My day as a blind person

I chose to be blind for an hour.

It was really weird at the beginning, because I couldn’t see anything – funny enough. I had to depend on my other senses. But it felt like my other senses was magnified and improved.  I could hear and smell almost everything around me.  Almost everything was different. The sofa had a different shape and the apple I ate was much tastier than before.

The most difficult thing was walking down the stairs. It was one of the most uncomfortable things that I ever have experienced.  I was afraid that I was going to fall suddenly and the staircase felt longer.

I thought that I maybe would “see” the world from a different point of view. Not because I didn’t see things from another perspective but I think that there is a difference between born blind and becoming blind throughout your life. When you are born blind, you have to make pictures and imaginations about everything – people and food. But when you become blind you already know these things. You don’t have to use our imagination. And because I became blind, I didn’t have to make pictures or use my imagination. I would have loved to have used my imagination to form people and everything else. And I believe that if I had to use my imagination the experience would have been a lot different.

But being blind for an hour was actually very funny but also at bit dangerous – I could easily have fallen down the staircase and broken my arm or leg.

It was a great and fun experience, because I felt that I was a completely another person.