How do you explain colour to a blind person

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#1 PAF_FAISAL
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How do you explain lets say the colour blue or even red...
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#2 The_Vampress
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relate color to emotion...

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#3 194197844077667059316682358889
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To someone congenitally and completely blind, you can't in any useful way. Color is not something that exists in their world. You can talk about emotional associations and evocations that go with the color, but there is nothing that will give them a grasp of what red is for example. Well, I guess you could describe the frequency of the EM wave corresponding to a particular color :P
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#4 xxQuadropwnedxx
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tell them how it tastes
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#5 -LEXY-
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Use other senses like taste
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#6 gameboi_92
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laugh at them
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#7 sciortino
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My blind friend says he sees stuff in his head, but he doesn't know what it is and he can't explain it.
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#8 xxQuadropwnedxx
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Use other senses like taste-LEXY-

we think alike lol.

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#9 xxQuadropwnedxx
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laugh at themgameboi_92

^^^^going to helll^^^^^

rofl

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#11 FragStains
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Use the hex #, duh.
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#12 RPG10080
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Tell them its like sex for the eyes, only you don't get tired and never need a partner
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#13 spawnassasin
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uhno

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#14 Montaya
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Get a bright light and put it over their eye, im sure theyll see some color, like maybe red. And maybe if you punch their eye they'll see blue, try it.
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#15 PAF_FAISAL
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Get a bright light and put it over their eye, im sure theyll see some color, like maybe red. And maybe if you punch their eye they'll see blue, try it.Montaya
Get a bright light and put it over their eye, im sure theyll see some color, like maybe red. And maybe if you punch their eye they'll see blue, try it.Montaya

But they are blind :(

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#16 filiwian
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There's no color to a blind person, it's just white.

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#17 Elraptor
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Part of the tragedy of being blind from birth is that you can't experience colors. No description can fully convey them, either.
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#18 FantasyStyle
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oh i thought you were talking about the people who could see but no color
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#19 fmacraze
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I don't think you can unless they've seen and remembered colors before becoming blind (provided they weren't blind since birth).
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#20 madcapper248
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It's possible for most of them to be able to see faint outlines or some color with really bright lights. Really bright.

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#21 TheZ3nMan
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Very carefully.

Just kidding:D