What Do Blind People Visualize In Their Mind?
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- Tommy Edison, who's been blind since birth, talks about what a blind person visualizes in their mind.
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My father is blind due to retinitis pigmentosis, so he still had a small bit of vision when I was very, very young, but was fully blind after that. I recently had a similar conversation with him about how he visualizes things, and he said that it's strange because even though I'm 40, and my voice is far different, he still pictures the 4 year old me speaking to him when we chat.
😢💔 why are you making me cry
Oh man that breaks my heart
yeah humans dont really invent in the sense that we picked everything up from mother nature we dont really create we only implement things in different ways your father wasnt blind since birth thats why he can visualize things to a certain extent humans for example picked up shapes by striping down things we find naturally
I had this exact thought on mushrooms once
Aw that was very sweet. I do the same with former class mates or other people I haven’t seen in a while. In my mind, they look the same as the last time I saw them. Boy what a shocker when I do see them!
It makes my head hurt thinking about what it's like not even knowing what color is.
Every time you blink, you become blind. Completely.
@@asanteyadakavenz but they see it different, i think they see nothing but white judging by how tommy's pupils are white
@@TimeWisely there is no white. No thing. Some thing. Get it?
close one of your eyes tightly, and hold a flashlight to it for a significant period of time, like fifteen or so minutes, and you’ll temporarily become red-green colourblind. it’s trippy as hell, but i highly recommend it. it’s fascinating.
@Eddie Arias Yeah brother. Woan twrirtchling is the best. You forgot to mention the inner skuggs and the outer blamfries and how they schoom with the shumptwits for some reason? Remember son, them without need all the details to even slightly comprehend what we have. I will twirtchil you later when the woans are hufting.
I wish this man could get his vision at some point and just see everything for real to know if it's like he imagined...
Twiggier Lake that would be incredible.
Yes! Specially things so big he can't hold with his hands like a car, the sea, the sun, it'd blow his mind
+Twiggier Lake
But I think everything _is_ like he imagines, he just has no visual imagination. Like when I pick up this bowl, I feel that it's smooth and hard, and feels somewhat cool at room temperature, and I can feel the thickness as I move my fingers around the edge before feeling the volume along the other side (the "inside"). But I have no audible information with these headphones on. But this is tricky because I know what glass sounds like if I flick it, so I can make a guess. With no vision, he has no guessing at all. It's a totally foreign form of stimulation.
I assume that it'd be cool to see if he can make guesses once he sees a few things to start out though :)
that's what she said.
Dammit
What about math? What do you imagine or what do you represent each number as? What goes in your mind when solving a simple equation and a difficult one?
Jin if interested, you should read about Nicholas Saunderson, 4th Cambridge Lucasian professor of mathematics (Newton was the 2nd). Blindness certainly did not hold him back from succeeding in mathematics.
you visualise things solving equations in mind? I dont do that and Im not blind!
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i suppose you could just replace the picture of the number with the idea of the number, like he was saying, cus that's really the important part? we may manipulate the visuals of the numbers in our head to aid in mentally solving an equation but couldn't you also manipulate the concepts of the numbers around? and not spatially like in a picture, but perhaps spatially around you, like the idea of 9 is in front of me and 8 is to the right of it and so on. that's what i feel like he might say
As a very visual person i wonder this too. When i try to solve mathetical equation, I would imagine the equation or sequence or whatever need to be solved. I can't think of other way of doing it.
Has he tried sculpting? I feel like that would be a good way for him to express what he feeld
Feels*
why the fuck you dont search up on youtume tommy edison sculpting and see if you can find video or not..
Symix holy shit chill the fuck out
Helen Snyder he did sculpting play doh
Symix don't cry
That's fascinating, obviously you can't picture something like sighted people do, but I never thought of things like cars that are just too big for your sense of touch do grasp all at once. But I've seen you identify like the Empire State Building when you were given a small model of it, so I don't get how you do that. You must somehow be able to imagine the whole object after having it described to you else that wouldn't be possible... This just blows my mind :D
Krystof Dayne I was wondering how quickly could he identify a toy model of a car or various vehicles.
If I'm "understanding" correctly...an approximate example for us sighted people might be remembering a long stretch of road we have driven. I've seen overhead views of continents and stuff, but I only know stretches of interstate in "pieces." So if asked to describe/imagine it, I'd have to go through it in pieces....
The Empire State building had a things working in his favor, though it was surprising. But it wasn't like they were going to hand him a Motel 6 in Virginia and it has probably in a whole been described to him before and it is pretty iconic, though it is likely if you handed him a model of say, the Bank of America building in Atlanta, he might say Empire State building....
As a future teacher, I was wondering, is there anything you wish your teachers knew or could have helped you with better? Is there anything that you can think of, that you know now, that would have made your learning experience better?
Ashlie atm1996. If your in a position that you are teaching a blind child spend a week/most of the days with a blind fold on. I had to do this to see how my son eats walks explore his space. You can do the same for deafness. I think that is harder. Spent a lot of time around deaf people. My mom interpreted for them. When I was growing up.
I want him to see so bad ugh
if he saw you he would understand where hard on's come from...
@@travisdozier1357 lmao
@@travisdozier1357 Very smooth
Travis Dozier nice
Same here. I wonder if technology will ever allow someone like him to see? Would be amazing
Tommy you're an amazing person! It just must be said! 😁
Vikinger nice to find you here skål
Tommy you've never held a model of a car before? We need to have that happen. You seem to really enjoy them, it's a bummer to think you don't know what a whole one feels like.
I'm sure he knows perfectly well what it feels like all over, and what its shape is - he's surely held a toy car many times before. I think his point in the video is that his idea of a car is more fragmented than that of sighted people.
Triggerfisk I'm sure you're right but it still bums me out that he can't take in a classic car the way we can with its curves and over all style. He seems to like them and I just wish he could see something like a 69 charger or stingray corvette. they're both cars but so different in body style and power. The charger is long and more angular and is better for drag racing because the body doesn't work as well with speed. where as the stingray is shorter but more agile in performance with a more curved body with a sharp aerodynamic nose. its biggest downfall is that its body is made from fiberglass where the charger is made from steel. if something bad happened to the corvette its off to the scrap yard. They're art on wheels for me, in the fact I can't afford one and that they're beautiful hahaha
People really take sight for granted. At first, before I saw this channel, I thought sight was just another thing that sometime was stupid. But now... I can't ever imagine living without visualization or colors or- well, anything! Thank you for bringing me my real sight, Tommy.
Name Games sight is the best part of a human !
I've never thought of sight as stupid. As a born artist, I love vision. It's incredible and wonderful. Noise, though, sometimes annoys me when I want peace.
It's crazy to even imagine "shape" with absolutely no visual to ever go on. Purely tactile.
for the car, haven't you ever held a toy car? like hot wheels? same thing, just smaller.
I was thinking the same thing
I don’t think he was thinking about a toy car. Probably did not cross his mind when talking about it.
The wells are not quite the same.
Probably but it doesnt have the same indents and feel of an actual car
He basically doesnt have a third eye, it be impossible for him to even grasp what thinking even is
You are a fascinating dude Tommy... love your sense of humor and how you make me think about the world from a perspective I otherwise never would have imagined.
man, we taking everything, literally EVERYTHING for granted.
Subbed. It's crazy how I take my gift for granted, mind boggling actually
When you think about house you visualise it in mind? Or you try tk visualise it? I dont get it. I'm not blind but i dont visualise anything, i have stored concepts but dont necessarily try to visualise things
janpawełkubica I recall the most recent memory of me staring into a house, and basing my visualization on that house I imagined :D
@@edwardshowden5511 you might have aphantasia
Thank you for your positivity. You always make my day better.
Same. By god, if I ever win the lotto and medical science figures out how to give sight back to people, I'm paying for his surgery.
acousticpsychosis to be honest, i dont think he is concerned about being able to see. Some people dont want or need to change to be like everyone else. Tommy seems to get by on his own really well.
+Phanspastic, yeah I believe he's said as much in the past...its what he's known his whole life. I'd still offer though.
+Hugh M I have no idea what taking a bullet for a girlfriend while on the moon during an eclipse means, but thank you? lol
Love this guy, I've been binge watching all his videos this past week
Joseph Bowman Same!
dude, you are like a shining star, so lovable, always making me smile.
This is so fascinating, I tried imagining the things he mentioned without actually visualizing it and it’s basically impossible for me, my brain just immediately gets a picture of that thing, I can also think of shape and textures but not to the extent he does
Your videos are so interesting, it's insane.
I was hoping he would talk about things like the layout of his house, or of his neighborhood. Like, from where he is sitting, can he point to where the doorways of the room are? Can he imagine the location of his bathroom, from where he is sitting? What about outside? Can he imagine where the nearest store is in relation to his front door? What are his mental maps like? Does he have a sense of direction? For example, if he has a hallway in his house that runs north-south and another hallway that runs east-west, does he perceive the difference in direction?
Lars Lars Pantsonfars He imagine the shapes but not the places as a whole, all from his perspective.
I’m sure he understands directions lol all you have to do is trace where you came from and where you’ve been and relate it to where you are now.
Jero Toro yes everyone who doesn’t have site mind maps things including animals.
It's so cool like I can relate to this! I have a condition called aphantasia, which is the inability to hold a picture in your minds eye. I have such a hard time explaining how I experience things because I'm so conditioned to use words like "visualize." In fact, I always assumed these phrases were figures of speech because I didn't know I was different until I was about 12 or 13. I don't necessarily think about things based on touch, but more like through the words I use to describe things. I remember that my car is red, but when I close my eyes, it's merely a word to me.
“Imagine” he (or anyone blind from birth) gets their vision later in life, then kept isolated until their eyes adjusted and they could comfortably visualize everything. Then have objects brought in and see if they could guess what it is without touching it. That would be interesting
damn...
Woah
F8LDragon2 I was just reading about this! There’s a thought experiment about this exact question called “Molyneux's problem” and it has a wiki entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem
Lots of cool anecdotes in the “Recovery from blindness” article as well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_from_blindness
That's a very interesting question, thank you for answering :)
Imagine not being able to even imagine what something looks like....
Now that's a brainfuck.
Yes
i cant imagine imagining to not be able to imagine something.
I can't imagine what infrared light looks like. What color is it? As something red changes, to me it becomes darker and more transparent, then it's gone. And if we move through the many different colors up to violet, then the same thing happens again. I don't have a sense of color beyond these standard ones that every human has. I assume it's sort of like that.
Some sighted people can't create images in their mind, it's called aphantasia. Going blind would have to be the worst for them, because they would lose all imagery in their mind.
how to you "visualize" 3-D space? like navigating a familiar room. Do you imagine it all at once? if you were in on a couch in the room, would you be able to point to a window? how do u "picture" north, south, east, west? you can't feel or smell these things.
Psychedelics! People talk about what a visually stimulating experience that is. Wonder what that be like for him
Has been tested before (maybe not on blind people, but using drugs in test conditions in pitch dark has been done). Because visuals are particularly vivid that is what people would most likely speak of when reporting on their experiences, but all other senses are clearly up a notch as well. Smells, sounds, taste, it is all altered. This is also why people on drugs tend to seek our various sensory experiences like listening to music and eating foods that are rich in taste (particularly sweet food).
Wouldn't work for similar reasons as not seeing in imagination or dreams the brain has never experienced it so wouldn't be able to.
This is what I was wondering
Hey Tommy, here are some more difficult things I would like you to explain how you envision them in your head. I would love to hear your point of view on it all:
The Earth and the seven continents.
A silent movie
Artwork/posters
A crowd of people
The moon/The sun
A celebrity
Hairstyles
Musical instruments
Outer space
I would also like to hear you point of view on the following fears/phobias:
Darkness
Heights
Mimes
Bald people
People of a different race/skin color
I would love to hear your viewpoint on these less tangible thoughts and fears, but even if you don't reply I thank you for making all the videos you do. You're one of my favorite CZcamsrs and people, and I wish you were known to a wider audience.
TomeUnbound Man, these are terrific questions.
I love this channel! Keep up the amazing work!
i would give up my eye balls for this man to be able to see
Itachi
I don't think he's interested. He can see in the dark. You can't. It's just the opposite. Don't stress yourself.
No you wouldn’t.
@@asanteyadakavenz I think if he got his vision and saw another person for the first time ever it might actually be terrifying. He's never been able to imagine what a human face looks like only what it feels like, he can't imagine something in three dimensions or understand depth perception either. There would just be so much information happening to him at the same time it might be too much.
God bless you Tommy Edison. Because of your selfless act of vloging, I will never take my privileged eye sight for granted again. Peace be upon you Sir.
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Cool!! Thanks😀
how are you commenting this tho does someone else do it for you ?
Have you ever held a toy car and thought about that shape when thinking of a car?
Dani Sparrow are you stoned too? lol
The Tommy Edison Experience how do you imagine super massive objects and their size, like a sun, or one of those starts that are like 50x the size of our sun.
He's completely right about visual memories changing over time and becoming more distorted or vague.. memories aren't equivalents to our senses anyway, imagining a sound or image is not the same as hearing or seeing one, its an abstraction.
Wow, Tommy blows my mind over and over. I have learned that I take my sight for granted. I knew pop bottles had things on the bottom to keep them from falling, but I didn't know that there were 5 of them. Imagine how much more he knows of things because he studies them physically with his other senses.
This is so interesting. It really emphasizes the differences between spatial and visual memory. Sighted people likely consider the two very similar, because there is always a mental picture that follows our sense of shape or space. However this video really digs a line in the sand, very fascinating!
for real why do you downvote this video
because people like you comment asking why people down vote it which makes people want to down vote it.... reverse psychology
Fernando Dember Laguna because they are blind
Fernando Dember Laguna, they couldn’t see and accidentally hit it.
for real why do you ask about the downvotes when the dislike ratio is not even 1%?
I think one of the down voters is Tommy himself, just for a goof.
This is pretty interesting! When I was a kid and my daddy helped me to repair my car, he very often told that you need to have a good eyesight in your fingertips eg. when trying to assemble something in a very tight space where you can't reach and see at the same time.
Nope we don’t keep images in our minds forever, you’re spot on there :)
always wanted to know this! keep up the great work tommy! :)
These videos are so damn fascinating! I think you might've answered this before, but when did you first know you were different to others? How did people initially explain that you were blind and what being blind meant? Because I assume you would've thought it was normal for life to be like this. And when you were told that everyone else could "see" how did you attempt to comprehend this as a child?
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gosh, I just want to hug this man and make everything ok for him. he seems so funny, so nice, so kind to everyone he meets.
What makes these videos (and others like them) great, is it gives people a chance to ask the questions we've always wanted to know, but were either afraid, or didn't have the resources to ask.
Wooah total mindfuck, i never even thought about how you imagine and remember things!
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Have you read the article "To see and not see" by Oliver Sacks? Can you please tell me what you think of it if you read it.
I appreciate you posting a lot of these things that sighted people often wonder about how it is for blind people.
Idk why i love this guy so much ! Maybe cause he is so genuine and kind. A rare thing now and days
Funny. When he says he cannot "visualise" things, but he can "imagine" things, it occurs to me how clunky our natural languages are. "Imagination" is also a word I would naturally associate with a visual experience (being based on the word "image" and all). But of course, what other word could he have used? :-)
Michiel Helvensteijn remembering
I allways close my eyes while watching your videos
This way I think I can atleast get a small taste of your perception
WE LOVE YOU TOMMY! You the same as Lewis Qball, spread awareness of your specific disability, and I myself is disabled, it just warms my hearth that someone can make hundred and hundred of people enjoy and now with how you do the videos learn in a fun way of what it actually is so the predjudice hopefully gets obliterated!
and big thanks to Ben! You beautiful bastard! For helping Tommy out with everything that you do!!!
I would really like u to answer these questions !!
•do you see things in your dreams
•can you imagine colours, can u possibly visualise them
He doesn't really knows what colors are
what is your most dominant sense?
he can't text back he is blind
@@stevenvialpando8365 Bro that comment is from 2017. The answer is touching
Somebody give this man some Ayahuasca... he will SEE through his THIRD EYE.
this is mind blowing for me as somebody who's got good vision i can't stop binge watching these
Hi Tommy, our memories of what things look like do change as we get older. When I was a kid friends gardens seemed huge or places we'd hang out, woods and fields. When you go back as an adult and see how tiny it all is its so disheartening. How did I think it was enormous and never ending? ugh!
Hey Tommy, If you were given the option to have sight for 1 Hour once only, would you accept such offer knowning you'd never see again, and if you so choose to accept that 1 Hr of sight, what would be your top 10 things you would want too see???
hey Tommy love your videos keep up the awesome work !
Trying to imagine life in your world is as come to me as trying to comprehend the vastness of outer space. It starts to kind of drive me nuts trying to get a grasp on it. Really cool videos you have buddy.
Truly fascinating. When we think of something the image pops into our head almost automatically. In an attempt to visualise the way you do I tried thinking of grass without actually seeing it in my head.
Very difficult not to see it, so I imagine sitting on the grass with my eyes closed, whilst running through the grass. The vividness and tactile nature of recalling the feel of the soft, waxy grass that gives way effortlessly to the hand...amazing. I don't think it means I understand what it's like to be blind at all, but rather a tiny a little nugget of understanding.
Not to mention it's immensely pleasurable to think of things in this way.
Of course he can imagine something he hasn't touched. I mean what would happen if one told him "picture a larger ball joined with a smaller one"? He would obviously start to imagine handling it. What he was referring to was more of a ontological problem, a sort of "you can't imagine what you can't imagine" which works much the same for sighted people. The elements you use to describe a fictional object have to be known or approximated.
I am sighted, but I have aphantasia, meaning I cannot visualize things. The way he described how he imagines things is exactly how I imagine things too.
Same here!
Forgive me for finding that so hard to grasp. That is so interesting. If I may ask, if you were sitting down and you drew a picture and walk away, does that mean you can't remember in your mind the thing you drew down? You don't have an image in your mind at all of what you drew?
same here!!!! was looking for this comment. the mind is super interesting.
Pixel Puppy no it’s not like that, aphantasia doesn’t affect your memory like that. basically for me i think of things in words and words alone. i can not picture things whatsoever and never have been able to. it’s blindness in the minds eye. i can remember things just fine. but i literally can not picture things in my head.
This is so crazy, I just found this guys CZcams and it incredibly hard to try and even think about how he sees things. I don't know what it's like not to see. It's amazing.
I had a science teacher in high school that tried to explain what color was by the speed at which light bounces off of objects, and the character of how it corelates to other objects that surround it. I only half agree with him (not just because I think he was going senile), but also because I am an artist. Another science teacher told me that light (being that light speed is the fastest thing) comes in the form of beads projected from it's source. These theories seem to be fairly congruent. Dude, you are so awesome for making these videos. Don't stop. They are so cool.
Who are some people who are blind that you see as heroes?
Mr. Whatareyadoin Good one!
Mr. Whatareyadoin " see as heroes" "SEE as heroes"
+Nobody You got me!
daredevil
cyclops
I can see fully but I think I have aphantasia so when I close my eyes I imagine the concepts of what I am imagining I just see black. In school when we would be told to imagine something I never understood why we had to close our eyes and I didn’t understand that people actually saw an image.
I love watching your videos- they are amazing and upbeat. I volunteer with a woman who is blind and your videos have helped me to understand how to help her! We enjoy going shopping and being friends, and learning more about her world helps me guide her in stores and unfamiliar places. So, thank you! I told her about your channel because she mentioned that in her experience, most people who are blind are negative. But you are so positive and upbeat, I hope she listens!
Man Tommy, you've got one hell of a head on your shoulders. Just through the use of inference you nailed how visual memories work.
its just so weird to think about how blind people from birth think about the world. I can't imagine what "nothing" looks like. you say you don't see like, darkness but what do you see then? I mean when I close my eyes I see darkness, and just blackness. how can you see nothingness? what is nothing. I can't imagine what it looks like, its just so weird to me hahah.
Adriall !! And even when he is thinking about a shape of something. Is there like, a perspective?
I think they "see" black because black is the absence of light but a blind person doesnt know what black/darkness looks like so they call it "nothing".
Adriall Diabora blind people don’t know that they are seeing the color black because the have never seen a reference in real life.
Adriall Diabora They would put "nothing" into the category of "waving their hands around and feeling..'nothing'" I think
+Profgamer
I wonder about that because apparently there are people with brain injuries stop receiving visual signals altogether and they have distinctly different responses from people who have confirmation of being unable to see. I wonder if there's a difference between perceiving blackness and nothingness and what that difference might be.
Banana part got me weak 😂😂
This kind of makes sense to me, as a sighted person. When you "visualise something, you don't actually "see" it, but you remember what it looks like. This is the same thing, except you remember what it feels like, instead. I tried doing that, and I found that, while it's harder than remembering what it looks like, it's still possible to remember the feel of an object (shape, texture and so on), and what it sounds like, and smells like and so on. I imagine that's what you do, but, since part of your memory of an object isn't tied to the visual appearance, you have more of a memory of things that we never think of.
Amazing insight to what the world is like without sight. My grandmother was a bus driver for a school for the blind, and I remember her telling me that they "see" the world in a whole different way. You view the world with your hands and smell and taste.
How do you operate your iPhone? And don't you find it strange how such a featureless object can do so much?
um? go google how blind accesebility iPhone and you will have tons of information..
he have a video on how he uses his iphone
Symix why the um?
cause I dont see how low your IQ has to be to not know how to google...
hey ppl chill out
Ben got color for this episode, he must have been upgraded
Tommy is an incredibly interesting articulate man who does actually (for me as a sighted person) explain very well what he experiences being unsighted. I was especially interested in how he expressed that he didn't think that people could keep an image in their mind over time, but some things we can and do. It was also fascinating how he expressed the properties of objects he is familiar with because even sighted people will describe these things. He is an example of the ingenuity of human language because he uses such complex terms to describe experiences and objects that he has never seen.
Oh man. As a scientist, a discoverer, and a generally curious person, I wish you (Tommy) and I could switch places for a day. You can’t comprehend my world of seeing, and I can’t comprehend being blind. If we switched for just one day, we’d have the ultimate knowledge. I was told being blind is just nothing. No black, nothing. Like seeing out the back of your head. This is impossible for me to comprehend, as I am always used to constant light, even if it’s “Eternal Darkness” like when I close my eyes. It’s crazy how we can’t even begin to comprehend eachother’s worlds.
If you've ever played with toy cars then, you have touched a whole car or truck or plane or whatnot. They're the same except that the real vehicles are a million times bigger.
SnowWalker maybe 32 or 72 times 😅😅 not even ships are 1:1000 in scale
Yeah, but the ability to transpose the scale of an object is highly related to vision. Think of this, the sensation of touching a car is not the same as touching a toy one. The texture, temperature, body movement required to feel it just aren't the same. If a real car is "a million times bigger", then it's also a million times more confusing.
You must drive a hummer. For elephants. Like, ALL the elephants at once, in a car pool.
If you held and studied a 1x1 lego block and then held a 2x2 block, you would have a precise 3-dimensional feel for what "double" feels like, and how if the sides are doubled, how the area of a side is squared, the volume is cubed. I bet blind people have no trouble comprehending geometry as Tommy said in the video himself. The difficulty in his imagining the whole car isn't because of the size of a hotwheels car, it's the fine mechanical details. If he held a model of a car that had working doors, trunk, hood, maybe a removable roof so he could feel the entire space with his hands, then, he would have no trouble imagining the real car at a larger scale. I bet he just hasn't ever held that detailed and functional a model of a car.
I just ask myself on how good blind people are to name the color of things (like a banana is yellow, the coca cola label is red AND white, but also way more unknown things like the colors of the ebay logo, the tie from the pringles guy, the color of the CNN logo etc.). Do blind people know almost as many colors of things as sighted people, or way WAY less? Please do a video about it :)!
Well, to know the colors of something by heart, a blind person would have to be told repeatedly every single image or object's color(s). Hell, even sighted people have a hard time keeping it straight in our minds if there's like a complex design in a logo or something. Like, I couldn't tell you the colors of the rings in the logo for the Olympics. I don't imagine anyone has the time to sit down and tell Tommy the colors of everything in the universe.
but he listens tv, radio, talks with people. you always hear someone name a color for something. I think he knows 50% of the colors that sighted people know
You just have this aura, its contagious. Such a nice energy.
So you cant or dont create images in your head because youve never seen anything to create.
This is fascinating. I cant wrap my head around this.
Im so glad I found this guy.
Do blind people understand the concept of turning brightness up on a screen?
I'm curious, what does he use a phone for? or how does he use it if hes blind? not being rude or skeptical just wondering
to answer calls and make calls, to text, etc. Siri exists silly boy
Your videos have been really fascinating and intriguing and I love your sense of humor - much love to you!
This is fascinating for me - I'm sighted, but I have aphantasia so I also can't visualise anything in my head. Tommy's explanation at 0:22 is the most articulate description I've ever heard of what I imagine in my head when I try to think of something!
Do Blind people like sports and if so what sports do you enjoy?
Running
Can you tell if someone is lying?
He has already answered that.
This video has given me the most insight into your perspective out of any other I've seen thus far. Thank you.
As odd as it is to say, all his videos really open your eyes-perhaps 'mind' is better-to new ideas. I love this guy.
How do blind people figure out their sexual orientation?
Vincent G That's actually a really good question. Generally you know what you like by looking at either gender and seeing which makes you aroused... how does that work for him? Would he have to get intimate with both a bloke and a women to know which one he likes?
This is hella interesting haha but I don't think it's PG enough for him to make a video on it
Michael Smith
I'm really confused, are you from the UK or California?!
"Hella"
"Bloke"
MIXED SIGNALS
Michael Smith Voice, touch, smell, personality. It's not just looks that people are attracted to.
Bassmint Productions Central I agree so much, You don't need to figure out how to be normal but you do need to figure out how to be a gay!
Now if you are blind and deaf.....how do you figure it out?
I find this so Sad, Man!
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I Just Hope that Their Blindness will not be for long....
I loved hearing Tommy describe the objects and the concept of associative properties. Do smell and sound come into play?
That's so cool that you think of the soda bottle as being cold to the touch. When I picture it I see the shape and colour but no temperature! So cool.
You should research the near death experiences of blind people who actually see during their experience. It’s interesting hearing them describe things in visual terms for the first time.
is there any CZcams video of how to do that
Yes, be near death lmao
Give this man a hotwheel car or a model car pls
Such a great positive person and a good insight to one of the scariest things in life to many, to go blind.
These videos always make my day. You are so upbeat and positive, makes me feel like I just had a great convo with an old friend.
Someone get Tommy a hotwheel. Then at least you can feel the miniature version of a small car.
Also props to you Tommy. I would suck at being blind. I can't remember very well
Yay the first ever American I have heard calling a fridge a fridge and not a refrigerator thanks so much tommy you don't understand how much I appreciate this coming from London in the uk😂😂👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧
Bassmint Productions Central of course you can I will keep it fresh like tommys jokes😂
amelia wilson Why are you so appreciative over that
what!?!? everyone in usa says fridge
amelia wilson
Canadian here. Everyone where I live says fridge.
Bassmint Productions Central ...They arent talking about your ignored 'joke' bro
This channel is magic. Thank you so much for your videos. It is so fascinaiting.
yeah the bit about sighted memory changing over time is pretty accurate. if i’ve not seen something in a while my memory of it changes and probably distorts quite a bit, but the fundamental elements stay the same.