After the writer and theologian John Hull became completely blind in 1983, he kept an audio diary of his experience. This film is a dramatization using those recordings.
Onto other senses – here is A Soft Murmur – ambient sounds to do creative work to (or distract from noisy surroundings).
Scientists used to believe that colour vision evolved to help our ancestors spot ripe fruit. It turns out, however, that it actually evolved to give us greater insight into the mental, emotional and physical states of other people.
People who can see colour changes in skin have a competitive edge over those who can’t because they can detect the reddening of rashes and know when others are blushing with embarrassment or purple-faced with exertion. (It’s unsurprising, then, that primates who have colour vision are the ones who have no fur or hair on their faces and other instrumental body parts.)
The cones in our eyes are exquisitely designed to see these skin colour changes. Here’s a bit of Colour Harmony: an animated explanation of how colour vision works, how other animals use their eyes, and how the human eye functions to see colours both separately and in combination
“To understand how culture interacts with vision, one must understand not just the eye’s design, but the actual mechanisms we have evolved, for culture can tap into both the designed responses of our brains and the unintended responses.” ~ Mark Changizi
Cutting the mustard. 