I WAS BORED





Yesterday evening, while I was folding the laundry in my parents' room, a couple of stray thoughts captured my attention.

I wonder, what are dreams like?




When deaf people dream, do they dream in sounds? In their dreams, do people communicate by using sign language too?

How about those who are born colourblind (and I mean full-blown colourblind, with only white and grey and black)? Do they dream in colours? Or are their dreams also only in white, grey, and black?

And for those who are born blind, having lived in darkness all their lives, do they actually have dreams? Or do they only have dreamless nights?



I realize - like it or not - all of us are, to a certain extent, limited by what we know. We are limited by facts; by our already-conformed mind; by what our senses tells us. It requires more effort to think out of the box.
Purple will always be purple. Yellow will always be yellow. Black will always be black. I cannot imagine describing the sun as green, or having brown clouds and pink penguins. Tell me that oranges are purple in colour, and I'll poke your eyes.



But on the other hand, because these facts are absent in the first place, the minds of such people - in a way - are not conformed or limited.
Look at Ludwig van Beethoven, born in 1770. Despite losing his sense of hearing at a young age of 26 (he suffered from tinnitus), he still went on to compose great and admirable music like Fur Elise.
Look at Helen Keller, born in 1880. Though not born blind and deaf, she was inflicted with an illness (suspected to be either meningitis or scarlet fever) at the tender age of 19months, which left her both DEAF and BLIND. But yet, she's the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college, and published several writings.




Similarly, for those who are born blind or are colourblind, surely they know that in this world there exists colours such as red, pink, blue, orange, purple, yellow and etc. But, what they know of are just head knowledge. WHAT colours do they exactly see in the eye of their mind? Perhaps it's some other beautiful colours that neither you and I can ever think of.

Those who are born deaf, what noises and sounds do their limitless and free-reining minds conjure up? Could it be some beautiful, soulful, and harmonious music that sound totally ethereal and out of this world?



Indeed, there is no denying the sheer power of a free-reining, unlimited, and unbridled mind.


So intriguing.
What do deaf, blind, or colourblind people dream of? Do they even dream in the first place?



I know you must be thinking that I'm crazy to be thinking about such silly and senseless questions. But, like I've said, I was bored.





Anyway, while I was taking this picture, Dad happened to walk into the room. He caught me doing what I was doing, and exclaimed in mock exaggeration, "KANNA SAI! Fold a bit of laundry, need to take pictures ah? Fold laundry only, need to tell the whole world, is it?" He joked.

As an afterthought, he added, "Then I everyday cook dinner for you all, why you never call SPH?"









"I DESERVE TO BE INTERVIEWED!" He concluded triumphantly.