Red or Blue?

I'm usually drawn to red as opposed to blue when it comes to clothes.
In flowers, I like blue, white or yellow moreso than red though.
On walls, I like red and certain shades of blue about equally.

Red feels warm to me - blue feels open and spacious to me.

Blue makes me think of the sea and sky and red makes me think of the sun.

Red i liked that color since i was young. Its something about it that attracts me to it.

How would you describe a colour to a blind man who has never seen?
Best wishes.
Mark...

Red = action

Blue = inaction

As for my preference. It depends on my state of mind.

Hi Mark,

I would have so they associate the colors with things they can touch, taste, smell, hear... all the other senses they have. Example...
Blue = ice
White = cotton
Pink = sticky cotton candy
Red = Rose
Green = Grass
Yellow = The heat of the sun or simply the sun

A person just needs to use their imagination to come up with things to describe colors to those who cannot see them. What they can do is hear, smell, taste, and touch things in ways people who can see can never imagine.

Have a great day

How, exactly, will this allow a blind man to perceive 'Colour'? Telling them that 'ice' is 'blue' and making them touch it cannot evoke a visual reference to something that is inconceivable.
Did you take Jordan up on his offer?
I don't know how to tell if you, or any of us are active, at any given time - Do you?
Be brilliant, my friend.
Mark...

Hi Mark,

I guess that blind people would have to use their imagination. Temperature would be a good way to associate a word to a colour. Yes, they are blind and describing a colour is virtually impossible. Beethoven once said:

"You can't describe color to a blind person because color is essentially how your eyes differentiate light that enters your eyes and gets transmitted as an image to your brain, if there has been a problem that had hindered this ability since birth the child will never be able to distinguish color unless by some miracle they gain sight in the future."

Have a great day

I would explain that everything operates at a frequency. Sound is a mixture of frequencies within the audible frequency range that can be heard - whether it's from the ultra low frequencies that only can be heard by whales or the ultra high frequencies that can only be heard by dogs, or even bats. But, even the ultra high frequencies that only bats can hear do not emit colors. It is only when the frequencies get so fast that they start emitting light, and consequently, colors. Each frequency is a different color - from the low ranges of infra-red to the high ranges of ultra-violet, and even into the range of x-rays. From there, the frequencies advance up the scale to the range of AM radio and then FM radio, and beyond. Each color has their own unique frequency by which the color is defined. But, the actual color that we "see" is nothing more than the frequencies being reflected by the object, and those frequencies are within the ranges that the brain interprets to be different colors.

So, with proper equipment, one who is blind would be able to tell if the frequency falls within the range defined to be a specific color. But, you still would not know how the color appeared any more than someone with no sense of smell/taste could distinguish how an apple tastes, or even distinguish that the purple bug juice tasted different than the red bug juice ... even when the color was the only difference.

~David Labens
San Antonio, TX

Again - expecting a blind (from birth) person to associate with a visual reference is like expecting a person with no nerve-endings to comprehend pain, or a dead person to comprehend life.
TRY this - You don't understand my venusian language - Thus...
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Makes no sense, does it?
Because its comprehension is beyond your sentience.