Isn't that ironic, don't you think?Irridium said:
See, I thought of this, but then discounted it, as how would a blind person know when they opened their eyes?
If anyone's got an answer to that, I'd be pleased.
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If anyone's got an answer to that, I'd be pleased.
That's a little easier. Hold your hands so the thumb is pointed out and the fingers straight up. The one that forms an "L" is your left hand.FactualSquirrel said:
Hmmm, perhaps, white is when you reach out your hand and try to touch the air. Black is when you do that in a completely unfamiliar place, where you don´t know whether or not your hand will hit something (or something will hit your hand).The_root_of_all_evil said:
Or, black is the smell of coffee and white smells like...snow?
Coffee can be many colours though, but I always think it smells brown.Incredible Bullshitting Man said:
And with white smelling like snow, how do you differentiate between feeling cold being blue?
I like the latter one, but I wouldn't associate white with the former. White could be the taste of cream/milk though?
Ah, that´s true. Cream/milk works better, but then again, I always associated white with something that doesn´t exist or is hard to tell, like the taste of drinking water or the smell of air, when you can´t really say what it smells like.The_root_of_all_evil said:
I can sort of see pastel blue as calming, and red being passionate, but yellow being happy? I know us sighted people have many things we associate with happiness being yellow, but surely happiness to a colourblind person would be passionate, and thus red or orange?Radelaide said:You could use emotions. Blue is calming, soothing (or fucking depressing) Red is passionate, yellow is happy.
Violet/Purple is a real tough one. The obvious answer would be the taste of grapes, but that's sour enough to come close to the orange one.
Back to Blue: If light blue is calm and deep blue is depressing, isn't the clear sky and the sea depressing?
And going with IBM's answer, deep would be black...?
I'm not sure on this. What colour would you say Wednesday is? You can still imagine it a colour without being able to see a colour.oppp7 said:
(Wednesday is green to me)
When I try to describe colour it would probably go like this:
"Well you know how you can, um, well certain things can, like, uhh, how do I describe this, well it's like when something, uhh, fuck."
If I had to describe it to a bat, I'd say it's something like echolocation, but constantly changing to reflect the world around you. Unfortunately, most bats don't speak English, so I'm shit outta luck.
"Well you know how you can, um, well certain things can, like, uhh, how do I describe this, well it's like when something, uhh, fuck."
If I had to describe it to a bat, I'd say it's something like echolocation, but constantly changing to reflect the world around you. Unfortunately, most bats don't speak English, so I'm shit outta luck.
Sure yellow is happy. Sunshine, sun dresses. Oh wait, you're English...The_root_of_all_evil said:I can sort of see pastel blue as calming, and red being passionate, but yellow being happy? I know us sighted people have many things we associate with happiness being yellow, but surely happiness to a colourblind person would be passionate, and thus red or orange?Radelaide said:You could use emotions. Blue is calming, soothing (or fucking depressing
Violet/Purple is a real tough one. The obvious answer would be the taste of grapes, but that's sour enough to come close to the orange one.
Back to Blue: If light blue is calm and deep blue is depressing, isn't the clear sky and the sea depressing?
And going with IBM's answer, deep would be black...?
Violet/purple to me is sore, or hurt. since most of my bruises are that colour
One thing you should realize is that complete colorblindness is, as far as I know, extremely rare if not non-existent. Most colorblind people (including myself) can see color, they just have a different way of perceiving colors. For example, I have red-green dichromacy (deuteranopia to be precise). Normal human eyes use three types of light to form an image (trichromacy), but my eyes use only two. This means that the difference between red and green is often hard to see. It's not that I don't know the difference (it's not like I see red grass or green blood), it's just that in some situations certain colors are hard to distinguish from each other.The_root_of_all_evil said:
There's no need to explain color to the colorblind, because they know what color is. Colorblindness is really a bad word to describe it since we aren't blind to color at all.
It's not really ironic. We sent out news letters, had a segment on international t.v about it. We had a big meeting and everything! It's your own fault for not paying attention to Canada.[sub]no one loves us T_T[/sub]The_root_of_all_evil said:
OT: Hm, how to describe colour?
I would say it's like the texture of sight.
It all feels different when you look at it, both physically and mentally.
Really that's all I got.
Rare, sure. Non-existent, hardly. I know because my grandfather was completely colorblind, and, thanks to the miracle of genetics, I have the common red-green affliction myself.Hurr Durr Derp said:
Damn genetics.
Anyway, how to explain color to the colorblind or the blind-blind. Well, that would be a hell of a thing to do: describing something that is itself a description of something else. I don't know that it can be done in any meaningful way. Red simply is. Naming red objects does no good. The official scientific explanation of red, it's wavelength in nanometers, is entirely useless. Luckily, in my experience, the colorblind (partial and total) and the blind-blind have long since accepted what they've been dealt, and will only ask you this question just to fuck with you for their own amusement.
Unless it's a really bad romance movie. Then they ask, and mean it, but that hardly has any bearing on the real world.