How do you exsplain to someone who was born blind the different between the colours?

Question

How do you exsplain to someone who was born blind and has never seen colours the difference between colours.

Answer 1

reference temperature....Blue is cold and Red is hot and everything else in between.

Answer 2

I have only known one blind person. She taught me that to tell her what colors was to her- I needed to think of textures and things they coulf feel to associate with color. Soft furry bunny was brown. Cotton was white and clouds. The image she had in her head of green was connected to the touching of grass & leaves. Red was hot. Blue was cold.

Don't really understand how they interpret these things. Sorry, I hoped this helps.

Answer 3

You simply cant you cant say this color is brighter or darker because they dont know how that looks

Answer 4

You could explain that the difference between two colors like dark blue and dark red is like the difference between two tones of sound.

Answer 5

it's impossible, ur so right. but we can ask them to feel the colors in their heart.

for example...blue...think bout the sound of the ocean (if they aint born deaf). think about the ocean breeze. think about the water, as warm as their heart.

red....think about the hot flamming pizza they eat at a mexican restaurant,  or chilies at the indian curry house.

green...think bout the grass they walk on. think about the leaves they hold in their hands.

brown...think about a bar of chocolates they put in their mouth. also....think about the poops...lol oopps!

Answer 6

You could explain it to them using smell as an example.  Some smells like lemon are sharp and bright, other smells are like fresh turned soil are complex.  Or perhaps using sound as an example, though I think smells are closer to sight than sound is.