Changing Colour Perception

[LastThursday]

It all happened a few years ago when I was listening to some hypnosis stuff on YouTube. Specifically one video that programmed my mind to "love the colour pink" - don't ask. But I probably listened to that quite a few times over months.

Suddenly, one day when walking down the street I noticed that anyone wearing pink or anything with pink seemed to "pop out" in my vision. It's hard to describe but was something like turning up the saturation in Photoshop. The colour wasn't brighter, but somehow thicker and the effect was quite jarring.

Over the next few days I noticed that purple (dark pink?) was also affected in a similar way.

Eventually, the effect went away.

However, being me, I tried to consciously mess about with this. I would pretend to have various "saturation dials" in my mind and turn up various different colours. Trying this over an extended time of months, eventually I was able to affect other colours in a similar way to pink. Again the effect went away again eventually, after I stopped messing about with it.

I tried again recently, and for a week now my colour perception has been messed up. It mainly affects strong bold primary colours, and especially blues this time, more mute colours don't seem to be affected at all. Thing is, I seemingly have no way to "turn down" the effect, other than to just wait it out.

My question: what's going on here? How does language affect perception directly?

[Hojo]

@LastThursday Language is a communication method of conciousness to point to various qualia. Its a very weird thing when you think about it. Its nothing that points to nothing, but different aspects of nothing. Nothing is weirder than language.

Since all qualia is the same thing ( the same qualia, hot cold, sweet sour, love hate), somehow its pointing to something that dosent exist but can point to specific qualia of nothing.

Ultimately all qualia is the same qualia but language can point to various degrees on the line of qualia and those lines give different experience somehow.

Edited 7 hours ago by Hojo