How would you describe color to a blind person?

Flavors for the eye?

You could only describe the effect colour has on you, or describe it by analogy. It is impossible to describe colour directly to someone who has never experienced it. Some people have tried but without much success.

@Seek had some great YouTube links to some guy who is precisely in this situation. He has been blind since birth and looks about 50 years old. He talks at length about how he imagines color based on the descriptions from other people. He describes how he imagines a sunset, a night sky with stars. All the man has to go by is his other senses and the anecdotes of other people. There is clip where he does “man-in-the-street” interviews with sighted strangers where he asks them to describe color and other things to him. Many find it very difficult. It is all very interesting to watch. The guy is amazing. I can’t find the clips right now, but maybe @Seek will.

@Espiritus_Corvus It sounds like it might be the guy I linked to above, he has produced a lot of videos on the subject.

Try describing an orgasm to someone who’s never had one. Then we’re talking.

I would describe it as music or noise for the eyes.

@flutherother YES, that’s him! Sorry, I didn’t see the red “tried”. That guy is incredible. I watched him for a couple hours after Seek linked to him in another question. Thanks, @flutherother

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@Espiritus_Corvus No problem. I think I got the link from Seek originally.

@flutherother got the link! I love his videos. He’s so fun.

I would do my best to describe them by relating them to other senses. Yellow is loud, to me. It is lemons and summer sunlight on the back of your neck. Orange is the radiating heat of a fireplace on your face. Blue is that first cool burst of misty air when you go outside in the early morning.

You couldn’t. You would have as much luck as asking them if they see black.

So. Blind people ‘see’ black? Anybody know a blind person that saw before they went blind ? Do they see a color ? Like always black?
The human brain has receptors for incoming visual input. So I feel like it would be an active part of a blind persons brain. But with no ‘input.’
I’ve asked this question to others, and the reaction I remember most was a friend telling me about a Hellen Keller movie in black and white. In the movie people used heat to represent red or orange and cold to rep blue. But to me , it still seems to be an impossible task

How could such a concept be explained to someone who never saw anything?

@MrGrimm888:
Follow @flutherother‘s link above. All those questions are answered in the clips.

Stanleybmanly. The more i thought about it, I really like the flavor analogy.Noice…

Through smell or taste.blueberries are blue.Strawberries are red.tomatoes are red.ect.they need a starting point.

@greatfullara. Another GA^.