A plurality say panic is red. Click a color to add your vote.
Panic is red because…
“It feels like an alarm.”
“It’s the color when you close your eyes and press on your eyes with your hands.”
“When we see blood we get paniced, and blood is red.
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“Red alarms cause panic.”
“A blaring light in a movie, a fire alarm, all of it is red, and when it goes off, there is panic all around.”
“It feels like alarms are going off in your mind.”
“Red is the color of blood and fire-alarms, and whenever a red light is flashing, you know it’s not good.”
“Panic buttons are always red, and set off red alarm lights. Also, anger/fear that comes with panic is a very red feeling.”
“Panic reminds me of a red, flashing warning light.”
“Red is used for emergencies and stuff like that.”
“Red is a scary color. The color of injury, of bad things happening, which makes you panic.”
“Alarms are always flashing red.”
“You can feel your blood rushing through your body when you panic.”
“I relate panic to red alarms going off.”
“Alarms flash red.”
“You can feel your blood rushing through your body when you panic.”
Panic is orange because…
“Nearly all alarms flash orange, same with most signs, e.g, stop sign, wet floor sign.”
“As someone who has frequent panic attacks, they always feel orange to me.”
Panic is purple because…
“Red is an aggressive color; purple is more of an anxious color.”
Panic is yellow because…
“Anxiety is primarily orange, but yellow has that extra bit of bright urgency that panic does.”
“It’s flashy and a ‘warning sign’ color—it also reminds me of being jittery and uncomfortable.”
“Caution color.
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“It’s sharp like panic.”
“Bright, exaggerated color signaling fright and urgency.”
Panic is blue because…
“Panic from the movie Hercules is blue.”
Panic is grey because…
“Panic is uncertain, like gray.”
“Panic doesn’t feel colorful. And I think it’s more dark grey then black.”
Panic is white because…
“Panic is blind, and often the lights seem to make my entire vision white, and I can’t see.”
“Whenever you panic you start to grasp at anything to help calm you down and there seems to be nothing to help, white is the absence of color. It’s nothing. ”
Panic is green because…
“Panic is scary and makes me feel dizzy and weak, which I associate with green.”