If you were to go blind for any reason, what ambient colour would you want your perception to consist of?
Would it just be pitch black? Or have streaks and stars like you rubbed your eyes for too long?
Ghostly misty white? Like in a fog?
Would it be a flat colour or shade or something that moves?
Perhaps some sort of specific background like a Tv static? Or a room/building you like similar to what some vr spaces do but recreated with splotches of colours maybe?
Or something more exotic like a constantly changing rainbow?
Would like to hear what you’d choose and why that specifically
The assumption would also be that you can’t really change it later, the choice and all the variables would be locked in, barring some minor variation perhaps ( brighter/darker or more/less vibrant for example)
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Black of course. Otherwise, how could I ever sleep at night?
But if it could go black in the night and another color in daytime, I would have green like lush, fresh meadows.
Lush green as a daytime colour does sound pleasant
Translucent neon clear with a hint of purpular pastel.
My understanding is that blind people don't see black or any other colour, they just...don't see. I've seen it described as "what colour do you see behind you when you look straight ahead?"
That said, probably just black I guess, if I had to choose.
Natively blind people, yeah.
People who had vision previously supposedly do experience some residual perception when they lose sight, at least from what I heard
I guess it also varies on the nature of the blindness and what caused it
Doesn't matter as I would be blind and couldn't see it.
Cheese answer: a live video display of what's in front of me.
Real answer: black/white gradient blobs representing light and darkness in my surroundings.
Funny answer: bouncing DVD logo
Eigengrau. It's what the brain fills in anyway when there's no visual input, so it wouldn't be a distraction if that's all I could see.
I'd have plenty of extra problems, but that, at least, ought not be one of them.
Learned a new thing today.
Also called Brain gray
A dark grey.
Problem with going blind is that you can’t close your eyes and see darkness anymore. Dark grey is super boring, but it would allow me to sleep reasonably well.
What do you mean?
If you are blind and you close your eyes, you keep seeing the same background color as if your eyes were open (assuming total blindness, not “not sharp vision”)
What does this mean? Is the last color you saw before becoming blind that color you see forever?
I don’t know. Borges describes going blind as everything fading into a bright grey over the years. He was bothered by not being able to sleep because “there was too much light”
That fucking sucks.
Octarine
I am not sure the question makes sense, but I'd like the daytime to feel "lighter" than the night. As though I still had some sort of visual perception.
I would also love to learn to echolocate.
In this case, should you manage to learn echolocation, what outline would the items you perceive be? Against what colour background?
I think they would be fuzzy rather than sharp and a grayscale with a violet tinge, a purple-ish gray.
(Though since I've spent so many years with sight, correctable to near 20/20, and reasonably good color perception, if it was a place I'd been I think I would "see" it close to the colors I had seen it.)
Purple
Hooloovoo
Not sure how I personally would feel having sentient beings as my backdrop
A friend brings light where once was only darkness.
Probably a warm colour like the shade of red you see wghen closing your eyes while facing a lightsource
For me I think I’d prefer a lighter colour, maybe something akin to a fog with some varieties in the consistency of it so it doesn’t feel like a solid wall of grey-white.