A plurality say the past is grey. Click a color to add your vote.
The past is grey because…
“Old photos and old hair.”
“You can’t view the past in black and white. It tends to be muddy, and grey is the perfect color to represent something that’s vague.”
“Things fade. The past has been here for all of the present, and in that time it faded.”
“Usually in media and movies, flashbacks to the past appear black, white, and grey.”
“The past is grey because it is neither light nor dark. It is a mixture of the two.”
“It gets forgotten, even though it’s important.”
“Grey, since the past is old, and grey reminds me of the little movies that were filmed in grey.”
“The past is just like ashes in the wind. ”
“Black and white TV shows and movies.”
“Black and white movies and old photos. Black and white mix to create grey so I thought it made sense.”
“We should grey out the past and forget it to focus on the present and future.”
“It’s like an old photo.”
“Everything and everyone in the past loses their color. They are no longer the vibrant things and people around us, just dusty, static, gray memories discarded in the nooks and crannies of our mind.”
“It’s easy to forget what’s happened in the past, and gray is the color of forgetfulness.”
“Everything in the past stays in its place. Doesn’t move. It’s all set in stone.”
“When you watch old movies, they’re always grey-tinted, plus the past is faded away because it already happened. It’s duller than the future because you can look forward to the future but the past is something people dwell in and often regret, and I see grey as a sad and regretful color.”
“I voted gray for future. And here I am, voting gray for past. But I have a reason, the past is just so… old… so like… gray?”
“Memories are fuzzy, and old movies are a black and white.”
The past is brown because…
“Rotten wood.”
“Sepia tones, dirt, and worn leather.”
“Because when you see old photographs, they almost always have a brown tint.”
“It gives the sensation of vintage Dark Academia.”
“I think of history as brown, and since history relates to the past, I think brown also goes with the past.”
“Brown reminds me of old cowboy shows, therefore brown is the past.”
“Most of the past is in the ground, and the ground is brown.”
“Brown reminds me of history books and old leather and wood .”
“Sepia-toned photographs and weathered book pages!”
“Old photos.”
“The past seems… dark. Kinda like those old photos where everything was tinted brown. I’ve always thought the 1900s were darker than the 2000s.”
“The past can represent any time far back in the timeline of the universe. It can go from the 1940s to the Big Bang, and the past all has a mixed group of colors, emotions and associations. If you mix all the colors, it’s likely you get a shade of brown. ”
The past is black because…
“Because the past can be sad or terrifying, and if you spend too much time lingering on it, it will ruin you.”
“When I remember things, I envision it as sitting in a void. It has a black haze around it.”
“Because it doesn’t exist anymore, it all just fades to black.”
The past is blue because…
“Blue is what has happened; the color of memory.”
“Blue has so many shades and meanings both happy and sad—just like the past.”
The past is orange because…
“The wild west is orange: hot sand, golden badges, cowboy hats, all of them easily represented by orange in an old game.”
“The past is orange because childhood felt warm, safe and perfect.”
“The past is golden orange due to how the world seemed brighter, sun beams would always surround our home when I was young and would never fail to give a warm hue, even on days where it was pouring it down.”
The past is purple because…
“The past is purple because purple is a deep, serene color, like space, and the past is lost in time, like space.”
The past is yellow because…
“I may be wrong, but I think of the yellow tinge on old photos and how the world seemed brighter.”
“The past is golden.
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The past is white because…
“The word ‘past’ reminds me of a ghost.”
“The past is gone, perhaps remembered, but gone nonetheless.”
The past is pink because…
“La Vie En Rose, a term used to describe the feeling of viewing things with rose-tinted glasses, which is how a lot of people view things of the past. The future is bright and beautiful, but nothing stands out more than pink.”