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For those who went blind later in life, for how long did you retain your memory of color? Did you ever forget what things looked like? (self.Blind)
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charliemyheart 2 points 7y ago
I am legally blind, I can still see colors to a point (they are different now and I can't seem to explain why). I mostly think of colors in comparisons. Blue is like the ocean that smell. Yellow the sun on my skin, and so on.
Unuhi 1 points 7y ago
I like your shortcuts to other senses. :)
I have a funny thing with colors.
Foods and drinks taste of colors. Not the colors they usually have physically, but the best way is still by color. So for instance red wines can taste like blues, violet shades, night sky colors (my favorites), some even... Shades of red. White wines usually hace greens, blues, or yellows as their taste.
I used to also organize my itunes years ago by color (years ago when i had functional sight). I would make playlists of music, individual tracks of any kind that remind me of some color.
Now... I still like colors. And still hate some colors (shades of pink).
I have no clue what some color names of colors mean, so an approximation works.
My other half is colorblind - that's so cool. Because sometimes for the daily life purposes it will be enough to know if a color is pretty or not. Like, i have a pair of running shoes neither of us can figure the color of (dark) but they are still pretty shoes :)
I have a funny thing with colors.
Foods and drinks taste of colors. Not the colors they usually have physically, but the best way is still by color. So for instance red wines can taste like blues, violet shades, night sky colors (my favorites), some even... Shades of red. White wines usually hace greens, blues, or yellows as their taste.
I used to also organize my itunes years ago by color (years ago when i had functional sight). I would make playlists of music, individual tracks of any kind that remind me of some color.
Now... I still like colors. And still hate some colors (shades of pink).
I have no clue what some color names of colors mean, so an approximation works.
My other half is colorblind - that's so cool. Because sometimes for the daily life purposes it will be enough to know if a color is pretty or not. Like, i have a pair of running shoes neither of us can figure the color of (dark) but they are still pretty shoes :)
Marconius 2 points 7y ago
I lost all my vision suddenly in early 2014 but thankfully I had an extremely photographic and eidetic memory, Plus was also an artist. I won't be losing memory of color or what things look like anytime soon, that's for sure.
Nighthawk321 1 points 7y ago
Really late to the thread, don't browse this sub often. I lost my sight close to ten years ago. I honestly don't ever imagine me forgetting what color looks like.
[deleted] 1 points 7y ago
I'm not blind, but a couple years ago I read a book by Oliver Sachs that I highly recommend called "The Mind's Eye". It talks about the different experiences of people who have gone blind.
One interesting contrast was one guy who went into "complete darkness" and pretty much forgot everything about what everything looked like.
Another guy somehow still used his visual cortex and "imagined" the entire world around him, to such a high level of functionality that he was confident enough to go up on his roof (I think redoing the shingles or something like that).
So what I learned from that is there is no single way that things will happen and it probably has a lot to do with personality and circumstance.
One interesting contrast was one guy who went into "complete darkness" and pretty much forgot everything about what everything looked like.
Another guy somehow still used his visual cortex and "imagined" the entire world around him, to such a high level of functionality that he was confident enough to go up on his roof (I think redoing the shingles or something like that).
So what I learned from that is there is no single way that things will happen and it probably has a lot to do with personality and circumstance.
Southpaw5000 1 points 7y ago
I've been totally blind now for just over six years. I wasn't an artist and had an average memory. Even after six years I find it easy to recall most colors. The only colors I can't recall are the ones I never really knew in the first place like anadu or malachite.
simpleman84 1 points 7y ago
I still remember. I was never fully sighted, but when I was younger, I could see some. I learned all my colors, and I imagine in color.
LeftAl 1 points 7y ago
Not fully blind, but registered legally blind. Just over two years now and I can still picture and remember what all the colours were. Ask me again in ten years time haha.
surf526 1 points 1y ago
What about now lmao?
LeftAl 1 points 1y ago
Haha yep can still picture them, although my memories have evolved to look like how I see now. Lots of foggy hazy memories instead of fully sighted clear ones sadly
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