Colour and its Impact on Emotion

[dragon wench]

Since moving I have noticed something interesting. Namely, I seem to be far more susceptible to the emotional effects of colours than I previously thought. The last place we lived in had a lot of whites and light creams, which were represented on a large scale with the choice of carpet and wall paint.
Our new house contains chocolate brown accents, taupe, and dark cream/light beige. The instant I walked into the place I felt "at home." Then, as the last couple of weeks have progressed, I've also sensed a real feeling of warmth, security, and coziness.
I began to wonder if maybe the palate was influencing me, and I did some poking around Google (links below). Now... those links are pretty populist, and I'm well aware that response to colour is culturally determined as much as anything. Still though.. I am somewhat surprised by how closely my reaction to the new colours seems to accord with some of the material I found.
I suppose another factor to take into account is that with this move my life has suddenly become far more stable and secure, whereas the last couple of years...were.. a bit nightmarish. So undeniably, personal circumstances will also come heavily into play.
But, nonetheless, I became intrigued, and then I wondered if others had ever had any similar kinds of experiences.

Here are a few of the links I found, if anyone is interested:
Color Psychology - The Psychology of Color
Welcome to the World of Colors
Emotional Impact of Color
The Art of Color & Emotions

[BlueSky]

I've also noticed that certain colors make me feel at home...
But being colorblind, some colors are just lost to me...
Here are a couple of links that show what the world looks like to those of us that are colorblind.

What Color Deficient People See

How do things look to colorblind people?

I keep these bookmarked on my computer at work to show co-workers that color-coding doesn't work for everybody...

[Curry]

whoo I'm also red-green color blind, doesn't affect my everyday life

[Loki[D.d.G]]

Blue and green are real soothing to me.

Gold and black make for one heck of a combination. It can convey a regal air if applied correctly.

[Red_X]

My room was white for a long time, I could never sleep in there and always found myself asleep on my couch in the basement(which was brown). After I redecorated my room in a golden yellow and red I found that I could sleep much better and felt good every time I entered. Now I do everything in my room because its so warm and fuzzy feeling, I think it has something to do with the color, I have never liked bright things since my eyes are very sensitive to light and now that its darker I can turn on my lights without squinting.

[lythium]

I heard McDonald's had done some extensive research into their colorscheme, to make people want to come in, buy food, eat it and get out fast. Turns out red and yellow were the colors to go for, being energetic, inviting and quickly annoying or otherwise urging you to move on, according to that research.

But color alone is not all that forms the experience of a room, (preferably natural) light does a lot too, as well as the size of the room and the shapes and amount of objects we see attribute to the experience of , for instance, comfort or discomfort. And even then, there are invisible factors, like air-quality and, if you believe in it, spiritual influences or energyflow (the latter has to do with Feng Shui).

I noticed that in the color-descriptions in Dragonwench's links, a lot of the colors seem to overlap in meaning and colorshades make the meaning of one color quite different, which makes this kind of science or prediction so subjective and inaccurate that I'd compare it with astrology and cold-reading.

I don't think there's a way to really predict the behavior of our experience just by the information on colors or whatever named hereabove, except to experience it and even then it's not obvious.