What does a blind person see?

[GermainZ]

I personally like to imagine it the way it's pictured in Blindness (check out the movie if you want to, it's about social decadence in a society where everyone went blind).

As for your original post, I personally didn't find it offensive, interpreted just like Clara, but let's just say that the limits between this meaning and the other are slightly blurred in your post. Might want to edit that, if you want.


EDIT: To answer the OP, tho, here's an interesting article.

[Deathslayr]

No, I don't really think it needs editing. If people read it incorrectly, their problem. I think I might watch that movie sometime. Sounds interesting enough. I bring up the point again though, what about those that weren't born blind? They became blind later. How would they describe it? From what I hear, they still don't see black. They still see nothing. I still can't comprehend that at all.

[Mistress Kitti]

I can in no way describe what it's like to be blind, as I've never personally experienced it. However? I am one who is very sensitive to losing something so precious that is taken for granted every day...specifically, eyesight.

It will probably sound weird to you guys, but I literally 'study' my house as if I were blind. I have practiced and manuevered around objects, furniture, various rooms, simple actions such as washing hands, placing dinnerware, etc with my eyes shut. While I'm doing this, I 'imagine' everything that I encounter...the vision scrolling through my mind as I move through my house. I 'see' what something looks like just by the feel of it, right down to the color that I remember it being.

I would have to imagine, from my 'study', that if a person had sight prior to losing it, whether partially or completely? The person would have the ability to visualize by the senses. This is all just a personal hypothesis, though.

Yeah, I'm a freak. But I can't help myself...I cherish my sight so much that it's nearly an obsession of mine to know what to expect if I lose it.

[gottibabe1]

No, I don't really think it needs editing. If people read it incorrectly, their problem. I think I might watch that movie sometime. Sounds interesting enough. I bring up the point again though, what about those that weren't born blind? They became blind later. How would they describe it? From what I hear, they still don't see black. They still see nothing. I still can't comprehend that at all.

you completely skipped right through my post. Thank You

[Deathslayr]

No, not ignored. I'm still thinking about my reply. Take it as a compliment, that you made a brilliant post that's making me think about my answer longer.

[SickbyDefinition]

Ok, so apparently, blind people can not see. Makes sense. What we do we see when we close our eyes? Black. What does a blind person see? Nothing. I just don't understand it. How can it be nothing. What is nothing? What does nothing look like? Nothing can't look like anything. But I can not comprehend such a thing. Do blind people say they see nothing because they don't know what black is? Or do they truly see nothing? What about those who were not blind, and became blind sometime in their life? According to them, it's the same thing. Nothing. Not black. Nothing.

Drives me crazy.

I think you've got the wrong idea of what being blind is, and of course it is hard to imagine since you aren't blind, but I don't believe they see black. Black is what we see simply when there is an absence of light, that is black, that is what darkness is. But, Blind people do not see an absence of light, they literally see nothing. They don't have the sense, it's just not connected. It's hard to conceive, but if you were deaf, you wouldn't hear buzzing or something. You wouldn't hear anything at all. Just like this, fully blind people have eyes that are missing connections to their brains, or the connections are faulty, etc. Their brain registers no sight at all, it doesn't register black either. There is nothing to register.

I agree probably didn't need to ask this in forums you can google it would mostly get more info anyway good question tho but kinda not good way to ask it and I was watching ellan show while ago and a def lady got hearing and she is 32 or something and she cryed hearing the sound of a persons voice I chould just imagine a blind person to see for the very first time in there life idk if something like that has happens to a blind person but I hope it has.

A blind man was given vision in one of his eyes late in his life... his 60s I believe. He had been blind his entire life, and went through experimental surgery and actually received a working lens in one of his eyes that could see better than the normal human eye.

[Deathslayr]

I think you've got the wrong idea of what being blind is, and of course it is hard to imagine since you aren't blind, but I don't believe they see black. Black is what we see simply when there is an absence of light, that is black, that is what darkness is. But, Blind people do not see an absence of light, they literally see nothing. They don't have the sense, it's just not connected. It's hard to conceive, but if you were deaf, you wouldn't hear buzzing or something. You wouldn't hear anything at all. Just like this, fully blind people have eyes that are missing connections to their brains, or the connections are faulty, etc. Their brain registers no sight at all, it doesn't register black either. There is nothing to register.

That is what I can't comprehend. I understand it. But I can't make sense of it.

[Bree Fletcher]

I have a sense called sminze. You know, it's what allows one to sminze the general pollid of people and objects. Just behind the left ear is where you sminze from. Very useful, you know. Sometimes someone is very varniddle, and it makes me happy. Sometimes the flowers are wilting and sminze in a friti manner, which i don't like at all. And some people say they like it when they sminze something tember, but it doesn't really do for me at all.

What's tha you say? You dont sminze? Then what do you sminze? Is it setenk all the time?

[DWorth]

my thoughts are and these are only ideas lol

Life long blind people might see black, shapes in the black or maybe more yet they are still blind and can't comprehend what they see so to them IT IS nothing ...

People who later get blind might also see black (which they can say is nothing because come on when you see black and only black wouldn't you agree its empty? A nothingness ...) But they could also picture thing in their head now couldn't they? Remember this they have seen? I have thought about this before , and it seems that to be blind is a sorrow to people but some people doesn't let it get in their way they keep living don't they? Some stay happy .

I say this as personal experience
When I was in kindergarten there was a boy 1 year younger than myself , another boy threw a rock at this boy. It hit his head and the boy went blind, the entire town helped get money for this young boy so he could get the stuff he needed to learn how to live blind . And you know what I heard that boy is happy and that his sight has started to come back.

[XxflamesxX]

I attempted to read this thread.... now my head hurts....


However, now i have had time to process the OP ( i got lost some where along the way with the replies so sorry if it has already been said)

Sight, is the act of seeing light reflecting of objects through the lenses in our eyes that sends the images back to our brain that processes the data into sight.

Black, is the absence of light. It is not a colour, its is basically nothing.

Therefore blind people have an absence of light in their life, so they see nothing therefore see black. Stand in a room with no windows, close the door, turn off the lights if you cant see your hand in front of your face.... welcome to what its like to be blind. Ive done it, its rather freaky.