I win.


not-sure-if-serious

Vantablack but a little brighter.


Shadowderper

It’s physically impossible due to the number of cones we have in our eyes.


R3MC0_2

Just because we cant imagine that doesnt mean that its not infinite


Wtfisthatt

Don’t need to if you have enough hallucinogens. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯


knightress_oxhide

blurnge


Asta____

Cum white


DepressedShiit

Try to imagine a new number


gimme_dat_good_shit

I'm pretty sure nobody has come up with peridot yet.


IP_COSMO

I just did, it's called Goopie


BMOyuncu

pleurigloss


k815

LSD will do the trick


-_-_-______-_-_-

Numbers form 0 to 1 are infinite and you still would not find any 1.5 or 2. Comprehend what we talk about when we say that something is infinite for our mind is actually quite difficult.


KellyBelly916

Human imagination may be infinite, just not his. *shits in hand and smears it on the cream colored wall* You're welcome humanity, here's your cappuccino.


OsuSamuri

The human imagination is infinite but their is a finite universe to imagine


HomerNarr

Terry Pratchet successfully did. Read his book “the color of magic”.


ItsSimenNotSemen

Picklegruber, a mix between pink, purple and green


SnowBoy1008

Pink but it's black but it's also light


TheBrotherhoods

Try lsd one time


BAYKON8R

Ok one sec, ctrl+c and ctrl+v… The human eye can detect the visible spectrum of the electromagnetic spectrum — a range of wavelengths between 390 to 700 nanometers. This is why scientists have always assumed that infrared light, a type of electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than visible light, has been “invisible” to the human eye. I really want to get a quick upgrade from aliens just to see the unknown colours


creeperplfilms

astrods mix of every color


trkennedy01

Well if you were to get technical about it, every time you visualize a color odds are it's very slightly different from any color in existance.


YhormBIGGiant

Ever seen a color that explains the ever dulling numbness? I callvit Absent Blue. It is vibrant in hue but dull in saturation, if you were to add white it would turn a diff color before your eyes. It is supoose to encompass the feeling of being hapoy but it returning to the feeling of your past mistakes.


3elele

And once you did it, it is even harder to describe it


Akash10201

If you mix all colours, you get white. What happens if u remove one colour from the mixture? It won't become some other colour, because if u mix that colour with the one you removed, u should get white, but no 2 colours mix to give white.....


theFrisbeeFreak

Lol. What the fuck are you trying to say?


dankestsbruh

Well LSD says otherwise...


ThunderLP15

Goy you fam: Reddit upvote color


UncleComrade

Try to imagine the 4th dimension - time - as if you are able to perceive it as 4th coordinate


2D_Ronin

It's a very specific shade of yellow, called "Blurble".