I lost my sight from glaucoma 5 years ago, and yes I still have visual memory for my family. When I sleep, I have wonderful dreams about my family, from early childhood to adulthood. Great memory!

Depends on the person. My understanding is the longer without vision the less visual memory you have. You eventually start to forget what some things look like. I think you tuber Molly Burke talks about it.

I started going blind in my 20's, but sharply lost most of my vision in my late 30's. Legally blind now.


I dream with perfect vision. I see the faces clearly, I can tell you exactly how the rusted metal looked on a makeshift fence in one of my dreams. I hate waking because I have to adjust to being blind all over again.


On the other hand, my mother wasted away from cancer and died on Christmas last month. But the image I have in my head of her is happy and mobile. I will always be thankful for that image.

Side note...just because she doesn't see you as you are and possibly one day not at all does not mean she will forget you...you will no longer age in her eyes, think of the positive.

I became visually impaired, suddenly from brain trauma in 2013. I find that I am forgetting what people and things look like. I find it hard to see my youngest as the 13 year old she is, still a young child's face because I haven't been able to tell how she looks now. I have my own version of what ppl look like. It just happens.

I think what makes the difference is how long you had sight, and if someone's 65 then she's had sight a long time. My experience is like a lot of people's here. I went blind the best part of twenty years ago and I still have what feels like a pretty good memory of people, colours, what it's all like. I could certainly read if I suddenly developed the ability to see the page. I could be wrong, of course, it could have all drifted in my brain, but I don't think so. The thing is, I was 19 when I went blind. People who are even a few years younger seem to forget more easily. I'm not saying anything new, I guess, if I say that your mid teenage years are really important.

And again, she won't forget you. I have friends I've never seen, and it's not like they're any less friends than people I have seen!

Most definitely. I lost my eyesight when I was almost 19 in 2001. I’m 38 now and have retained a lot of visual memory. (I was even able to explain the wedding colour I wanted to my sighted wife without knowing its name... it’s cornflower for anyone wondering.) The memories also help me visualize comic book movies and many other things too still.

Yes. Why not

Visual memory is psychological and never goes away. So yes she will have it.

There's nothing disrespectful about being afraid, especially about being afraid of being forgotten.

Your grandma probably loves you, and she's not going to forget that.

I lost my sight when I was a teen. I've been blind now for a bit over 24 years. These days it's hard for me to bring up specific detailed visual memories but the loss of visual recollection took quite a long time in my case. Like if somebody talks about a car for example, I can bring up the image of a car in my mind but not a specific model if that makes sense.

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If she only started losing her sight recently, I wouldn't worry too much about her not remembering what you look like.

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Oddly I do have full sight in most of my dreams but I think those are mainly images my subconscious is creating so are probably not accurate. (They are still interesting though.)

She's my mother's age. Wow, she's young! Um,' that's kind of an odd question.