[karrotwaltz]

A bit off topic, but I hope I'll find I'm not alone: my "mind" is color-blind to some degree.

It's very hard for me to remember colors, if someone cut their hair I'll notice it easily, but if they change color (e.g blonde to brown), I'll have an unsettling feeling but it's very hard for me to pinpoint what has changed.

When I'm asked to describe a person I'm extremely unlikely to give hair or skin color, and I can't even tell the color of the eyes of anyone of my family right now, I just don't know.

When I remember colors it's more like I remember a textual description. My eyes are green, I know because I remember it being written on my ID, not because I've seen them in the mirror this morning.

[kszxgz]

So which characteristics do you describe when you're asked to describe a person? Which features do you imagine? The shape of their head?

I would assume that most people have some form of non-visual, database-like memory for each person.

(I sometimes lose the ability to recognize people when they change their haircut, when they wear a different type of clothes, or when they meet me in an unfamiliar setting.)

[karrotwaltz]

Tall, round face, short hair, wearing glasses, with mustache and beard, thick eyebrows. There are still plenty of ways to describe someone's face without using colors, but to be perfectly honest I'm terrible at describing people I can easily recognize.