I don't feel blue, but I hear you: A look at the the strongest sense of perception

     After reading "How We Listen" by Aaron Copland and after listening to the RadioLab podcast entitled "Colors," I have come to the conclusion that out of the 5 senses we humans possess, sight is the most untrustworthy sense while, on the other hand, the ability to hear is our most trustworthy sense.
     As illustrated in "Colors," the sense of sight is very, if not completely, untrustworthy. There is no real way to know if we are all seeing the same colors and, also there are many colors that we cannot see without prior knowledge of these specific colors. For example, the young daughter of one of the speakers on the podcast had no idea that the color of the sky was blue until she was given context clues to figure out the color. Originally, the girl saw the sky as white for weeks until one day she began to see blue. The color grew on her and mislead her for a long time. Additionally, it has been seen in older texts that many ancient civilizations (such as the Greeks) rarely described the color blue due to the fact that this color wasn't around much in their time. Their eyes had no reason to see this color because of this, so when they saw this color they didn't know they were seeing it.
     The ability to hear, on the other hand, is incredibly trustworthy if you give it the respect it needs to flourish. This is because everyone hears things in their own special way. This is conveyed in "How We Listen" when Copland states that "if [music] is a great work of art don't expect it to mean exactly the same thing." Copland agrees with me in the fact that hearing something is unique to each individual and that there is a true beauty in finding what something you hear means to you, specifically.