I'm fully blind and my visual field almost looks like a slightly rounded letterboxed movie, dark bands across the top and bottom with a large field of dark, noisy grey in the middle. It's like very dark TV static in a way, and when in strong light I can sort of sense the color temperature but not much else. Have little flashes of light here and there from random cells reacting to something or flickering every now and then, but ultimately it's dark dark noisy greyness. Will be different for every totally blind person, as I lost my sight 4 years ago.

as a sighted person, this is such a mind fuck. i can sort of wrap my head around this concept but a lot of people can't.

What a random thing to say

People are clueless about this stuff. I understand them.

The brain always wants to compensate what he losted on the case of stargardt patients on advanced central vision loss the brain replaces the images with other stuff this is known as "Charles Bonett" syndrome usually people with macular degeneration, glaucoma or cataracts can express this brain behavior with time.

Now this is for people that lost his sight and once had a good field of vision for people that are blind since birth some of them can tell that they see a plethora of shapes and things not just "Darkness" the thing here it's that depends a lot in the disease or issue that took you to blindness.

Same thing goes for people with tunnel vision. It's not that everything is black except for one spot like a light at the end of the tunnel. There just isn't anything except that one spot.

Every time I try to explain this, people never seem to get it. We don't see black because there is nothing to see. I guess that's just difficult for some people to imagine.

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