How would you explain or describe color to someone who has never seen it ? would u use words? props? HELP?

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Answer 1

Watch the movie Mask. There is an interesting part where he is explaining color to a blind girl. For instance, he hands her some ice to describe blue, lets her touch cool grass for green, something hot for red and the sun on her face for yellow.

Answer 2

You could explain color by describing to the person the emotions that different colors bring out in you . How does watching color t.v. compare with black and white. That's my best stab at it. Otherwise its sort or like trying to describe what a dog whistle sounds like to a human. You can't really do it because there is no common point of reference.

Answer 3

it is impossible.... the very notion of colour would be totally alien to someone who is born blind... to explain.... red for example and saying it is the colour of an apple... a blind person might know what an apple feels like and can imagine its general shape but when puting a colour to this object they may use the colour yellow but call it red....
my dictionary difines red to be "of or near the colour seen at the least refracted end of the visible spectrum, of shades ranging frm that of blood to pink or deep orange." but that still wouldn't suffice to a blind person.... it is extremely difficult to explain colour to a person. "the sensation produced on the eye by rays of light when resolved as by a prism etc. into different wavelengths."
if you were trying to describe a new colour to someone who merely hasnt seen the new colour then you just compare it to common colours they have seen.... eg "teal" is like a light bluey green.

Answer 4

Great Question!My mother is a concert pianist and she sees the notes as color.So I would describe or translate color to sound.
It should work because both light and sound exist in diferent frequencies or spectrums.

Answer 5

That's like trying to describe light to someone. It would be very difficult, maybe even impossible to describe it to the person who never saw it.

Answer 6

use emotions
and lots of adjectives to what the color represents and symbolism/personification: ex: red-blood.war.angry ect.
blue-water.cold. sad