U106 Color of Chartreuse
How do you remember the color “Chartreuse”? As a person who lived through the 1980’s, I clearly and most vividly remember it as a shade of reddish magenta. How do I know? Because it was popular at the time, dresses, furniture, wall paint, and brick-a-brack of various shapes and forms all used this color, and all were a deep wine-like color with a kind of pinkish glow. Yet, as much as my memory is clear on this, things have changed. An Alter-vús took place.
Typical dress during the 1980’s. The outfit sported bright and colorful colors that later toned down to pastels.
Alter-vús
How can the past change? Isn’t time a direct one-way arrow? A vector from which nothing can be undone? What is going on here, and why do my memories not jive up with history?
Good questions all.
Again, how do I know? Because I bought a complete living room set; a couch, love seat, and matching chair in chartreuse. I bought them in the mid 1980’s from a furniture store in Ridgecrest, California. We were told by the saleswoman that the color was Chartreuse and was the hottest thing in the 1980’s.
We ended up buying a couch and a love seat. We didn’t buy the stand alone chair. (Which in hind-sight we should of.) But, you know, I was younger then, and it was a different time and my personality was quite different.
Anyways, Chartreuse that we bought back in the middle 1980’s is not the color that it is associated with this world-line…
“The color chartreuse is broadly remembered as a shade of red. Some recall it as a maroon-ish red. Others describe it as a reddish magenta.
The fact is, in this timestream, the color is yellow-green. The color gets its name from the liqueur, Chartreuse.
However, I clearly recall a discussion with my mother, an artist, about the color chartreuse. I was a teen and used “chartreuse” to describe a magenta-ish dress. My mother couldn’t believe I was serious, and I remember looking in my childhood crayon box for a reddish crayon labeled “chartreuse,” but couldn’t find it.
It was a humiliating moment for me, because she was right and — in our household — that was like confusing Miro and Michelangelo. It just wasn’t done.
I didn’t think about it again until a comment about chartreuse appeared at this site. Then another did, and yet another. No matter how long I study this topic, I’m still astonished when a memory matches one of mine.”
-Mandelaeffect
The color chartreuse is broadly remembered as a shade of red. Some recall it as a maroon-ish red. Others describe it as a reddish magenta. The fact is, in this world-line, the color is actually a yellow-green. The color gets its name from the liqueur, Chartreuse.
I am not the only one with different memories
Here are some comments from the web site. In September 2014, Stephanie said:
“I distinctly remember Chartreuse being a purple-pink color close to Magenta but a little darker. Less pink, more purple, but still too pink to be a true purple. I’m so confused??”
In Oct 2014, Misty said:
“…chartreuse was a dark red color…”
Winter ski fashion during the 1980’s. Notice the use of the Chartreuse, now called something all together different.
Rachel said:
“I used to think chartreuse was a dark red or burgundy color.”
Chartreuse was a big part of 1980’s fashion. Interior design, clothing and furniture all used this color. However, now, forty years later, we hear that it is now a greenish color. WTF?
Cameron said:
“Oh dear lord, i’m not alone.
My whole life i thought Chartreuse was a deep red or purple. I considered it my favorite color for a long time. It wasn’t until my sophomore year in high-school that i found out it was a light yellow or green. My best friend was ordering her dress and wanted my opinion. She said that she was getting it in Chartreuse and i told her that was the one I thought would look nice, but the only picture she has was this gross pukey yellow and i said, “i’m glad you’re getting a different color than in the picture, because that is an awful color”. She then corrected me that the one pictured was the Chartreuse one.
I guess, all along the color i thought i loved was actually Mauve?”
Donna said:
“Yes chartreuse was a maroon-red color. It was only a couple years ago that I saw a crayon marked chartreuse and it was this awful green-yellow color, and I thought that Crayola must have made a mistake!”
Cas said:
“I thought chartreuse was a rich sort of pinkish-magenta color?”
I really thought chartreuse was a shade of red? Not green or yellow at all? When I clicked the Wikipedia link to see what color it is, I was so confused. I’m glad other people share in this confusion as well.
Seems like too pretty of a name for “lime green”. Ick. Doesn’t sit right with me.”
Chartreuse themed living room. Only that today, four decades later, this is now called something different. Why and how?
K. said:
“And yet the etymology makes perfect sense. Then again, that might be at the heart of the potential difference. So, if this Carthusian order, who’s liquor got the name associated with it, and lend itself to the name of the colour instead made a particular blend of red wine, perhaps Chartreuse would get a different colour association.
Honestly, without saying anything one way or the other on the matter, if I would have guessed without knowing, I’m certain I would have guessed it was a reddish colour. It does have the ring of a warm red drink to it.
One of the JMs (we have two) said:
“Yeah the whole color changing business is a weird one.”
Conclusions – What is going on
The construction of our reality is complex.
There is a fundamental “reality template” that we all access. There are also various realities that are spawned off this template. These spawned realities are what we experience; what our consciousness experience within this life.
However, that “reality template” is also subject to change. After all, the combined thoughts of everyone contribute to the “reality template”.
All thoughts combine to create a “reality”. This is a constantly changing baseline template. Which I refer to as a “reality template”. Our consciousness then feeds off this template and creates a customized reality for our soul to acquire experiences from. When large groups of people are manipulated and discordant thoughts are generated, the reality template changes significantly. Such is what happened with the Chartreuse issue.
However, there are individuals who (through the power of mass communications, television and the internet) can redefine our reality. This is very dangerous, but happens all the time. When this happens; when this redefinition of our reality occurs, we find ourselves in a situation where our memories do not match our reality.
Since reality is a time-less constraint, the past and the future can be altered at will, by individuals and circumstances that deem it necessary.
Such as the “chartreuse” situation.
Take Aways
- All humans contribute to a reality template.
- The contributions come in the form of thoughts.
- Each human has a consciousness that uses the reality template.
- The consciousness reacts to the reality template and creates a unique and individualized reality from the the consciousness exists within.
- When disrupted thoughts or directed thoughts are powerful enough, then can disrupt the reality template.
- The issue of the chartreuse color being a maroon-red color is an example of baseline reality template changes.