ChatterBank0 min ago
born blind
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I think of it by using an analogy. In our real world, most people have five senses, including sight. People who have been blind since birth cannot properly understand what colours are like because it is outside their experience.
Imagine a parallel universe in which there is an Earth just like ours, but where the people have six senses. The sixth sense is electricity. Each person can "feel" electrical impulses from machines, animals and people, and can recognise the different patterns or "signatures" of electricity which each thing produces.
Each person has their own individual electrical "signature" which is as individual as a face or a voice. Therefore, people can know when someone is near, who they are, and roughly what they are doing (what position they are in) even if they are behind or silent or hiding in the next room. In other words, people can detect each other and interract with each other without needing to use sight or hearing (i.e. you know that someone is there before anybody has spoken, and without having to look up to see who it is).
Imagine that you are born into this world without the sixth sense working - so that you are "electricity-blind" (it would have its own word). People could explain to you what the sixth sense was, and how it works, but you can't have an exact idea because you can't actually "feel" it yourself.
Now think what you are imagining this electricity as. I am thinking of it as flashy coloured lights (indicatingf the shape of the person) and a sort of crackling static sound. In other words, I am imagining one sense (electricity) in terms of other senses (sight and hearing).
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That is probably what blind people do - as other people have suggested, red and blue would be hot and cold; white could be fluffy (cooton wool); green could be smooth and wet. So a blind person would have an idea of what sight is only in the sense of imagining the colours as different textures or temperatures.
Well someone (e.g. Nicola Red) will say " do you like my red hair?" and we will all say "yes, it is very red innit". Perhapos you are referring to colour-blindness (which is not what the question is about really).
I think generally red is red, blue is blue etc, but pink really is a crime, and men should definitely not have blonde highlights.
I don't mean colour blind. I mean that we are just told what is red and what is blue but how do we know that the colour we are seeing is the same colour as the next person is seeing. Unless we could see through their eyes, which is impossible then we will never know... Bit deep for a Thursday afternoon