He keeps asking me what red looks like and how can I tell him if he has been blind since birth?
2007-10-17 08:13:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Red - is hot, like fire
There is a movie called Mask that has Cher in it and the kid meets a girl that is blind (since birth) and he wants to show her what colors are like so he hands her a hot rock and tells her that is red. He gives her a cold rock and tells her that is green. I can't remember all the colors he does, but you should see the movie. I think he gives her cotton and tells her that is white (like a cloud).
2007-10-17 08:23:48 · answer #1 · answered by ~irish~moon~star~ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can go with classic connotations of major colors (red=blood, blue=sky, ect.) or you can use a mixture of scientific and poetic imagery.
Light is a wavelength like sound. It varies in intensity and frequency. The shape and size of an image is sort of like an instrument but the pitch and volume is like the color and brightness of the object or image. Red is like a trill or when very bright a scream. Blue is more like a hum or vibrato bass.
Black is cold and silent, white is like a full range. The light of the sun is light a blaring cacophony, a wall of sound similar to the ending of "A Day in The Life" by The Beatles.
If you've never heard that song before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZez_k4vAzU
2007-10-17 18:18:12 · answer #2 · answered by sgtcosgrove 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Describe colors like music, which blind people are usually very tuned into. Maybe play him some fiery, passionate classical music that invokes tones of emotion. Black can be the sound of thunderstorms, blue like the ocean, yellow= birds chirping etc. He will be able to relate that to one of his sharp senses!
2007-10-17 15:30:48 · answer #3 · answered by bstnbutterfly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red is the color of love. Red is the color of blood. It is can be bright or dark.
2007-10-17 15:26:00 · answer #4 · answered by *smile* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give him emotions that represnt a color. Red could represent feeling passionate about something.
2007-10-17 15:22:31 · answer #5 · answered by Laura 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make him touch something warm and tell him thats how red is.
2007-10-17 15:18:01 · answer #6 · answered by Lunar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you know how sometimes you hit your head and you see colors when your eyes are closed?
maybe blind people can do that too. so hit him in the dome with a shovel or someting.
2007-10-17 15:18:23 · answer #7 · answered by boddah 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ask him to touch tomato sause
2007-10-17 15:29:32 · answer #8 · answered by mark f 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋