A Blind Person Describes What the World Looks Like

A short fiction story about a young man seeing the world for the first time.

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[epnlucq]

“Me trying to describe nothing to you is just like you describing something to me”. Those words are just incredible

[tovopro]

I had to describe something to a blind person before. She was born that way. We both agreed that the best way I would describe what I was looking at would be to compare it to a sound or emotion. I compared warm colors to high pitch loud sounds and/or excitement, and cool colors to low pitch mellow sounds and/or calmness. I did my best to formulate whatever she could in her mind. It was the most complex, frustrating, yet inquisitively exhilerating thing I've ever done in my life!

[elsie]

everyone’s talking about blindness, but nobody is talking about how lou literally saved tyler from jumping, without even being able to see him?? and how he returns there every day in hopes of stopping someone else? that’s a true hero 💕

[charliepearce]

When I was a 13 old boy I moved into a small country town with my dad and no mother.
Life was good and had no problems.
Across the road from our home I met a woman in her 30s confined to an iron lung.
Somebody had to be with her all the time in case the motor that worked that machine keeping her alive stopped working and help out by operating it manually .
I didn't know it at the time but she made me appreciate life with just the simple act of breathing.
Was good little town, I even met my wife there around the same age and started living together at 17.
We're now in our 60s...living and working all over Australia.
I've been blessed and think now and then of my friend Barbara in the iron lung.

[Sword._Saint]

Never felt this much gratitude for having eyes

[Neillan]

*"If I explained nothing to you, it would sort of be like you describing something to me. It just doesn't work."* ~ Lou, 2021
Really puts things in perspective.

[caroldriehorst]

Lou is an Angel, helping people who want to give up see life from a different perspective. He touches people's lives in a marvelous and hopeful way.

[tasha]

I love how subtly they just made a suicide prevention short film. So subtle, they didn't even need to add that annoying life-line disclaimer: "If you or anyone you know is having suicidal thoughts please call..." It was a beautiful story.

[ZachByrd]

Lou is the golden gate guardian, saving the suicidal by revealing the beauty they were born into but have forgotten how to see. [Edit: No one cares which bridge it is. If you're commenting to correct my statement, you've missed the point of the entire video.]

[eiko]

I think trying to imagine what seeing feels like for a person blind since birth, is like us trying to imagine a new color

[kainenable]

My fiancee is blind. The thing i found interesting is that she does not regret not having her sight. In many ways she experiences what we all do, but on others it is completely different. Trying to expereince life from another perspective is incredibly helpfull. We all live in our own separate universes, where we are at its centre. It is good to try and step out every once in a while to try and put things into perspective.

[ADHDDoc]

That was unexpectedly and unusually moving. Tear swelled up in my eyes when I noticed all the beauty around me. Life is beautiful.

[ReynaSingh]

Our eyes give us access to so much beauty and wonder that often goes unnoticed

[taylorrich-lane]

Lou helped him to be mindful. If you’re ever stressed or overwhelmed, talk yourself down, ask yourself these questions. What does the sky look like? What does that mean? Mindfulness helps to calm extreme anxiety. This video is sweet.

[Inkironnrum]

What a fascinating story. So well written, too.

Earlier this year (2022), I had an eye injury while at work. Unfortunately, the result of my injury blinded my left eye. My right eye was in bad shape, and was all I had to rely on.

Five months after my eye injury, a cornea transplant surgery was performed. Three days after my surgery, I woke up that morning with the gift of vision in my injured eye again. Thank God! And thank the person who donated their cornea after they passed on.

I wish I knew who my donor was. I wish I could see them and thank them with a hug. Soon after discovering my vision again, a friend asked me if I can see things and people my donor could see. If a cornea could have some sort of reflective memory. A deep conversation ensued.

Regaining my vision back made me appreciate the color of fruit. How rich in color they are. When people ask me hiw much of my vision I got back, I tell them, it’s like seeing everything in 4k.

But what I also discovered with my newfound vision in my left eye is, how much I was able to see things in my life, people in my life, differently. Some in a positive way, and others, in a negative way. Both positive and negative awakening my way of looking at my life.

There has to be a deeper connection with our vision and the brain. How both can interconnect with together forming inner and outer visual inspiration. To see and then form thoughts. Or, to form thoughts to see.

Whatever the case may be, seeing again has made me see my life differently.

[ryanlikesally]

every so often when i feel down i come back to this video. i’ve never been one to think after it “wow i see the world differently now” but for some reason i always get cheered up after finishing it. it never gets boring, never gets old, this story just makes me happy without rhyme or reason. thank you

[scifibri]

This reminds me of a conversation I had with a blind person. The concept of explaining colors would be difficult but I thought if I found a common reference it might be possible. I asked him if he ever had various flavors of ice-cream, he indicated that he had. I told him imagine the 31 Flavors of Ice-cream at the neighborhood parlor and how many of the ice-cream flavors had the same texture but tasted vastly different and told him that is how colors are but for the eyes! Different color shirts for example might all feel the same but they have different colors in much the same way ice-cream of the same texture feels the same never-the-less tastes different.

[jee]

Ironically enough, it's Lou who teaches Tyler how to "see".

[bubulizbethful]

I know its not nearly comparable but I escaped my family on a family trip because they was too much stress and negativity amongst us I left to skate around the popular areas of the city and came across a homeless man with a guitar playing beautiful tunes. He complimented my roller skates and asked me a small question about them and then I asked him about music. Soon enough I began singing with him and then talking about all the beautiful things in life we take for granted and dont get to enjoy the “small” things because how overwhelmed we are. An hour and half later we had two other strangers sitting with us in a circle communicating about love and happiness. Usually I avoid any interaction with men I dont know especially as im alone but this was definitely an eye opener, a refreshing experience.

[TheVirtualJenesis]

The thought of describing colours and things as feelings, tastes or sounds is also a knew sensation that makes colours a lot more prettier. All of our senses are there to make sure we experience life on our planet to the fullest. Learning to appreciate the small, mundane things in this over saturated, fast pace world, is life-changing.