FabSwingers.com forum: hearing when being deaf and seeing whilst being blind

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

When i read text i can hear my voice in my head reading it to me as my eyes scroll over the words.. and when i close my eyes and someone tells me something i can see before me an image of what is being described

Im presuming i can do this because i have learnt to read and understand language, also ive had experienced of colours and objects.

Can people who are deaf also hear what the mind is 'saying' or see what the eyes are not?

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

What an interesting question! I have no idea of the answer, but will await others posts to find out with you! xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"What an interesting question! I have no idea of the answer, but will await others posts to find out with you! xx"

just glad someone understood what i was trying to ask. lol

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By *r n mrs happy101Couple
over a year ago

telford,shropshire

I was born partly deaf and so glad I have good eye sight it helps me lip read the words I have not heard correctly...beats wearing my hearing aids! People talk to you like your thick if I wear them, lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Great question.

I don't have an answer, just a slightly different question.

You mentioned being able to visualise colours etc in your minds eye, but how do you know that when I see a colour I'm seeing the same as you?When I see what I believe to be yellow that might actually be your green, what I see as brown you may see as 'my' pink, but we both 'know' it as brown!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

fucksake she thinks shes one of the X-men now.......

well theres no way of actually knowing what exactly the brain recieves as data unless u can physically see whats happening.I'd imagine those capable of language will have some sort of mechanism that we might not fully understand....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Great question.

I don't have an answer, just a slightly different question.

programme about this was on a few months ago...it comes with the illusion of perception, and reality

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Great question.

I don't have an answer, just a slightly different question.

programme about this was on a few months ago...it comes with the illusion of perception, and reality"

Can you remember the name of the programme?I'd be interested in seeing it.

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By *orestersCouple
over a year ago

The Forest

The levels of comprehension in both deaf and blind people depend entirely on when the individual lost that particular sense. If they were born deaf, then they would never be able to comprehend fully how a word sounds. If they lost their hearing at 5 years old, for example, they would be able to mentally recognise any words they had learnt up to that point. It would be a similar story for the blind. Read the Helen Keller story for a really uplifting account of the subject.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

"what I see as brown you may see as 'my' pink, but we both 'know' it as brown!"

What a fucking disaster if you use those terms to differentiate vaginal and anal sex!

e.g. 'no potting the pink today i'm on my rags, take a shot at the brown.'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Great question.

I don't have an answer, just a slightly different question.

programme about this was on a few months ago...it comes with the illusion of perception, and reality

Can you remember the name of the programme?I'd be interested in seeing it. "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/08/horizon.shtml

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The levels of comprehension in both deaf and blind people depend entirely on when the individual lost that particular sense. If they were born deaf, then they would never be able to comprehend fully how a word sounds. If they lost their hearing at 5 years old, for example, they would be able to mentally recognise any words they had learnt up to that point. It would be a similar story for the blind. Read the Helen Keller story for a really uplifting account of the subject."

think most would find it hard to understand deaf/blind not being able to communicate= touch is one of our greatest communication devices, granted its not exactly conversation, but its something.

And with some tecch advancements coming not TOO far away, ie artificial eyes ,ears,implants...we might finally be able to communicate properly with these people

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By *en_minxCouple
over a year ago

Birmingham

Theres a film based on a book by olier sachs. The details I forget. About a chap who regainshs sight and his brain as trouble even comprehendng teh objects he can now see.

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

I'm neither deaf nor blind but in my mind i can "see" and "hear" some incredibly imaginative things. Frightening really.

All natural too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm neither deaf nor blind but in my mind i can "see" and "hear" some incredibly imaginative things. Frightening really.

All natural too."

get my bushy farting arsehole out of ur mind please!!!!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Im sure tactile will be able to answer this question very well

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By *he tactile technicianMan
over a year ago

the good lands, the bad lands, the any where you may want me lands

being qualified from the pespective of being blind is somewhat different than being able to give a difinitive scientific explanation, but I shall try and formulate some words. Starting with words I have a major problem with being able to picture words as I haven't used them or rather written anything for so many years now. My spelling has reverted back to relying on phonetics, and my handwriting is non existance, I have virtually lost the ability to formulate words - even my ignature or written name has letters back to front on odd occasions.

Seeing colours? yeah! I can see colours, but not the panten catologue of all the colours, I don't understand shades of colours, red is a letter box, a fire truck, or a old telephone box, not very flattering when a woman says sh has red hair, but I guess I understand that any woman with half a care of how she wants to look doesn't go for the Ronald Macdnald look.I see probably more than I can explain or you could understand, yet I have a dead optic nerve, so nothing travels between my eyes and my brain, it is mostly my imagination and my memory of how things were, good things and the increddible numbers of beautiful women around when I was younger and had some kind of sight. Friends on here will know that I see their beauty through their personality, and I realise that that doesn't help the OP's original question, but that is how I see people, as for Deaf? hmm well we need a forum member who has experience of that and is prepared to talk candidly about it I guess.

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

The mind is a strange and wonderful place.

I recall reading a tragic story of a youth, a blind lad who, in brief, got on execptionally well with a blind girl. Very happy, soulmates you could say.

Until one day his elder brother said to him words to the effect of "What are you seeing her for, she's ugly".

Sadly, from that day on, the youth "saw" things differently and eventually the relationship ended.

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By *lirty and dirtyCouple
over a year ago

ashford

tactile can i ask you how you read the posts and reply to them?? just interested xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When i read text i can hear my voice in my head reading it to me as my eyes scroll over the words.. and when i close my eyes and someone tells me something i can see before me an image of what is being described

Im presuming i can do this because i have learnt to read and understand language, also ive had experienced of colours and objects.

Can people who are deaf also hear what the mind is 'saying' or see what the eyes are not?"

I would guess that they have developed alternative means of image and sound perception, for example touch, vibration etc.

So that would be a yes, maybe more so than us, in their own fashion.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im presuming i can do this because i have learnt to read and understand language, also ive had experienced of colours and objects.

Can people who are deaf also hear what the mind is 'saying' or see what the eyes are not?

I would guess that they have developed alternative means of image and sound perception, for example touch, vibration etc.

So that would be a yes, maybe more so than us, in their own fashion. "

Do you remember Evelyn Glennie ? The solo percussionist and top flight musican who is profoundly deaf...

She relies on vibration to hear sound...

She wrote a piece called the " hearing essay "..kinda interesting..

A fabulously talented musican..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you loose something after having it your other senses take over. And you don't realise for a long time how things have changed..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I'm pissed I hear all sorts of crap that hasn't been said and see all sorts of things that aren't really there.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When I'm pissed I hear all sorts of crap that hasn't been said and see all sorts of things that aren't really there.

yeahh d*unken parties where Im some sorta superstud happen all the time when im having a one man blowout...wait...delete that last bit...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Um,... if someone wants to shag me at a party or a club they better do it in the first few hours cos after that I'm feckin useless to (wo)man or beast.

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