Do Blind People Imagine Shapes In Their Mind?

Spot on! Every single one!

I think people get confused about “seeing it” vs. a memory because, at least for me, memories are primarily visual. sure i can try to remember a smell or sound or feeling but the first thing that pops into my head when an object is named is a visual depiction of that object, so it might be hard for people to imagine memories that have no visual component.

Thats it, petition to fill the pyramids with ice cream starts now

It is truly awesome to hear you explain how your "mind's eye", so to speak, works.

Are you able to visualize a 4 dimensional object?

What if you're blind, but also have that thing where you can't imagine pictures? I wonder what they would think of!

Have you tried taking LSD? I've heard that gives people with blindness visual hallucinations

Touch is the most important sense. You will be paralyzed and quickly die without any sense touch.

A lifelong blind person like Tommy pictures how it feels in your hand. A recently blinded person would pictures seeing the object like a sighted person would.

Excuse me but how do you use a phone and are able to like comments and sometimes respond to them

Hi Tommy, I disagree with you this time, because sighted or not, we can also understand shapes in an abstract ideas. It is not just the 5 scences.

Can you remember the feeling of density or texture? Like feeling the outside of an orange, or pressing into the skin or pulling apart the pieces. I can recall those experiences, as feeling. I imagine shape must work similarly for Tommy.

Although I'm curious how Tommy imagines things bigger than his hands, like feeling around a car. Does he remember all the individual feelings in the hand? How do those relate to eachother other than abstractly (door handle is near door edge near window near etc), can he imagine feeling all the parts all at once?

You have such a great sense of humor.

Does anyone imagine shapes in there mind?

I used to watch your videos regularly and I was just thinking about you the other day and I hoped you were doing well! Its so good to hear your voice again!

Cylinder stuck in pringles can.

The thing is, they have to remember these things. Thats wild how many things they can keep in memory.

New Tommy video just dropped. 😎🔥

The way that the only racecar track he could think is an oval hurts me so deeply

can you imagine the abstract ideas of those shapes? eg how a star shape would feel as just a shape? or completely smooth?

Correct me if I'm wrong, what i think Tommy is saying is that he cannot visualize shapes or perhaps anything at all for that matter. He can recall touch memories of things he touched and what they felt like. "Touchualizations" if you will. Initially someone else probably had to inform him what shape he was feeling until it was committed to memory and then he could recognize shapes by touch.

I love your optimism!!!

I keep thinking about how much blind people need to touch everything… I want to open a publicly touchable things collection for them, like a museum or something.

a race track isn’t actually an oval. an oval is a stretched circle, with no straight sections. a race track is more like a circle cut into 2 parts, then the parts are moved away from eachother, but with lines to connect the two points where it used to touch. if that makes sense

I may have handled one cylinder before I got my hands on any building blocks.

I would think that geometric shapes could be imagined mathematically or abstractly. The human mind is capable of thinking about many things that can only be reasoned abstractly. The atom for instance was not seen but conceptualized long before we had the technology we have today to detect it.

the joke about pyramid conspiracies was really funny

Hey Tommy, I'm not a bot, but a long time fan! Are you ever going to make long form stuff again? Miss you bud!