1:29 PM EST February 2, 2024:
The Cramps - "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"
From the album Songs the Lord Taught Us
(May 1980)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
File under: Psychobilly
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Dawn Richard as ‘Theresa’ in I Was a Teenage Werewolf, 1957
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I have feelings about werewolves that I need to talk about.
Warning, this is going to be a long post.
Wolves in general can't distinguish red from green due to color receptors. Humans have three color receptors in their eyes: blue, green and yellow; wolves have two color receptors: blue and yellow, making them red-green color blind.
A wolf’s eye structure allows them to distinguish more shades of gray than humans which provides good peripheral and night vision. Meaning they can see well in low light conditions and have a wilder field of view. The structure of a wolf’s eye and ability to intake information supports the theory of werewolves having "speedy reflexes".
So let's use that in the context of humans changing into a werewolf, that would reduce the amount of colors they could see when in wolf form due to the new limit of color receptors. Trade off, they can see in the dark and be super human with their identifications.
It has already been established in all wolf lore that the human loses control of the wolf when their emotions are high, eyes flash or teeth grow or something else depending on the show/lore of the wolf in question. What if their vision also blurs the colors and making them unable to see red and green?
When they get excited, angry, maybe a little sexually charged, what if their vision blurs and they see in grey and blue rather than the full spectrum because of the lack of control?
In certain movies or shows, black and white is used when looking through the werewolf's eyes, so this supports the theory that wolves in media are thought to be red/green color blind when using that lense.
Someone bitten by a wolf who is red and green color blind would not notice this change, so they wouldn't realize anything was wrong. Alternatively, werewolves born from a lineage may have red and green color blind in their family history even as humans due to the genetics of a wolf being passed down.
Which may explain why certain wolves who are born have interesting color choices for clothing OR lean more towards the neutral/dark/blue color choices as they can't distinguish between them.
All of this just to say, I need more people talking about the loss of color rather than just the hearing and the super smell. Give me the loss of color baby!!!!
TL;DR - Werewolves' vision blurs between human colors and wolf lack of colors when losing control.
Thank you for coming to my wolf talk
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