Posted by Dinah on December 29, 2004, at 21:13:24
In reply to Re: Pink and yellow swirls - largely incomprehensible » Dinah, posted by littleone on December 29, 2004, at 20:44:05
Wow. I really need to save some of my own posts rather than just other people's.
I think it's very much the same in that I tend at my most basic level to think in terms of colors. I really see emotions in terms of colors rather than words. The colors that I associated with safety and him were glorious backlit sunset colors - something Thomas Kinkaid (sp?) might paint. While these are the bold garish colors of the late sixties, early seventies. The colors of a particularly safe time in my life, I suppose. Or the time right before I started having troubles. I think, if I remember correctly, it was the time when I started getting really close to my father, but before I started fighting with my mother.
I really am struck by the fact that they're the same colors though. Pink and yellow and orange. My emotional self must have a very strong attachment to those colors, since it came up in two different contexts a while apart in time. Verrry interesting. :) I'll have to mention it to my therapist.
And perhaps I ought to scan the archives occasionally. It might be looking back through a journal.
Thanks for linking me to it.
What I find really funny is that rational me finds those colors not at all soothing or safe. Rational me would surround myself with dusky shades of mauve or plum. Maaaybe lavender or if I'm really bold, periwinkle. A completely different part of the color spectrum.
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