What do blind people actually see? If you’re imagining darkness, what made you so sure?
Closing our eyes is usually the closest we come to imagining life without sight. But can that tell us anything about a world we’ve never experienced?
We rely on vision so much that it’s hard to describe life without borrowing from it. Even the word “imagine” sends most of us looking for a picture.
This video explores blindness and a question we rarely ask: how much of someone else’s experience can we really understand through our own?
Before you watch, what do you think someone born blind experiences? Leave your answer in the comments.
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