I mean someone that has never been able to see. Their view of what things look like must be amazing and like a dream when they are awake, to have to visualize what they can't see in their minds. Things that can't be felt, but only smelled or heard, these things must look very different from one blind person to the next in their minds...
Anyways, I guess this really wasn't a question, just an idea.
2006-09-21 09:34:25 · 8 answers · asked by ? 5 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
If someone has never seen anything before, can they really visualize something in the same way aw people who can see? If you have never experienced it before, then it's almost impossible for you to grasp what an image is, I would think.
2006-09-21 09:43:31 · answer #1 · answered by nyrgoalie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it would depend on the person's state of mind. If they haven't become bitter because their blindness then I believe that their imagination would only be bound by their own thoughts, and if their other senses fill that void; then the world can become a vast and marvellous place. However if a blind person was bitter then I believe that they would, consciously or unconsciously, clamp down on their imagination in order to hold on to their bitterness and self-pity.
2006-09-21 17:19:16 · answer #2 · answered by mother 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People, I was standing at my window
Tears running all down my cheeks
Yes, standing at my window
Tears running all down my cheeks
Well, I could see the woman I'm loving
Stopping everyone in the world she meets
Well, standing on the corner
Between 35th and Main
Well, standing on the corner, people
Between 35th and Main
Yeah, that's where a blind man's seen my woman
People, a dumb man called her name
He said, "Oh, I'm blind
You brought eyesight and made me see"
"Oh, I'm blind
You brought eyesight and made me see"
Yes, and the dumb man asked a question
"Woman, who may your good man be?"
Yes, I'm standing by trembling, people
People, my heart's laying in my hand
I'm standing by trembling, darling
With my heart's laying in my hand
Well, I could hear my baby say
"Lord, I ain't got no man"
It's the way of life, it's the way of life yeah.
2006-09-22 07:49:06 · answer #3 · answered by p 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about imagination, but I have always wondered if blind people dream.
2006-09-21 17:23:15 · answer #4 · answered by beattyb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah i would imagine so, but i feel bad for the people that werent always blind but lost their vision later in life
2006-09-21 17:20:40 · answer #5 · answered by Cherie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on how you look at it....blind people can "see" a whole lot more than we think...but i do catch what youre saying....i would say that all the other senses are more acute
2006-09-21 16:44:08 · answer #6 · answered by cookiesmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. Like for a color they have to come up with how it would look like by their other senses of smell, touch and hearing.
2006-09-21 16:50:45 · answer #7 · answered by Hawaii808 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u know i never thought of that but it is probably true
2006-09-21 16:43:50 · answer #8 · answered by im lost come and find me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋