If you are blind and you were born blind, how would you describe color red?

Answer 1

i would do it like in the movie mask, he boiled a rock in water and gave it to the blind girl and told her it was red, and after it cools down it will be pink.

Answer 2

Its seems unlikely that a person can describe something they've never experienced unless they're using someone else's words. Perhaps someone has told the blind person that red is the color of blood or a fire truck. Then they'd describe red as such. However, is this really describing the color red? Can a color be described without merely noting where the color is used? Or what the color is associated with? Or the emotion it evokes? Also, the last two are completely subjective. As such, the description may not describe the color to another person.

Answer 3

I'm not sure, but what really gets me thinking is how can one truly describe any color at all? If you were to tell me to descibe red, all I would think of is maybe it's like an apple, or a fire truck, or even blood...........but all I'm doing is comparing similear objects that share its color, but what about describing the color itself? If I were to describe a sweater, I would say it is soft, and warm, and maybe it's a reddish color....but a color it self really doesn't seem to have a physical defination, so ultimately describing it seems impossible to me.

With that being said, if one cannot truly describe what a color is, could it be (although it may seem unlikely) that some people, or maybe all people, might possibly percieve the color red completely differently than others? Would it not be possible that the color red percieved by my eyes could be totally different then the color red percieved by your eyes? To me it sounds like this could be very possible........ and there would be no way to prove it because obviously the only way we can describe colors are based on the objects that encompass them; so all I could tell you is that an apple is red, and you would obviously agree based on only the apple and not actually on the color itself.

Also, If this were true, there would possibly be millions of different and very distinct colors in our existance, but we as individuals will never know the rest of them because our personal perceptions won't allow us. Make sense?

Answer 4

There are two things that can be confused here. The mental image sighted people have of red, and the physical presence and measure of the frequency of light, known as red.

It would be a minor issue for a blind person to be equiped with some device that could identify the presense of the frequency of light that is in that part of the spectrum known as red.

If is not possible to translate the mental image of red from a sighted person to a blind person.

Interestingly enough, it is also impossible to translate the mental image of one sighted person to another sighted person.

We have no way of knowing that the mental image I have for the color red is the same mental image you have for red, even though we are agreeing on the same part of the spectrum.

There have been rare cases, e.g., John Dalton, of people who are color blind in one eye but not in the other. They could see the world the ways their normal eye and their color blind eye could see the world. But again, we have no way of knowing if what they saw is the same as what we see or another color blind person sees.

Answer 5

A person born blind could not describe a colour, clearly, because colour is purely visual information which they could never have experienced. As such I take this to mean how do you describe red, or any colour, to someone who cannot see it.

In that case, there's no perfect way, I'd start with the implications of the colour red; heat, danger etc and then go on to the emotion red evokes; it is certainly not a calming colour, like blue, but a stimulating, vibrant colour, it is associated with anger, but also with other passionate emotions such as love (red hearts being a symbol of love.) I would describe red as a visual representation of feelings of passion.

Answer 6

in case you've been a very poetic man or woman you need to write a poem about what the colour ability to you. Poems have a tendency to rouse thoughts and furnish imagery and metaphors, and so on...that furnish extra of an precis high quality than basically describing some thing would. and evidently, extremely "deep" poems can contact human beings in diverse procedures and be open to interpretation. So at the same time as this received't objectively describe a colour, that's going to with somewhat of luck stir a persons' thoughts and mind's eye. Plus, i imagine anybody sees and studies colour in yet in a unique way besides, so a poetic description of one's studies with colour is only a fashion to make a connection with some different person and furnish a diverse perception. there is extremely no good, incorrect, or finished thanks to describe a sensation, for my section.

Answer 7

You would describe red as "color produced by light whose wavelength is in the range of 625–760 nm".[1]
There are instruments with audio readout that blind people can use to tell colors.

Answer 8

If someone gave me an apple and told me it was red, I would describe red as Sweet and juicy. If someone held my hand near fire and told me fire was red, I would describe red as hot and potentially hurtful. If someone gave me a strawberry and told me it was red, I would describe red as sweet with crunchy seeds. Red can have many meanings to a blind person. You are obviously sighted. How would you describe red?

Answer 9

If you are describing it to a blind person I would say hot.

Answer 10

I am a redneck. if asked that question. I would probubly slap the person and say look at that liquid comeing from your face. discribe it to me. what does it look like, its coloration. tell me all you can about its colour.because that would be a smart A s s question. if it was a man asking. I wouldnt appreciate.notice the way I spelled colour.thats the old english Southern way of spelling that word.