There's a color that isn't "real," according to science. Skip to Article. ... In order to grapple with the confusion, the brain processes this combo by bending the visual spectrum into a circle.

So our brains "bend" the spectrum into a circle so that red and blue can meet and create purple to fix the confusion. They basically gaslight us into believing purple is real, so we don't freak out!

Issac Newton first experimented with the color spectrum in 1666, ... From his experiments he devised the world’s first color circle.

While violet hits your eye with a specific wavelength, purple only exists in your perception — a clever construct built from conflicting input.

Black on the color spectrum. While there’s no black in a rainbow, photons anywhere in the electromagnetic spectrum can be seen as black. Or in some cases, they can’t be seen at all! Radiation within ...