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8. Intangible Concepts To A Blind Person

"The Grand Canyon. Isn't it just a big hole?"

There are a lot of concepts that we take for granted, that rely almost exclusively on our sense of sight without us even realising. Often things with an enormous scale that can't be picked up, touched or heard, rely depend on your ability to picture it in your mind's eye.

A good way of getting your head round how intangible some of these concepts are to a blind person, is to try to describe them without using any visual language, such as in the video below. More often than not, people end up sounding like a hyperactive six-year-old on their way back from Disneyland.

How would you describe a rainbow, a shadow or fog (hopefully better than these guys)?