A friend of mine recalled the other day (during a conversation) that he once attended a high school motivation speech at which the speaker happened to be blind. This man in particular was once sighted, and became blind as a result of some disorder, I believe. He was taking questions, and someone asked what color he saw, was it like closing your eyes? He said that he saw nothing, not even a color such as black. I find this hard to comprehend, and I was wondering if anyone knew a way to explain this better than he did, or do blind people actually “see” a color?
I’ve also heard that, and it’s hard to get your mind around NOT seeing black. Think of it this way. Your elbow doesn’t “see”, but it also doesn’t “see black”. It sees absolutely nothing.
Well one thing I have read is that the visual cortex gets wired to the braille-reading finger, assuming you read braille. Whether this happens to someone who becomes blind as an adult is another question. But in any case, I imagine that eventually the conscious mind simply stops paying attention to the visual cortex since there is never any useful input.
Read “Blindness,” by Jorge Luis Borges. He says he saw yellow most often.
Some blind people are able to see some colors. Sometimes a blind person might have enough vision to see all colors, or maybe he or she can only tell bright colors. Some blind people can see some colors but not all of them, or they might have a hard time telling blue or black or brown apart, or pink from white. Some blind people do not see any colors. It is important to learn about colors even if you cannot see them. You need to learn what colors look nice together, and what colors do not match, and about stripes, plaids, and other patterns. This is important for clothing and decorating. You need to understand that the sky is mostly blue and grass is mostly green, and the colors of the ocean and the colors of leaves in the fall are just as important for the blind to know as everyone else.
God is Love. Love is blind. Therefore God is Blind.
And Stevie Wonder is God.
I was temporarily blind in one of my eyes a long time ago. I saw white.
I appreciate the input. If I might hijack my own thread without ignoring my OP, wasn’t Stevie Wonder once a candidate for some operation that would restore his sight?
Wow, this is interesting. I had always thought that blind people actually saw blackness, and now this? Yellow? How very odd.
I use to see another world…wait no that was my sister! Sorry.
Someone once told me they see shadows…then I asked them what color were they…they said they were mists…and I said what color are these mists…they said Im looking at them right now…scary…
Hello all,
But if A person was always blind, and never saw color, how could they be able to explain what color they saw:confused:
But if they were able to see at one point and time, that would be totally different, then they could explain:D
But there I go thinkin again …peace
FWIW, I was asking about the vision a once-sighted person might see. I don’t think many of us with sight could comprehend blindness from birth.