Is purple truly a colour, or merely a clever illusion created by the brain? According to scientists, purple doesn’t exist on ...

But purple? Well, purple is just your brain’s way of resolving confusion. That’s right. Red and blue (or violet) wavelengths are two opposite extremes on the spectrum.

Do you know the colour purple isn’t the real colour but an illusion where your eyes don’t see purple—your brain does. Purple has dominated our cultural imagination for centuries.

This isn’t the first time our brains have surprised us, either. Scientists have recently learned that anxiety actually rewires the brain, and that we can undo that rewiring in some ways.Not to ...