How do you describe 'colour' to a blind man?

Answer 1

As something that makes good things look bad and a bad thing look good..........

Answer 2

In purely scientific terms... rather than in terms of personal experience.

I would describe it as different frequencies of photon transfer reflected off particular surfaces.

Chances are that doesn't mean much to a blind person, but then you cannot be sure that you and the next person view colours the same way as each other. The point is that you can actually detect reflected photons at particular wavelengths... consistantly.... while a blind person cannot.

Answer 3

Difficult. He probably never get that especially if he borne blind. Blind people, though, are forced by nature to develop the other 4 senses and some skills that you can't imagine. So, it's difficult for you to understand how someone who is blind can smell the rain before it starts or can hear a noise that you can't even notice.

Answer 4

Oh what a great question, as I am sittin here trying to answer it I have had to stop about three times. Everytime I try I am using something colored as an example, it depends whether or not he ever had sight, I am supposing he hasn't so.

He would know warm and cold, warm would be yellow, cold blue, let him associate feelings with what he thinks they would look like. I'd have to get a bse as to what his opinion of color is and then go from there. He knows what black is, so we can start with brown being a little lighter, grey, lighter than that. I am really looking forward to these answers, again great question!

Answer 5

You can't really, there's just no real way...closest kind of explanation at all as one person said is describing it in scientific terms, but that's not really answering your question. Saying that pink = soft or something is dumb, because those are just associations people make, not how the colors really are.

Answer 6

A blind man knows which is the colour black as whatever colour he sees in his mind is black. I 'll say him to think a colour which is completely opposite to black , thus he knows the colour white.I'll say hime to think a colour which is lighter than black,thus he knows grey.Thus he knows what is colour.I'll say him to imagine what he finds beautiful so he automatically puts colour to his imagination.

Answer 7

just ask him to think out of box.........i tried but i couldnt make him think.......more over am not not even sure whether everyone sees colour as i do ..for a colour that i see as green neednt look green for you. you have just named it green

Answer 8

Give him lots of textures and temperatures to feel .. as many as possible. Tell him that these are what we see with our eyes but he feels with his fingers.

Answer 9

if it cant be touch ot smell you cant describe it. that is the only way that they sense

Answer 10

well you could try to explain it using smell and taste...
for example
white: snow, cold
blue: cool, water
green: freshly cut grass, leafs..
pink: cotton candy, bubblegum (original)
black: dark, coffee...

hope it helps...