This is the color spectrum.

According to Wikipedia, these “familiar colors of the rainbow in the spectrum include all those colors that can be produced by visible light of a single wavelength.”

Along with black and white, these 7 colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet—and the various mixtures they together create, are all that we have ever seen, ever known, and ever imagined. Every single thing that appears in nature, art, science or anything else on earth, in all of its different forms of hue, shade, tone or tinge, comes from this spectrum. And to my knowledge, no human being has ever seen anything else.

Because nothing else exists.

But what if there are colors out there we’ve never seen before that do exist? Colors so unbelievable and indescribable we literally cannot imagine them? Colors we can’t fathom? Colors not on earth, in some alternate time or place or reality that we may or may not ever see? What if there are colors that exist for us to see only when we’re dead, when we’re no longer human and thus able to be privy to the secrets of the universe?

Hopefully we’ll all be able to see colors like that someday.

Trip on, friends.

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