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Full History - 2021 - 06 - 17 - ID#o1nz7j
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When people who’ve been blind their entire life, do they/you visualize anything in the mind? I.E. dreaming, listening to words sculpting a mental image. (self.Blind)
submitted by Dramatic_Inspection6
MilkbottleF 5 points 2y ago
Yeah of course, this is a seeing world: ninety-nine per cent of the books, the essays and articles I read, the movies I watch, the conversations I overhear are "by and for sighted people", if you get my meaning, so I've developed a sort of… pseudo-visual imagination to interpret the information around me, with shapes, textures, sounds, and general impressions of others, except instead of a mind's eye, I've got more of a mind's hand/ear/nose. However, there are a few things I'm missing from this imaginary vision that really cannot be replicated or mentally adapted at all: colour, concepts related to light and shadows, which are utterly meaningless, and landscape/panorama, a wide-scale view of things, which, at least, can be described, I just have no ability to generate those images on my own. When someone tells me that I can't see the forest for the trees, they are being very literal, because without further prodding, the trees are the only thing my blind mind will care about.

ETA: I always take every question far too seriously and sometimes I wonder if my answers make sense to anyone but me, so pretty much refer to Bradley below.
bradley22 2 points 2y ago
I do but it’s in touch.

So, if I think of my table in my room, I can feel it in my head.
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