This person has always been blind so there for has never seen color.
And im talking standard red, orange, yellow, green blue and purple.
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I would describe them with emotions or feelings since these would probably allow the person to visualize the colors better because he/she has a heightened sense of spiritual and tangible feeling due to his/her lack of sight. As I have never been blind before (lol), I don't know if this would be accurate, but in this way, you can also relate to the person the general connections and connotations attributed to these colors as well.
Red - The color that you "feel" when you are furious or even in love. It's the color of passion, whether positive (love) or negative (anger).
Orange - The color that you "feel" when you are outrageous, wacky, or crazy.
Yellow - The color that you "feel" when you are joyful, happy, delighted, or optimistic. It's the color the you "feel" when you just can't stop smiling.
Green - The color that you "feel" when you are outdoors, sitting in the grass and breathing in the air.
Blue - The color that you "feel" when you are alone to meditate and be calm and thoughtful. It is also the color that you "feel" when you are sad, depressed, or crying.
Purple - The color that you "feel" when you don't know exactly what you feel. It's mysterious yet regal.
I hope that helps! :)
Red - The color that you "feel" when you are furious or even in love. It's the color of passion, whether positive (love) or negative (anger).
Orange - The color that you "feel" when you are outrageous, wacky, or crazy.
Yellow - The color that you "feel" when you are joyful, happy, delighted, or optimistic. It's the color the you "feel" when you just can't stop smiling.
Green - The color that you "feel" when you are outdoors, sitting in the grass and breathing in the air.
Blue - The color that you "feel" when you are alone to meditate and be calm and thoughtful. It is also the color that you "feel" when you are sad, depressed, or crying.
Purple - The color that you "feel" when you don't know exactly what you feel. It's mysterious yet regal.
I hope that helps! :)
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- This helps amazingly! Thank you everybody for your opinions, but id actually have to disagree with a lot of you. i think you can describe them, maybe by comparing them to things that they hear, touch, smell, and taste! I really liked the idea of the rainbow as ablanket though! Thank you everyone! (:
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Superb question and equally superb answer! Now why didn't I think of that? :-)
How is that a great answer? All you're doing for the blind person is describing feelings and nothing else. Truth is you can never describe color to a blind person in a way that he/she can say "Oh, I see..." unless you describe it in its most basic form by using concepts of physics (temperature)
That is such an awesome answer. I would have not been able to answer that question! Wow! :)
i would have described it also in terms of smells.
(>^.^)>
wow. Biased. Describing light in terms of emotions. I was going to say the spectrum of visible in nanometers. Each color has an exact definition. It has nothing to do with emotion.
WOW, great answer.
The "feeling" of color is completely subjective. What feels like "red" to someone might feel like "orange" to another. What feels like "blue" to you might feel like "yellow" to another.
Each color has much more "feelings" that they can give off as well, according to color theory.
Each color has much more "feelings" that they can give off as well, according to color theory.
I saw a movie once where a blind person was being taught colors by touch, feeling.
Using a hot rock to describe red, A cold rock to describe blue, different temperatures for different colors as well as textures from elements that represent those colors like Dirt, Water, Grass so on and so forth.
Using a hot rock to describe red, A cold rock to describe blue, different temperatures for different colors as well as textures from elements that represent those colors like Dirt, Water, Grass so on and so forth.
"has a heightened sense of spiritual and tangible feeling due to his/her lack of sight"< that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Try heightened auditory and olfactory senses, but spiritual and "tangible feeling"? What do either of those things even have to do with the rest of your answer?
Plus blue and red are probably the only ones that make any sense, all of the others are just ones she made up at the drop of a hat. Blind people have no way of automatically thinking "green" when they are outside considering they have no idea what plants look like. Terrible answer!
Colors correspond to temperatures in the world of physics. Red is the coldest, blue is the hottest.
If you are blind, you don't feel with colours.
Aww omg why are people blind like whyyy I used to believe in God -.-
Just let your imagination go wild with wonderfullness/happiness and loving thoughts. Keep every thought gentile and soft.imagine the colors to your perfection.
this is so cool =D good question ... ;)
best question on here
To all who are attacking the best answerer, and yes i'm directing this to you sommer, she gave her opinion. She said "hope this helps", and said she wasn't sure if her answer was even close to correct but she gave her thoughts, and everyone, including the asker was a fan.
This best answer is pure ****. The truth is color is 100% visual. If you don't KNOW what color LOOKS like, you have NO CONCEPT of color.
Sommer, if you want to be critical and rude with your so mighty noble expertise, take it to an 'allexpert' website. Someone made a simple, correct counterargument on here when he said "if you're blind you don't feel with colors".. but was he trying to insult anybody.? no.
just wondering: I DO know this 'Best Answer' is NOT even close. Describing color to the blind is IMPOSSIBLE.
ok heres what u do
hit the person over the head with a frying pan so they can become unconsciouss
then drive them over to the nearest science lab to put them in cryostasis so they may awaken in the year 2050 when there is a cure for blindness
they may now see color
hit the person over the head with a frying pan so they can become unconsciouss
then drive them over to the nearest science lab to put them in cryostasis so they may awaken in the year 2050 when there is a cure for blindness
they may now see color
Wow "just wondering", you sure showed me! I guess she is allowed to give her opinion, but I'm not permitted to share mine. Hypocritical much? I give awesome answers on this website, just check out my best answer percentage. If people don't want me to be critical they shouldn't say stupid things.
as a legally blind person i find this answer very insulting... they're without a clue.
How is that a best answer? It's completely subjective. The truth is you cannot describe visuals to someone who has never seen. You're better off describing the how they feel/smell/taste. Your "best answer" would still leave the person clueless.
Watch the movie The Mask with Cher. Its a good movie and it has one part were the boy describe colors to a blind girl. I think that is what Wicked Aliens was taking about.
You should watch the movie "A Patch of Blue" that is the story, a man is teaching a blind woman colours. For example fire has heat for red, cotton is white etc... It's an excellent movie and it explains it well.
I agree with Fire! I also find it terrible that the "best" answerer would make a statement like this: "As I have never been blind before (lol)" as if there is something funny about that. Sickening.
Color is a purely sensual experience, in that it is only experienced through the sense of sight.
The "best answer" chosen does not recognize this. It would be great if I could explain to someone who has never had the opportunity to see anything what the experience of "red" is. But it is impossible.
The "best answer" chosen does not recognize this. It would be great if I could explain to someone who has never had the opportunity to see anything what the experience of "red" is. But it is impossible.
How did this question get so many stars and thumbs? Whatever great answer.
this is such a good question.
WOW SO MANY people have looked at this question - just look at the number of 'stars' for interesting, as it is certainly interesting
and so many people have thumbed up or down the answers, wow
WOW, sorry, i've never seen such big numbers like these ones
WOW
and so many people have thumbed up or down the answers, wow
WOW, sorry, i've never seen such big numbers like these ones
WOW
I really like this answer it is really GOOD!!
This is a really good question for once! CONGRATS!
great question and great answer
it may also help to include that the colors are not truely defined because they "bleed" into each other just as are emotions do.
it may also help to include that the colors are not truely defined because they "bleed" into each other just as are emotions do.
The first thing that came to mind when I saw this question was to use food, flavors, tastes, to relate notions of color. Sophisticated? No. Accurate? Probably not. Subjective? Yeah. But, you know what, we do what we can with what we've got.
Red is "HOT" and blue is "cold" and all the other colors fall in between.
you can't describe the rainbow to a blind person if they have always been blind. they just can't imagine it. it's kind of like trying to describe what it's like seeing in infrared. it's impossible
It's not impossible, I would describe it as the full spectrum of visible light defracted through water seperated it into its individual base frequencies broken into the following wavelengths and frequencies:
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not everyone connects emotions with colors so it is not correct..you can maybe try describing colors to a blind person, but I don't think they'll ever be able to grasp it
What a wonderful visual! Thank you for this information. Now should I be asked I shall know what to say.
There's a great movie called "Mask" about a real person whose face was horribly deformed. In the movie he has a friend who is a girl and is blind. He comes up with a way to describe colors to her in the movie. He has her hold a hot potato and tells her that that is red. Ice=blue, cotton ball=billowy
If the person enjoys music, it's actually quite easy to describe colors by making an analogy with instruments: red = a low-note violoncello, yellow = flute, green ...whatever... :D , blue = spacey synth sound, violet = church organ etc. And seeing all colors at once is like hearing an orchestra.
my cousin is color blind (he sees primaries, some green, b&w) and he cannot understand what orange or purple looks like, no matter how many ways he tries combining the primaries in his mind. great question, great answers.
You can't describe color to the blind. Red being the "color of passion" has no meaning to someone who's never seen the color, they have no basis for relating the two! Yes, feeling blue means you feel sad, but again, how is a blind person supposed to make that connection? You're describing emotions.
that was a really nice answer :]
okay so what these people are telling you, boo shck (bull ****) ROYGBIV red orange yellow green blue indigo and villoet these are the true colors of a rainbow god damn it!!!!!!!! If the person has abbsouluetley no expirence seeing colors your screwed! Hope this helped buh bye
I hope my baby isn't blind
Why not play a scale on a musical instrument for them and describe it thus, "The lowest note is red. The next is orange[....]" And continue until you reach the note before the octave being violet?
Very good best answer.
Thats lik a relly good question. I lik the answer that lisa gav it wuz relly goooood. :)
I am legally blind but can still see colors... Of course, there are varying degrees.
Have you heard of synesthesia? People with this condition can often "see" sounds or "taste" colors. I'd go with that sort of outlook if describing them to someone in darkness.
Have you heard of synesthesia? People with this condition can often "see" sounds or "taste" colors. I'd go with that sort of outlook if describing them to someone in darkness.
O i just wanted to add, if you want to describe the colors, you should really ask of them how they see it. Like what they see in thier dreams?
or you can tell them to see blackness first and then imagine it getting lighter and lighter. Once you set up this basis, then associate standards colors with
or you can tell them to see blackness first and then imagine it getting lighter and lighter. Once you set up this basis, then associate standards colors with
Lisa's answer was the most awesome to this question. This question is pretty interesting.
Why does this have only 7 answers yet 563 stars and it got the "Best Of Answers". This makes no sense!!
Utter rubbish. It's no more possible for a blind person to imagine what red looks like any more than the rest of us can imagine ultraviolet.
I don't completely agree. For example when I think of yellow it doesn't make me happy, it reminds me of vomit. Everyone's perceptions of colors are different.
I dont think I could have come up with that unless I had a lot of time to think about it. Very smart question. I must say tho that ben_of_marlow's is an idiot! Yeah, I said it.
Great answer Lisa!
I would describe them with emotions or feelings since these would probably allow the person to visualize the colors better because he/she has a heightened sense of spiritual and tangible feeling due to his/her lack of sight. As I have never been blind before (lol), I don't know if this would be accu
It's so sad that a person has never seen anything. That a person doesn't know what life looks like. So depressing :(
I think you should mention how it feels to look at the color, also. Example: Black is depressing to see all the time, and yellow is more cheery :)
Well, of course, "you'll do", everyone feels kinda different towards some answers :) But, I think Lisa was relating yellow to like smiley faces, and how they're often yellow. And when it's sunny, a majority of people are happy ^^
this is a really good question =]
What would happen to a blind person exposed to DMT or LSD? Maybe they would see colors in their mind?
The best answer I've ever heard about this topic.
wonderful answer.[:
Lisa, fantastic answer. :)
wow great answer!!!!!!
I think it would be very, very difficult to attempt to answer this questin, but i think that Lisa did a very nice job, although I don't agree 100% with it. All the answers were good, and no perception of colors would be different to a blind person as it would to someone who can see.
-Katelyn :) =]
-Katelyn :) =]
Lisa this is exactly how I described color to my best friend's brother. They also dream in color too, their world is not strictly blackness - they can experience color but in a different way. A way that they can understand..
My best friend and brother are not only blind but gifted in other areas!
My best friend and brother are not only blind but gifted in other areas!
Wow This is a deep question and answer. Its very interesting. I remember watching a movie about this guy describing colors to someone who was blind all there life and this is kinda how they did it. This answer is GREAT!!!! :)
@sadistic_psycho_male: Ultraviolet is a fourth primary colour visible only to tetrachromats. Tell me, Einstein, what does the colour ultraviolet look like?
such a stupid answer, the music answer is much better
Tell them its the bright colors in a 12 count crayon box!!
The answer was good. Fire-this is for you, I don't understand how would you know about the answer if you are blind as you said...
okay well first off this is a great question, i honestly wouldnt have thought of anything like it. this is also a great answer (not saying that any others arent). i didnt say it was accurate, and if this answer helped the asker then that is most likely why he/she chose it.
Im not telling you not to critisize, im just saying that she, like a bunch of other people, gave her opinion, and her particular opinion helped the peron who was originally wondering this. clearly she was proud that someone thought it was a great answer, and youre just bringing her down.
WHY do you describe BLUE as sadness? Its a culturally applied meaning, not an absolute thing. In some cultures, blue means HAPPINESS! JOY ! Not Sadness!
The best answer is WRONG. You cannot describe color to someone, as said before it is only able to comprehend if you can see it. I'm sure if you went up to a blind person and say "Act angry." They will NOT see the color red. The only reason people think this is because of modern day media.
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- there is no possible way to discribe something that is only visual, to someone who has never seen before.
- Hi there,
Anyone who has always been blind might see with their minds eye if a rainbow were described as soft like a fuzzy blanket. Having never seen colors makes it hard to say how Truly soft and beautiful a rainbow is. Wonderful question that makes a person think. - Ask the blind person how they perceive color and and then explain it to them so they can understand.
- As an early answer said. You can't describe something to a blind person if that has to be experienced visually. This includes color, brightness, light, darkness, transparency, opaqueness, etc. its is something that has to be experienced with with the eye to comprehend.
- Cure him by operation and hospitalization and then show the colors.
- Wavelengths of light. I don't see any meaningful way of describing the associated qualia.
Am I allowed to electrically stimulate the patient's visual cortex? - You can try by relating colors to their other senses. Like, red is the taste of dance. Orange is the sound of art. Yellow is smell of music. Green is the feel of a cloud. And blue and purple are imaginary.
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