How would you explain colour to a blind person?

[RainCrossing]

hello! I have been thinking about this question for a very long time, "how would you explain colour to a blind person"?. I never asked anyone XD and I'm not blind or ever has been, so I'm just curious. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

 

[Mariah]

I wouldn't. What's the point?

 

[Android]

it's like tasting with your eyes

 

[RainCrossing]

I wouldn't. What's the point?

true! But the only real point is to give them knowledge about something very important.

 

[tae]

this is some intense **** right here.

 

[RainCrossing]

it's like tasting with your eyes

im sure there is a way. eyes can detect spice by the way (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

 

[tae]

im sure there is a way. eyes can detect spice by the way (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

and onions. god damn do i hate onions.

 

[RainCrossing]

this is some intense **** right here.

???

 

[Ichigo.]

how would you explain color in general without using an object as a descriptor? plus there are several different kinds of colorblindness.

 

[tae]

how would you explain color in general without using an object as a descriptor? plus there are several different kinds of colorblindness.

GET OUT WITH THAT SIGNATURE.

 

[RainCrossing]

how would you explain color in general without using an object as a descriptor? plus there are several different kinds of colorblindness.

im not talking about colourblindness, I mean completely blind. You were born completely blind, how would you know what something looks like?

 

[tae]

im not talking about colourblindness, I mean completely blind. You were born completely blind, how would you know what something looks like?

incredible imagination and the constant fondling of everything.

 

[Ichigo.]

im not talking about colourblindness, I mean completely blind. You were born completely blind, how would you know what something looks like?

whoops i obviously didn't pay that much attention to your thread. but that still applies doesn't it? how would you explain color without using an object to identify that color? and if they can't see the object......

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GET OUT WITH THAT SIGNATURE.

why would i do that

 

[tae]

why would i do that

god he's so hot.

 

[Cariicarky]

It's like a thin piece of paper wrapped around everything that makes it different from everything else. Sometimes two objects have a very similar piece of paper.

 

[piichinu]

This works

Color
ˈkələr/
noun
1.
the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light.

 

[Nightmares]

I'd describe the red, oranges, etc, as being hot / warm; the blues, black, as cold.

I don't know...sounds hard...

 

[oath2order]

true! But the only real point is to give them knowledge about something very important.

What's important to you may not be important to them.

 

[Celestefey]

I'd describe the red, oranges, etc, as being hot / warm; the blues, black, as cold.

I don't know...sounds hard...

But we only think that red and orange are warm because the things we commonly associate with being warm are usually red and orange. It's like you can say you associate love with things that are red, but you can also associate danger with the exact same colour. It's much more difficult than you think. Colour is more like a concept than anything, there's no true way you could describe it to someone who has no knowledge or experience of it.

 

[Kittyinpink87]

This is a very good question.
But also very hard. I myself would not know.