can you explain what is colour to a blind?
By goopss
@goopss (140)
Gibraltar
7 responses
@saichandtalluri (1486)
• India
5 Dec 08
Generally blind people can't recognise any colour because they don't have the power of vision and they don't know any thing about colour they generally see a black colour
@lisa0502 (1724)
• Canada
5 Dec 08
There is no actual way to explain the colors to someone who is blind. I know this because I have a son that is blind. People have told me to associate the colors to certain things like red is like fire. Except I do not feel that this is an acurate way as red can be associated to many different things.
@Zalvor (727)
• Turkey
5 Dec 08
Yes but he can comprehend all its correspondences and you can help him colorize his world. For instance red is an urgent color. A painter friend of mine explained to me that red, of all the colors in the spectrum reaches the eye fastest. So all the symbols denoting urgency and demanding attention are red. It's also the color of desire, which is the basic driving force behind existence. You can teach some other colors with smells or tastes. It's not really wrong (in my opinion) teaching red is like fire, for desire too is like fire. And blue is like water. It's not aggressive like red. Let him listen some blues. The blues is derived from the word 'blue'. For water suggests melancholy.
@cyberfluf (4996)
• Netherlands
8 Dec 08
First of all it's good to know that there are many different levels of blindness from trouble with seeing far distances to completely blind. Allmost never a person is completely blind, they still have some percentage that they see; even if this means only seeing light and dark or vague surroundings.
So perhaps some people who are diagnosed blind but still have some percentage of seeing things can actually see colours. So it's not a given that a blind person can't see colour. If I remember correctly anyone with less then 10% sight is called 'blind'.
@karthikklp (75)
• India
6 Dec 08
I consider this as the most difficult task.. u cant say that the color which blind sees is black because u dont know which color he sees, jus because when v close our eyes and everything turns black v cant associate black color as the color that a blind can recognise. even when u try to associate de color as associated above, red to fire, even dis is not possible because the blind hasnt seen how a fire looks like so how can he associate it with red... well to make a blind person distinguish colors v need to make him understand wat a color is all about. first try to define color for him......
@joystick7 (728)
• India
6 Dec 08
Close ur eyes.. the only colour u see is black so I guess the only colur a blind can make up is black colour...
@Zezlol (409)
• United Arab Emirates
5 Dec 08
If the person has been blind all their life, explaining color to them, I think, would be impossible. How can anyone have a conception of what color even means if they never had the experience of seeing anything except darkness?
I suppose you could try associating color to thing that they can sense (such as objects, feelings, and even food). For red; hot things. For blue; cold things. Talk about how the colors make you feel. Use cotton for white and have them feel it in their hands and on their face. They use all of their senses since they can't use their sense of sight. You can give them something to eat that could be for a color. Listen to things like CD's with the ocean's roar or birds chirping.
I rambled on and I don't even know if any of the above would work at all. =P Anyways, that's my take on it. ^_^
