Most blind people can see something, total blindness is rare. I'm one of the totals, though. I don't see anything - no colour, shape, anything. Sighted people assume it's black, but of course without having seen any other colours, I can't say one way or the other.

In terms of dreams, of course, dreaming isn't a visual thing. I've never had any vision, so I can't see in my dreams, but I can usually do things in them I wouldn't be able to do when I was awake. I've been able to fly, or be a superhero, or any cool thing like that. I imagine people who lose their eyesight later in life continue to have more visual dreams - we're wired as a species to use our eyes a great deal.

You can't see your own ears, they're outside your field of vision. They don't look black to you, or white, or anything. They just aren't there.

My type of blindness causes tunnel vision. If you want to know what it's like hold your arm straight out in front of you and make a fist. That fist is the same size as what I see. Everything outside of that fist just isn't there if I'm in a dim place. If I'm outside in the sunshine my field of vision is wider, but everything outside of that fist sized window looks like it has dark tv static overlaid on it.

What I see in my dreams looks like it did before I went blind.

Like other people have said here, there are lots of different kinds of blindness and even two people with the same kind can have really different experiences in what they're able to see. If you asked 100 blind people what they experience you'd probably get 90 different answers. But I think I can speak for just about everybody when I said the thing about your ears not looking black or white. Our blindness isn't a color just like silence isn't a sound.

Curiosity isn’t a sin, don’t feel bad for having these questions.

1. Blind people don’t see anything. Think, what does your elbow see? It’s not black, it’s nothing.
2. People who are blind since birth typically have dreams more centered on feeling and hearing rather than visualizing.

I have a lot of sight for a blind person, so I see all sorts of things, just not in the same amount of detail as a sighted person.

I can see almost as well as a sighted person close up, especially with my bifocals, though I have to hold things really close to my face. But I rapidly lose details as things get further away. It’s not blurry looking, but like my eyes have a lower resolution. I’m super light sensitive, which means I find normal lighting too much, but my night vision is as good as yours. Oh, and I’m colour blind.

Now, if you ask another blind person what they see, you’ll get a completely different answer. This is because blindness is a spectrum ranging from total lack of sight to a visual acuity of about 10% of full sight (20/200), and that can include so much variation.

As for my dreams, I dream with the amount of vision I have in daily life, except generally without the squinting and eye pain of being in too bright light.

If you're legally blind, your vision is 20/200 or less in your better eye or your field of vision is less than 20 degrees. That means if an object is 200 feet away, you have to stand 20 feet from it in order to see it clearly. But a person with normal vision can stand 200 feet away and see that object perfectly.

My daughter has Retinitis Pigmentosa. Undiagnosed until she was 18. So as someone else commented she had tunnel vision. I would bet her vision now at 30 is less than 10 degrees. She’s met people that have the opposite, no central vision but can see only peripherally. Her central vision is bad too, since birth so she does wear glasses. People always get confused when a person with a cane is wearing glasses. She can’t see things around her (curbs, things Walmart puts in the middle of the aisle etc) that’s what the cane is for.

Hey, I am totally blind, if you would like, I will be glad to answer any questions that you have, plus I have a talk show that I could bring you on to address any other questions I hope you consider this my name is Anthony