If I was blind, how would you explain colors to me?

Answer 1

Perhaps by relating them to grades of warmth (red, orange, yellow) and cool (ultramarine, pthallo). Green and brown present problems, except as grades of yellow for green, and red for brown. One might also relate them to musical notes. As a painter, with slowly deteriorating sight, blindness horrifies me, but people I have known who had lost their sight always referred to the increased acuity of other sense. But as I've always had very acute senses, developed by special games and exercises by my grandfather in my childhood, I can't really imagine how they would make up for the joy of sight.

Answer 2

It depend of the cause of the blindness. Unless the whole visual system has been compromised or is missing in brain too I would ask the blind person to press their eyeballs and notice if and how doing so, and stimulating other parts of the visual system might render some difference to the subject. Ask them to explain experience and use what they have perceived if anything as the basis of the explanation.

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Answer 3

Well, I'll take a crack at it:

Red is like a shrill whistle that catches your attention immediately.

Orange is a little less urgent than red, but still calls out.

Yellow is a smooth and insistent color.

Green is a lush color, alive and always reaching toward the sun.

Blue is cool and pleasant hum that appeals to the eyes like a soft breeze feels on the skin.

Indigo is a deeper richer kind of blue... fresh like dark berries.

Violet is calm like twilight.

There are a 1000 variations of each of these colors, and as many other colors as you can imagine sounds in the world. Some are passionate, and some mumble. They're all delightful by themselves, but even more infinitely delightful when they appear next to each other... they combine and contrast and carry meanings that we aren't always aware of.

Answer 4

Hi Ria, imagine you are blind and are sitting on a beach just before sunrise, in a temperate zone mind you.

So, close your eyes, feel the cold before the dawn, it's a wonderful clean, hug your arms around your sholders, it feels not quite wet, that's Light Green, if inland, Light Blue.

Now as the sun rises over the horizon, what do you feel? Chill from the weather and a bit of a breeze, slight warmth on your face? Yep, that's,.....I leave that to you and our other Answerers, maybe we need a room to expand this in.

Answer 5

I would not.Man if you were blind how would you find out the difference

Answer 6

Par example: green-grass,yellow-sun or lemon, it would depend on the hue, orange-sunset or orange, etc

Answer 7

i would say it is similar to how every song is different and beautiful in their own way, colours speak to you to display a meaning/feeling in a way

Answer 8

like different flavors, the sun like lemonade, a biege wall like vanilla pudding, etc.