Color Blind
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I know that colors carry importance for other people. So I'll use color names when necessary to communicate with them. But colors as such carry no meaning for me. As a kid, I used to think that it would be nice to see colors, because then I would be able to have a driver's license and to do things that people with normal color vision can do. And if there were some way of acquiring color vision, I suppose it might open a new world but it would be very confusing. Color is something you have to grow up with, to mature with—your brain, the whole system, the way you react to the world. Bringing in color as a sort of add-on later in life would be overwhelming.It would give new qualities to everything that might throw me off completely. Or maybe color would be disappointing, not what I expected - who knows?
- Oliver Sachs, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
See Also
- Digital Imaging
- Color Blind
- Yoruba Belt
