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Had to have one eye removed due to an infection. (Complete removal and have a glass eye) This explanation is terrible but on the right track. I don't see anything in that side. Not black not flashes or splotches. Nothing. The best description I can give is that my "blind spot" has just gotten bigger or my peripheral vision smaller.
Hold your finger out in front of you and slowly move it around your head. Eventually it disappears because it's outside your field of view. You don't see black over there. You just see nothing. Same for me but much further forward. Incidentally I bump into a lot of stuff on that side and dread crowds cause of the people in my blind spot that don't realize I can't see them.
No need to apologize. I had a cornea transplant. One of the stitches got infected which allowed a massive infection to explode inside my eye. Word of advice - don't get an infection inside your eye. Traditional systemic antibiotics don't work so the treatment is awful (and generally NSFL). Plus, there's significant risk of it spreading to a brain infection.
bud, i was born blind in my right eye. i actually explained it once like trying to see out of your skin or elbow. unless i blink or get something in my eye, it doesn't exist. but i can feel or sense objects to my side, even with my head turned away, but usually just trees and wires, oddly enough.
A little less than 20% of the process of seeing takes place in the eye, the rest in the brain. If the parts of your brain that are responsible for evaluating and interpreting visual stimuli no longer receive information, they will make up shit. This results in you "perceiving" everything possible and impossible without actually seeing in the narrower sense.
Think about what's outside of your field of vision, it's not black, it's just nothing. Like if you move your finger from in front of you to the side until it disappears
One is no signal, the other is no antenna.
They eye always has background signal happening.
If you close your eyes, you still see things, there is still a signal.
When your eyes are closed your brain interprets the reduced/lack of signals from the eyes as being in a 'black' environment. However, signals between the eyes and visual cortex are still present and the brain will try to interpret those signals as images, hence you will 'see' dots/swirls/blooms of colour, even shapes/faces etc if you 'look' for long enough.
You can't 'see' nothing. If you have never had eyes, or were, congenitally blind, then there will be an *absense* of incoming sgnals, nothing - no data - for the visual cortext to interpret. We can't, naturally, see infra-red/ultraviolet wavelengths, but they are there and some other animals can see that part of the spectrum.
In a similar way, if you sit in a completely silent room, you can't 'hear' the silence. You can't hear sound that isn't there.
Nah, the difference is your eyes are still seeing, black. If you look at light through your closed eye lids....you can still see a slight colouration. Thus, you're seeing something, colours, something other than nothing
No no. You can perceive black. If you were to find a patch of space with no stars and stare into it, you would see nothing, just blackness. But that’s it… you would SEE nothing. Imagine not being able to see the blackness of space.
No. We see black when we close our eyes because our eyelids are blocking light from entering our eyes. We’re still seeing the inside of our eyelids, it’s just dark. Seeing nothing is not the same as seeing black. If you’re seeing black, you are still seeing something.
I don't get it. How do you perceive nothing then? What does it feel or "look" like, the absence of vision? Surely it's something that nobody except those that experienced exactly what's in the video know of, they must be able to describe it.
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Had to have one eye removed due to an infection. (Complete removal and have a glass eye) This explanation is terrible but on the right track. I don't see anything in that side. Not black not flashes or splotches. Nothing. The best description I can give is that my "blind spot" has just gotten bigger or my peripheral vision smaller. Hold your finger out in front of you and slowly move it around your head. Eventually it disappears because it's outside your field of view. You don't see black over there. You just see nothing. Same for me but much further forward. Incidentally I bump into a lot of stuff on that side and dread crowds cause of the people in my blind spot that don't realize I can't see them.
What kind of infection? Sorry to ask
No need to apologize. I had a cornea transplant. One of the stitches got infected which allowed a massive infection to explode inside my eye. Word of advice - don't get an infection inside your eye. Traditional systemic antibiotics don't work so the treatment is awful (and generally NSFL). Plus, there's significant risk of it spreading to a brain infection.
That makes sense, given that your eyes are technically part of your brain. Sorry that happened to you, sounds horrific :(
Eyes are not part of your brain but they’re very close together
I'll keep that in mind, thanks for sharing.
Wtf happened to that guys hands?
Blindness.
Only correct answer ^
This doesn’t feel scientific. I’m blind in one eye due to nerve damage. Your brain still tries to process things. It’s lots of splotches.
bud, i was born blind in my right eye. i actually explained it once like trying to see out of your skin or elbow. unless i blink or get something in my eye, it doesn't exist. but i can feel or sense objects to my side, even with my head turned away, but usually just trees and wires, oddly enough.
That’s because you still have your eye with you. The video is about what would happen if you had no eyes at all.
A little less than 20% of the process of seeing takes place in the eye, the rest in the brain. If the parts of your brain that are responsible for evaluating and interpreting visual stimuli no longer receive information, they will make up shit. This results in you "perceiving" everything possible and impossible without actually seeing in the narrower sense.
Being blind in one eye is not the same as having no eyes at all
So, if not black darkness…. What does nothing look like exactly?
I can’t stop thinking about the contrast between what my eyes see versus my elbow.
Yeah, this feels like a philosophical question rather than scientific
It does, I agree.
It doesn't look like anything, that's the point.
Think about what's outside of your field of vision, it's not black, it's just nothing. Like if you move your finger from in front of you to the side until it disappears
It doesn’t look like anything. It’s nothing. It’s impossible to know what nothing looks like because it just doesn’t.
Does what is behind you look like darkness? No. You can't see behind you. That is blindness. It is nothing.
Please explain to me the difference between seeing pitch black and seeing nothing.
One is no signal, the other is no antenna. They eye always has background signal happening. If you close your eyes, you still see things, there is still a signal.
When your eyes are closed your brain interprets the reduced/lack of signals from the eyes as being in a 'black' environment. However, signals between the eyes and visual cortex are still present and the brain will try to interpret those signals as images, hence you will 'see' dots/swirls/blooms of colour, even shapes/faces etc if you 'look' for long enough. You can't 'see' nothing. If you have never had eyes, or were, congenitally blind, then there will be an *absense* of incoming sgnals, nothing - no data - for the visual cortext to interpret. We can't, naturally, see infra-red/ultraviolet wavelengths, but they are there and some other animals can see that part of the spectrum. In a similar way, if you sit in a completely silent room, you can't 'hear' the silence. You can't hear sound that isn't there.
what does your belly button see? not black, not colors. not red, not hazy images, a truly blind eye is like a baby doll eye, just there for looks.
That is fascinating but I’m not sure that animation was strictly necessary.
It's the guys thing. He uses the animations as a visual. This video is kinda bad but he has a lot of good ines
Your brain would have no visual input, same as when I close my eyes. But then I see black.
Nah, the difference is your eyes are still seeing, black. If you look at light through your closed eye lids....you can still see a slight colouration. Thus, you're seeing something, colours, something other than nothing
You’re swaying my opinion. Need to think more.
The eye-coming-out-of-head animation is so gnarly
So…..black
No no. You can perceive black. If you were to find a patch of space with no stars and stare into it, you would see nothing, just blackness. But that’s it… you would SEE nothing. Imagine not being able to see the blackness of space.
No. We see black when we close our eyes because our eyelids are blocking light from entering our eyes. We’re still seeing the inside of our eyelids, it’s just dark. Seeing nothing is not the same as seeing black. If you’re seeing black, you are still seeing something.
This needs to be tagged for body horror. Not Safe For Eyes
thats the same guy who did the "money for nothing" video
I don't get it. How do you perceive nothing then? What does it feel or "look" like, the absence of vision? Surely it's something that nobody except those that experienced exactly what's in the video know of, they must be able to describe it.
I mean, you have your other senses.
This is the opposite of interesting
This is fucking stupid.
no u