Sounds like I've found a fellow Texan =)

It took a little over a year from the time when I started losing my sight until I was declared legally blind this summer, and at the rate of loss I estimate it will take a little over a year until I'm totally blind. Most legally blind people aren't totally blind, and even among those that are many had some vision earlier in their lives. I mention this because your question seems to assume the answer will come from someone who's only ever heard a movie. It's okay - most people have a lot of misconceptions about blindness. I just wanted to clear that up and let you know few of us have never seen a movie.

Since I was able to see movies until recently I'll skip your first question and get right to your second - what day to day things are important for sighted people to experience.

Life! Love! Puppies! Fresh baked bread! Warm blankets on a cold night, friends, the breeze at the beach, the unreleased singles from a favorite band's album, swimming in an icy cold creek in the mountains, dancing with your mom, that fist sip of Dr Pepper before the carbonation starts going flat.

Do not waste your life working in a job you hate. Do not spend your life staring at a screen. Do not accept the status quo as good enough. Take risks. Make life an adventure. Travel and experience all the goodness and beauty in people. When opportunity presents itself don't hesitate - say "Yes!"

This is the same thing I would have said before I lost my sight. It's not advice from a blind man, it's advice from an old man. **It's not the stoopid things we did we end up regretting later in our lives, it's the stoopid things we didn't do when we had the chance.**

Has anyone heard of the movie Stranger Than Fiction? A man wakes up one day hearing his life narrated, meanwhile an author is trying to figure out how to kill off her main character.

I think that someone could easily experience this movie without the visuals because it's narrated, and one could get to feel like the protagonist Harold, hearing a mysterious voice.

Well idk about movie as I still have partial vision but the misconception that losing vision makes your other senses heighten. It doesn’t you just learn to listen and feel instead of being constantly bombarded with visual stimuli. That being said I want sighted people to be able to realize that everything has a sound, everything, each individual leaf on a tree, the sound of the texture of bark, the sound of carpet or fur absorbing the sound waves (you can hear softness!), a drip of water on a brick, the sound of footsteps vibrating off a window as you walk past a tall building, the sound of a little stream bubbling through a field, it’s beautiful. I feel like if more people knew this they might be slightly less terrified to lose their vision, lots of people get incredibly depressed when they go blind and tend to think their life is over but that doesn’t have to be true.

On a more negative side I would also like them to experience the confusion of having cars honk at you and drivers shout at you to cross roads when you can’t tell wtf they are talking about and how their added Boise actually obscures potential dangers so they can understand how much it annoys me, I know they mean well but their good intentions have nearly gotten me AND THEM hurt on more than one occasion.