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Blind people - how do they???
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How does anybody blind imagine anything ?? I mean,if somebody is blind from say an accident then they would be able to visualise colours,shapes etc in their head,but what if you were blind from birth?
If you told a blind person they were patting a dog,what would they picture in their head? Or if you said something was round,or yellow,or dark,what on earth do they see in their mind?
I'm probably not getting this across very well but do you see what I mean??
If you told a blind person they were patting a dog,what would they picture in their head? Or if you said something was round,or yellow,or dark,what on earth do they see in their mind?
I'm probably not getting this across very well but do you see what I mean??
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I saw this on a film once, where a girl was teaching a blind boy about 'visualising' colours etc. She used fluffy cotton balls to describe how clouds look; an ice cube to describe white; a hot stone to describe red.
Shapes like 'square' or 'round' or 'dog' are easy because blind people can visualize with their hands.
They never see things quite the same way as we would, but then who is to say that you and I see things the same? For example, some people see orange as red, and vice versa. I�ve had many an argument with people over colours!! Another example is that I may be able to distinguish more shades of colours than you. We�re all different.
Shapes like 'square' or 'round' or 'dog' are easy because blind people can visualize with their hands.
They never see things quite the same way as we would, but then who is to say that you and I see things the same? For example, some people see orange as red, and vice versa. I�ve had many an argument with people over colours!! Another example is that I may be able to distinguish more shades of colours than you. We�re all different.
there is no real need for a blind person to visualise clolurs so i would imagine the majority don't - as for shapes these can be easily visualised from feeling them e.g. ask a blind person to draw a circle on a bit of paper and they will be able to quickly and easily even though they can't and never have seen one simply because they have held a ball or something similar
To give you some idea ......
I met a lady who had been blind from birth but at around age 45 she regained her sight.
Soon after regaining her sight she had the media at her house and one of them asked her if she could see a factory chimney which was in view from her house window, but she did not know what a chimney looked like.
She was alone in her kitchen when she saw something black about 6 inches long on her white kitchen table, she was frightened of it and pointed it out to her husband when he came home, it was a knife which of course she had been using all her life.
For a long time she was terrified of walking downstairs but found it a lot easier if she closed her eyes.
The strangest thing she told me was her first trip along the motorway in a car, it is hard to imagine if you have always been sighted, she wondered why the motorway had barriers across it every few miles and why these barriers lifted out of the way as cars approached them. Have a look next time you drive along a motorway.
All it was was bridges, when you are some distance from them they blend in with the surrounding scenery but as you get closer they rise up above you!
For quite a long time she found life easier to understand when she closed her eyes.
So if you have never been blind you cannot answer your question.
I had an uncle who was blind from birth but when I was a young boy he could sharpen pencils better than any one else!
I met a lady who had been blind from birth but at around age 45 she regained her sight.
Soon after regaining her sight she had the media at her house and one of them asked her if she could see a factory chimney which was in view from her house window, but she did not know what a chimney looked like.
She was alone in her kitchen when she saw something black about 6 inches long on her white kitchen table, she was frightened of it and pointed it out to her husband when he came home, it was a knife which of course she had been using all her life.
For a long time she was terrified of walking downstairs but found it a lot easier if she closed her eyes.
The strangest thing she told me was her first trip along the motorway in a car, it is hard to imagine if you have always been sighted, she wondered why the motorway had barriers across it every few miles and why these barriers lifted out of the way as cars approached them. Have a look next time you drive along a motorway.
All it was was bridges, when you are some distance from them they blend in with the surrounding scenery but as you get closer they rise up above you!
For quite a long time she found life easier to understand when she closed her eyes.
So if you have never been blind you cannot answer your question.
I had an uncle who was blind from birth but when I was a young boy he could sharpen pencils better than any one else!
Hi Pink sorry you may not get this but I've been busy today try this book it explains a lot (and it will make you cry) I read it donkeys years ago
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emma-I-Sheila-Hocken/d p/0751506745/sr=1-98/qid=1162921512/ref=sr_1_9 8/026-7457576-5426064?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emma-I-Sheila-Hocken/d p/0751506745/sr=1-98/qid=1162921512/ref=sr_1_9 8/026-7457576-5426064?ie=UTF8&s=books
that is such a good book hellion! i read it in middle school and recently bought it in a charity shop to read again! redcrx--- i think i know what you mean, i always think this, if someone is told all their life that a certain colour is red then theyre always going to see that colour and say its red....but what if someone else sees it as different, but because theyve always been told its red thats what they think red looks like....if anyone gets what im on about?
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