@@Vision-Vibes i mean one eye is in its normal position like any healthy and the other eye rotates eather towards the healthy eye or away from , it's about the position or the angle of rotation of the eye sorry for my poor English
I think what he means by "see nothing" would be like something you don't even have nor perceive. It's like if you were born with the 6th sense of telepathy and then lost it in your life - it's just not there anymore, you don't even perceive it, and you have to rely on your other 5 senses to see the world.
@@Cr1ms0mGl0ry they don't even imagine seeing. they have no concept of an image. it's like you trying to think about the fourth spacial dimention(weird example, I know), can you? You can't. Unless you mistook the concept of a fourth spacial dimention, you can't picture it in your head because you have no idea what it looks like.
Dreamless sleep. You don't see black if you sleep without dreaming, you see nothing due to faded consciousness and the absence/lack of thoughts. You see what your brain empty of thoughts/blank mind would see, which is nothing. This is arguably the best explanation of what completely blind people see since everyone can experience it.
@@vo1dz_alright, if you must know what the nothing in dreamless sleep looks like, it’s almost like a jump cut from being in bed to the sun shining through the window, it truly is just like a skip
As a nearsighted person, the thing I hate the most is being called out for taking off or avoiding my glasses when looking at things up close, my family doesn’t get the fact that I can’t see well with my glasses when the object is way too close
For me i always had being judged for using glasses by people when i was still in boarding school, and not using it with parents/grandparents so everything is wrong lol
The chances you could have a sort of eye issue as an adult in these percentages is genuinely scary. I hate to be one of THOSE guys but WOAH 395 likes?!? tysm!
I love this video very informative before I clicked on it I thought "only about 4 mins to learn how blind people experience life. that's not too much time to see from someone elses life..." I like how you put everything in a short form video for everyone to easily understand thank you for putting this video out
After I had my stroke at just 31yo, I was left with a single blind spot in my right eye. The left has learned to compensate for the missing spot of vision, but when I cover my good eye...listen to the man in the video, because he hits the nail right on the head. My blind spot sees literally "nothing". Its the craziest thing to try to describe, and I can tell you for certain that I could never imagine what "seeing nothing" would look like when I still had total vision.
My young cousin lost his eyesight at 30 years old because of diabetes. He said all he sees is total darkness. I feel for him. The thought of that is terrifying to me. My cousin however is one of the nicest and most positive people I know. I've never seen or heard him be sad. He's so strong.
Well, he mentioned how some people were born blind and others who were not born blind and their differences in what they see. I can't imagine seeing nothing or seeing flashes of light. But to me the kicker is people who later are blind and have extraordinary senses like Babba Vanga.
Sometimes, blind people see more than others. I work on an own little story about an invisible man. After being practically nonexistent to his surroundings for weeks, he gets severe depression and thinks of ending, but then he meets a blind woman who talks to him like everything's normal. She cannot see him just like she cannot see anyone, so there's no difference for her. They go out regularly and he finally feels alive again. I find it a sweet little story idea.
As I write this, I'm nearly recovered from a Vitrectomy. In January of 2005, playing with a pen and a rubber band (from all the f****** places, the stupid pen had to impact in my eye), I scratched my left eye's cornea. After 3 surgeries (one to close the injury, other to put an intraocular lens and a failed atempt to clear remains of a cataract that formed from either one of first 2 with laser surgery [quite frankly, I don't remember why I had a laser surgery. That's probably why I had the main issue]), in 07/26/24 I decided to have "one last surgery". I never took it for many reasons, which go from not being in the mood or doctors saying "We have no clue what to do lmao", until I met this doctor (Huge thanks to that doctor). For almost 20 years I've being seeing with only 1 eye. Trying to see with the bad one, just imagine this, a window covered by steam, but x20. I only saw shadows, light and some movement. Even if doctors put their palm in front of my left eye by 10 cm (4 inches), I couldn't see a single finger. Also, my left eye tended to move more to the left. With the last surgery, my sight went from 1% to almost 60%. I see things with some detail if they are close enough (letters includes), I see people, and finally, I see the 5 fingers from a hand (lmao). I knew I woulnd't recover in a 100%, but it's enough for me. Now super thick glasses wait for me lol. Moral of the story, never underestimate your eyes, take care of them. It applies for the rest of your body and your mind.
I have an amputated eye, replaced with a plastic prosthesis. Sometimes I've had people ask if I can see with it. No, a plastic eye is blind, and you don't see "darkness". Just nothing. One way that I would try to explain it would be to ask, "What can you see of the inside of your shoe, with your foot?"
I have heard of this from another comment before. If you wanna know the closest feeling of blindness, close one of your eyes then try to focus on that eye. You see nothing. Now imagine that with both eyes.
Everyone saying I can’t comprehend what seeing nothing looks like because the human body can’t visualize something that you can’t imagine. Or that they’ve never seen before. Boom! 💥
2:14- I've been near-sighted since I was 9 years old. I never know if my vision is better or worse, but wearing glasses for as long as I have I've gotten used to it and I think people who are legally blind probably have adapted like I have. Although I have had a vision from God of my glasses breaking and me being able to see without them. The thought makes me overwhelmingly speechless on having two eyes again. So when it does happen, I pray God allows it, I don't know what my reaction will be. But I think about all the blind people Jesus healed and they got their vision back and they were grateful and overjoyed. I hope to God that I'll see that day when it comes.
A kid on my mom's side of the family can only see shadows. Its really interesting to see how humans sdapt to their situations and how he functions at a young age despite this issue.
I’m legally blind and still have my light perception, and my corneas aren’t damaged, so I can see colors fine, my retina on the other hand is a different story, my left one has scarred tissue and my right one I’ve dubbed my “good eye” over the years. I was born with R.O.P (retinaopithy of prematurity; probably spelled that wrong, haha) and involuntary nystagmus, which has gotten significantly better. Sometimes people, mostly teachers, forget I’m disabled until I point it out, so that’s always an adventure, but I wrote a song about my eyes (it’s called Unstable Eyes if you’re wondering), but I still have to explain my eyeballs to people lol. And yes, I do have a white cane, however I don’t need it all the time, I named it Moses because it literally parts the sea… of people, haha, Bible humor. Edit: two things I forgot to mention: 1: high functioning is a horrible term to use around me, I’ve vetoed that one, just call me disabled and please move on. 2: if I ever had the opportunity for a retina transplant, I wouldn’t take it, I’ve been like this my whole life so it’s kinda a part of me now.
First time I’ve subbed to a channel in quite a while, thought you’d deserve more than others cause I honestly thought this was a multimillion subscriber channel making this video, and then I see you’ve only got 1k subs. Good job bro
i have been born with Stickler syndrome, which has many effects including the retina being weaker. I was born with bad eyes so the first year of my life (I could walk before i was 1 year old!) i would constantly hit things while walking and -according to my mom- just kept going. Eventually i got glasses which looked like swimming goggles and i could finally see clear, But not for long. I loved the trampoline and one day, after a wild trampoline session, i had black spots in my vision (apparently i told my mom this but i cant remember this). Because of my condition, a crack was forming under my retina which -over the span of several YEARS- went past the optic nerve which is the point it won't be able to be fully surgically fixed. Because i was already myopic before this, i went to an eye specialist frequently. they had noticed this, but thought it would go over on it's own, it didn't. One day during an eye test, a common practise was performed where one eye would be blocked so you would be forced to see through the other eye. During this practise were a few seconds i was seeing like a blind. They covered my left eye and it was like the room around me lost all of it's color. I experienced this years ago and only for a few seconds so it might not be totally accurate. It feld like it still see the room with depht but just pitch black. After i made them aware the removed the eye patch and ran some more tests. They determined that i had a retinal detachment. We went to clinic after clinic and eventually came out in a hospital in Nijmegen. I was crying all the time not because i knew my life would change forever, but because i had to go under anaesthesia via that mask thingy which was pretty uncomfortabel for a like 7 y/o like me (i knew this because i had to have surgery before because i was cross-eyed). So they did the surgery and 3 more to fix it up as best as they could and know -when i cover my left eye like they did all those years ago- it looks very blurred and color a bit darker. Our brains use both imputs from both eyes and mixes them together to make our normal vision, my brain uses almost no information from my right eye. Stickler Syndrome runs in my mother's side of the family and some of my siblings are experiencing the same problem (One unfortunate soul has had a retinal detachment in BOTH EYES!!!) My mother is also partially and even my DOG is developing catarax. In the future i will be able to have surgeries like getting a new lens because my right eye's lens was removed in my second surgery because it was dogsh!t and LASIK. But my eye needs to fully develop before that can happen.
I myself am completely blind in one eye and completely deaf in one ear due to a firework accident it sucks but once you've had it for a while you get used to it as morbid and as sad as that sounds
@@Vision-Vibes I feel like the problem is that we compare everything to something. Even nothingness, we inherently associate with darkness because it's the closest to nothingness that we can conceptualize. However, nothing can't truly be conceptualized, because there's nothing to conceptualize. So when asked to try and imagine nothingness, it creates sort of a logical paradox in that the only way we can imagine anything is to make it out as the closest thing we can compare to it, at which point it's no longer nothing. And even when nothingness is explained to us, the first thing one is likely to do is to try and imagine that as it was described, at which point it is also no longer nothing.
GUYS I’ve had vision loss migraines and the best example is if you put your hand behind your head and you can’t see your hand there, it’s just nothing. Hope this helps
Yeah the concept of seeing "nothing" is hard for a lot of us to really understand! Good example. You're not seeing black behind your head. You're simply not seeing
people who lost their eyesight later most probly often experience vivid dreams? especially just after the moment they aware that they are blind but somehow manage to see things while dreaming...
As someone who is near sighted, and became that way around age 28, i can debunk the blurry dreams thing myself. My dreams for one, are crystal clear... when i remember them.
Astigmatism does in fact make things blurry, as in what should be focused to a point on your retina is smeared into a line). Things are stretched differently in different directions though, so it's not a uniform blur
My astigmatism does both. Luckily my left eye is not anything near what my right eye is because if it was I would need corrective vision for the day-to-day. Something no eye doctor has ever given me insight on though is my right eye doesn't perceive light as well as my left. Meaning on top of things being blurrier and the vision being shifted a bit in my right eye, things are darker. Not scary darker but more than enough to notice it.
@@Vision-Vibes I have astigmatism. We are defining blurry differently. Near and far sightedness makes things "blurry"/ out of focus. Astigmatism does what I described. Which for someone who doesn't have astigmatism is a clearer distinction between the two
My mother suffered from diabetic macular degeneration in her final years. She reported that what she saw was mostly black, but sometimes she would see stark whie or hite flashes, so it sounds like she was experiencing CBS.
Mine are so terrible 20/20 unit does work, but in diopters which is the official one optometrists use, I’m -9. (For reference, 20/20 is 0, 20/400 is -4)
I’m half blinded, I think I couldn’t see in my left eye since birth or something bc I had surgery that eye to keep those eye muscles stay I’m legally adult now and when I was growing up I noticed my eye ball drifts to the side in pictures or in the mirror
The best way I can explain total-blindness is like when you close ONE of your eyes, you don't even see black, just nothing, but when you close both eyes then you see black. Total blindness is like when you close one eye, but for both eyes.
If you can’t comprehend “seeing nothing”, maybe this will help. Your neighbor three houses down is cooking bacon. You can’t smell the bacon because it’s too far away. Doesn’t mean that the bacon doesn’t smell, you just can’t smell it.
I went blind when I had a slight tear on my right vertebral artery in a boxing bout. The experience is one I'll never forget. Within 24hrs my senses of hearing, taste, smell, and touch compensated my inability of sight (I felt like these senses increased by 1000%). For the amount of time I was blind (3 1/2 days), I could not see anything as my sense of awareness of my surroundings was still challenging though by day 2 I had somewhat of an idea of my surroundings (going to the bathroom was an experience itself while blind). While at the hospital I was slowly regaining my sight. The first thing I noticed was a white/sliver coloring. I still recall seeing the night shift nurse staff next to me as they were checking on patients. I remember saying, "I see the outlining of you, and the color is white. Kinda looks like an x-ray photo when I'm looking at you." Color wise I saw red and green on day 2 (it was a Monday). By Tuesday all of the colors came back, but to describe my vision at the time. It was as if looking at the 10, 11, 12, and 1 o'clock for my right eye sight was shattered glass, while my left eye had a blur from the 11, 12, 1, and 2 o'clock, and my sight was readjusting to the light (white light was burning my eyes and making me dizzy) along with my sight adjusting to colors again. As of my sense of hearing, taste, smell, and touch these senses slowly stopped compensating since my ability of sight was coming back (not 100% before but it's about a 99% with some permanent damage I'll have to live with) It was quite the experience and nightmare to live through since I've been blinded twice in my life (once as a teenager and once as an adult).
@@Vision-Vibes I have gone back to the same doctors who did the eye test for me back in 2015. Surprised them all along with myself because my vision is still the same minus the permanent damage. I am going to get lasik since i don't want to wear glasses anymore. should be another interesting experience again, but for the better this time.
@@keepitsimple003 Lasik can be great if you're a candidate for it. I'm currently working on another video about ortho-k contact lenses. You put them in at night and then don't need glasses or contacts during the day
When we (somebody who doesn't have total blindness) see black, we're aware that we're not seeing anything. You can imagine what blackness looks like. If someone's optic nerves or eyes have been completely nonfunctional since birth, their eyes just don't send electric signals to their brain. Our understanding of seeing blackness is based on contrast between that and seeing something, but the brain of someone with total blindness since birth doesn't consider sight at all when understanding their surroundings
I still can't understand it. Nothing is so hard to comprehend for someone that can because the closest thing we can compare it to is darkness or just pitch black. I would assume that this is what it's like for people who have total blindness. Comparisons can only be made by people who see.
Yeah it's hard to imagine. Instead of seeing pitch black (which is something you and I and picture seeing), total blindness and seeing nothing means that there is just no signal. That's why I said that it's like what your knee sees. You can't picture your knee seeing black. Instead, it simply doesn't have a concept of seeing anything
Of everything described here, I feel like the most upsetting thing would be to wind up going blind, and then have a dream where you can see again, only to then wake up and realize you're still blind.
I have astigmatism and nearsightedness. You shouldve mentioned that with astigmatism, It could stretch out light like from headlights or stop lights. I see a full vertical beam of light with every headlight and stoplight on the road
Blindness is similar to deafness in regard to being able to have some amount of vision or hearing and still be classified as blind or deaf. I remember when I saw my audiologist as a kid and I had asked him why deaf people wear hearing aids. I always assumed deaf meant 100% silence but that’s actually incredibly rare. There’s certain frequencies that they are able to hear and every person is different with their hearing. Recently learned that about blindness and the fact that blind people can have some sight. Though the blind people I’ve known have no vision. One gal was born with sight and had a disease I forget what exactly but retina…. and my mind can’t think of the rest. Basically her vision slowly closed in on her until it was gone completely. I can’t imagine that. She is now an international Bible study teacher and goes around the world speaking. Very inspiring for sure. I myself nearly lost my own eyesight. I had oxygen blown on them in the hospital for hours without supervision. I was critically ill and in and out of consciousness. When I came to, I couldn’t tell who the person was in front of me. It was also quite painful.Thankfully my eyes have healed quite a bit since but I have a lot of scars yet on both corneas.
@@Vision-Vibes The scars do impact my vision a bit. Though thankfully not horribly. I believe my better eye is 20/40 with glasses and my other eye around 20/60 but it could be little bit worse or better than that. I was close to being legally blind at first but thankfully my eyes healed a lot. I notice that I mostly struggle with distance and fine detail. Sometimes it feels like I am looking through plastic wrap with my vision. I am able to read without glasses but I hold the book or object no more than a foot or two away depending on font size. While I drive I do wear glasses or Rx sunglasses. I’m so thankful that I can still drive. Honestly what is horrible is how my eyes are so sensitive to light. I can’t go outside without sunglasses but if there’s a certain amount of darkness I also struggle with vision that most people don’t have a problem with. A movie theater for example, I would never be able to find my seat or the people I was with again, if I left and came back before the main lights were on, I actually count the seats I passed as I walk out so I could get back again. I also have astigmatism, though. However, before my corneas were damaged, I was able to see clearly with glasses. Never 20/20 but it was close. It was my distant vision that was my struggle without correction, but I don’t recall what the other visual struggles were.
I am recovering from a diabetic retinal bleed in my left eye and the example you showed was pretty accurate. When the bleed first occurred it was like I was looking through a very dirty screen. Then it was like somebody poured ink in my eye and it was always swirling around. More than three months later it is getting clear between the swirls. There is also a kind of starfield of solid black dots. The swirls should eventally fade but some or all of the dots may be permanent. I hear that your brain learns to tune those out and unless you look for them you pretty much stop noticing them.
Idk other types of blindness but I have been diagnosed with cataract at 12 years old and had my first surgery at 16 due ti being too young until then and everything was way whiter than it should and extremely blurry, as if I was trying to look through a windscreen that was covered by a very thin layer of snowflakes evenly distributed. It got so bad that I couldn't even read anymore and I was wearing Polaroid sunglasses to be able to at least sketch something school related. Now I am almost 23 and I will soon be at my 5th surgery in total, 3rd on my left eye, because, due to me having a cataract surgery at such a young age, I developed secondary cataract and had to laser remove the impurities from my new lens, but, due to complications, I had to swap my new lens with another and it was extremely expensive, but worth it. In the end, my right eye has a 8/10 visual accuracy, while my left eye is currently sitting on a 3/10, but it used to be 7/10 after the last surgery (at its peak). I am so thankful for my doctor who saved my eyesight, as 4 others before him didn't want to have a surgery on me as they were afraid I could lose even what I had left for the next few years while doubting that I could ever see again after 20 at maximum.
Cover one of your eyes and look straight, but what you notice in the eye that you covered is that you don’t really see black but.. nothing. Is the best way I can explain it
yes correct but what i wanna figure out is if both eyes where like that because if you dont see colors like black or white then what is it is it literally black but your not actually seeing the color black
Yeah it's hard to wrap your head around. Seeing pitch black is something we can "picture". You can imagine what it looks like. In the cases where someone has had total blindness since birth and never had a working connection between their eyes and brain, the concept of pitch black wouldn't even make sense. There simply isn't a visual signal sent to their brain from their eyes. That's why I use the "what your knee sees" example. Rather than you knee "seeing" black or anything else, there's just no signal at all. Similarly, people with total blindness from birth just don't consider vision when it comes to understanding the world. So "nothing" doesn't look like anything
I have pretty bad near sidedness, but it is able to be mostly corrected by my prescription eyeglasses. And for that, I'm extremely thankful, even if my lenses are pretty thick. Contact lenses are not for me. I'll forget them and wear them when I shouldn't, and hate messing with my eyes. And having glasses lets me pick a new frame occasionally, and I love customization. Would I rather loose my vision or hearing? If you asked my like 5 years ago, I'd say hearing. Ideally I would keep both, but I think I could _EVENTUALLY_ adapt to either if I had a friend, relative, or partner to help me. Physically _and_ emotionally. But please, not both... I would absolutely hate that life. Neither are particularly good in my case anyway. Guess that's partly why I'm more sensitive to smell, taste, and touch. If you lose one or more of your senses, your brain can try to compensate by making the others stronger. I'd be very surprised if that didn't apply to damaged/weakened senses too.
Close one of your eyes, the vision from the closed eye will stop working and the brain will focus on the opened eye, now try imagining that with both eyes, it's impossible
That's actually pretty common! About 20% of people have a power difference of 0.5 diopters or greater between their two eyes, and 2-3% have a difference of 3 diopters or more
My sight is normal, but I usually don't see any dreams. The time since I fall asleep till I wake up feels like 2 seconds. Because I have lack of phantasy and I am very monotonous generally, I have the capability to think nothing at all. So if there isn't anything in your mind, you have no clue of time either.
I'm legally blind in my left eye due to a developmental defect in the lens. That eye has good color perception, but no focusing ability. Basically, what I see out that eye looks like an impressionist painting brought to life. Really pretty cool. When I was in my early twenties, I had a histoplasmosis infection in that eye that killed about half the retina. So, now what that eye sees is a ring of colored blobs surrounding a void. It's always hard to explain to people what "nothing" looks like. A lot of people ask if it looks black. No, it's a void. No color, no texture. Just...nothing. There's no way to explain it to people who haven't experienced it.
Wow, fascinating. Would you say that the central area of "seeing nothing" is like what we see outside of the edges of the field of view of our eyes? Like we don't see pitch black behind us where our eyes' field of view doesn't cover. Instead, there's just no signal. There's nothing
@@Vision-Vibes That would about capture it. Basically an area of no color and no patterns. Imagine an image with all distinguishing features removed. No shape, no color, no texture. Just an absence of everything. The brain is tricky, though. In the absence of input, our brains like to fill in detail. So even with this big dead spot in the middle of my retina, the brain's visual core will try to fill in content to compensate for the lack of any useful input.
I asked to a blind people what they can see , he tell me "I can see your success in life", but i don't get it ,if he's blind how Can he see my success ?
actually bling people do see pitch black because darkness is just the absence of light and blind people’s eyes don’t perceive light so even though they aren’t seeing, it’s still pitch black
To people who don’t understand what seeing nothing means, close one eye. Now, your brain will ignore the closed eye’s vision, and you’ll see through the other one. That’s what seeing nothing means.
The reason we don’t understand what seeing "nothing" means is because we never saw it before ourselves that’s why we can’t imagine what it would be to see "nothing"
40% of people have some level of astigmatism, so you're not alone. I have other videos breaking down exactly what's going on in your eyes if you have astigmatism
i am farsighted. i wore reading glasses since i was a teen. as i aged i now have to wear glasses all the time to help with some issues with seeing far away. things are now a little blurry without my glasses. I still can't read anything without glasses.
I have corneal scarring over both pupils, 20/400. It took over 6 months to get custom prosthetic corneas, with them 20/20. Everyone knows blindness is terrible, but experiencing it is similar to solitary confinement. I’m still waiting on my super hearing.
The point of that comparison is that your knees don't "see" black, there's just no electrical signals going from them to your brain. The same is true for someone who has total blindness and hasn't had a working connection between their eyes and brain their whole life. The concept of seeing black wouldn't make sense to them
I have tunnel vision. I have been told by an optometrist that I am going blind and may have glaucoma. I can't see anything unless someone points it out to me and I look straight at it. If something is a little off to the side of the center of my vision I don't even know it's there. It can be literally right in front of me and I can't see it unless someone tells me where it is. People often judge me because they think I can see something and they don't believe me that I didn't see it. I also can't see into windows from outside, for example car windows. Often people who I knew have driven by in a car and honked when they saw me and they wondered why I didn't wave back at them because they didn't know that I'm partially blind and couldn't see them.
I am legally blind in my left eye. The dr didn’t seem to worried because of my age but said my cornea was thinning is why the Vision in that eye is bad
What other eye-related topics would you like me to talk about? 👀
why can we switch focus between far and close abjects how does that work ?
why some people have an eye that get to the other eye ? (Like me 🙃) and why some other have an eye gets farther from the other eye.
@karmaakabane6704 it's the lens in your eye changing shape to shift your focus! I can definitely make a video doing a deep dive into that
@@karmaakabane6704 I don't quite follow this one. Are you saying that one eye is nearsighted while the other is farsighted?
@@Vision-Vibes
i mean one eye is in its normal position like any healthy and the other eye rotates eather towards the healthy eye or away from , it's about the position or the angle of rotation of the eye
sorry for my poor English
I still can’t comprehend seeing NOTHING 😭 “your knee doesn’t see pitch black, it sees nothing” brother what I still don’t get it
I think what he means by "see nothing" would be like something you don't even have nor perceive. It's like if you were born with the 6th sense of telepathy and then lost it in your life - it's just not there anymore, you don't even perceive it, and you have to rely on your other 5 senses to see the world.
U have way more then 5 senses @@jyngreen2250
One of the best explanations is like seeing through your elbow, or leg, or back of the head, you don’t see black, you just see nothing through them.
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So, like... just not noticing anything?
The person is stuck on their imagination?
@@Cr1ms0mGl0ry they don't even imagine seeing. they have no concept of an image. it's like you trying to think about the fourth spacial dimention(weird example, I know), can you? You can't. Unless you mistook the concept of a fourth spacial dimention, you can't picture it in your head because you have no idea what it looks like.
Dreamless sleep. You don't see black if you sleep without dreaming, you see nothing due to faded consciousness and the absence/lack of thoughts. You see what your brain empty of thoughts/blank mind would see, which is nothing. This is arguably the best explanation of what completely blind people see since everyone can experience it.
that actually makes a lot of sense, since i somehow gained consciousness in these stages of sleep, and saw the same as you described
bro what does nothing look like😭
@@vo1dz_ it looks like nothing
you can experience it during sleep without dreaming
i get dreamless sleep a lot i just wanna dream 😭
@@vo1dz_ it doesn't look
@@vo1dz_alright, if you must know what the nothing in dreamless sleep looks like, it’s almost like a jump cut from being in bed to the sun shining through the window, it truly is just like a skip
As a nearsighted person, the thing I hate the most is being called out for taking off or avoiding my glasses when looking at things up close, my family doesn’t get the fact that I can’t see well with my glasses when the object is way too close
You have no choice! Maybe some of my nearsightedness demos can help them understand 😁
BRO SAME
BRO SAME I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
For me i always had being judged for using glasses by people when i was still in boarding school, and not using it with parents/grandparents so everything is wrong lol
@@兽Arufisujust do what u need to do. Ppl judging for wanting to see properly are dumb. Don’t listen to them
The chances you could have a sort of eye issue as an adult in these percentages is genuinely scary.
I hate to be one of THOSE guys but WOAH 395 likes?!? tysm!
I know right? Pretty terrifying
Thankfully new surgeries are being developed to eliminate most causes of blindness
@@LeyScara surgery can fix nerve signals from the eye to brain?
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Visually impaired person here. This was the best explanation on blindness I've ever seen on RUclips. 100% accurate.
Thank you! So glad to hear that the research for this one paid off
"...I've ever heard* on RUclips."
I still can't fathom seeing nothing.
@@iamlegend5190 yeah it's a really hard thing to imagine
I’m glad I’m not blind. I don’t want to lose my vision. I always take good care of my eyes, I guess.
Yeah I feel super lucky to still have good vision too!
@@Vision-Vibes We both are… I guess. And maybe other people who still have their perfect vision or something… I guess.
@@The-creator-of-good-videos-15I guess
@@cartoons3171 Uh…
make sure to brush them and wash them in soap everyday
I know a viral video when I see one. The way you condensed so much information into a short and easy video is incredible!
Thanks! I really appreciate that 😁
this is crazy that this only has 51 view's and you only have 1.85K subs I thought you would have way more on the quality of this video. Cool vid>
Thanks! Just getting started 😁
Yup, here before this blows up
#TeamEarly
Me too lol #teamearly
Am I still #teamearly because at the moment it has 1.9k views?
#teamearly 💪
Same here! I know a viral vid when I see one
I love this video very informative before I clicked on it I thought "only about 4 mins to learn how blind people experience life. that's not too much time to see from someone elses life..." I like how you put everything in a short form video for everyone to easily understand thank you for putting this video out
Thanks a lot! I tried to keep this as a high-level introduction, but I do deeper dives into all of the different topics too like AMD, glaucoma, etc!
@@Vision-Vibes nice 👍 I subscribed!
After I had my stroke at just 31yo, I was left with a single blind spot in my right eye. The left has learned to compensate for the missing spot of vision, but when I cover my good eye...listen to the man in the video, because he hits the nail right on the head. My blind spot sees literally "nothing". Its the craziest thing to try to describe, and I can tell you for certain that I could never imagine what "seeing nothing" would look like when I still had total vision.
Wow, an understated channel answering a question that we all have!
That's the goal 😁
My young cousin lost his eyesight at 30 years old because of diabetes. He said all he sees is total darkness. I feel for him. The thought of that is terrifying to me. My cousin however is one of the nicest and most positive people I know. I've never seen or heard him be sad. He's so strong.
What a great attitude to handle something like that
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Well, he mentioned how some people were born blind and others who were not born blind and their differences in what they see. I can't imagine seeing nothing or seeing flashes of light. But to me the kicker is people who later are blind and have extraordinary senses like Babba Vanga.
Sometimes, blind people see more than others. I work on an own little story about an invisible man. After being practically nonexistent to his surroundings for weeks, he gets severe depression and thinks of ending, but then he meets a blind woman who talks to him like everything's normal. She cannot see him just like she cannot see anyone, so there's no difference for her. They go out regularly and he finally feels alive again.
I find it a sweet little story idea.
That's beautiful! it reminds me of a book i read once a long time ago and it really stuck with me, Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements 💖💖
As I write this, I'm nearly recovered from a Vitrectomy.
In January of 2005, playing with a pen and a rubber band (from all the f****** places, the stupid pen had to impact in my eye), I scratched my left eye's cornea. After 3 surgeries (one to close the injury, other to put an intraocular lens and a failed atempt to clear remains of a cataract that formed from either one of first 2 with laser surgery [quite frankly, I don't remember why I had a laser surgery. That's probably why I had the main issue]), in 07/26/24 I decided to have "one last surgery".
I never took it for many reasons, which go from not being in the mood or doctors saying "We have no clue what to do lmao", until I met this doctor (Huge thanks to that doctor).
For almost 20 years I've being seeing with only 1 eye. Trying to see with the bad one, just imagine this, a window covered by steam, but x20. I only saw shadows, light and some movement. Even if doctors put their palm in front of my left eye by 10 cm (4 inches), I couldn't see a single finger. Also, my left eye tended to move more to the left.
With the last surgery, my sight went from 1% to almost 60%. I see things with some detail if they are close enough (letters includes), I see people, and finally, I see the 5 fingers from a hand (lmao). I knew I woulnd't recover in a 100%, but it's enough for me. Now super thick glasses wait for me lol.
Moral of the story, never underestimate your eyes, take care of them. It applies for the rest of your body and your mind.
Oh wow. Happy to hear it went from 1% to almost 60%!
I know a blind girl and she has the most beautiful eyes and a great personality
Can I use this video with tamil language subtitles to reach more patients.
You are use of words are crisp and clearer for anyone to understand.
Yes sure! As long as you list my channel as the original source for the video
I have an amputated eye, replaced with a plastic prosthesis. Sometimes I've had people ask if I can see with it. No, a plastic eye is blind, and you don't see "darkness". Just nothing. One way that I would try to explain it would be to ask, "What can you see of the inside of your shoe, with your foot?"
Yeah that seems to be hard for some people to process!
I can’t comprehend seeing nothing, it’s bluescreening my brain when I try
I see my sock.
What does nothing look like?
@@mattkugelman4369 It looks like this:
Finally someone who answers what completely blind people see
That was the goal 😁
I have heard of this from another comment before. If you wanna know the closest feeling of blindness, close one of your eyes then try to focus on that eye. You see nothing. Now imagine that with both eyes.
1:34 my monitor might count as legaly blind lol
SAME
Being totally blind is like closing one eye and trying to see out of it
You can see out of it and its black on one side.
Everyone saying I can’t comprehend what seeing nothing looks like because the human body can’t visualize something that you can’t imagine. Or that they’ve never seen before. Boom! 💥
I feel bad for people who can’t see thank god I can see 😢I can’t say it enough 😢
Yeah I sure feel super lucky to still have decent vision
2:14- I've been near-sighted since I was 9 years old. I never know if my vision is better or worse, but wearing glasses for as long as I have I've gotten used to it and I think people who are legally blind probably have adapted like I have. Although I have had a vision from God of my glasses breaking and me being able to see without them. The thought makes me overwhelmingly speechless on having two eyes again. So when it does happen, I pray God allows it, I don't know what my reaction will be. But I think about all the blind people Jesus healed and they got their vision back and they were grateful and overjoyed. I hope to God that I'll see that day when it comes.
A kid on my mom's side of the family can only see shadows. Its really interesting to see how humans sdapt to their situations and how he functions at a young age despite this issue.
I guess we're all blessed here to have some vision. I was curious about what blind people saw. I'm glad you included the dream part in the video.
Yeah making this video made me realize how much I take my vision for granted!
As somebody with amazing vision, going blind is literally my biggest fear
Honestly, same here
Extremely underrated. Here before you blow up.
Thank you! #TeamEarly
I’m legally blind and still have my light perception, and my corneas aren’t damaged, so I can see colors fine, my retina on the other hand is a different story, my left one has scarred tissue and my right one I’ve dubbed my “good eye” over the years.
I was born with R.O.P (retinaopithy of prematurity; probably spelled that wrong, haha) and involuntary nystagmus, which has gotten significantly better. Sometimes people, mostly teachers, forget I’m disabled until I point it out, so that’s always an adventure, but I wrote a song about my eyes (it’s called Unstable Eyes if you’re wondering), but I still have to explain my eyeballs to people lol.
And yes, I do have a white cane, however I don’t need it all the time, I named it Moses because it literally parts the sea… of people, haha, Bible humor.
Edit: two things I forgot to mention:
1: high functioning is a horrible term to use around me, I’ve vetoed that one, just call me disabled and please move on.
2: if I ever had the opportunity for a retina transplant, I wouldn’t take it, I’ve been like this my whole life so it’s kinda a part of me now.
You seem to be a funny and positive person :-)
@@Gieeska88 glad I come across that way :)
I thought over and over again, and I can kinda- get the picture of what not seeing anything seems like
high quality, low views.. algorithm at its finest
Thanks 😁 good job algorithm
*Vicki Noratuk also talk about her born blind experience, a MUST WATCH*
Clearly not this video.
Got em
Loll
@@SteaksRightNostril no. like honestly. I CAN'T see the video when I'm without glasses 🫂
First time I’ve subbed to a channel in quite a while, thought you’d deserve more than others cause I honestly thought this was a multimillion subscriber channel making this video, and then I see you’ve only got 1k subs. Good job bro
Thanks a lot! I really appreciate that 😁
i have been born with Stickler syndrome, which has many effects including the retina being weaker. I was born with bad eyes so the first year of my life (I could walk before i was 1 year old!) i would constantly hit things while walking and -according to my mom- just kept going. Eventually i got glasses which looked like swimming goggles and i could finally see clear, But not for long. I loved the trampoline and one day, after a wild trampoline session, i had black spots in my vision (apparently i told my mom this but i cant remember this). Because of my condition, a crack was forming under my retina which -over the span of several YEARS- went past the optic nerve which is the point it won't be able to be fully surgically fixed. Because i was already myopic before this, i went to an eye specialist frequently. they had noticed this, but thought it would go over on it's own, it didn't. One day during an eye test, a common practise was performed where one eye would be blocked so you would be forced to see through the other eye. During this practise were a few seconds i was seeing like a blind. They covered my left eye and it was like the room around me lost all of it's color. I experienced this years ago and only for a few seconds so it might not be totally accurate. It feld like it still see the room with depht but just pitch black. After i made them aware the removed the eye patch and ran some more tests. They determined that i had a retinal detachment. We went to clinic after clinic and eventually came out in a hospital in Nijmegen. I was crying all the time not because i knew my life would change forever, but because i had to go under anaesthesia via that mask thingy which was pretty uncomfortabel for a like 7 y/o like me (i knew this because i had to have surgery before because i was cross-eyed). So they did the surgery and 3 more to fix it up as best as they could and know -when i cover my left eye like they did all those years ago- it looks very blurred and color a bit darker. Our brains use both imputs from both eyes and mixes them together to make our normal vision, my brain uses almost no information from my right eye. Stickler Syndrome runs in my mother's side of the family and some of my siblings are experiencing the same problem (One unfortunate soul has had a retinal detachment in BOTH EYES!!!) My mother is also partially and even my DOG is developing catarax. In the future i will be able to have surgeries like getting a new lens because my right eye's lens was removed in my second surgery because it was dogsh!t and LASIK. But my eye needs to fully develop before that can happen.
i gave up reading this 1/4 of the way in😭
@@boonana80085 y
0:36 pretty convenient abbreviation
I myself am completely blind in one eye and completely deaf in one ear due to a firework accident it sucks but once you've had it for a while you get used to it as morbid and as sad as that sounds
Kinda scary that we will never be able to see nothing and people with congenital blindness will never see everything through out their lifetime
Yeah it's so hard for us to wrap our heads around!
@@Vision-Vibes I feel like the problem is that we compare everything to something. Even nothingness, we inherently associate with darkness because it's the closest to nothingness that we can conceptualize. However, nothing can't truly be conceptualized, because there's nothing to conceptualize. So when asked to try and imagine nothingness, it creates sort of a logical paradox in that the only way we can imagine anything is to make it out as the closest thing we can compare to it, at which point it's no longer nothing. And even when nothingness is explained to us, the first thing one is likely to do is to try and imagine that as it was described, at which point it is also no longer nothing.
Sort of a blessing though. They wouldn't know what they lost. People who could see but we're blinded would know that loss.
GUYS I’ve had vision loss migraines and the best example is if you put your hand behind your head and you can’t see your hand there, it’s just nothing. Hope this helps
Yeah the concept of seeing "nothing" is hard for a lot of us to really understand! Good example. You're not seeing black behind your head. You're simply not seeing
I’ve had that since like 10 and it’s like static but dim for me
1:08 bro looks locked in
Real
How I be when playin gta and losing....
Holy shit that caught me off guard 😂
Thank you very much, I love the presentation
You're welcome! I really appreciate that 😀
I need to get rid of my eyes to finally understand how is it to see nothing
Dang you're committed
Any updates?
people who lost their eyesight later most probly often experience vivid dreams? especially just after the moment they aware that they are blind but somehow manage to see things while dreaming...
Yes! I'd think that it would almost be torture to "see" in your dreams but then wake up and not be able to see
Unless your name is Toph Beifong and use seismic sense
As someone who is near sighted, and became that way around age 28, i can debunk the blurry dreams thing myself. My dreams for one, are crystal clear... when i remember them.
Astigmatism doesn't make it blurry. It's more like if you took a painting and shook it or spun it.
Astigmatism does in fact make things blurry, as in what should be focused to a point on your retina is smeared into a line). Things are stretched differently in different directions though, so it's not a uniform blur
My astigmatism does both. Luckily my left eye is not anything near what my right eye is because if it was I would need corrective vision for the day-to-day.
Something no eye doctor has ever given me insight on though is my right eye doesn't perceive light as well as my left. Meaning on top of things being blurrier and the vision being shifted a bit in my right eye, things are darker. Not scary darker but more than enough to notice it.
@@thoryan3057 I'll probably do more research into why our vision can differ between our two eyes and make a video about that!
@@Vision-Vibes Thanks!
@@Vision-Vibes I have astigmatism. We are defining blurry differently. Near and far sightedness makes things "blurry"/ out of focus. Astigmatism does what I described. Which for someone who doesn't have astigmatism is a clearer distinction between the two
Me reading the title: “what do blind people see”
My dumb brain: niching because they are blind, duh. 🙄
You become Daredevil.
My mother suffered from diabetic macular degeneration in her final years. She reported that what she saw was mostly black, but sometimes she would see stark whie or hite flashes, so it sounds like she was experiencing CBS.
ig im legally blind
right: 20/500
left: 20/300
Is that without glasses my eyes are pretty bad without my glasses like 20/400 maybe
Mine are so terrible 20/20 unit does work, but in diopters which is the official one optometrists use, I’m -9. (For reference, 20/20 is 0, 20/400 is -4)
I’m half blinded, I think I couldn’t see in my left eye since birth or something bc I had surgery that eye to keep those eye muscles stay I’m legally adult now and when I was growing up I noticed my eye ball drifts to the side in pictures or in the mirror
The best way I can explain total-blindness is like when you close ONE of your eyes, you don't even see black, just nothing, but when you close both eyes then you see black. Total blindness is like when you close one eye, but for both eyes.
If you can’t comprehend “seeing nothing”, maybe this will help. Your neighbor three houses down is cooking bacon. You can’t smell the bacon because it’s too far away. Doesn’t mean that the bacon doesn’t smell, you just can’t smell it.
Very interesting.
Thank you!
I went blind when I had a slight tear on my right vertebral artery in a boxing bout. The experience is one I'll never forget. Within 24hrs my senses of hearing, taste, smell, and touch compensated my inability of sight (I felt like these senses increased by 1000%). For the amount of time I was blind (3 1/2 days), I could not see anything as my sense of awareness of my surroundings was still challenging though by day 2 I had somewhat of an idea of my surroundings (going to the bathroom was an experience itself while blind).
While at the hospital I was slowly regaining my sight. The first thing I noticed was a white/sliver coloring. I still recall seeing the night shift nurse staff next to me as they were checking on patients. I remember saying, "I see the outlining of you, and the color is white. Kinda looks like an x-ray photo when I'm looking at you."
Color wise I saw red and green on day 2 (it was a Monday). By Tuesday all of the colors came back, but to describe my vision at the time. It was as if looking at the 10, 11, 12, and 1 o'clock for my right eye sight was shattered glass, while my left eye had a blur from the 11, 12, 1, and 2 o'clock, and my sight was readjusting to the light (white light was burning my eyes and making me dizzy) along with my sight adjusting to colors again. As of my sense of hearing, taste, smell, and touch these senses slowly stopped compensating since my ability of sight was coming back (not 100% before but it's about a 99% with some permanent damage I'll have to live with)
It was quite the experience and nightmare to live through since I've been blinded twice in my life (once as a teenager and once as an adult).
Wow, super interesting! I'm glad that your vision bounced back to 99% though. That's not always the case
@@Vision-Vibes I have gone back to the same doctors who did the eye test for me back in 2015. Surprised them all along with myself because my vision is still the same minus the permanent damage. I am going to get lasik since i don't want to wear glasses anymore. should be another interesting experience again, but for the better this time.
@@keepitsimple003 Lasik can be great if you're a candidate for it. I'm currently working on another video about ortho-k contact lenses. You put them in at night and then don't need glasses or contacts during the day
@@Vision-Vibes looking forward to it since i never heard of this before
Wow
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I’m also blind kinda and is just blurry like a shade over your eyes
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am i the only one that think this is creepy..
Spooky
@@Vision-Vibes yeah, looks like some sort of shadow-creature
Brings back memories when I had eye surgery for a hemorrhage, and I couldn't see anything in my right eye for a month.
That must have been a rough month!
Saying blind people don’t see pitch black is like saying it’s not Diet Coke, it’s Coke Zero.
They mean basically the same thing.
When we (somebody who doesn't have total blindness) see black, we're aware that we're not seeing anything. You can imagine what blackness looks like. If someone's optic nerves or eyes have been completely nonfunctional since birth, their eyes just don't send electric signals to their brain. Our understanding of seeing blackness is based on contrast between that and seeing something, but the brain of someone with total blindness since birth doesn't consider sight at all when understanding their surroundings
Diet Coke and Coke Zero are very different...
I still can't understand it. Nothing is so hard to comprehend for someone that can because the closest thing we can compare it to is darkness or just pitch black. I would assume that this is what it's like for people who have total blindness. Comparisons can only be made by people who see.
Yeah it's hard to imagine. Instead of seeing pitch black (which is something you and I and picture seeing), total blindness and seeing nothing means that there is just no signal. That's why I said that it's like what your knee sees. You can't picture your knee seeing black. Instead, it simply doesn't have a concept of seeing anything
I’m near sighted but fortunately not to badly
40% of people are! You're in good company
Of everything described here, I feel like the most upsetting thing would be to wind up going blind, and then have a dream where you can see again, only to then wake up and realize you're still blind.
True, that would be a cruel trick from your brain
Think of standing up too fast and you seeing colors all over the place.
I have astigmatism and nearsightedness. You shouldve mentioned that with astigmatism, It could stretch out light like from headlights or stop lights. I see a full vertical beam of light with every headlight and stoplight on the road
True! I have some other videos breaking down astigmatism in a lot of detail. I don't see those lines myself because I don't have astigmatism!
I've put pressure on my eyes for long periods of time and I see something like dark tv static.
Blindness is similar to deafness in regard to being able to have some amount of vision or hearing and still be classified as blind or deaf. I remember when I saw my audiologist as a kid and I had asked him why deaf people wear hearing aids. I always assumed deaf meant 100% silence but that’s actually incredibly rare. There’s certain frequencies that they are able to hear and every person is different with their hearing. Recently learned that about blindness and the fact that blind people can have some sight. Though the blind people I’ve known have no vision. One gal was born with sight and had a disease I forget what exactly but retina…. and my mind can’t think of the rest. Basically her vision slowly closed in on her until it was gone completely. I can’t imagine that. She is now an international Bible study teacher and goes around the world speaking. Very inspiring for sure.
I myself nearly lost my own eyesight. I had oxygen blown on them in the hospital for hours without supervision. I was critically ill and in and out of consciousness. When I came to, I couldn’t tell who the person was in front of me. It was also quite painful.Thankfully my eyes have healed quite a bit since but I have a lot of scars yet on both corneas.
Exactly! Wow, I'm glad your eyes have healed a lot since then. Do the corneal scars impact your vision?
@@Vision-Vibes The scars do impact my vision a bit. Though thankfully not horribly. I believe my better eye is 20/40 with glasses and my other eye around 20/60 but it could be little bit worse or better than that. I was close to being legally blind at first but thankfully my eyes healed a lot. I notice that I mostly struggle with distance and fine detail. Sometimes it feels like I am looking through plastic wrap with my vision. I am able to read without glasses but I hold the book or object no more than a foot or two away depending on font size. While I drive I do wear glasses or Rx sunglasses. I’m so thankful that I can still drive. Honestly what is horrible is how my eyes are so sensitive to light. I can’t go outside without sunglasses but if there’s a certain amount of darkness I also struggle with vision that most people don’t have a problem with. A movie theater for example, I would never be able to find my seat or the people I was with again, if I left and came back before the main lights were on, I actually count the seats I passed as I walk out so I could get back again. I also have astigmatism, though. However, before my corneas were damaged, I was able to see clearly with glasses. Never 20/20 but it was close. It was my distant vision that was my struggle without correction, but I don’t recall what the other visual struggles were.
I am recovering from a diabetic retinal bleed in my left eye and the example you showed was pretty accurate. When the bleed first occurred it was like I was looking through a very dirty screen. Then it was like somebody poured ink in my eye and it was always swirling around. More than three months later it is getting clear between the swirls. There is also a kind of starfield of solid black dots. The swirls should eventally fade but some or all of the dots may be permanent. I hear that your brain learns to tune those out and unless you look for them you pretty much stop noticing them.
Wow, glad to hear it's clearing up!
Idk other types of blindness but I have been diagnosed with cataract at 12 years old and had my first surgery at 16 due ti being too young until then and everything was way whiter than it should and extremely blurry, as if I was trying to look through a windscreen that was covered by a very thin layer of snowflakes evenly distributed. It got so bad that I couldn't even read anymore and I was wearing Polaroid sunglasses to be able to at least sketch something school related. Now I am almost 23 and I will soon be at my 5th surgery in total, 3rd on my left eye, because, due to me having a cataract surgery at such a young age, I developed secondary cataract and had to laser remove the impurities from my new lens, but, due to complications, I had to swap my new lens with another and it was extremely expensive, but worth it. In the end, my right eye has a 8/10 visual accuracy, while my left eye is currently sitting on a 3/10, but it used to be 7/10 after the last surgery (at its peak).
I am so thankful for my doctor who saved my eyesight, as 4 others before him didn't want to have a surgery on me as they were afraid I could lose even what I had left for the next few years while doubting that I could ever see again after 20 at maximum.
Wow, what a journey. Glad you've been able to preserve 8/10 vision in your right eye!
Cover one of your eyes and look straight, but what you notice in the eye that you covered is that you don’t really see black but.. nothing. Is the best way I can explain it
yes correct but what i wanna figure out is if both eyes where like that because if you dont see colors like black or white then what is it is it literally black but your not actually seeing the color black
Yeah it's hard to wrap your head around. Seeing pitch black is something we can "picture". You can imagine what it looks like. In the cases where someone has had total blindness since birth and never had a working connection between their eyes and brain, the concept of pitch black wouldn't even make sense. There simply isn't a visual signal sent to their brain from their eyes. That's why I use the "what your knee sees" example. Rather than you knee "seeing" black or anything else, there's just no signal at all. Similarly, people with total blindness from birth just don't consider vision when it comes to understanding the world. So "nothing" doesn't look like anything
I have pretty bad near sidedness, but it is able to be mostly corrected by my prescription eyeglasses. And for that, I'm extremely thankful, even if my lenses are pretty thick. Contact lenses are not for me. I'll forget them and wear them when I shouldn't, and hate messing with my eyes. And having glasses lets me pick a new frame occasionally, and I love customization.
Would I rather loose my vision or hearing? If you asked my like 5 years ago, I'd say hearing. Ideally I would keep both, but I think I could _EVENTUALLY_ adapt to either if I had a friend, relative, or partner to help me. Physically _and_ emotionally. But please, not both... I would absolutely hate that life.
Neither are particularly good in my case anyway. Guess that's partly why I'm more sensitive to smell, taste, and touch. If you lose one or more of your senses, your brain can try to compensate by making the others stronger. I'd be very surprised if that didn't apply to damaged/weakened senses too.
Close one of your eyes, the vision from the closed eye will stop working and the brain will focus on the opened eye, now try imagining that with both eyes, it's impossible
I have near sight or whatever it’s called. But in my left eye. My right eye is fine and also I’m 16 is that concerning?
That's actually pretty common! About 20% of people have a power difference of 0.5 diopters or greater between their two eyes, and 2-3% have a difference of 3 diopters or more
I can sorta understand seeing nothing you just straight up hear and touch and that’s it
So technically I’m legally blind because I’m -6.75 in my contacts. 😂😂
True! Those are some strong contacts!
I guess I'm completely blind, my contacts are -9
T1 diabetic since 1985. I manage my blood sugar levels well for the specific reason that I don't want to lose my sight.
Good thing you're on top of it! Your future self will thank you
As an epileptic who goes blind sometimes due to not telling this was cool!
If we don't have eye than can we see pitch black????
My sight is normal, but I usually don't see any dreams. The time since I fall asleep till I wake up feels like 2 seconds. Because I have lack of phantasy and I am very monotonous generally, I have the capability to think nothing at all. So if there isn't anything in your mind, you have no clue of time either.
Wow, super interesting! Lots of people spend a lot of time meditating trying to be able to do that
I'm legally blind in my left eye due to a developmental defect in the lens. That eye has good color perception, but no focusing ability. Basically, what I see out that eye looks like an impressionist painting brought to life. Really pretty cool. When I was in my early twenties, I had a histoplasmosis infection in that eye that killed about half the retina. So, now what that eye sees is a ring of colored blobs surrounding a void. It's always hard to explain to people what "nothing" looks like. A lot of people ask if it looks black. No, it's a void. No color, no texture. Just...nothing. There's no way to explain it to people who haven't experienced it.
Wow, fascinating. Would you say that the central area of "seeing nothing" is like what we see outside of the edges of the field of view of our eyes? Like we don't see pitch black behind us where our eyes' field of view doesn't cover. Instead, there's just no signal. There's nothing
@@Vision-Vibes That would about capture it. Basically an area of no color and no patterns. Imagine an image with all distinguishing features removed. No shape, no color, no texture. Just an absence of everything. The brain is tricky, though. In the absence of input, our brains like to fill in detail. So even with this big dead spot in the middle of my retina, the brain's visual core will try to fill in content to compensate for the lack of any useful input.
I asked to a blind people what they can see , he tell me "I can see your success in life", but i don't get it ,if he's blind how Can he see my success ?
actually bling people do see pitch black because darkness is just the absence of light and blind people’s eyes don’t perceive light so even though they aren’t seeing, it’s still pitch black
Not always! The video breaks down how a lot of the time being blind doesn't mean that you simply see blackness
So glad I got that superhuman vision instead of blindness
I won the genetic lottery
To people who don’t understand what seeing nothing means, close one eye. Now, your brain will ignore the closed eye’s vision, and you’ll see through the other one. That’s what seeing nothing means.
Good way to explain it!
The reason we don’t understand what seeing "nothing" means is because we never saw it before ourselves that’s why we can’t imagine what it would be to see "nothing"
2:45 I have a similar thing but they are much more tinier and no blurry vision
I have astigmatism in both eyes. I just loooove having to get close enough to something to read text.
40% of people have some level of astigmatism, so you're not alone. I have other videos breaking down exactly what's going on in your eyes if you have astigmatism
imagine you're blind and instead you wake up at like 2:00 instead of 7:30 its scary to think that some people are blind
0:55 when i was born i had cataract and idk what else but after 6 eye operations i see almost perfectly
Glad to hear the operations worked!
i am farsighted. i wore reading glasses since i was a teen. as i aged i now have to wear glasses all the time to help with some issues with seeing far away. things are now a little blurry without my glasses. I still can't read anything without glasses.
I’m near sighted and have been using glasses since the 7th grade
I have corneal scarring over both pupils, 20/400. It took over 6 months to get custom prosthetic corneas, with them 20/20. Everyone knows blindness is terrible, but experiencing it is similar to solitary confinement. I’m still waiting on my super hearing.
Oh wow, glad to hear you're now at 20/20!
@@Vision-Vibes Appreciate it. University of Iowa Ophthalmology is quietly incredible, I would recommend them to anyone.
I’m more confused by the knees don’t we stuff same as eyes like what do they see
The point of that comparison is that your knees don't "see" black, there's just no electrical signals going from them to your brain. The same is true for someone who has total blindness and hasn't had a working connection between their eyes and brain their whole life. The concept of seeing black wouldn't make sense to them
@@Vision-Vibes thank you
Highly intriguing and informative
Thanks a lot!
I have tunnel vision. I have been told by an optometrist that I am going blind and may have glaucoma. I can't see anything unless someone points it out to me and I look straight at it. If something is a little off to the side of the center of my vision I don't even know it's there. It can be literally right in front of me and I can't see it unless someone tells me where it is. People often judge me because they think I can see something and they don't believe me that I didn't see it. I also can't see into windows from outside, for example car windows. Often people who I knew have driven by in a car and honked when they saw me and they wondered why I didn't wave back at them because they didn't know that I'm partially blind and couldn't see them.
Sorry to hear that. I hope your eye doc can also figure out some form of glaucoma treatment that helps
I am legally blind in my left eye. The dr didn’t seem to worried because of my age but said my cornea was thinning is why the Vision in that eye is bad
so is like having knees and not eyes? is like if i want to see what my knees want to see?