This made me google,if the blind can also read and see colours without braille,because what ryan does is not inborn but learned.
Quote:Areas of the brain, even in those born blind, can be trained to recognise objects and even 'read' through visual input, researchers say.
The Visual Word Form Area (VWFA),is activated by seeing and reading letters among the sighted.
After tens of hours of training, blind people's VWFA showed more activation for letters than for any of the other visual categories tested.
colourQuote:Different wavelengths of visible light have different colors, and mixtures of light of different wavelengths have different colors. A blind person can feel the thermal energy deposited by light,
http://van.physics.illin.../qa/listing.php?id=1866
well,..It's interesting if not real.