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Rpanich t1_irrwpyh wrote

Reply to comment by Mr_Zaroc in Positive childhood experiences of blue spaces and adult well-being. Individuals who recalled more childhood blue space experiences tended to place greater intrinsic value on natural settings, visiting them as adults – which increases better mental wellbeing by Wagamaga

I mean, homosapiens have existed for 300,000 years, and we only started settling a down, farming, and living in cities 5000 years ago.

Maybe what’s healthiest for humans is the environment we evolved in for 98.5% of our existence: eating a varied diet, getting lots of light cardio, and being around lots of water, plants, and sunlight?

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Mr_Zaroc t1_irsamiu wrote

Nah I am with you, I really dislike big cities
Just the term blue space seems unnecessarily abstract

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ashkestar t1_irsfbpz wrote

I mean, it does differentiate between natural water environments and manmade ones. You could put that another way, but given the wide acceptance of “green space,” it does kinda work.

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Rpanich t1_irsayjq wrote

Oh I think it might just be that: water and the sky.

I don’t think it’s necessarily just children: working in an office with a window is far better than an office without a window.

If that window looks at the sky, the ocean, a forest, a field, a mountain, I imagine those things are all good “green” and/ or “blue” spaces.

If that window faces a brick wall, I bet it would be bad.

But I think the thing might be is that if they painted the brick wall blue or green, it might have the same partial benefit.

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Landonian t1_irsukji wrote

i don't know what you're on about. this study isn't about the color blue. it's about water. maybe read the article just a bit

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Rpanich t1_irsy4vw wrote

I know, I’m just trying to explain how colour theory is used; for example when we learned about green spaces, and we decided to paint a bunch of hospitals green and have doctors wear green scrubs, and we found that the benefits carry over.

I’m just trying to venture a guess that perhaps, in the same way the colour “green” might be connected with “green spaces”, the colour “blue” might have the same benefits, as “blue spaces” effects sound very similar to “green space” benefits, and I was only offering a evolutionary hypothesis as to why.

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