That shadow explanation is so vague holy shit. Just explain it like this: Imagine it's raining. The rain represents light. Now put a table on the ground. The rain will hit the ground everywhere except underneath the table. That spot where the table blocks the rain from hitting the ground is like a shadow.
Censtudios You're right. That is what I associate a cloud with (something fluffy) but it might not be the best way to explain it to a person born blind. But I thought of a new way. You know how, when some people vape, they blow a huge cloud of vapor? For a couple of seconds you can even put your hand through it and actually feel the vapors on your skin. Well, that would be a way to give a blind person tactile feedback on a cloud.
@@celestek.2395 I think he was flaeweles. He closed the eyes to try enter into the world of another person to figure it ou how to translate and he use poetic language. So beautifull.
Thanks for letting me try to explain a rainbow, Tommy! I'm not sure I did a very good job, but trying to explain something made of colors without talking about colors is kind of a challenge :)
It's okay, you tried your best to describe a rainbow. As a blind person myself, I understood what you were trying to say and the concepts behind it. So thank you so much for the effort.
I would have probably explained it with textures. Image sliding your hand across something and every second the texture changes. Every possible texture next to each other. A rainbow is that but with every color.
Zphyra Ryuu A round room would still have edges. It would still have walls. A room with no walls could blow a blind person's mind. Heck, sighted people's minds! It's kind of like being outside, but even the outdoors have a floor. Space has no up, down, right, left, forward or backward. Just floating....
-A shadow is like when you're in the shower, and you block some of the water. The spot where the water isn't hitting (because you blocked it) is like a shadow. -A rainbow is like when you're in a large room, and you can hear a faint hum, but the resonant properties of the room make that hum into a perfect chord, or a pleasing set of harmonics. -Fog is just water in the air. It's humidity that's been cooled. It's what clouds are made of.. And that's why clouds make rain too... Fog is just a low hanging cloud. -Heat shimmer is like how things sound different underwater. Sounds travel through different materials of different densities at different speeds. Light sort-of does this too. Because the ground is hot, it heats the air, which rises and gets replaced by cool air. Hot air is less dense than cool air, and because of that, the light travelling through it gets bent and we can see a rippling effect. -Clouds are just water... in the air... They're fog that's high up in the sky. They look fluffy like cotton, but they're just water.... in the air... -A sunrise is what happens when earth rotates enough for you to be out of it's shadow. Night is when you're in the earth's shadow, day is when you aren't. (stacking definitions... but hey... it works...) -That girl's definition of space is absolutely perfect...
yoyofargo Really good descriptions, I couldn't think of one for a shadow and that makes a lot of sense. I'd like to add a little something though to maybe make it more clear and I'm going to share my own descriptions. - building upon your description, where the floor becomes wet is like light. Something is hitting that spot and changing how it looks (aka making it bright or in in this case wet). But that spot where the water isn't hitting the floor is like a shadow because it's dry since your body is blocking the path of the water nothing is hitting it (and it would be darker if the water was light). - the way I think of to describe a rainbow is like this. It's a rainy day, its cold, wet, and humid. After the rain stops it still doesn't feel great, the cold and wet feelings linger until the sun can dry everything out. But before the sun can shine and everything begins to feel warm and dry, a rainbow appears and, while it doesn't warm like the sun does, its an arch in the sky that mentally gives you the feeling of warmth and peace that a sunny day brings. - It's hard to describe fog since it is so visual, but besides the feeling of cold and humidity you feel when it is foggy, it also obscures seeing people's vision. Imagine being in a room. Immediately around you is your couch, coffee table, etc. But the farther away from the couch you get, the less there is around you but the room stretches on forever. What is immediately next to you is visible, you know it's there, but farther away you just can't tell what's there. Many artists (canvas, game, or otherwise) actually use fog as a representation of being blind to depict the experience to seeing people. - I can imagine heat shimmers as an upside-down waterfall. You know the feeling of running water? imagine that it went the opposite way, up instead of down. When it's really hot outside and a surface such as the road becomes unbearably hot, colorless waves rise up from the ground. While heat is not wet, i think it can be accurately compared. - Clouds are difficult as well. Do you have a favorite pillow? Or have you ever held poly-fill? That's what a cloud looks like. It looks like it would be soft and comfy, but clouds are actually just frozen water particles in the sky. When it gets stormy though the clouds block out the sun, which is why it's often cold and humid before a storm. The clouds also make it rain, since the water particles that make the cloud get too heavy and fall down to earth. - yoyo's definition is scientifically pretty accurate, but I also feel a sunrise is more emotional than the difference between light and shadow. Most people love watching the sun rise or set. The sky becomes so many different colors it's beautiful and inspiring. Listening to a really peaceful but beautiful song for the first time, relaxing with someone you love and haven't been with in a while, stoking something soft and comforting, the feeling of wonder, happiness, and tranquility I feel perfectly describes the feeling of seeing a sun rise. - I agree, that girl's definition of space was great. Just a wide expanse of space above you, filled with minuscule balls of light hanging in mid air which are so far away from your grasp, and in reality are thousands, billions, and trillions times our own earth's size.
great explanations most of the video explanations turn to the emotional side of how it feels to see the thing, but not really get what the thing is. the sunrise explanation is really like he is explaining what is beauty, not sunrise. but you did it logically. Good job.
The feeling he described is the appreciation of the current monent, appreciation of now, becoming one with the wind that touches your skin. Alan Watts called it Furyuu I think. Like when you're fishing and forget about the fish because you feel tranquility running through your entire body. Or a feeling you might get after a particularly good meditaion session. It's kinda funny how sunrises just don't work on a picture or video, but give such a profound feeling when experienced live. It makes me think that there is a soul to this world. The eternal oneness or something.
No he was being very sweet with trying to step into Tommy's shoes by closing his eyes and was really trying to describe it with the help of that. If thats what you call high then youre high
I love hearing how people would describe things to someone who can't see... I have always wished I was good at describing so I could try and tell my brother how things look to me since he is blind..... It's very difficult!!! Good job to these people..... Very creative thinking and some very nice people :-) Awesome video!!
Jess Kalford I'd describe color as different gradients of sandpaper. We sighted would lay out what every color "feels" like, and a blind person would runs their fingers across each to get a sort-of sensation of what color makes people feel.
Jess Kalford I personally would describe colour more like a scale of musical notes. Certain colours look good together just like certain notes sound good as chords. You can get different shades of colour like how the same note sounds different on different instruments. I believe Tommy said once that he didn't get how the sky was blue and something completely different (I can't remember the exact thing) like a blueberry was blue, but a bird can sing a note just like if you hit something metal it'll sound the same note.
I think the best way to describe things that can only be seen to a blind person is to translate them into other senses: A shadow looks the way a footprint feels. It's the same material as the surrounding, but there's an imprinted outline. And slightly cooler. Fog looks the way a voice sounds when someone is talking through a closed door. Everything is just muffled slightly, and the thicker the door, the more muffled the voices. Clouds are just fog so far away that you can't accurately judge the scale. (Just like how you can tell the difference between a voice right next to you and a voice from across the room, but it's a lot harder to judge the difference between a sound coming from a hundred feet away and a sound coming from two hundred feet away.) So clouds look smaller and therefore denser then fog. The best way I can describe the way a cloud looks from the ground is to imagine the texture of blobs of shaving foam floating on the surface of water. Heat shimmers look like the way a Dalek's voice sounds. It's almost normal, except everything is vibrating. Space is probably infinite, and since our minds can't really conceive the infinite, it looks flat to us. Imagine a domed ceiling covered with very tiny crystals -- a few somewhat larger ones, but most of them so small they're barely noticeable. And while it's true that everything in space is moving, their relative positions change so slowly that it looks like they're stationary. Lighting. If sight were sound, imagine a completely silent room, and then out of nowhere, somebody clapped his hands once very loudly. If you happen to be looking directly at where the lightning hits (which is rare, because you don't have any advanced warning where to look), it would have the shape and feel of a very long crooked stick made of very hot glass, which disappeared about a quarter of a second. The sun looks kind of like the way a hot light bulb. You can tell it's round, but you can't really feel the edges, because as soon as you feel the heat, you instinctively pull your hand away. Likewise, you can sort of see that the sun is round, but you can't really look at the perimeter, because it's so bright, you instinctively move your eyes away from it. As for a sunrise, specifically, the atmosphere filters out some of the brightness, so it's easier to look at. Think of a light bulb that was just turned on, and it's warm, but not too hot yet. And, of course, it's very slowly rising into the sky. Now for the difficult one. Rainbows look like something that's there, but not there, fluid, yet stationary, and change positions depending on which way you're looking at them. The edges are a blur, and if colors were musical notes, then the color or a rainbow would be like a slide whistle, just running through all of them in a smooth succession. The best way I can describe the apparent shape of a rainbow would be a giant, semicircular... ripple? Yeah, let's go with a ripple.
I love how he was genuinely mind blown by the young Asian girls explanation of space. Everyone else was making things way more complicated then necessary. rainbows and sunrises don't make me feel like I'm with loved ones it's just pretty to look at it, his dominant sense is sound so compare it to something pretty to listen to. a rainbow is like a chord of pleasant notes being played at once in a steady rise and fall in volume. If a shadow is the outline of an object blocking a source of light, then while I'm talking and someone large walks in between me and him then my voice will momentarily be muffled, the person has casted an audio shadow.
A lot of people are talking way to abstract, when they need to be precise. In a way this is like a translation of languages, where senses are there own different language. If I had to tell you what the Danish word "sulten" means and I talked about it abstractly e.g. "you feel like you are empty inside", it is not certain that you fully grasp it, but if I could be precise enough and tell you it means "hungry" you would understand completely. Now I know that it is not as easy as translating a word, but my point is that we should try to make as precise and simple translation as possible, instead of abstract explanations trying to describe the sensation rather than translating it.
I feel like "poetic" implies capturing the essence or an aspect of something., so for me at least the description wasn't poetic - listening to it I was like: I don't think I've ever experienced a rainbow like that.
@@nateman10 If you can see stars at night, why wouldn't you be able to see stars in space? It surely depends on where you are. If you are in the shadow (of the earth or anything else) and the sun is not shining at you brightly, then you'd have to see stars more clearly than on earth.
I love how the person describing a sunrise closed their eyes and really tried to experience it as a blind person to describe it to Tommy. Everyone did an amazing job at trying to give him the feeling of what they were asked to describe. And I just love Tommy and his outlook on life, what a special person he is.
What is a sunrise like: Imagine a completely silent room. Then, from one corner, your start to hear someone rythmically playing a high piched piano key. Softly and slowly at first, but then bit by bit louder and faster. Little by litte, different notes are added, forming a more and more complex melody. Violins start playing along, then trumpes, and suddenly, a whole orchestra is playing a beautiful score that makes you happy and sad at the same time.
It really is impossible to describe how something looks to someone that has never seen anything. Because if you think about it, the concept of seeing is impossible for them to understand in the first place.
She was thinking of mind fog I think. Like a foggy head where you can't think clearly. Most of us were thinking fog as in a weather condition. She just took on an alternative definition.
Hearing these non visual descriptions of purely visual experiences is, if you pardon the pun, eye opening. It has helped me to think about these things like I never have before. Thank you for making this wonderful video.
This brought back good memories for me. I used to try to explain stuff like this to my grandfather who went blind as an infant. He has been gone a long time now and it was nice to revisit those unique moments with him. Rest In Peace, Pa.
I want you to know that your videos makes me appreciate my vision and all the beautiful things I can see. Your videos are both funny, interesting and they make me appreciate existence.
I think the people in this video did an unsatisfactory job of relating sight to something you can understand. I don't think anyone can truly convey the experience of sight through words, but I do believe I can draw a strong analogy of sight to hearing that might help you understand it better. I would say that colors are analogous to different pitches of sound. pitch is determined by the frequency of vibration in the air, color is determined by the frequency of light. Certain colors invoke certain moods in people depending on culture and context. A minor chord can feel dreary, like the greyish blue of a rainy day. A rainbow can be compared to a musical scale, with the colors arranged in a pleasant and orderly manner. Brightness is like volume. If an sound is distant, quiet, or muffled, it can be difficult to make out what it is. The same goes for vision. If in object is obstructed, far away, or dimly lit, it is hard to see it in detail. Too much brightness can be blinding, just like how a very loud sound can be deafening. A highly saturated image is one that is made up of only one wavelength of light. This is analogous to a single pitch of sound. An unsaturated image is made up of all kinds of light, which drown each other out and become grayscale. This is analogous to hearing white noise, or pressing all the keys on a piano at once. Distortion, such as the heat waves mentioned in this video, would be comparable to a warbling or modulated sound, fluctuating in perceived location or pitch.
Good analogy. I also think the best way to describe something to a person missing a sense, is to focus on another sense and find an analogy through that. You did it with sound, I have seen other good examples with taste and the girl talking about space in a way used feel (awareness of the room and its boundaries ). The analogies fail when people are talking to abstract or vague. Your example was good because it gave a concrete and precise translation of the light to sound.
Vision is such a truly beautiful thing. And, I think one of the main impacts you’ve had on millions of sighted people, is allowing them to recognize and be aware of that.
It great to look at something so ordinary to us, discribed in such a beautiful way. Like, with the feelings and all of that. I mean, when you see everything, it doesn't always create a feeling or emotion. Because it is so ordinary to us. It gives a different point of view on the world. Looking into the world not by seeing it, but by feeling it.
Middle-aged blind guy here too. In my experience, most people are way better at describing things then they give themselves credit for. Think about it like this. When you're looking at something like a sunset, rainbow, or something like that, you're taking in literally thousands of images per second. I know, science again ;-) I'm an engineer, shoot me. Anyway, you're taking in all this information. And when you stop and think about it, speech is a very slow way to communicate it. Most people are way better at describing things than they ever give themselves credit for. Even though I'm personally an atheist who loves science, A major part of the description for me it's just the vibe the person gives off. If it's something they're enjoying looking at. Honestly, I really like all these descriptions. This is a great channel; I love the vids.
beatngu Right, if you just associate notes with colors, a rainbow is like a scale of those notes; they're in a specified order, and they sound nice when they're played like that.
I would LOVE to see a visual representation of how tommy imagines the world, we've seen him draw or sculpt what he thinks things look like, and they've all been slightly wrong, of course, he's never seen anything, but I know he pictures things in his kind like we all do, how does the world look to someone who can't even comprehend what a colour is, he has a view of the world that is unique to him it's amazing to me, keep being the great person you are Tommy!
I'd describe a rainbow in relation to sound. It's a visual version of a really good harmony. The different notes blending together in a really enjoyable way, but distinct enough that you can tell them apart.
People are getting really poetic and fancy with their descriptions in this video.. I'm just sitting on the edge of my seat like "NO you idiots, you can make it way clearer than that, give me five minutes with Tommy, he'll get it!"
I love this channel bc it's sharing a world with ppl who otherwise couldn't fathom it. Also I love the guy who described a sunrise bc he closed his eyes to do so and relate.
here are my explanations (sorry it's long, but I feel It's pretty accurate and would lose that if it was shorter) - "A shadow is like when you're in the shower, and you block some of the water. The spot where the water isn't hitting (because you blocked it) is like a shadow." (+YoYoFargo) building upon his description, where the floor becomes wet is like light. Something is hitting that spot and changing how it looks (aka making it bright or in in this case wet). But that spot where the water isn't hitting the floor is like a shadow because it's dry since your body is blocking the path of the water nothing is hitting it (and it would be darker if the water was light). - the way I think of to describe a rainbow is like this. It's a rainy day, its cold, wet, and humid. After the rain stops it still doesn't feel great, the cold and wet feelings linger until the sun can dry everything out. But before the sun can shine and everything begins to feel warm and dry, a rainbow appears and, while it doesn't warm like the sun does, its an arch in the sky that mentally gives you the feeling of warmth and peace that a sunny day brings. - It's hard to describe fog since it is so visual, but besides the feeling of cold and humidity you feel when it is foggy, it also obscures seeing people's vision. Imagine being in a room. Immediately around you is your couch, coffee table, etc. But the farther away from the couch you get, the less there is around you but the room stretches on forever. What is immediately next to you is visible, you know it's there, but farther away you just can't tell what's there. Many artists (canvas, game, or otherwise) actually use fog as a representation of being blind to depict the experience to seeing people. - I can imagine heat shimmers as an upside-down waterfall. You know the feeling of running water? imagine that it went the opposite way, up instead of down. When it's really hot outside and a surface such as the road becomes unbearably hot, colorless waves rise up from the ground. While heat is not wet, i think it can be accurately compared. - Clouds are difficult as well. Do you have a favorite pillow? Or have you ever held poly-fill? That's what a cloud looks like. It looks like it would be soft and comfy, but clouds are actually just frozen water particles in the sky. When it gets stormy though the clouds block out the sun, which is why it's often cold and humid before a storm. The clouds also make it rain, since the water particles that make the cloud get too heavy and fall down to earth. - Scientifically, it's the transition from night to day, but I also feel a sunrise is more emotional than the difference between light and shadow. Most people love watching the sun rise or set. The sky becomes so many different colors it's beautiful and inspiring. Listening to a really peaceful but beautiful song for the first time, relaxing with someone you love and haven't been with in a while, stoking something soft and comforting, the feeling of wonder, happiness, and tranquility I feel perfectly describes the feeling of seeing a sun rise. - I agree, that girl's definition of space was great. Just a wide expanse of space above you, filled with minuscule balls of light hanging in mid air which are so far away from your grasp, and in reality are thousands, billions, and trillions times our own earth's size.
a heat shimmering is kind of like an echo but with sight instead of sound. its not the same effect but i think the distortion in both is good enough to give a blind person a good idea of what its like.
A shadow is like when you're standing under an umbrella in a rainstorm the place where the rain doesn't hit is the shadow. Now just imagine that a light is shining instead of rainwater drops.
The thing I wish you could see Tommy is how beautiful your smile is and how friendly you look all the time. you remind me of great friend I had - one of those rare, one of a kind people - who was a true master to me and many others. RIP Jober Veloso you will never be forgotten.
Another great video! Just a suggestion, I think it would have been more interesting if what the people were trying to explain was revealed after they explained it. On a side note, I don't know how old the kid who talked about thunder was, but he is not that young to explain lightning as "molecules and chemicals." Just a little thing that sort of disturbs me as someone who loves physics.
I liked the shadow description of how when the sun is on your arm it feels warm, but when something blocks the sun from hitting your arm it feels cooler. Someone below talked about blocking water from falling in the shower- that was a great description, too.
Best way i can describe a rainbow. A six string guitar. Each string plays a different pitch arranged low to high. All lined up in a row, parallel to each other. As you pluck the first string from the top (the biggest) that is red. A low pitch that is similar to red in intensity. As you strum down you get orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Holding a guitar and placing your hand over all six strings, knowing that you are feeling an organized collection of six different sounds that your ears can hear. A rainbow is similar in that it is a collection of organized colors that our eyes can see.
I am curious how a blind person perceives of distances. Without a horizon line, what references do you have? If walking I suppose you could count the steps, but in a moving vehicle, how do you know how fast or far you are travelling?
I think it's really cool how the guy talking about the sunrise closed his eyes while trying to describe it to Tommy. It made his answer seem genuine and like he was trying to put himself in the same shoes. He also did a pretty good job, right on man!
When you've been blind your whole life it's better to stay blind because you don't know what being sighted is like. But if you were sighted then became blind then feeling is much worse because you were so used to relying on your primary sense.
+Chrnan6710 He's blind from birth. No amount of eye surgery could ever give him vision. It's not just about the eye in this case, it's also about the occipital lobe of the brain. How do you think he has so good of the touch sense.
This was very intriguing. Thank you for thinking of this and taking the time to record and post it. Space - Imagine running into an empty, cold room. Silent as death. Suddenly, the floor beneath you disappears. You're floating. Down is up. Left is right. There is no direction anymore. There is only vast emptiness and cold. You feel very alone, and somehow very connected at the same time. You realize how small you are, how finite your life is. In the distance, so far off you couldn't reach them in a thousand lifetimes, there are pockets of warmth. Huge planets multitudes bigger than the one beneath your feat swirl around stars. There are millions in every direction. They don't care about you, they don't even note your existence. They are majestic, powerful, and ageless. That is space.
All of these people are giving such wishy-washy explanations about FEELINGS and EMOTIONS. Which is fine, but he didn't ask that. He asked what those things are. Aside from describing space, no one actually explained what they are to him.
I thought that was the challenge. Since he can't see it the way they really are it makes more sense to describe them with things he can feel himself rather than just giving him physical facts. I didn't really like the space explanation
David Bowie Sama Sensei Senpai Sama Sensei Kun he already knows what they are, Horst is right, he wanted people to describe them in a way he can better understand them
its surprising how people fail so hard at describing things, A: a shadow is the 2d anti-projection of a 3d object, it is the same shape as the shadowing object but it can be skewed B: a rainbow is a curved band or light, it is multicolored so within that band you can distinguish other bands running along it, but the colors gradient into each other so smoothly and with such high resolution that its impossible to quantize it into saying how many colors are in it. and BTW Joe Hanson is wrong, many colors are not in the rainbow, Pink isnt in the rainbow for instance. C: fog is a semi-transparent blob floating in the air that can give a great sense of depth as things are further away due to the fog obscuring the image more, and at other times it can be so thick that it obscures the world around you and makes you feel like your in a new place. D: visualizing heat waves would be like if you painted an image on your skin, and then start poking that image, the view stretches and contracts very randomly in small regions. IRL the heat waves make things at a distance jump around as the light is bent through the air before it hits your eye or camera. E: clouds are massive and very impressive blotches that are far out of reach, they are forever changing and they can have a very deep sense of depth to them. but then you remember that the clouds your looking at are even more massive than they seem, being miles wide. ah fuck it, nobody's gonna read this anyway.
i think most of them tried to describe the intangibles by considering how can tommy indicates those intangibles (not a definitive description per se) so tommy can actually feel its presence, therefore it is believe-able as existing.
The problem with your description is that you just described how it looks. Tommy can’t see how it looks. He hasn’t no concept of colors, so rainbows and sunrises would be particularly hard to describe. The people had to use the other senses to describe the intangibles. There’s no way Tommy could get a feeling of a rainbow from someone saying it’s a band of light with colors in it. He’d have no idea what that means. I think their descriptions, for the most part, were very well done. They didn’t have any time to prepare or think about it, they just said the first thing that came into their mind when they think of that object.
not true, he should know what a band is if you make him touch a rubber band, you can even give it the shape of a rainbow, then you explain that the color can be perceive a sound note and how the notes go form one to another smoothly and he gets it, hell never see the color itself, but he can get it i feel
A rainbow to a blind person would be like getting all of their favorite textures together then setting them in a row and getting to experience them all seamlessly instead of independently. That coupled with an awe and joy of being able to experience it. A sunrise/sunset to a blind person would be sort of similar in nature. Except the textures are never quite exactly the same arrangement or amount, so you experience the textures you love but it will feel slightly different (but just as amazing) every time. Those experiences also coupled with a sense of peace. Fog to a blind person would be if you had to feel something through a cloth or sheet. And the thicker the sheet, the harder it is to identify what it is you are holding.
oh my god this video is more inspiring than I thought! Love it man! And I encourage anyone who is reading this comment to close your eyes and start describing the intangible concept to yourself, yes, yourself. Welcome to your world, your instinct connection with the nature which is not shared with anyone, your very own experience to the world
Samuel Lo yes but they seem like they're not because they're just floating and you can go through them in a plane, so they seem like they have space in between...
Samuel Lo I bet that's true actually. They are made of water, and they're massive. Water weighs a LOT. I'd bet if you collected all the water in a cloud and brought it down here it would weigh a crazy amount. Way to think outside the box!
1:09 Wow! That's the worst description of a rainbow that I've ever heard! Smart? haha. 3:00 That guy was describing his hair! 3:30 I think he was describing an orgasm rather than a sunrise.
+Deez Nuts lol, well I'm sure he has been told that he is a white person. But like many other subjects, it is intangible to him so he could never really fully grasp it. Which is probably for the best.
The way he described a rainbow, i dont even think i know what one is now
John Murgatroyd hahhaahahaha
I don't even know if I am real any more.
John Murgatroyd He is on Acid for sure! haha
+John Murgatroyd "picture the end of forever.."
jojo270003...HUH?! HA! ;-p
I love the end when space is described and tommy goes "Oh my god" HAHA
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you can tell she described in a way nobody else could have. It's like he finally understood it.
Wow that space girl described it brilliantly
*oh my gawwwwd*
That shadow explanation is so vague holy shit. Just explain it like this:
Imagine it's raining. The rain represents light. Now put a table on the ground. The rain will hit the ground everywhere except underneath the table. That spot where the table blocks the rain from hitting the ground is like a shadow.
Censtudios You're right. That is what I associate a cloud with (something fluffy) but it might not be the best way to explain it to a person born blind. But I thought of a new way. You know how, when some people vape, they blow a huge cloud of vapor? For a couple of seconds you can even put your hand through it and actually feel the vapors on your skin. Well, that would be a way to give a blind person tactile feedback on a cloud.
Yeah, thats a good one. Although he could obviously feel the shadow too.
Censtudios that is exactly what I was gonna say.
Censtudios that's genius tbh
That’s a very static illustration. Good luck explaining shadow puppetry with that clumsy example.
Like for the guy who closed his eyes trying to describe a sunrise to someone who can't see...
+Mark Lopez The guy was about to attain nirvana
+TheMegaJudas yo same exact somment before i saw yours. fist bump time.
Mark Lopez I thought he did absolutely amazing! I would love to know him.
@@celestek.2395 no it was absolutely awful
@@celestek.2395 I think he was flaeweles. He closed the eyes to try enter into the world of another person to figure it ou how to translate and he use poetic language. So beautifull.
Thanks for letting me try to explain a rainbow, Tommy! I'm not sure I did a very good job, but trying to explain something made of colors without talking about colors is kind of a challenge :)
LietenantVague what were you expecting from somebody with a channel called "It's okay to be smart"?
It's okay, you tried your best to describe a rainbow. As a blind person myself, I understood what you were trying to say and the concepts behind it. So thank you so much for the effort.
I would have probably explained it with textures. Image sliding your hand across something and every second the texture changes. Every possible texture next to each other. A rainbow is that but with every color.
@@Tsharkeye - I love that! I would never have come up with that analogy.
@Bootsandcats to be smart
I can imagine how a "room with no edge" could be mind blowing to a blind person.
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richard mai It's mind blowing to me too, and I can see really, really far.
richard mai I am sighted and I find space mind blowing
Opuskrokus A round room? ._.
Zphyra Ryuu
A round room would still have edges. It would still have walls. A room with no walls could blow a blind person's mind. Heck, sighted people's minds! It's kind of like being outside, but even the outdoors have a floor. Space has no up, down, right, left, forward or backward. Just floating....
-A shadow is like when you're in the shower, and you block some of the water. The spot where the water isn't hitting (because you blocked it) is like a shadow.
-A rainbow is like when you're in a large room, and you can hear a faint hum, but the resonant properties of the room make that hum into a perfect chord, or a pleasing set of harmonics.
-Fog is just water in the air. It's humidity that's been cooled. It's what clouds are made of.. And that's why clouds make rain too... Fog is just a low hanging cloud.
-Heat shimmer is like how things sound different underwater. Sounds travel through different materials of different densities at different speeds. Light sort-of does this too. Because the ground is hot, it heats the air, which rises and gets replaced by cool air. Hot air is less dense than cool air, and because of that, the light travelling through it gets bent and we can see a rippling effect.
-Clouds are just water... in the air... They're fog that's high up in the sky. They look fluffy like cotton, but they're just water.... in the air...
-A sunrise is what happens when earth rotates enough for you to be out of it's shadow. Night is when you're in the earth's shadow, day is when you aren't. (stacking definitions... but hey... it works...)
-That girl's definition of space is absolutely perfect...
yoyofargo I like this comment. Nothing more to add. These descriptions make sense to me.
yoyofargo Really good descriptions, I couldn't think of one for a shadow and that makes a lot of sense. I'd like to add a little something though to maybe make it more clear and I'm going to share my own descriptions.
- building upon your description, where the floor becomes wet is like light. Something is hitting that spot and changing how it looks (aka making it bright or in in this case wet). But that spot where the water isn't hitting the floor is like a shadow because it's dry since your body is blocking the path of the water nothing is hitting it (and it would be darker if the water was light).
- the way I think of to describe a rainbow is like this. It's a rainy day, its cold, wet, and humid. After the rain stops it still doesn't feel great, the cold and wet feelings linger until the sun can dry everything out. But before the sun can shine and everything begins to feel warm and dry, a rainbow appears and, while it doesn't warm like the sun does, its an arch in the sky that mentally gives you the feeling of warmth and peace that a sunny day brings.
- It's hard to describe fog since it is so visual, but besides the feeling of cold and humidity you feel when it is foggy, it also obscures seeing people's vision. Imagine being in a room. Immediately around you is your couch, coffee table, etc. But the farther away from the couch you get, the less there is around you but the room stretches on forever. What is immediately next to you is visible, you know it's there, but farther away you just can't tell what's there. Many artists (canvas, game, or otherwise) actually use fog as a representation of being blind to depict the experience to seeing people.
- I can imagine heat shimmers as an upside-down waterfall. You know the feeling of running water? imagine that it went the opposite way, up instead of down. When it's really hot outside and a surface such as the road becomes unbearably hot, colorless waves rise up from the ground. While heat is not wet, i think it can be accurately compared.
- Clouds are difficult as well. Do you have a favorite pillow? Or have you ever held poly-fill? That's what a cloud looks like. It looks like it would be soft and comfy, but clouds are actually just frozen water particles in the sky. When it gets stormy though the clouds block out the sun, which is why it's often cold and humid before a storm. The clouds also make it rain, since the water particles that make the cloud get too heavy and fall down to earth.
- yoyo's definition is scientifically pretty accurate, but I also feel a sunrise is more emotional than the difference between light and shadow. Most people love watching the sun rise or set. The sky becomes so many different colors it's beautiful and inspiring. Listening to a really peaceful but beautiful song for the first time, relaxing with someone you love and haven't been with in a while, stoking something soft and comforting, the feeling of wonder, happiness, and tranquility I feel perfectly describes the feeling of seeing a sun rise.
- I agree, that girl's definition of space was great. Just a wide expanse of space above you, filled with minuscule balls of light hanging in mid air which are so far away from your grasp, and in reality are thousands, billions, and trillions times our own earth's size.
great explanations
most of the video explanations turn to the emotional side of how it feels to see the thing, but not really get what the thing is. the sunrise explanation is really like he is explaining what is beauty, not sunrise.
but you did it logically. Good job.
If fog was a low hanging cloud we'd freeze to death when we went inside of it
UppyCuppyCake101 Not all clouds are made up of ice crystals. Fog is literally just a cloud that is low to the ground.
3:20 I love how he closed his eyes to describe it lol
Gabriella Johnson the way he described in terms a way a blind man could understand.
Gabriella Johnson well.. let's just say he lit up a sunrise between his lips
Dr. Xanax and nurse Succubus you mean it's yellow like the sun?
the space one was the best, thank you girl, you nailed.
It felt like he finally understanded it when he said oh my god
"The feeling of colors coming apart out of light, Its just like peh peh peh peh peh..." Idk what that guy is on, but he took too much.
Actually he is spot on. A rainboy is a refraction
That sunrise guy is high af lol
feels like having a blanket on and a breeze comes along at the same time.
The feeling he described is the appreciation of the current monent, appreciation of now, becoming one with the wind that touches your skin. Alan Watts called it Furyuu I think. Like when you're fishing and forget about the fish because you feel tranquility running through your entire body. Or a feeling you might get after a particularly good meditaion session. It's kinda funny how sunrises just don't work on a picture or video, but give such a profound feeling when experienced live. It makes me think that there is a soul to this world. The eternal oneness or something.
No he was being very sweet with trying to step into Tommy's shoes by closing his eyes and was really trying to describe it with the help of that. If thats what you call high then youre high
@@alexandermartinez1318 he may have been closing his eyes to fry and step into Tommys shoes but he was also stoned as shit.
Not necessarily
I love hearing how people would describe things to someone who can't see... I have always wished I was good at describing so I could try and tell my brother how things look to me since he is blind..... It's very difficult!!! Good job to these people..... Very creative thinking and some very nice people :-) Awesome video!!
Jess Kalford I'd describe color as different gradients of sandpaper. We sighted would lay out what every color "feels" like, and a blind person would runs their fingers across each to get a sort-of sensation of what color makes people feel.
Nope Nopety wow! thats a cool way of explaining it :-) !!!
Jess Kalford I personally would describe colour more like a scale of musical notes. Certain colours look good together just like certain notes sound good as chords. You can get different shades of colour like how the same note sounds different on different instruments. I believe Tommy said once that he didn't get how the sky was blue and something completely different (I can't remember the exact thing) like a blueberry was blue, but a bird can sing a note just like if you hit something metal it'll sound the same note.
thewoowooster wow!! very nice!! my brother plays the piano so im going to tell him it the way u described!! really awesome... :)
Jess Kalford Let me know if it helps him understand. :D
The guy who explained sunrise is stoned AF! :D That's why he explained it on a deeper level
I think the best way to describe things that can only be seen to a blind person is to translate them into other senses:
A shadow looks the way a footprint feels. It's the same material as the surrounding, but there's an imprinted outline. And slightly cooler.
Fog looks the way a voice sounds when someone is talking through a closed door. Everything is just muffled slightly, and the thicker the door, the more muffled the voices.
Clouds are just fog so far away that you can't accurately judge the scale. (Just like how you can tell the difference between a voice right next to you and a voice from across the room, but it's a lot harder to judge the difference between a sound coming from a hundred feet away and a sound coming from two hundred feet away.) So clouds look smaller and therefore denser then fog. The best way I can describe the way a cloud looks from the ground is to imagine the texture of blobs of shaving foam floating on the surface of water.
Heat shimmers look like the way a Dalek's voice sounds. It's almost normal, except everything is vibrating.
Space is probably infinite, and since our minds can't really conceive the infinite, it looks flat to us. Imagine a domed ceiling covered with very tiny crystals -- a few somewhat larger ones, but most of them so small they're barely noticeable. And while it's true that everything in space is moving, their relative positions change so slowly that it looks like they're stationary.
Lighting. If sight were sound, imagine a completely silent room, and then out of nowhere, somebody clapped his hands once very loudly. If you happen to be looking directly at where the lightning hits (which is rare, because you don't have any advanced warning where to look), it would have the shape and feel of a very long crooked stick made of very hot glass, which disappeared about a quarter of a second.
The sun looks kind of like the way a hot light bulb. You can tell it's round, but you can't really feel the edges, because as soon as you feel the heat, you instinctively pull your hand away. Likewise, you can sort of see that the sun is round, but you can't really look at the perimeter, because it's so bright, you instinctively move your eyes away from it. As for a sunrise, specifically, the atmosphere filters out some of the brightness, so it's easier to look at. Think of a light bulb that was just turned on, and it's warm, but not too hot yet. And, of course, it's very slowly rising into the sky.
Now for the difficult one. Rainbows look like something that's there, but not there, fluid, yet stationary, and change positions depending on which way you're looking at them. The edges are a blur, and if colors were musical notes, then the color or a rainbow would be like a slide whistle, just running through all of them in a smooth succession. The best way I can describe the apparent shape of a rainbow would be a giant, semicircular... ripple? Yeah, let's go with a ripple.
I love how he was genuinely mind blown by the young Asian girls explanation of space. Everyone else was making things way more complicated then necessary. rainbows and sunrises don't make me feel like I'm with loved ones it's just pretty to look at it, his dominant sense is sound so compare it to something pretty to listen to. a rainbow is like a chord of pleasant notes being played at once in a steady rise and fall in volume. If a shadow is the outline of an object blocking a source of light, then while I'm talking and someone large walks in between me and him then my voice will momentarily be muffled, the person has casted an audio shadow.
A lot of people are talking way to abstract, when they need to be precise.
In a way this is like a translation of languages, where senses are there own different language.
If I had to tell you what the Danish word "sulten" means and I talked about it abstractly e.g. "you feel like you are empty inside", it is not certain that you fully grasp it, but if I could be precise enough and tell you it means "hungry" you would understand completely.
Now I know that it is not as easy as translating a word, but my point is that we should try to make as precise and simple translation as possible, instead of abstract explanations trying to describe the sensation rather than translating it.
cool story
Søren Hougaard Rasmussen I’m a little late but thank you for the explanation.
That description of a rainbow was just poetic. That dude should do some writing.
Titouan Paitier Lol, this was below a comment that said, "Hey the guy describing the rainbow, yeah, what is he on??"
Titouan Paitier he has a UA-cam channel called it's OK to be smart. he is cool and smart
I feel like "poetic" implies capturing the essence or an aspect of something., so for me at least the description wasn't poetic - listening to it I was like: I don't think I've ever experienced a rainbow like that.
Titouan Paitier imagine living one day through that dudes eyes
If you havent already, go subscribe to his channel, it's okay to be smart.
Great content
Tommy's reaction to space was fantastic, haha. I think she blew his mind a little!
the guy that described the rainbow, said "an upside down c" is an arch. But an upside down c is still a c....
+Isabella McAwesomeME He should have said flipped over or something
Upside down u
+TheMowens1984 he tried explaining it to a person who has never seen a rainbow. so no, he is not being picky.
these coments have me diying. so funny:)
could've said Its a half circle
Aw the guy describing the sunset or sunrise he really tried his hardest and was the only person to close his eyes what a sweetheart!
Such a perfect explanation of space. That one surprised me.
omg the last woman's description was on point
@@nateman10 If you can see stars at night, why wouldn't you be able to see stars in space? It surely depends on where you are. If you are in the shadow (of the earth or anything else) and the sun is not shining at you brightly, then you'd have to see stars more clearly than on earth.
@@nateman10 *facepalm
@@nateman10 Your comment is far too long.
The sunrise description was beautiful
i love how jay fluent closed his eyes to be able to explain it better
The sunrise guy was baked. Lol.
I love how the person describing a sunrise closed their eyes and really tried to experience it as a blind person to describe it to Tommy. Everyone did an amazing job at trying to give him the feeling of what they were asked to describe. And I just love Tommy and his outlook on life, what a special person he is.
I really liked the description of space! She was able to describe it so simply wow
I like how Jay, who describes the sunrise, closes his eyes to focus on the emitions and not on the visual experiences.
I think the best analogy was the Room with no Edges... Amazing...
What is a sunrise like:
Imagine a completely silent room. Then, from one corner, your start to hear someone rythmically playing a high piched piano key. Softly and slowly at first, but then bit by bit louder and faster. Little by litte, different notes are added, forming a more and more complex melody. Violins start playing along, then trumpes, and suddenly, a whole orchestra is playing a beautiful score that makes you happy and sad at the same time.
Amazing how the girl in the end described space, spot on!
It really is impossible to describe how something looks to someone that has never seen anything. Because if you think about it, the concept of seeing is impossible for them to understand in the first place.
"Fog Is Like Having A Stuffy Nose"!?!?!?!?!?
WTF!?!?!?
Those Are Some Serious Drugs, That She's On!!!!!
She was thinking of mind fog I think. Like a foggy head where you can't think clearly.
Most of us were thinking fog as in a weather condition. She just took on an alternative definition.
I like how the guy describing the sunrise closed his own eyes to do it
I love how your such a good sport about being blind. Now realizing you probably won't see this comment.
Knock Knock Thanks
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Knock Knock he seent it!
thr337
I know its awesome!
thr337 I think he has someone read it to him and reply for him. I dont know :P
This, also, should be a regular feature... this makes you think of ways to describe things... in terms you hadn't thought of before!
Props to the girl describing space, that was actually an awesome explanation!
I would very much love to have a conversation with Tommy. He kind of makes you think about things in a completely new level
The space one was the best explanation.
Hearing these non visual descriptions of purely visual experiences is, if you pardon the pun, eye opening. It has helped me to think about these things like I never have before. Thank you for making this wonderful video.
I've been binge-watching your videos at work this morning... maybe the next 4 hours should actually consist of WORK...hmm..
The descriptions of a sunrise and rainbow were very eloquently put and very beautiful.
The girl describing space is very perceptive, intuitive & intelligent.
This brought back good memories for me. I used to try to explain stuff like this to my grandfather who went blind as an infant. He has been gone a long time now and it was nice to revisit those unique moments with him. Rest In Peace, Pa.
The kid gave a better explanation in his question than the adult answering what they were asked.
Sunrise chap was spot on. Well said, sir.
I want you to know that your videos makes me appreciate my vision and all the beautiful things I can see. Your videos are both funny, interesting and they make me appreciate existence.
The sunrise and rainbow guys brought tears to my eyes. Such a beautiful way to describe it.
I think the people in this video did an unsatisfactory job of relating sight to something you can understand. I don't think anyone can truly convey the experience of sight through words, but I do believe I can draw a strong analogy of sight to hearing that might help you understand it better.
I would say that colors are analogous to different pitches of sound. pitch is determined by the frequency of vibration in the air, color is determined by the frequency of light. Certain colors invoke certain moods in people depending on culture and context. A minor chord can feel dreary, like the greyish blue of a rainy day. A rainbow can be compared to a musical scale, with the colors arranged in a pleasant and orderly manner.
Brightness is like volume. If an sound is distant, quiet, or muffled, it can be difficult to make out what it is. The same goes for vision. If in object is obstructed, far away, or dimly lit, it is hard to see it in detail. Too much brightness can be blinding, just like how a very loud sound can be deafening.
A highly saturated image is one that is made up of only one wavelength of light. This is analogous to a single pitch of sound. An unsaturated image is made up of all kinds of light, which drown each other out and become grayscale. This is analogous to hearing white noise, or pressing all the keys on a piano at once.
Distortion, such as the heat waves mentioned in this video, would be comparable to a warbling or modulated sound, fluctuating in perceived location or pitch.
Good analogy.
I also think the best way to describe something to a person missing a sense, is to focus on another sense and find an analogy through that. You did it with sound, I have seen other good examples with taste and the girl talking about space in a way used feel (awareness of the room and its boundaries ).
The analogies fail when people are talking to abstract or vague. Your example was good because it gave a concrete and precise translation of the light to sound.
I feel so refreshed after hearing people explain what we can see... into words for Tommy...
good one Tommy!
You know when you walk across a carpeted room and touch a door knob and receive a shock....Well lightening is the mother of all shocks here on earth.
Apophis XO It's like a crack in wall, it's a line that bends left and right at sharp angles, and it fills the sky for half a second.
Vision is such a truly beautiful thing. And, I think one of the main impacts you’ve had on millions of sighted people, is allowing them to recognize and be aware of that.
It great to look at something so ordinary to us, discribed in such a beautiful way. Like, with the feelings and all of that. I mean, when you see everything, it doesn't always create a feeling or emotion. Because it is so ordinary to us. It gives a different point of view on the world. Looking into the world not by seeing it, but by feeling it.
when that guy described the sunrise my heart filled with joy. he did it reeeally good and im not blind at all.
if you start to think about all the sutff blind people can not experience.. its a lot
Middle-aged blind guy here too.
In my experience, most people are way better at describing things then they give themselves credit for.
Think about it like this. When you're looking at something like a sunset, rainbow, or something like that, you're taking in literally thousands of images per second. I know, science again ;-) I'm an engineer, shoot me. Anyway, you're taking in all this information. And when you stop and think about it, speech is a very slow way to communicate it.
Most people are way better at describing things than they ever give themselves credit for. Even though I'm personally an atheist who loves science, A major part of the description for me it's just the vibe the person gives off. If it's something they're enjoying looking at.
Honestly, I really like all these descriptions. This is a great channel; I love the vids.
Personally I would describe a rainbow using musical notation before warm hugs and sparks. Sorry joe :/
beatngu Right, if you just associate notes with colors, a rainbow is like a scale of those notes; they're in a specified order, and they sound nice when they're played like that.
Most people don't have a single clue about musical notation.
Agreed.
seigeengine I mean like actually play the notes, not describe it like I did.
I think I would be so happy to have Tommy as my friend. It would be so fun to explain things and help him with all sorts of stuff
It's strange the things you take for granted when you can see.
I would LOVE to see a visual representation of how tommy imagines the world, we've seen him draw or sculpt what he thinks things look like, and they've all been slightly wrong, of course, he's never seen anything, but I know he pictures things in his kind like we all do, how does the world look to someone who can't even comprehend what a colour is, he has a view of the world that is unique to him it's amazing to me, keep being the great person you are Tommy!
I had tears when the guy was describing a rainbow
+LosAnggraito Me too
I'd describe a rainbow in relation to sound. It's a visual version of a really good harmony. The different notes blending together in a really enjoyable way, but distinct enough that you can tell them apart.
That guy is really into sunrises haha. I wish we could see a "can people explain music to a deaf person"
to a blind AND deaf
Everyone's descriptions were so sweet.
People are getting really poetic and fancy with their descriptions in this video.. I'm just sitting on the edge of my seat like "NO you idiots, you can make it way clearer than that, give me five minutes with Tommy, he'll get it!"
I love this channel bc it's sharing a world with ppl who otherwise couldn't fathom it. Also I love the guy who described a sunrise bc he closed his eyes to do so and relate.
I found whole new respect for my eyes... I'm glad I get to see the universe before I die :)
I love how are your thumbnails are you smiling. You have a great sense of humour! Love it!
here are my explanations (sorry it's long, but I feel It's pretty accurate and would lose that if it was shorter)
- "A shadow is like when you're in the shower, and you block some of the water. The spot where the water isn't hitting (because you blocked it) is like a shadow." (+YoYoFargo) building upon his description, where the floor becomes wet is like light. Something is hitting that spot and changing how it looks (aka making it bright or in in this case wet). But that spot where the water isn't hitting the floor is like a shadow because it's dry since your body is blocking the path of the water nothing is hitting it (and it would be darker if the water was light).
- the way I think of to describe a rainbow is like this. It's a rainy day, its cold, wet, and humid. After the rain stops it still doesn't feel great, the cold and wet feelings linger until the sun can dry everything out. But before the sun can shine and everything begins to feel warm and dry, a rainbow appears and, while it doesn't warm like the sun does, its an arch in the sky that mentally gives you the feeling of warmth and peace that a sunny day brings.
- It's hard to describe fog since it is so visual, but besides the feeling of cold and humidity you feel when it is foggy, it also obscures seeing people's vision. Imagine being in a room. Immediately around you is your couch, coffee table, etc. But the farther away from the couch you get, the less there is around you but the room stretches on forever. What is immediately next to you is visible, you know it's there, but farther away you just can't tell what's there. Many artists (canvas, game, or otherwise) actually use fog as a representation of being blind to depict the experience to seeing people.
- I can imagine heat shimmers as an upside-down waterfall. You know the feeling of running water? imagine that it went the opposite way, up instead of down. When it's really hot outside and a surface such as the road becomes unbearably hot, colorless waves rise up from the ground. While heat is not wet, i think it can be accurately compared.
- Clouds are difficult as well. Do you have a favorite pillow? Or have you ever held poly-fill? That's what a cloud looks like. It looks like it would be soft and comfy, but clouds are actually just frozen water particles in the sky. When it gets stormy though the clouds block out the sun, which is why it's often cold and humid before a storm. The clouds also make it rain, since the water particles that make the cloud get too heavy and fall down to earth.
- Scientifically, it's the transition from night to day, but I also feel a sunrise is more emotional than the difference between light and shadow. Most people love watching the sun rise or set. The sky becomes so many different colors it's beautiful and inspiring. Listening to a really peaceful but beautiful song for the first time, relaxing with someone you love and haven't been with in a while, stoking something soft and comforting, the feeling of wonder, happiness, and tranquility I feel perfectly describes the feeling of seeing a sun rise.
- I agree, that girl's definition of space was great. Just a wide expanse of space above you, filled with minuscule balls of light hanging in mid air which are so far away from your grasp, and in reality are thousands, billions, and trillions times our own earth's size.
This is such a beautiful Video... Thank you so much for this! Thank you for your channel, keep going!
a heat shimmering is kind of like an echo but with sight instead of sound. its not the same effect but i think the distortion in both is good enough to give a blind person a good idea of what its like.
That space explanation was pretty damn good. She’d be a good teacher with the proper training.
A shadow is like when you're standing under an umbrella in a rainstorm the place where the rain doesn't hit is the shadow. Now just imagine that a light is shining instead of rainwater drops.
The thing I wish you could see Tommy is how beautiful your smile is and how friendly you look all the time.
you remind me of great friend I had - one of those rare, one of a kind people - who was a true master to me and many others. RIP Jober Veloso you will never be forgotten.
Another great video! Just a suggestion, I think it would have been more interesting if what the people were trying to explain was revealed after they explained it. On a side note, I don't know how old the kid who talked about thunder was, but he is not that young to explain lightning as "molecules and chemicals." Just a little thing that sort of disturbs me as someone who loves physics.
+Aubrey Ho I'm not that little 😂😂
The description of the rainbow was great
I remember just sitting there and being confused at first but then it started sounding warm and poetic
Do you dream of thoughts, or like feelings? What happens when you dream?
I liked the shadow description of how when the sun is on your arm it feels warm, but when something blocks the sun from hitting your arm it feels cooler. Someone below talked about blocking water from falling in the shower- that was a great description, too.
That sunrise guy was high!!!
The sunrise guy was one of the best. He described how sunrises make you feel, and managed to explain beauty fairly well.
Best way i can describe a rainbow.
A six string guitar. Each string plays a different pitch arranged low to high. All lined up in a row, parallel to each other.
As you pluck the first string from the top (the biggest) that is red. A low pitch that is similar to red in intensity.
As you strum down you get orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
Holding a guitar and placing your hand over all six strings, knowing that you are feeling an organized collection of six different sounds that your ears can hear.
A rainbow is similar in that it is a collection of organized colors that our eyes can see.
I am curious how a blind person perceives of distances. Without a horizon line, what references do you have? If walking I suppose you could count the steps, but in a moving vehicle, how do you know how fast or far you are travelling?
I think it's really cool how the guy talking about the sunrise closed his eyes while trying to describe it to Tommy. It made his answer seem genuine and like he was trying to put himself in the same shoes. He also did a pretty good job, right on man!
What even was that description of a rainbow
PaganiHuayra1 Drugs.
That sunrise description got me. These were some amazing explanations!
We should start a KickStarter to give this man vision. He deserves it.
Omg yes we should. But surgery is kinda dangerous.
Please let's do this
+Chrnan6710 no, he says there is plenty of good things about being blind!
When you've been blind your whole life it's better to stay blind because you don't know what being sighted is like. But if you were sighted then became blind then feeling is much worse because you were so used to relying on your primary sense.
+Chrnan6710 He's blind from birth. No amount of eye surgery could ever give him vision.
It's not just about the eye in this case, it's also about the occipital lobe of the brain. How do you think he has so good of the touch sense.
This was very intriguing. Thank you for thinking of this and taking the time to record and post it.
Space - Imagine running into an empty, cold room. Silent as death. Suddenly, the floor beneath you disappears. You're floating. Down is up. Left is right. There is no direction anymore. There is only vast emptiness and cold. You feel very alone, and somehow very connected at the same time. You realize how small you are, how finite your life is. In the distance, so far off you couldn't reach them in a thousand lifetimes, there are pockets of warmth. Huge planets multitudes bigger than the one beneath your feat swirl around stars. There are millions in every direction. They don't care about you, they don't even note your existence. They are majestic, powerful, and ageless. That is space.
All of these people are giving such wishy-washy explanations about FEELINGS and EMOTIONS. Which is fine, but he didn't ask that. He asked what those things are. Aside from describing space, no one actually explained what they are to him.
I thought that was the challenge. Since he can't see it the way they really are it makes more sense to describe them with things he can feel himself rather than just giving him physical facts.
I didn't really like the space explanation
Horst Döner
He asked what they were, not how they felt.
David Bowie Sama Sensei Senpai Sama Sensei Kun he already knows what they are, Horst is right, he wanted people to describe them in a way he can better understand them
Kobil Shakur
Then he should have said that.
Am I really simple minded or are these people smoking pot? These people make no sense!
that sunrise description was beautiful
its surprising how people fail so hard at describing things,
A: a shadow is the 2d anti-projection of a 3d object, it is the same shape as the shadowing object but it can be skewed
B: a rainbow is a curved band or light, it is multicolored so within that band you can distinguish other bands running along it, but the colors gradient into each other so smoothly and with such high resolution that its impossible to quantize it into saying how many colors are in it. and BTW Joe Hanson is wrong, many colors are not in the rainbow, Pink isnt in the rainbow for instance.
C: fog is a semi-transparent blob floating in the air that can give a great sense of depth as things are further away due to the fog obscuring the image more, and at other times it can be so thick that it obscures the world around you and makes you feel like your in a new place.
D: visualizing heat waves would be like if you painted an image on your skin, and then start poking that image, the view stretches and contracts very randomly in small regions. IRL the heat waves make things at a distance jump around as the light is bent through the air before it hits your eye or camera.
E: clouds are massive and very impressive blotches that are far out of reach, they are forever changing and they can have a very deep sense of depth to them. but then you remember that the clouds your looking at are even more massive than they seem, being miles wide.
ah fuck it, nobody's gonna read this anyway.
i think most of them tried to describe the intangibles by considering how can tommy indicates those intangibles (not a definitive description per se) so tommy can actually feel its presence, therefore it is believe-able as existing.
Rinoa Super-Genius nerd
The problem with your description is that you just described how it looks. Tommy can’t see how it looks. He hasn’t no concept of colors, so rainbows and sunrises would be particularly hard to describe. The people had to use the other senses to describe the intangibles. There’s no way Tommy could get a feeling of a rainbow from someone saying it’s a band of light with colors in it. He’d have no idea what that means. I think their descriptions, for the most part, were very well done. They didn’t have any time to prepare or think about it, they just said the first thing that came into their mind when they think of that object.
not true, he should know what a band is if you make him touch a rubber band, you can even give it the shape of a rainbow, then you explain that the color can be perceive a sound note and how the notes go form one to another smoothly and he gets it, hell never see the color itself, but he can get it i feel
A rainbow to a blind person would be like getting all of their favorite textures together then setting them in a row and getting to experience them all seamlessly instead of independently. That coupled with an awe and joy of being able to experience it.
A sunrise/sunset to a blind person would be sort of similar in nature. Except the textures are never quite exactly the same arrangement or amount, so you experience the textures you love but it will feel slightly different (but just as amazing) every time. Those experiences also coupled with a sense of peace.
Fog to a blind person would be if you had to feel something through a cloth or sheet. And the thicker the sheet, the harder it is to identify what it is you are holding.
The poet looks hella high. Lol
oh my god this video is more inspiring than I thought! Love it man! And I encourage anyone who is reading this comment to close your eyes and start describing the intangible concept to yourself, yes, yourself. Welcome to your world, your instinct connection with the nature which is not shared with anyone, your very own experience to the world
Clouds are actually very heavy.
Just like ur mom hehehehehehehheheheheh
Samuel Lo Well they're light but huge, so therefor heavy. The air in a 4x4 room that's 2 meters high weighs 40kg
Addison Vaughn LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Samuel Lo yes but they seem like they're not because they're just floating and you can go through them in a plane, so they seem like they have space in between...
Samuel Lo I bet that's true actually. They are made of water, and they're massive. Water weighs a LOT. I'd bet if you collected all the water in a cloud and brought it down here it would weigh a crazy amount.
Way to think outside the box!
Well done, by all the people you accosted ... they did good jobs explaining very complex, and seemingly impossible descriptions.
1:09 Wow! That's the worst description of a rainbow that I've ever heard! Smart? haha.
3:00 That guy was describing his hair!
3:30 I think he was describing an orgasm rather than a sunrise.
I think this was suppose to be a joke but it just comes off as mean
x99 no it comes off as funny as fuck you idiot
Being around grandchildren doesn't feel like an orgasm wtf
"like an upside down letter C"... Pretty sure that's still a C
I guess N stands for negative Nelly 😂😂😂
I love how the video ends after that explanation of space with "Oh my god!" haha
This video was frustrating to watch. I cringed so hard 😩😵😖
I appreciated all the responses in this video because it makes me think how miraculous this world really is
Tommy can you talk about racism. It is gonna be very interesting to here your ideas about this topic.
that is very interesting
That is an amazing topic to cover. The dude doesn't even know if he's white or black :O
+Deez Nuts lol, well I'm sure he has been told that he is a white person. But like many other subjects, it is intangible to him so he could never really fully grasp it. Which is probably for the best.
*hear