10 Bizarre Realities Of Being Blind, Explained By A (Super Chill) Blind Guy

5. How Do You Describe Colours To A Blind Person?

The experience of colour is bizarre enough, even as a sighted person, largely due to the fact that it doesn't really exist. Certain wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum can interact in such a way with your eyes, which your brain interprets as a whole spectrum of visible light that may-or-may-not be the same for everybody.

Colour doesn't actually exist unless we perceive it, so to a person that doesn't perceive it, the concept is that much more intangible.

We also tend to associate colours with smells, temperatures, emotions and sometimes even sounds (listen to any blues music lately?), but if you had to actually describe it to a blind person, what would you say?