Does anyone know a blind person, someone born blind? I was wondering if they dreamed in colour or just how they 'see' dreams.

Originally posted by thestruggle
Does anyone know a blind person, someone born blind? I was wondering if they dreamed in colour or just how they 'see' dreams.

this is just one of them mind blowing questions like how big the universe is!!!!

A 'bit' easier to find the answer to, but that's intrigued me before as well. If any blind people are reading this, please let us know :P

Er, if you're born blind, would you even know whether you were dreaming in colour or not? How would you know what colours are supposed to look like? :gag: :confused:

*head gently implodes*

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We do have a blind member on the Forum, regblind. Maybe he will respond to this interesting question.

I once remember David Blunkett being asked how he perceived colours. He described yellow in a way that was amazingly accurate in terms of the properties of the colour.:wow:

Just to confuse things further....

...... how does anyone know that we all see the same colours?

I look at red and I know that it is called red.
You look at red and you know that it is called red.

Is the picture in my brain actually the same colour as yours??

Originally posted by cgksheff
Just to confuse things further....

...... how does anyone know that we all see the same colours?

I look at red and I know that it is called red.
You look at red and you know that it is called red.

Is the picture in my brain actually the same colour as yours??

i have once thought about this! but stopped as its was way too confusing!

even more confusing when you think that colour is only the minds interpretation of certian frequancies of light - the colour as such does not exist! Also, combinations of different wavelengths of light can look the same as a single wavelength of light.

(for your info, i currently work for the university on a project involving a knowledge of this!)

.... And what about people who are colour blind .... what real colours do they dream in... what they see and understand or what we see and understand.

:wow: my mind is boggled (there is no emoticon for this so I'm using boggly eyes instead)

I wonder if there's any way of knowing whether we do all see the same colours?

its like in that Val Kilmer film (not a v good one) but they cure his blindness and everything he looks at he had no idea what it is until he can touch it.

if a sighted person was blindfolded and asked to identify something by touch, we would imagine it in our minds.

so do blind people imagine in their minds what things will look like from what they feel like ? but if they have been blind from birth how can they have any idea what anything looks like and therefore imagine objects ?

i don't get it. just like how a plane can fly or how tv and radio works. i just don't get it.

Originally posted by sheff_minx
:wow: my mind is boggled



Now, just mix this up with trying to comprehend the 'infinity of space' and we can all go off to the funny farm!!:D

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How ignorant am I? Ididn't realise that the bobbly bits of pavement leading to crossing areas on paths leading to the road were so blind people can feel the bumps and know they are coming to an area they can cross!! :loopy:

My kids actually told me, they also told me yesterday that GAP as in the clothing store stands for Gay And Proud!! I really do feel out of touch - or are they winding me up with the GAP thing? :confused:

I watched an interesting programme about people who see colours when the hear sounds. So for different notes they would see a different colour - they had a guy who had this disorder who was sat playing a piano. he described an amazing array of colours whilst he played the different notes. It was something to do with how the brain develops as a child or something.

I don't know about those blind from birth. That would be interesting.

but my Grandad lost his sight in his 50's and he used to tell us that when sleeping he'd dream as though he had his 'proper' eyes and be upset when he woke up to realise he couldn't see.