How Do You Explain Color To A Blind Person?

You make them feel the heat and visualize red.You make them feel ice and visualize blue.Like wise corresponding smells to corresponding colors.

Just explain to them these two(2) types of color; dark & bright. Because they only know dark and bright only.

I would imagine that it is impossible to explain, because we are dealing with a concept that would not be relative to the other senses. The closest that I could imagine would be to compare warm with light and cold with dark, since they relate to the day and night. However, it is not a good description and would not convey the understanding as we know it.

Hi touchnshine! Gosh that is difficult for I am no expert nor have any experience on situations like this. However, if I have to I will do it the best that I can, maybe I will compare colors with taste or smell or emotions, like for instance if I have to describe the color RED, I will tell him that it is like when you feel the fire burning, RED is like that, hot and burning...for GREEN, i might say, it is like the scent of pines or mints. So how am I doing so far, my friend? Take care and have a nice day!

See, you cannot explain a color exactly as it is to a person who is born blind. You just interpret them and they visualise it according to their own powers of imagination. You can successfully interpret only one color "as it is" to a person who is born blind, that is black. Just say to him/her "whatever you see is black." S/he will visualise the actual color of black. Infact, there's no need to visualise, its inevitable for them. That's all.

hi touchnshine,i must say this is still a challenge in medical practice is not permanent cure is present for color vision deficient people..well actually as there are two types of color blind people..one with red/green color blindness(99%)and the one with deficiency Blue/Yellow which is extremely rare..so if i meet a person with blue green color deficiency i'll at least be able to tell him(mostly males) about other colors except blue and yellow..and the other type of red-green are not able to see any color and they perceive things in shades of gray and black..so for them i'll try to do one thing only that try to perceive and judge the intensity of the colors..like the brighter colors for them would be more intense and lighter color would appear dull to them..suppose i go to shop with a person who is color blind and i chose a red bag for him then i will tell him that this is known as red color and will tell him to perceive the intensity and compare it with other different colored bags in that shop..then i'll show him bulb in that shop and then sun outside to differentiate and keep in mind the intensity..i'll also show him sun in the evening and compare the intensity..so my tool would only be intensity between colors as all colors have different intensities and so if he would be able and willing to remember all the intensities he sees..at least he would be able to differentiate some colors if not all..and i would be telling the names of color he wishes to remember..well thats my point about them and i don't think they should be ignored or make them felt ignored because of their illness as it is not in their hands but its all their hereditary and a genetic defect..so they are helpless with colors and everybody should co-operate with them..have a nice time:-)

I think it very difficult to tell about colours to a person, who is blind since birth. But he can be told what is black colour, because if he is completely blind, he would feel the darkness and he can be told that darkness is almost like colour black. Likewise, perhaps he can be told that opposite of darkness i.e. black is white. For rest of the colours, he can be explained through nature, if he knows about nature say trees etc. Very very witty and intelligent questions! I really do not have any concrete clues about it. Have a nice day!

My husband is color blind and i get very frustrated when I say something about a color and he does not see it. I can not even imagine what it is tlike to try to explain to a totaly blind person.