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Full History - 2019 - 01 - 22 - ID#ait77r
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I just posted this on r/tooafraidtoask and one user suggested crossposting to r/Blind. I am genuinely curious as to whether your minds eye forms anything when you touch / taste / hear something, particularly if you have been blind since birth. (self.TooAfraidToAsk)
submitted by colerarso
PractisingPoetry 3 points 4y ago
A wide variety of things, because not all blind people have the same level of vision loss. Even people with the same effective vision loss may have totally different subjective experiences due to different types/areas of damage. However, for the sake of the question I'm going to assume you mean totally blind people. The answer is nothing. It's not black, it's just nothing. A common way of getting people to understand this is to say: "A totally blind person sees out of their eyes what a sighted person sees out of their elbow". If you try and focus on the visual information coming from your elbow, do you get darkness ? Of course not. It's simply nothing st all.
estj317 1 points 4y ago
Yeah, probably not I can because I use to see a tiny bit. So yeah. Also depend how much one pays attention to forming sensations. Or if they are more dreamy.
jrs12 1 points 4y ago
I once heard someone describe being totally blind from birth as being the same thing that you see when you look out your elbow. What can you see when you look out your elbow?
estj317 1 points 4y ago
Hahahahaha! Okay that is actually a good one.
HDMILex 1 points 4y ago
Nothing.
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