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How do you perceive and feel melancholy? (self.Blind)
submitted by i_dont_like_the_sex_
For example, when I miss someone who’s never coming back, mostly there are visuals in my head combined with missing how they physically felt and such. Though, after a long time, I forget what the person even looks like; it becomes more of ineffable feelings and physiological stirrings that make me really sad. There’s an ache in my chest and my skin usually feels cold. I get the urge to hug a pillow or a bulky blanket.
So I’m wondering, how is melancholy experienced by a blind person? Mainly, what goes through your head during the process?
So I’m wondering, how is melancholy experienced by a blind person? Mainly, what goes through your head during the process?
Mel_AndCholy 3 points 2y ago
As a sighted person, it's not so much a visual thing all the time. Mostly, it's a general feeling. Constant blah, impending dread and hopelessness that centers in the chest. These feelings can be triggered by visual, audio, or just remembering feelings of the past.
Winnmark 2 points 2y ago
Not sure why this got downvoted, seems like an interesting question.
But yeah, sorrow and other like feelings aren't necessarily based in visual experience.
But yeah, sorrow and other like feelings aren't necessarily based in visual experience.
i_dont_like_the_sex_ [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thank you, and I know :) I just became aware of how I try so hard to picture who I miss, but seeing as I have very little memory of details, and started to accept that, leaving me only with the waves of emotions, I wondered what it must be like for a blind person. What goes through their heads mainly? I figure maybe it’s touch, smells and trying to hold on to what the sound of their voice was like, which isn’t far from what I try to conjure, but yeah, I wonder.
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
What nonsense is this??????????? The same way.
oncenightvaler 1 points 2y ago
So my grandmother died in June of 2018. I had a lot of memories with her, and in the last two and a half years of her life I had visited her frequently two blocks away at the nursing home room my mom got for her. When she died I was depressed and would sing to myself her favourite songs, and hold things tightly that reminded me of her. I even got the chance to write up a page or so of her memories of growing up, but want to get further with that family history project.
I think aside from not being able to have an image of someone in my mind I can still remember hugs and remember conversations, so fairly similar.
I think aside from not being able to have an image of someone in my mind I can still remember hugs and remember conversations, so fairly similar.
i_dont_like_the_sex_ [OP] 1 points 2y ago
I’m sorry for your loss. What were the memories about, if I may ask?
oncenightvaler 1 points 2y ago
Well a lot of the memories were just things like family dinners, or hanging out with my grandma at her apartment, or at the nursing home. At the nursing home she had a lot of great days, and then mixed in with some halucinations, but even until the last week of her life she would recognize my mom and I.
I remember just holding her hand while she sat on the couch or laid in her bed, I remember reading her the Bible and her teaching me about it, and singing with her, just you know lots of great impressions of love she was a very loving person.
I remember just holding her hand while she sat on the couch or laid in her bed, I remember reading her the Bible and her teaching me about it, and singing with her, just you know lots of great impressions of love she was a very loving person.
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Mel_AndCholy 5 points 2y ago
Of course, but I think what OP is getting at is how those who completely lost their sight get depressed by memories if they either never had sight or had forgotten what a loved one looked like. Most sighted folks think of that as a strictly visual mental thing. It's kind of like the questions like "what are a deaf/blind persons dreams like?" Of course they dream, but how does it differ if they never perceived audio or sight is the question they're getting at.
i_dont_like_the_sex_ [OP] 3 points 2y ago
Ah, thank you for wording it much better than I did. xD
Mel_AndCholy 1 points 2y ago
np <3
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