Weāre only finding out recently that a lot of animals have colors and patterns that we cannot see because theyāre outside of our visual range. It calls to attention how much of the world we canāt experience because our senses are limited. When we shine UV lights on them, they glow pink or blue, but these are the colors that we CAN seeā¦. they could be a bunch of different colors, which we SEE as all pink. Itās also interesting to consider that most of these animals are not aware of having glowing patches on their bodiesā¦. isnāt it also possible that we have skin or hair patterns that were not aware of? . . (There is actually some research out there to support the idea that our own skin fluoresces as well and that there are gender differences in the pattern and glow.) Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER Ā Ā
Humans do have invisible stripes!Ā Theyāre called Blaschkoās Lines, formed asĀ skin cells divide at the embryonic stage.Ā Normally we canāt see them at all, though certain skin conditions follow those same lines.Ā
Apparently this is roughly what weād look like, if our eyes could see in a different spectrum:
Dunno about you, but I want to use this in a story someday.Ā Aliens can see our stripes and we canāt!Ā Magical transformations follow Blaschkoās Lines!Ā A subtle sign of lycanthropy is darker hair there!Ā Wizards are bald with that cool spiral on their heads!
Speculative fiction is so much more fun when you can speculate about something strange but true.Ā
