How can you describe..... to a blind person?

Question

1. Action word such as run, sleep, ride
2. Object such as lightbulb, pen,
3. Colors such as violet, orange, pink, brown
4. Persons face
Note: the person is congenitally blind!

No additional details!

thanks mezizany, for me thats a different approach!

Answer 1

you have to compare these things to sounds, textures, smells, tastes...

the sun is setting like a white wine after a bite of chicken.
her eyes are soft like cotton candy on a warm humid day right after a rainstorm.
the lightbulb is bright and hot like a prickly pear plant leaf.

the sofa is deep dark sultry red, like an unexpected but long overdue long wet lip-locking kiss from the girl next door.

her hair is like a soft tender tickle across your curvey hip.

you have to use descriptions that make sense to the person you are talking to. I would think the more you know the person, the better you'll be able to describe things to them, and naturally, what is important to you in the description will not be so important to them.

have fun! it really shows how universal language is, how different each living condition is.

embrace difference.

Answer 2

I believe you first much relate the long and the short, or small or big. Then you have to let them touch the face then they know by the feel of the face and then size and shapes are compared by that first facial touch. Usually red is for heat or hot, blue is for cool or water, violet I believe is relevent to a flower and a smell, like a lilac. Brown is an earth tone that is like the dirt of the earth or a dead leaf, which describes the thought of crunchy and that describes many things from there. Light bulb is again heat but bright on the face or hand and they must feel the shape and size. You must demonstrate running with them by holding their hand, like in an empty field so not to trip over anything. Sleep is also demonstrated by you laying down closing your eyes and letting them feel them closed and then breathe heavier, and let them feel the air expelling out or your mouth. Ride how? On a bus a car? you just put them in the car and tell them with the motion of the car starting to go forward they can feel the movement and then say ride, in car or bus or train. Same for plane.

Answer 3

The last time I checked a blind person can run, sleep and ride... they don't need you to describe it for them! They can feel a persons face and other objects so they don't need those described either.

As for colors... Red is associated with heat, blue with cold or ice, pink is girlish. Brown can be described as fall or dying but not dead. Violet is in between hot and cold but vivid.

Answer 4

1. Action words by doing the action (make her run, for example...).
2.Objects by making her touch them, and similar things so she can associate them (give her a pen which drops some ink on her hand or draw a simple shape... washable, please!)
3. Associate color with feelings or smells (red with anger o passion, yellow with happiness, orange with the fruit, pink with girls, brown with logs that she can touch...)
4. Faces by touching similar things (she should have an idea of a long face if you make her touch a watermelon, for example...)
Take her to a supermarket or department store and you could associate images with similar shapes/textures.

Answer 5

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