The aura was a very brilliant green, which reminded me of an hallucinogenic experience I had. I was sat with friends in the city centre, my brain altered by chemical substances, and I spotted a guy 100m away with the most brilliant and beautiful green shoes. It was an amazing sight, standing out from everything else.
Sober, I later realised that they were normal green shoes, but in my no-brain-filter state, I was able to appreciate that we have many more green cones in our retina than red or blue, and normally the mix dial for green in our brain is kept pretty low not to overpower the other colours. The animation once again raised this dial to show how powerful is our raw perception of that colour.
(The evolutionary reason is that we spent a lot of time in vegetation or on trees, and it's very useful to be able to distinguish things and perceive small movements in a sea of green.)
Yes, this reminded me of a similar experience camping with friends where we could only describe the foliage as “ultragreen”. An incredibly vivid blue-green tone that suffused the whole island where we were staying. Been looking for explanations since
Sober, I later realised that they were normal green shoes, but in my no-brain-filter state, I was able to appreciate that we have many more green cones in our retina than red or blue, and normally the mix dial for green in our brain is kept pretty low not to overpower the other colours. The animation once again raised this dial to show how powerful is our raw perception of that colour.
(The evolutionary reason is that we spent a lot of time in vegetation or on trees, and it's very useful to be able to distinguish things and perceive small movements in a sea of green.)