WHAT THE BLIND SEE!

Waipa Post, Volume 52, Issue 3705, 10 January 1936, Page 8

WHAT THE BLIND SEE!

COLOURED BACKGROUNDS A blind man’s mental impression of his surroundings is not black, but may be of various colours.Different people “see” their back-grounds in different colours. These are the impressions gained from blind men who have been questioned ou the subject. Mr C. S. Flick, in a lecture given at the International Optical Congress at Oxford, said that the blind man’s impression was not black. He quoted Captain Sir lan Fraser’s statement -hat his background was a “rosy” Recently, St. Dunstan’s conducted an investigation into this matter, during the course of which Sir lan said: “My own horizon is not black, but a warm, cheerful, pinkish glow, with a certain radiance in it.” No Definite Colour. A St. Dunstoman, G. C. Williams, of Hampstead, said- chat his experience was that, there was no definite colour to his background. It was not absolutely black, but rather a kind of grey, than otherwise. Another man said “I find when sitting alone and not conjuring up pictures, my vision is more of a steel blue, although when I am looking on the ground it is a light mauve colour.” The experience of Mr C. M. Jordan, of Monmouthshire, is different again, he said: “Most of my time I am looking into a light shade of grey fog, as though my face was close to a frosted glass window and the daylight without was bright.”

In all these cases the subjects are tQtally blind.