I'd also like to add that the other stats about blind people seeing, and more examples of blind from birth people describing colors, are from:
Ring K, Cooper S. Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. Palo Alto, CA: William James Center for Consciousness Studies, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology; 1999
Vicki was married and wearing rings, but of course had never seen them. Here are her recollections of her rings:
I think I was wearing the plain gold band on my right ring finger and my father’s wedding ring next to it. But my wedding ring I definitely saw… That was the one I noticed the most because it’s unusual. It has orange blossoms on the corners of it.
What is so remarkable about Vicki’s recollection
of these visual impressions is that she had never
before understood the concept of vision. “This was,”
she said, “the only time I could ever relate to seeing
and to what light was, because I experienced it.
Ring K, Cooper S. Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind. Palo Alto, CA: William James Center for Consciousness Studies, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology; 1999
Vicki was married and wearing rings, but of course had never seen them. Here are her recollections of her rings:
I think I was wearing the plain gold band on my right ring finger and my father’s wedding ring next to it. But my wedding ring I definitely saw… That was the one I noticed the most because it’s unusual. It has orange blossoms on the corners of it.
What is so remarkable about Vicki’s recollection of these visual impressions is that she had never before understood the concept of vision. “This was,” she said, “the only time I could ever relate to seeing and to what light was, because I experienced it.