That's a loaded question. Blind is a spectrum. On one end, some people see nothing. On the other end, someone can have 20/20 vision but it's like looking through a coffee straw. Obviously, the little vision they have can make things difficult.

There's alot of misconceptions about blindness. It's not as simple as whether you can see light or dark.

If you ask a blind person, "what do you see?" You're going to get a different genie every time that lantern is rubbed.

Yeah, I think you mean us totals.


What does your pinky see? Nothing. Or some say elbow I was being funny here.


I have actually seen color and even seeing black is seeing something.

It’s kind of like, you don’t have that sense anymore. If they were never ever able to see in the first place it is like that sensation doesn’t exist. Black is still a sighted sensation.


Imagine just having 4 senses hearing, touch, smell and taste. That’s it.


Sight is a foreign language. How much spanish can you speak if you’ve never been taught and never been exposed. None it’s a foreign concept, it is just like that.


For those who have had some vision even if lost at a very young age, I actually can visualize and see some stuff but it’s all phantom sensing. Sometimes to achieve this I have to focus. Though. Sometimes not.

Sometimes I can see even in what normal sighted people would say is total darkness lights and sometimes in different colors or it willl move. But these are phantom lights.recently my imagination had brought up some really bright phantom lights. It was so bright that it hurt but it actually wasn’t real light.

As has been mentioned, not all blind people are absolutely, totally, nothing-but-abyssal-nothing blind. Lots of people seem not to realise that, and I've no clue why. I mean, y'all abled folks do know that some people are fully deaf, some are almost there, some are just hard of hearing, etc. right? Just apply that to blindness.

As for what I see and how much, look, I don't know. I get asked that a lot, actually, more than I'd like, but I still have no clue. Light and darkness, shadows and vague outlines, I suppose. I've always been blind, so this is my normal; as far as I'm conserned, you're the weird one.

So what do *you* see? No, you can't just reply with "everything", because that everything is very subjective. Remember all those "No, that dress is [insert color here]!" arguments? The visual tricks that some people fall for and others do not? Or more majorly, the fact that some languages do not have words for certain colours, so their speakers just ... don't see them, or at least not as separate from others. Where as some languages have countless words for different shades, and that influences what the native speakers can see, too.

You probably aren't seeing the exact same things as every other fully sighted person is. Nor are you hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling. And yet, there is oftentimes no way to quite understand the differences.

Although, if you want to become blind to find out the answer to your question, I do have a box of sharp implements that may help ...

I have never seen, and when I was 10 had my eyes removed because of some fluid on them, so yeah, no chance of anything coming back 🤣
good you had the courage to ask, always be mindful as mentioned before, it's a specjrum, I don't give a sh*t about saying I'm blind cos I am, but someone who is visually impaired, meaning there's still some vision, even though that might only be tiny, or someone in the process of loosing vision, even if that means they'll be blind eventually, often these people really can find it offensive to be called/categorized as blind, and it's important to be conscious of such things when interacting with people. ,

This is an extremely good question! It all depends on whether someone has ever seen or not. If he has, and lost his sight at an age when he was old enough to remember seeing, he would be able to distinguish what life was like before and after sight loss. In my case, I was diagnosed as being totally blind at two months old, so I have nothing with which to compare it. Another factor to consider is how much sight someone has lost. Being blind doesn't just mean that, like me, you can't see anything at all. Some people have light perception, see shadows, can see things very close, or can even see well enough to do most things except drive. There are many levels of blindness.

This is an extremely good question! It all depends on whether someone has ever seen or not. If he has, and lost his sight at an age when he was old enough to remember seeing, he would be able to distinguish what life was like before and after sight loss. In my case, I was diagnosed as being totally blind at two months old, so I have nothing with which to compare it. Another factor to consider is how much sight someone has lost. Being blind doesn't just mean that, like me, you can't see anything at all. Some people have light perception, see shadows, can see things very close, or can even see well enough to do most things except drive. There are many levels of blindness.