My father is blind due to retinitis pigmentosis, so he still had a small bit of vision when I was very, very young, but was fully blind after that. I recently had a similar conversation with him about how he visualizes things, and he said that it's strange because even though I'm 40, and my voice is far different, he still pictures the 4 year old me speaking to him when we chat.

@rdsrmt1

5 жыл бұрын

😢💔 why are you making me cry

@Al-kb2xl

5 жыл бұрын

Oh man that breaks my heart

@slurp3194

5 жыл бұрын

yeah humans dont really invent in the sense that we picked everything up from mother nature we dont really create we only implement things in different ways your father wasnt blind since birth thats why he can visualize things to a certain extent humans for example picked up shapes by striping down things we find naturally

@fuccyahhat1229

5 жыл бұрын

I had this exact thought on mushrooms once

@penelopepitstop762

5 жыл бұрын

Aw that was very sweet. I do the same with former class mates or other people I haven’t seen in a while. In my mind, they look the same as the last time I saw them. Boy what a shocker when I do see them!

I wish this man could get his vision at some point and just see everything for real to know if it's like he imagined...

@sweetdarsh3981

6 жыл бұрын

Twiggier Lake that would be incredible.

@TheEtherny

6 жыл бұрын

Yes! Specially things so big he can't hold with his hands like a car, the sea, the sun, it'd blow his mind

@PickyMcCritical

6 жыл бұрын

+Twiggier Lake But I think everything _is_ like he imagines, he just has no visual imagination. Like when I pick up this bowl, I feel that it's smooth and hard, and feels somewhat cool at room temperature, and I can feel the thickness as I move my fingers around the edge before feeling the volume along the other side (the "inside"). But I have no audible information with these headphones on. But this is tricky because I know what glass sounds like if I flick it, so I can make a guess. With no vision, he has no guessing at all. It's a totally foreign form of stimulation. I assume that it'd be cool to see if he can make guesses once he sees a few things to start out though :)

@sweetdarsh3981

6 жыл бұрын

that's what she said.

@PickyMcCritical

6 жыл бұрын

Dammit

It makes my head hurt thinking about what it's like not even knowing what color is.

@asanteyadakavenz

3 жыл бұрын

Every time you blink, you become blind. Completely.

@TimeWisely

3 жыл бұрын

@@asanteyadakavenz but they see it different, i think they see nothing but white judging by how tommy's pupils are white

@asanteyadakavenz

3 жыл бұрын

@@TimeWisely there is no white. No thing. Some thing. Get it?

@caseyleenb

3 жыл бұрын

close one of your eyes tightly, and hold a flashlight to it for a significant period of time, like fifteen or so minutes, and you’ll temporarily become red-green colourblind. it’s trippy as hell, but i highly recommend it. it’s fascinating.

@roygbv255

3 жыл бұрын

@Eddie Arias Yeah brother. Woan twrirtchling is the best. You forgot to mention the inner skuggs and the outer blamfries and how they schoom with the shumptwits for some reason? Remember son, them without need all the details to even slightly comprehend what we have. I will twirtchil you later when the woans are hufting.

I want him to see so bad ugh

@travisdozier1357

5 жыл бұрын

if he saw you he would understand where hard on's come from...

@whaatt6791

5 жыл бұрын

@@travisdozier1357 lmao

@emberd-l795

5 жыл бұрын

@@travisdozier1357 Very smooth

@abdicolestudios8899

5 жыл бұрын

Travis Dozier nice

@megabigdump

5 жыл бұрын

Same here. I wonder if technology will ever allow someone like him to see? Would be amazing

Has he tried sculpting? I feel like that would be a good way for him to express what he feeld

@helen6068

7 жыл бұрын

Feels*

@symix.

7 жыл бұрын

why the fuck you dont search up on youtume tommy edison sculpting and see if you can find video or not..

@ChampionGold

7 жыл бұрын

Symix holy shit chill the fuck out

@jerimxd

7 жыл бұрын

Helen Snyder he did sculpting play doh

@steamcleana_6918

7 жыл бұрын

Symix don't cry

for the car, haven't you ever held a toy car? like hot wheels? same thing, just smaller.

@saral1003

6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing

@sweetdarsh3981

6 жыл бұрын

I don’t think he was thinking about a toy car. Probably did not cross his mind when talking about it.

@iknowimverystupidbut1828

6 жыл бұрын

The wells are not quite the same.

@tommycaiazzo7985

5 жыл бұрын

Probably but it doesnt have the same indents and feel of an actual car

@xiiixlllvlllxiiix

5 жыл бұрын

He basically doesnt have a third eye, it be impossible for him to even grasp what thinking even is

What about math? What do you imagine or what do you represent each number as? What goes in your mind when solving a simple equation and a difficult one?

@christophermclaughlin8899

5 жыл бұрын

Jin if interested, you should read about Nicholas Saunderson, 4th Cambridge Lucasian professor of mathematics (Newton was the 2nd). Blindness certainly did not hold him back from succeeding in mathematics.

@edwardshowden5511

5 жыл бұрын

you visualise things solving equations in mind? I dont do that and Im not blind!

@larbmining

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh moment 69 likes

@Swoost

4 жыл бұрын

i suppose you could just replace the picture of the number with the idea of the number, like he was saying, cus that's really the important part? we may manipulate the visuals of the numbers in our head to aid in mentally solving an equation but couldn't you also manipulate the concepts of the numbers around? and not spatially like in a picture, but perhaps spatially around you, like the idea of 9 is in front of me and 8 is to the right of it and so on. that's what i feel like he might say

@ninoadan8977

4 жыл бұрын

As a very visual person i wonder this too. When i try to solve mathetical equation, I would imagine the equation or sequence or whatever need to be solved. I can't think of other way of doing it.

As a future teacher, I was wondering, is there anything you wish your teachers knew or could have helped you with better? Is there anything that you can think of, that you know now, that would have made your learning experience better?

@vinstok1117

4 жыл бұрын

Ashlie atm1996. If your in a position that you are teaching a blind child spend a week/most of the days with a blind fold on. I had to do this to see how my son eats walks explore his space. You can do the same for deafness. I think that is harder. Spent a lot of time around deaf people. My mom interpreted for them. When I was growing up.

Tommy you've never held a model of a car before? We need to have that happen. You seem to really enjoy them, it's a bummer to think you don't know what a whole one feels like.

@Bobstew68

7 жыл бұрын

I'm sure he knows perfectly well what it feels like all over, and what its shape is - he's surely held a toy car many times before. I think his point in the video is that his idea of a car is more fragmented than that of sighted people.

@CrackedT00th

7 жыл бұрын

Triggerfisk I'm sure you're right but it still bums me out that he can't take in a classic car the way we can with its curves and over all style. He seems to like them and I just wish he could see something like a 69 charger or stingray corvette. they're both cars but so different in body style and power. The charger is long and more angular and is better for drag racing because the body doesn't work as well with speed. where as the stingray is shorter but more agile in performance with a more curved body with a sharp aerodynamic nose. its biggest downfall is that its body is made from fiberglass where the charger is made from steel. if something bad happened to the corvette its off to the scrap yard. They're art on wheels for me, in the fact I can't afford one and that they're beautiful hahaha

Tommy you're an amazing person! It just must be said! 😁

@mikewazzupski

5 жыл бұрын

Vikinger nice to find you here skål

It's crazy to even imagine "shape" with absolutely no visual to ever go on. Purely tactile.

man, we taking everything, literally EVERYTHING for granted.

That's fascinating, obviously you can't picture something like sighted people do, but I never thought of things like cars that are just too big for your sense of touch do grasp all at once. But I've seen you identify like the Empire State Building when you were given a small model of it, so I don't get how you do that. You must somehow be able to imagine the whole object after having it described to you else that wouldn't be possible... This just blows my mind :D

@Bekll

7 жыл бұрын

Krystof Dayne I was wondering how quickly could he identify a toy model of a car or various vehicles.

@frequencydecline5250

7 жыл бұрын

If I'm "understanding" correctly...an approximate example for us sighted people might be remembering a long stretch of road we have driven. I've seen overhead views of continents and stuff, but I only know stretches of interstate in "pieces." So if asked to describe/imagine it, I'd have to go through it in pieces.... The Empire State building had a things working in his favor, though it was surprising. But it wasn't like they were going to hand him a Motel 6 in Virginia and it has probably in a whole been described to him before and it is pretty iconic, though it is likely if you handed him a model of say, the Bank of America building in Atlanta, he might say Empire State building....

Imagine not being able to even imagine what something looks like....

@positivelymanic

6 жыл бұрын

Now that's a brainfuck.

@bk_Syndicate_FL850KH

6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@daguido742

6 жыл бұрын

i cant imagine imagining to not be able to imagine something.

@PickyMcCritical

6 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine what infrared light looks like. What color is it? As something red changes, to me it becomes darker and more transparent, then it's gone. And if we move through the many different colors up to violet, then the same thing happens again. I don't have a sense of color beyond these standard ones that every human has. I assume it's sort of like that.

@litigioussociety4249

5 жыл бұрын

Some sighted people can't create images in their mind, it's called aphantasia. Going blind would have to be the worst for them, because they would lose all imagery in their mind.

People really take sight for granted. At first, before I saw this channel, I thought sight was just another thing that sometime was stupid. But now... I can't ever imagine living without visualization or colors or- well, anything! Thank you for bringing me my real sight, Tommy.

@King3baid

4 жыл бұрын

Name Games sight is the best part of a human !

@josephdockemeyer6782

Жыл бұрын

I've never thought of sight as stupid. As a born artist, I love vision. It's incredible and wonderful. Noise, though, sometimes annoys me when I want peace.

“Imagine” he (or anyone blind from birth) gets their vision later in life, then kept isolated until their eyes adjusted and they could comfortably visualize everything. Then have objects brought in and see if they could guess what it is without touching it. That would be interesting

@h.p.hatecraft2081

4 жыл бұрын

damn...

@BirdsAndWhales

4 жыл бұрын

Woah

@namanor

4 жыл бұрын

F8LDragon2 I was just reading about this! There’s a thought experiment about this exact question called “Molyneux's problem” and it has a wiki entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem Lots of cool anecdotes in the “Recovery from blindness” article as well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_from_blindness

You are a fascinating dude Tommy... love your sense of humor and how you make me think about the world from a perspective I otherwise never would have imagined.

Your videos are so interesting, it's insane.

This is so fascinating, I tried imagining the things he mentioned without actually visualizing it and it’s basically impossible for me, my brain just immediately gets a picture of that thing, I can also think of shape and textures but not to the extent he does

Subbed. It's crazy how I take my gift for granted, mind boggling actually

@edwardshowden5511

5 жыл бұрын

When you think about house you visualise it in mind? Or you try tk visualise it? I dont get it. I'm not blind but i dont visualise anything, i have stored concepts but dont necessarily try to visualise things

@yuuka2490

4 жыл бұрын

janpawełkubica I recall the most recent memory of me staring into a house, and basing my visualization on that house I imagined :D

@aabb-lz2wq

3 жыл бұрын

@@edwardshowden5511 you might have aphantasia

Thank you for your positivity. You always make my day better.

@brokenacoustic

7 жыл бұрын

Same. By god, if I ever win the lotto and medical science figures out how to give sight back to people, I'm paying for his surgery.

@phanspastic5129

7 жыл бұрын

acousticpsychosis to be honest, i dont think he is concerned about being able to see. Some people dont want or need to change to be like everyone else. Tommy seems to get by on his own really well.

@brokenacoustic

7 жыл бұрын

+Phanspastic, yeah I believe he's said as much in the past...its what he's known his whole life. I'd still offer though. +Hugh M I have no idea what taking a bullet for a girlfriend while on the moon during an eclipse means, but thank you? lol

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@FWtravels

7 жыл бұрын

Cool!! Thanks😀

@itreallybelikethatdoe829

7 жыл бұрын

how are you commenting this tho does someone else do it for you ?

@z6787

7 жыл бұрын

Have you ever held a toy car and thought about that shape when thinking of a car?

@paperpoppers

7 жыл бұрын

Dani Sparrow are you stoned too? lol

@ADDISON396

7 жыл бұрын

The Tommy Edison Experience how do you imagine super massive objects and their size, like a sun, or one of those starts that are like 50x the size of our sun.

dude, you are like a shining star, so lovable, always making me smile.

It's so cool like I can relate to this! I have a condition called aphantasia, which is the inability to hold a picture in your minds eye. I have such a hard time explaining how I experience things because I'm so conditioned to use words like "visualize." In fact, I always assumed these phrases were figures of speech because I didn't know I was different until I was about 12 or 13. I don't necessarily think about things based on touch, but more like through the words I use to describe things. I remember that my car is red, but when I close my eyes, it's merely a word to me.

Love this guy, I've been binge watching all his videos this past week

@corawood2353

7 жыл бұрын

Joseph Bowman Same!

I was hoping he would talk about things like the layout of his house, or of his neighborhood. Like, from where he is sitting, can he point to where the doorways of the room are? Can he imagine the location of his bathroom, from where he is sitting? What about outside? Can he imagine where the nearest store is in relation to his front door? What are his mental maps like? Does he have a sense of direction? For example, if he has a hallway in his house that runs north-south and another hallway that runs east-west, does he perceive the difference in direction?

@masacatior

7 жыл бұрын

Lars Lars Pantsonfars He imagine the shapes but not the places as a whole, all from his perspective.

@xxXthekevXxx

6 жыл бұрын

I’m sure he understands directions lol all you have to do is trace where you came from and where you’ve been and relate it to where you are now.

@idylledoll

5 жыл бұрын

Jero Toro yes everyone who doesn’t have site mind maps things including animals.

i would give up my eye balls for this man to be able to see

@user-eh2nj6de9e

4 жыл бұрын

Itachi

@asanteyadakavenz

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think he's interested. He can see in the dark. You can't. It's just the opposite. Don't stress yourself.

@crabbypadty393

2 жыл бұрын

No you wouldn’t.

@kellogscornflakes2430

2 жыл бұрын

@@asanteyadakavenz I think if he got his vision and saw another person for the first time ever it might actually be terrifying. He's never been able to imagine what a human face looks like only what it feels like, he can't imagine something in three dimensions or understand depth perception either. There would just be so much information happening to him at the same time it might be too much.

Psychedelics! People talk about what a visually stimulating experience that is. Wonder what that be like for him

@alfonsstekebrugge8049

4 жыл бұрын

Has been tested before (maybe not on blind people, but using drugs in test conditions in pitch dark has been done). Because visuals are particularly vivid that is what people would most likely speak of when reporting on their experiences, but all other senses are clearly up a notch as well. Smells, sounds, taste, it is all altered. This is also why people on drugs tend to seek our various sensory experiences like listening to music and eating foods that are rich in taste (particularly sweet food).

@jonneateh5815

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't work for similar reasons as not seeing in imagination or dreams the brain has never experienced it so wouldn't be able to.

@evalyn3975

4 жыл бұрын

This is what I was wondering

for real why do you downvote this video

@caleb8653

7 жыл бұрын

because people like you comment asking why people down vote it which makes people want to down vote it.... reverse psychology

@marblemaster4897

7 жыл бұрын

Fernando Dember Laguna because they are blind

@alexb5275

6 жыл бұрын

Fernando Dember Laguna, they couldn’t see and accidentally hit it.

@jan050375

6 жыл бұрын

for real why do you ask about the downvotes when the dislike ratio is not even 1%?

@PRdeSO

6 жыл бұрын

I think one of the down voters is Tommy himself, just for a goof.

That's a very interesting question, thank you for answering :)

What makes these videos (and others like them) great, is it gives people a chance to ask the questions we've always wanted to know, but were either afraid, or didn't have the resources to ask.

He's completely right about visual memories changing over time and becoming more distorted or vague.. memories aren't equivalents to our senses anyway, imagining a sound or image is not the same as hearing or seeing one, its an abstraction.

Have you read the article "To see and not see" by Oliver Sacks? Can you please tell me what you think of it if you read it.

Nope we don’t keep images in our minds forever, you’re spot on there :)

how to you "visualize" 3-D space? like navigating a familiar room. Do you imagine it all at once? if you were in on a couch in the room, would you be able to point to a window? how do u "picture" north, south, east, west? you can't feel or smell these things.

I love watching your videos- they are amazing and upbeat. I volunteer with a woman who is blind and your videos have helped me to understand how to help her! We enjoy going shopping and being friends, and learning more about her world helps me guide her in stores and unfamiliar places. So, thank you! I told her about your channel because she mentioned that in her experience, most people who are blind are negative. But you are so positive and upbeat, I hope she listens!

I love this channel! Keep up the amazing work!

This is so interesting. It really emphasizes the differences between spatial and visual memory. Sighted people likely consider the two very similar, because there is always a mental picture that follows our sense of shape or space. However this video really digs a line in the sand, very fascinating!

These videos always make my day. You are so upbeat and positive, makes me feel like I just had a great convo with an old friend.

Wow, Tommy blows my mind over and over. I have learned that I take my sight for granted. I knew pop bottles had things on the bottom to keep them from falling, but I didn't know that there were 5 of them. Imagine how much more he knows of things because he studies them physically with his other senses.

Hey Tommy, here are some more difficult things I would like you to explain how you envision them in your head. I would love to hear your point of view on it all: The Earth and the seven continents. A silent movie Artwork/posters A crowd of people The moon/The sun A celebrity Hairstyles Musical instruments Outer space I would also like to hear you point of view on the following fears/phobias: Darkness Heights Mimes Bald people People of a different race/skin color I would love to hear your viewpoint on these less tangible thoughts and fears, but even if you don't reply I thank you for making all the videos you do. You're one of my favorite KZreadrs and people, and I wish you were known to a wider audience.

@namanor

4 жыл бұрын

TomeUnbound Man, these are terrific questions.

WE LOVE YOU TOMMY! You the same as Lewis Qball, spread awareness of your specific disability, and I myself is disabled, it just warms my hearth that someone can make hundred and hundred of people enjoy and now with how you do the videos learn in a fun way of what it actually is so the predjudice hopefully gets obliterated! and big thanks to Ben! You beautiful bastard! For helping Tommy out with everything that you do!!!

I appreciate you posting a lot of these things that sighted people often wonder about how it is for blind people.

This is pretty interesting! When I was a kid and my daddy helped me to repair my car, he very often told that you need to have a good eyesight in your fingertips eg. when trying to assemble something in a very tight space where you can't reach and see at the same time.

always wanted to know this! keep up the great work tommy! :)

Hey Tommy! First of all, I love your videos and your channel for so many reasons. You bring joy to so many through your joyful attitude. You are also building bridges of understanding between sighted and non-sighted folks as well as for so many with disabilities. You rock! Lastly, I was so intrigued by what you said in this video regarding visualizations changing in our minds over time. They absolutely do and I imagine it is very similar for you with the other senses. Thanks again. Have a great day. James

gosh, I just want to hug this man and make everything ok for him. he seems so funny, so nice, so kind to everyone he meets.

These videos are so damn fascinating! I think you might've answered this before, but when did you first know you were different to others? How did people initially explain that you were blind and what being blind meant? Because I assume you would've thought it was normal for life to be like this. And when you were told that everyone else could "see" how did you attempt to comprehend this as a child?

@bb-gb7jv

3 жыл бұрын

5M subs but liked your own comment

@xia3088

4 ай бұрын

4.76M subs but liked your own comment

I allways close my eyes while watching your videos This way I think I can atleast get a small taste of your perception

This channel needs so much more love, this is awesome love Tommy

God bless you Tommy Edison. Because of your selfless act of vloging, I will never take my privileged eye sight for granted again. Peace be upon you Sir.

Funny. When he says he cannot "visualise" things, but he can "imagine" things, it occurs to me how clunky our natural languages are. "Imagination" is also a word I would naturally associate with a visual experience (being based on the word "image" and all). But of course, what other word could he have used? :-)

@guardiadiego1137

5 жыл бұрын

Michiel Helvensteijn remembering

Who are some people who are blind that you see as heroes?

@melodicbanshee4344

7 жыл бұрын

Mr. Whatareyadoin Good one!

@NunoWBush

7 жыл бұрын

Mr. Whatareyadoin " see as heroes" "SEE as heroes"

@mr.whatareyadoin889

7 жыл бұрын

+Nobody You got me!

@vigneshrk

7 жыл бұрын

daredevil

@vigneshrk

7 жыл бұрын

cyclops

i love that he stays so positive and happy in his video and that he's always laughing! ily tom

@user-vh6te

Жыл бұрын

Because he doesn't know what he's missing

Idk why i love this guy so much ! Maybe cause he is so genuine and kind. A rare thing now and days

Wooah total mindfuck, i never even thought about how you imagine and remember things!

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7 жыл бұрын

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Of course he can imagine something he hasn't touched. I mean what would happen if one told him "picture a larger ball joined with a smaller one"? He would obviously start to imagine handling it. What he was referring to was more of a ontological problem, a sort of "you can't imagine what you can't imagine" which works much the same for sighted people. The elements you use to describe a fictional object have to be known or approximated.

Love your videos bro. . Makes me realize and appreciate the things I take for granted every day without even realizing it. I raised disabled kids before and they still call me dad so I know how hard and difficult it could be. Yet I can never imagine how it would be to be in your shoes. Stay beautiful my friend

Man Tommy, you've got one hell of a head on your shoulders. Just through the use of inference you nailed how visual memories work.

Somebody give this man some Ayahuasca... he will SEE through his THIRD EYE.

I can see fully but I think I have aphantasia so when I close my eyes I imagine the concepts of what I am imagining I just see black. In school when we would be told to imagine something I never understood why we had to close our eyes and I didn’t understand that people actually saw an image.

You are the BEST Tommy! keep up the good work, And Ben too thanks for helping bring Tommy to us

Amazing insight to what the world is like without sight. My grandmother was a bus driver for a school for the blind, and I remember her telling me that they "see" the world in a whole different way. You view the world with your hands and smell and taste.

I am sighted, but I have aphantasia, meaning I cannot visualize things. The way he described how he imagines things is exactly how I imagine things too.

@oxoniumgirl

5 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@pixelpuppy6597

4 жыл бұрын

Forgive me for finding that so hard to grasp. That is so interesting. If I may ask, if you were sitting down and you drew a picture and walk away, does that mean you can't remember in your mind the thing you drew down? You don't have an image in your mind at all of what you drew?

@neverpointnever

4 жыл бұрын

same here!!!! was looking for this comment. the mind is super interesting.

@neverpointnever

4 жыл бұрын

Pixel Puppy no it’s not like that, aphantasia doesn’t affect your memory like that. basically for me i think of things in words and words alone. i can not picture things whatsoever and never have been able to. it’s blindness in the minds eye. i can remember things just fine. but i literally can not picture things in my head.

hey Tommy love your videos keep up the awesome work !

Your videos have been really fascinating and intriguing and I love your sense of humor - much love to you!

Trying to imagine life in your world is as come to me as trying to comprehend the vastness of outer space. It starts to kind of drive me nuts trying to get a grasp on it. Really cool videos you have buddy.

what is your most dominant sense?

@stevenvialpando8365

5 жыл бұрын

he can't text back he is blind

@ezequiel2940

5 жыл бұрын

@@stevenvialpando8365 Bro that comment is from 2017. The answer is touching

Hey Tommy, If you were given the option to have sight for 1 Hour once only, would you accept such offer knowning you'd never see again, and if you so choose to accept that 1 Hr of sight, what would be your top 10 things you would want too see???

This video has given me the most insight into your perspective out of any other I've seen thus far. Thank you.

This video is really amazing. Thank you, Tommy!

its just so weird to think about how blind people from birth think about the world. I can't imagine what "nothing" looks like. you say you don't see like, darkness but what do you see then? I mean when I close my eyes I see darkness, and just blackness. how can you see nothingness? what is nothing. I can't imagine what it looks like, its just so weird to me hahah.

@theM4R4T

6 жыл бұрын

Adriall !! And even when he is thinking about a shape of something. Is there like, a perspective?

@profgamer1

6 жыл бұрын

I think they "see" black because black is the absence of light but a blind person doesnt know what black/darkness looks like so they call it "nothing".

@brooklynnelson3755

6 жыл бұрын

Adriall Diabora blind people don’t know that they are seeing the color black because the have never seen a reference in real life.

@Bluedragon2513

6 жыл бұрын

Adriall Diabora They would put "nothing" into the category of "waving their hands around and feeling..'nothing'" I think

@PickyMcCritical

6 жыл бұрын

+Profgamer I wonder about that because apparently there are people with brain injuries stop receiving visual signals altogether and they have distinctly different responses from people who have confirmation of being unable to see. I wonder if there's a difference between perceiving blackness and nothingness and what that difference might be.

Banana part got me weak 😂😂

This channel gives me all the feels. Best frickin KZread channel ever!!!

I tried so hard to think of these things how you would but I just couldn’t. Every time I could only “imagine” an actual visual of the object. Over the past couple of weeks you’ve taught me so much about blindness. Hopefully it never comes to it but I’m diabetic and I have noticed my eyes slowly deteriorating to be blurrier and it’s a real fear of mine that some day it may lead to me being blind. I’m only 18 at the moment but you’ve helped me “see” that it isn’t really all that bad and that I could work through it. Again I really do hope that I get to keep my vision as long as I live but if it does happen I just hope I can be as fun loving and outgoing about it as you! Thank you so much!!

Ben got color for this episode, he must have been upgraded

If you've ever played with toy cars then, you have touched a whole car or truck or plane or whatnot. They're the same except that the real vehicles are a million times bigger.

@stormerz8605

6 жыл бұрын

SnowWalker maybe 32 or 72 times 😅😅 not even ships are 1:1000 in scale

@Miscio94

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but the ability to transpose the scale of an object is highly related to vision. Think of this, the sensation of touching a car is not the same as touching a toy one. The texture, temperature, body movement required to feel it just aren't the same. If a real car is "a million times bigger", then it's also a million times more confusing.

@jaypee9575

6 жыл бұрын

You must drive a hummer. For elephants. Like, ALL the elephants at once, in a car pool.

@ruggeddusty

6 жыл бұрын

If you held and studied a 1x1 lego block and then held a 2x2 block, you would have a precise 3-dimensional feel for what "double" feels like, and how if the sides are doubled, how the area of a side is squared, the volume is cubed. I bet blind people have no trouble comprehending geometry as Tommy said in the video himself. The difficulty in his imagining the whole car isn't because of the size of a hotwheels car, it's the fine mechanical details. If he held a model of a car that had working doors, trunk, hood, maybe a removable roof so he could feel the entire space with his hands, then, he would have no trouble imagining the real car at a larger scale. I bet he just hasn't ever held that detailed and functional a model of a car.

You are very inspirational. Its amazing seeing you and what you do. Peace and love to you. Keep on doing what you do mate. You're an amazing person.

Truly fascinating. When we think of something the image pops into our head almost automatically. In an attempt to visualise the way you do I tried thinking of grass without actually seeing it in my head. Very difficult not to see it, so I imagine sitting on the grass with my eyes closed, whilst running through the grass. The vividness and tactile nature of recalling the feel of the soft, waxy grass that gives way effortlessly to the hand...amazing. I don't think it means I understand what it's like to be blind at all, but rather a tiny a little nugget of understanding. Not to mention it's immensely pleasurable to think of things in this way.

Do blind people understand the concept of turning brightness up on a screen?

I find this so Sad, Man! 3( I Just Hope that Their Blindness will not be for long....

This is so crazy, I just found this guys KZread and it incredibly hard to try and even think about how he sees things. I don't know what it's like not to see. It's amazing.

this is mind blowing for me as somebody who's got good vision i can't stop binge watching these

How do you operate your iPhone? And don't you find it strange how such a featureless object can do so much?

@symix.

7 жыл бұрын

um? go google how blind accesebility iPhone and you will have tons of information..

@victornpb

7 жыл бұрын

he have a video on how he uses his iphone

@steamcleana_6918

7 жыл бұрын

Symix why the um?

@symix.

7 жыл бұрын

cause I dont see how low your IQ has to be to not know how to google...

@victornpb

7 жыл бұрын

hey ppl chill out

I just ask myself on how good blind people are to name the color of things (like a banana is yellow, the coca cola label is red AND white, but also way more unknown things like the colors of the ebay logo, the tie from the pringles guy, the color of the CNN logo etc.). Do blind people know almost as many colors of things as sighted people, or way WAY less? Please do a video about it :)!

@mephostopheles3752

7 жыл бұрын

Well, to know the colors of something by heart, a blind person would have to be told repeatedly every single image or object's color(s). Hell, even sighted people have a hard time keeping it straight in our minds if there's like a complex design in a logo or something. Like, I couldn't tell you the colors of the rings in the logo for the Olympics. I don't imagine anyone has the time to sit down and tell Tommy the colors of everything in the universe.

@HajoBenzin1

7 жыл бұрын

but he listens tv, radio, talks with people. you always hear someone name a color for something. I think he knows 50% of the colors that sighted people know

You just have this aura, its contagious. Such a nice energy.

Hi Tommy, our memories of what things look like do change as we get older. When I was a kid friends gardens seemed huge or places we'd hang out, woods and fields. When you go back as an adult and see how tiny it all is its so disheartening. How did I think it was enormous and never ending? ugh!

Give this man a hotwheel car or a model car pls

Do Blind people like sports and if so what sports do you enjoy?

@gamefreak6126

5 жыл бұрын

Running

Love your videos, I look up to as you seem to have a cheery and positive outlook on basically everything. I'm new to your channel and I'm really glad I found​ it.

I really enjoy your videos Tommy.. My oldest son started losing his vision in his late 30's and by the time he was in his 40's he had lost over 75 % of his vision.. so your videos really helps me as well as others understand.

Can you tell if someone is lying?

@SaintsRow2001

7 жыл бұрын

He has already answered that.

have u ever smoked a hippy cigarette??

This channel is magic. Thank you so much for your videos. It is so fascinaiting.

Thank you Tommy for your really positive mood!

I'm curious, what does he use a phone for? or how does he use it if hes blind? not being rude or skeptical just wondering

@lilpapalstate628

5 жыл бұрын

to answer calls and make calls, to text, etc. Siri exists silly boy

Someone get Tommy a hotwheel. Then at least you can feel the miniature version of a small car.

@kajikanna

7 жыл бұрын

Also props to you Tommy. I would suck at being blind. I can't remember very well

Tommy your videos are so eye opening!! Thank you so much for these videos

I loved hearing Tommy describe the objects and the concept of associative properties. Do smell and sound come into play?