How can you describe the color of the sky to someone who is blind?

Answer 1

take two fist size rocks. Heat one up and put the other in the freezer. Have them feel the rocks and explain to them that different colors are like the different temperatures of the rocks. The cold rock is like blue (a cool color) and the warm rock is like red (a warm color).

Colors in a room can actually make the room feel warmer or cooler because warm colors absorb more light and thus draw heat from the sun and cool colors tend to reflect light thus pushing the heat of the sun out of the room.

Answer 2

If the person has any vision at all--or had some in the past, you'll have a frame of reference for describing the sky in conventional terms.

If the person has been totally blind from birth or a very young age, it's much more difficult--but you'd be surprised what can be done. The key is to use tactile (touch) and audio images as analogies. For example, you could describe blue as soft or gentle, clouds as resembling cotton balls or feathers. The kind of summer day when the sky's color seems almost harsh could be described as "brassy" like a trumpet; an overcast sky as cold; the night sky as cold and hard, but with hot sparks. And so on.

The same holds true for many things--you can also give an idea fo the appearance of the sky by describing it as a dome--as a very large inverted bowl seen from the inside. And this technique applies to more ordinary things as well. I once taught a totally blind person how to understand the Cartesian (x-y) system we use for graphs in math by arranging several dozen paper cups on a tabletop, using coins to indicate which point on the graph was represented (pennies for x and dimes for y--the point (2,3) had two pennies and 3 dimes in the cup).

The trick is to shift your own perspective from visual to tactile/audio--and use your imagination! Have fun. :)

Answer 3

If this person was born blind and has never seen color, you probably couldnt describe the color of the sky to them. But maybe you could give them a good idea of what the sky looks like by describing its other features.

Answer 4

If it is someone who lost there sight then it is a little easier because they have a sense of color so they can imagine it. If it is someone who was born blind then that is difficult. But they say using touch or smell it better to help them become aware of what you are describing it might be impossible for them to actually know the color but in their head they will have a sense of color.

Answer 5

There's a book by Dr. Oliver Sacks called "The Island of the Colorblind." In it, he investigates, among other things, the terminology used by those who can see no color whatever to describe the world around them. A lot of this involves describing quality of light on the surface of whatever the object is, but the texture also plays a large part. I"ve also heard of using smell and sound as reference points for the color of things for the blind; rather like the correlations often made between colors and musical notes

Answer 6

I like that reference to the movie 'Mask' (look it up- some of you are too young to know what that was)! But that would definitely be a way to describe the color of the sky to the unsighted. Also, use temperature and scents if you want to be creative.

Answer 7

tell them that the sky is a brilliant blue on sunny days, but a misty gray on cloudy days. Just use lots of adjectives. Good Luck!

Answer 8

Just explain that it is a soft blue, soft meaning like cotton. Never thought of explaining color to the blind.

Answer 9

I would use adjectives that they can experience without sight... such as feelings... hot, cold, soft, fluffy, etc. For example, since the sky is blue you could explain it as being cool, but not cold... such as a glass of ice water but not quite as cold as ice cream. I hope this helps!

Answer 10

You could tell them it's blue, or whatever color the sky is that day. I guess it really doesn't matter what color you say since their blind. It's not like they could tell you you're wrong.