Lindy LeBlanc I uhh, I didn't say anything that warranted that lecture. I was just saying what the OP is saying is perfectly reasonable, Tommy is an awesome, funny guy. No need to get all social justice warrior on me, I assure you I bear you no ill will, but to the same affect I really didn't ask for your life story. I do wish you luck with your child. Just saying you went a bit overboard.
Uzi Solis it’s not about seeing colour. It’s about seeing anything. A black hole allows no light out. He sees black. Especially if he can tell when there’s a light source. If he sees white, is he seeing a whiter white? No.
Just think what do you see out of your foot ,nothing that’s how it would be except for your eyes they literally have no vision at all. thats what I’ve heard
I know someone who went blind and they say that they just see basically black when they are in a dark place and a lighter kinda colour when they are in a lighter place...
This guy has one of the most positive but genuinely comical attitudes I've ever seen in a non sighted person. God bless you as you really made me giggle mate. Respect dude
Not to dis you, and he is very happy and all. But he doesn’t understand what he is missing. So nothing is “ different” he is giving just as a normal life as you and me.
It's hard to wrap our heads around it, but I think that if Tommy can recognise the presence and absence of light, then he probably "sees" what we see exactly when we close our eyes, but the only difference is that we've learned to identify this thing that we see as the colour black, while he has never seen colours before in order to be able to confirm to us that he sees exactly what we see... We can't communicate effectively with him.. If you and i both saw something, i can point at an object and say "is this the colour that you saw?" to which you'll say "yes", because you and i share an understanding of the concept of colour, whereas in Tommy's case, communication is impossible in that regard!!
Yeah I agree. Close your eyes in a bright room, then cover your eyes with your hand. You can tell the difference between the light and darkness. I imagine that's how he sees the world.
People aren't explaining to him correctly, the absence of color is the color black and the absence of light is that same color, when he sees the sun he's a different type of color which is no longer black or the absence of light which happens to be black
+Bigdipshit1 When you're different from other people, even if you've always been 'that way' you know that you stand out. Sometimes it's not so easy to have a sense of humor about it. Tommy does a great job at keeping things in perspective. It's true that you may feel more of a sense of loss if you were 'normal' for a bit and something made you abnormal/different, but you'll know you're different even if you've never experienced 'normal' because people will treat you differently. (How I know I'm not talking out my butt: I was fully sighted until about age 6 or 7, then I lost vision in my Right Eye. I'm in my 30s now and don't actually remember what it's like to see out of that other eye anymore, but I sure as heck notice when people give me dirty looks because they tried to pass me in a grocery store on my right side and I couldn't see them and therefore didn't move out of their way. I also notice the panicked look on people's faces when/if they DO realize I'm partially blind after being a jerk to me.)
Most mind blowing thing I’ve ever heard from someone truly 100% blind. A man who has no eyeballs. Someone asked him what he sees. He said something along the lines of “what do you see out of your elbow” fucked my brain up.
@@markg999 That's the same thing blind person think of about seeing something. They can't fathom it, because they can't imagine how "something" looks like.
The question "What Do Blind People See?" is essentially what is the color of nothing. I cannot wrap my head around what the color of nothing is. I don't think they even see black. It's really weird to think about.
The thing is he isn't just closing his eyes. When you close your eyes they still send information to your brain about what they are seeing so you see black, when they don't send any information about that to your brain you literally can't see anything.
Reckfullies I gave that as an example to prove that if by closing one of your eyes, you can't see anything, try to imagine the same effect in both eyes. It would as be impossible for us to comprehend doing so as sight would be to Tommy.
This is how to kind of kind of kind of (I still can't imagine it which is really really sad :() "Actually this isn't the right way. Closing your eye doesn't disable your visual perception. Green_Salt has it the other way around: What you see out of your closed eye IS black, NOT "you don't see anything at all". Just look straight to an object, make sure your eyes don't move, and try to perceive the edges of your vision. You can view the curtains but you can't view the drawer to your left, for example, because it isn't in your line of sight. Now imagine how blind people - that is, those who never saw to begin with - don't have anything in their line of sight. They see nothing. Not black, but no sight at all. They don't perceive. When you close your eyes, you still have a field of perception. It may appear black, or you may see lots of these very small dots flashing all over the place on a black background, whatever, but that isn't equal to nothing. Even with your eyes closed, you are still 'perceiving' that visual field. You just can't distinguish it as easily from nothing as you would when you had your eyes open. An example with a different body part: Try to imagine what it's like not having a tail. You don't feel like something is missing, because you didn't have it in the first place."
I imagine it as the nothingness at the back of my head. There is no color, not even black. Or another way, when we have a field of vision, everything outside is how blind people "see".
He has nothing to compare with. Black is just a word for him. If we tell him that his nothingness is black then he can relate this word to his experience. Then he will understand, ah ha so nothingness is the blackness. He sees blackness but he cannot see colors. Nothingness which is pure black is the background and the foreground is the colors. He exist only in the background and cannot perceive the foreground and cannot understand it when we speak of it. When we talk about shades, shadows, colors such as red, blue, green and so on, that we can see shapes or contours of the objects in a dark room which lacks all colors. These are just words for him. So when we say "can you see black" it is just a word which he cannot refer too something, and he has to guess what black is and apparently his guess of what black is is wrong.
@@DragonStrke12244 black is something we see ..when u close ur eyes u see black because light doesn't get to his eyes ..cover ur eyes with both ur hand ..u see black because u see hand covering ur eye ..But in his case he is blind he can't see there for he can't see black
My husband lost his eye sight before we started dating. In order for me to be more sensitive to the dilemma of total blindness, I spent a day blind-folded. The things I learned about the fear factor, when someone is leading you around, was eye-opening. Food doesn't taste the same, because not being able to see the food, somehow diminishes the taste. I realized how I tensed up, as my friend was leading me around the mall. I had never needed to trust someone like that, before. I appreciate my BLIND husband. He was a real man. His humor was gigantic. He had phenomenal coping skills. He went to Braille and learned living and cooking skills (without sight). Boy, could he cook. I used to tease him about his blindness to add more pleasure to his day. I would say things like, "Here, you drive. I'm tired. Don't worry baby; if you get lost, stick your (white) cane out of the car window. They'll give you the right-of-way. You'll do just fine." His response would be something like, "I would, baby; but I gotta go to the bathroom in a hurry and you drive faster." On another day, I might finish getting ready for church. He'd say, You really look nice today, mama. I just might take you out to dinner." One day, at church, he was presented with a plaque. He was guided up to the mic. He reached into his shirt pocket and said,, "Well, it looks like I left my reading glasses at home; so I won't be able to use the notes I prepared for my acceptance speech. Bear with me saints." Do you know, they were too afraid to laugh? I couldn't believe how awkward it felt in that church, that morning. I was the only person laughing... and we weren't even dating each other yet. We were just friends. This is the title to my RUclips video about how I appreciated my hubby. I recorded it after he passed away, to remind all that are married, why we need to appreciate our mates. "APPRECIATE the BLIND Person, You're Married To"
I insightful. Seeing monocular,mythology is thinking you see darkness,grey,black etc. You see no color ,nothing.My preserved sight keeps me from being in control of hospitalization.I am tested all the time.
Uh yeh. Blind people can read comments on Facebook and RUclips and stuff, it's called voice-over on IOS, talkback or voice assistant on android and jaws or supernova on windows. And it isn't an app, it's in settings, and it's on everybody's phone
My uncle is loosing his eyesight and it has been difficult for us to understand what was going on with his eye sight. He has difficulty explaining as well. Now is clear. Thank you for sharing and making this video. You are amazing
Plot Twist : We actually exist inside a simulation coded by high dimensional beings and we're all actually way back in their history to be simple our children evolved and are controlling time flow
My theory is he can see white and black but he has no concept of color he doesn't know what that means or is so he just assumes he can't see it but idk
Blind people do see black it's just like he said they have no concept of what black is so they can't really tell us this. I know this cause my friends uncles vision was restored and he said all he saw was black. EDIT- this is just what my friend told me I don't know if it's fact
no. when your eyes literally cannot give you vision you see nothing. my pa is blind and he compares it to me trying to see out of my elbow, you just percieve nothing
I'm actually blind in one eye so I can say that blindness is not just closing your eye. I literally see nothing in one eye. I don't see black. The best way to describe this is imagine having 3 eyes if you can see out of two eyes. What do you see out of your third eye? Nothing. Excactly nothing.
Naaahhh I think they see black. But conceptualizing the color black is like describing what's behind you. If you were to get someone who is blind in one eye. Then have them completely cover there good eye. They would say they see black.
I know this video is 11 years old at this point (and it's still a gem!), but it amazes me that to this day people are still posting comments like "he sees black but doesn't know it's black" when 30 SECONDS into the video Tommy explains this is not the case ... wtf is wrong with people?
This is fantastic. I love how he is giving us permission to feel comfortable talking about his experience. He's laughing about it, and not expecting us to be overly sensitive. He's not precious about his blindness, and doesn't want us to be either. It's absolutely fascinating as well. He stops being a blind person, and becomes to us what he is. A person who happens to be blind.
Serious question, have you ever done LSD or any other psychedelic drugs? It isn't illegal to admit prior drug use, so please don't feel compelled to retain information. They can create mental images of things you've never conceived of before and I wondered how blind people react to psychedelic hallucinogens has to do with something going on in the brain, not the eyes.
Pgsycadelics like lsd work with the subconcious mind so everything you see on lsd is stuff youve thought of or seen before even if you swear you havnt, you have. Its litteraly impossible to think of something in your brain you've never seen or heard before
A Cunning person ya that doesn’t make sense to me, if he can tell the absence and presence of light then he can see colours but maybe he doesn’t know which ones are which.
Tommy, I just wanted to say thank you so much :) It's just so precious that you share your experiences with us who otherwise could never have experienced them ourselves...that is amazing.
***** Wrong. In order to "see" black you would need to have a point of reference. Black would be the absence of light or complete absorption of light that you see. In low level lighting or no lighting, he would see "nothing", not black. He wouldn't be able to differentiate really low light settings and no light settings. If his eyes aren't picking up the low light, he isn't able to "see" anything. His brain isn't receiving any information (nothing is being passed through the visual cortex), thus, his brain isn't processing any imagery. Not processing imagery doesn't equate to black. Nothing equates to nothing. So, he literally "sees" nothing, because he isn't able to register the absence of light or very low light. As an example, some people have the ability to see more colors than others, because they have more photoreceptor cells. Where they see an unexplainable color, or a completely different mix of colors; you may see "nothing" at all. Your brain isn't processing this light, because to you, the light isn't visible, or in the correct spectrum. Also, asking a blind person what they see would be like asking a person that was born without nerve cells that detect damaging stimuli, what type of pain they feel. If you are incapable of feeling pain, you feel no pain. Their brain isn't receiving any signals, because there are no signals being sent. Burn their hand, prick their skin, or kick them, the result is the same. They feel "nothing". Nada, zip, zilch.
***** A good way of thinking about it is to imagine you have a 6th sense right now that doesn't work. Some sense coming off the top of your head that would otherwise allow you to see the world in a way you literally could not possibly imagine. You have NO possible way of understanding this sense, the vocabulary of this sense, and the aspects of the world you are missing.... because it doesn't work. It's the same thing. You tell a blind person he sees black, and he has no earthly idea what that means. He does not see anything. It's as difficult for us to grasp the idea of seeing nothing as it is for a blind person to grasp seeing.
+Taun-Chi Gaming My theory is that they see something, but they don't know what it is, what color it is, and anything at all, because they have no relation to it. That's pretty much why it's "nothing." They can't tell you what it is. It's like describing the color "blue" without saying "it's the color of the ocean" or "it's the color of the sky."
Natalie He says he sees the presence or absence of light in a room, but I think he is simply wrong on that. He's using that language (shadows, light, etc) but the aspects of his personal experience he is referring to (probably combos of temperature and other senses) are not true shadows and light. He would not be able to grasp the concept of actual shadows and light.
Maybe 7-10 years ago, on new years eve, I was very sick, and when me and my dad was watching all of the fireworks from the window, I lost the ability to see for a couple of minutes. Everything just went black, so I always imagined that, that was what it was like to be blind. Luckely I got my sight back after 2-3 minutes, but it made me appreciate the fact that I could see.
Oh thank you for answering! I don't know if you've read my other coment (the video where you opened them), but I realy want to tell you what are your eyes like! So, shortly, to me your eyes are like Hans Zimmer's muisic, the Docking Scene from Interstellar movie. Have you listened to it?
+TommyEdisonXP I assume you know that because if you cover your eyes with your hands, that doesn't work, right? You do realise that that darkness is what we call black, and that brightness is what we call white (if it's strong enough)? Other colours are obviously completely different (did anyone try to shine a very strong blue light on you and a very strong white (normal - what you see when the sun shines through a window) light on you and see if you can distinguish the difference?), but it sounds like you can understand what black and white are.
It's somewhat weird that he can sense light sources tho, almost feels like his blindness is more like when we have our eyes closed, when we have our eyes closed we can't really tell whats going on but we can see that there is light source somewhere.
I think being blind is not really a concept that sighted people can grasp, since we have never known anything other than "seeing" Just like the conecpt of seeing can never truly be grasped by a person born blind, since they have never known anything such as "seeing".
Actually, that "seeing from you elbow" concept made me "imagine it". It's not that hard, just try to understand seeing with your elbow and you can quite feel like how it would be to not see even black. It's not that hard if you've never been sighted.
Dan Makes Me Howell yes it would be black to a sighted person. I went blind at 14 after an extremely high fever destroyed my optic nerves everything is black. but since I knew what black was due to 14 years of sight, I know what to call it , it's like standing in pitch blackness i get no light or shades the to total loss of optic nerve. so I'm forever in complete blackness , but since i had sight for 14 years I do dream and have extremely vivid dreams of color as if my mind amplifies what it remembers I dream of all sorta thing even women and I use speech2text I chose female UK voice but at a very high speed as you get used to hearing super fast speech then a similar program to dragon dictate or dragon naturally speaking to type , it has autocorrect and very basic grammar tools it works better in chat like there's s trillian plugin or Google hangout plugin but it sucks on Facebook
I always thought blind people saw what sighted people see when we close our eyes. You can't see a particular color, but you can see light and dark. This is a question only people who went blind can answer rather than people born blind.
It's hard to understand, but he sees only light, not colors or non-colors. He doesn't see black, because he doesn't have any receptors. Only if there's light or not.
when you can tell that there is light, you are seeing, and you probably are seeing white, when you can tell there's no light you are seeing, and the color you are seeing is black, so if you can remember the experience of knowing there is light in the room you are remembering the color white, tommy probably wont read this but i think it would give him a better idea of color
What about if you hold an object, can you visualize what it would look like by making a mental mapping of the object in your head? Or can you just not comprehend what you are touching?
Add859 TankiOnline of course he can make a mental picture from touch. this is how blind people "see" other peoples' faces! remember, his mind still works...
hmm He might know it if I tell him. I'll tell him something like: "Hey I turned the lights off so it's dark now and dark is close to black" ofc l could be wrong.
@@Portulak007 They have never experienced the sense of sight therefore they probably see "nothing", sort of like when you don't sniff you don't smell anything.
@@Portulak007 Black is the color of the light spectrum that a working retina can see when very little light is reflected from an object and then stimulated to the brain via light sensitive cells and that trigger nerve impulses which creates the visual image in the bain. In blind people, the retina does not send that light transmitted information to the brain. People who were born blind would not be able to describe what color they see because their eyes have never seen the light spectrum. People who have gone blind will generally say they see white or black, depending on their cause of blindness.
@@thecomprehensionhub4612 do they can imagine? or not? if can then what they can see in their imagine? can they see the shape of things in thier imagine when they touch it or we describe it to them?
It’s weird to think about that the same way we can’t wrap our head around what nothingness is like and how light could affect that nothingness, he can’t wrap his head around what seeing is like.
When my eyes are closed, I generally see the backside of my eyelids. I only see back when it’s dark. The backside of my eyelids has a reddish hue which I assume are blood vessels. Sometimes I see gray which might be light coming through my eyelids.
No. The colors are created by the light reflected from the object into your eyes. (or in the case of black, the object does not reflect light) Imagine tearing your eyes from your head. How could you see the non-reflection of the light if you don't even have eyes? Blind people dont see black. They don't see. Their world is just 3D in nothingnes.
zo70 no it’s still the same and try holding up a light to your closed eyes, you can understand where he’s coming from when he says that he can feel the light
He says he can tell the difference between light and dark, but then he also sees nothing. I think he just doesn't understand that darkness is typically associated with nothing. Take the universe for example, wherever there are no objects (stars, planets, galaxies, etc.), it's just black. There's nothing. Not air nor light exists. That's what I imagine blindness to be
Exactly. Although most blind people have some minimal light perception, I thought he’d often specified that he had literally no vision at all. I wonder if it’s even more like heat perception.
Okay let me get something straight... 1- if ur blind why do you have books... 2- how do you make youtube videos and read the comments 3- how do u know if the camera is working 4- how do you use a phone...
People can read books to him. Someone helps him make the videos and reply back to people's comments. Someone is helping him record. They make phones for blind people.
If he can distinguish if it is Light or Dark because of the sunlight, what happens if there is a very strong Red or Green light. Is that Light/white to him light sunlight?
+RandyVidz I'm color blind, but I can tell red from green. I have a hard time with green and blue. Black, dark purple, dark brown and dark navy blue really trip me up. I can't tell which is which, but bright colors aren't a problem.
I saw this and his colours episode. if he can distinguish light in a room. he can detect if its there. with his sight. so what if someone showed him a coloured light to the intensity of the sun. will he see colour?
I doubt it, if you close your eyes and someone shone a blue light at you, would you see blue? I don't think so. Just because he can detect light doesn't mean he has sight. Close your own eyes and you'll find you can sense light too even though you can't see anything- I imagine that's what it's like for him.
Did you never learn about cones and rods in school? Rods see brightness, cones see color. It may be that the rods in his eyes just barely work and the cones don't work at all.
+The. Tardis Well, you gotta see something. Whether it be solid color or that "light" that he's talking about. The light has to be SOME color. But, since he can't see, maybe he doesn't know what that color is supposed to look like, so he can't tell.
The. Tardis I guess what the question means is they have to see something they probably don't know what that is but it has to be something you can't literally see nothing to us see nothing would be black which is a color which means they would be able to see something
@@Lithrilla well can you imagine ur self being blind .... U feel sad thinking that the rest of your life will be spent in complete dark and unable to see the world ...
guys have you ever wondered what people with no eyes see well someone said that people with no eyes see nothing so it’s like trying to see out of you elbow but when you try to do it it makes so much not enough since
That depends what kind of blind. If you were made blind sometime in your life I would assume you can still have dreams about what you have seen in the past, while if you were born blind you wouldn't
not really because if you listen he says he can sense the light and dark. His eyes don't work so he can't see any colour? You might not understand because it is hard to comprehend, and believe me I have no idea either. If you close your eyes and looked at a light, and then looked away with your eyes still closed, you would tell the difference. It's just like that with out colour (I think, forgive me if I'm wrong)
***** Well, you don't actually see the back of your eyelid if no light is shining through. Your eyes can only "see" when there is light. When there is no light, your eyes are not picking up anything, and it appears "black"
Brian Rana I've been temporarily blind due to another illness, but I can explain to a slight degree. Close your eyes in a pitch black room, then using your imagination remove all the black. What's left is what he sees, nothing. By the way don't really try this, I can't do it either.
***** Well, you could use the electromagnetic spectrum as a comparison. Were you to use the distance from LA to NY to spread out the spectrum, the part visible to us would be less than a few inches, if memory serves. So, as a comparison, know that all sighted people see a very tiny portion of the light that permeates the universe. Gamma Rays, Xrays, Radio Waves....all are light, but not at wavelengths our eyes are able to see. So tell me, what color is a Gamma Ray Burst?
***** simplified, it means there are several colors, rather wavelengths of light our eyes do not see, so imagining how much color we don't see could be a way to sorta understand. If we could see all of the spectrum, I think it would be a very confusing world.
Well that THIS blind person in particular can. It means there is some functionality in his eyes. There are a variety of causes behind blindness. If his was from a missing or completely detached optic nerve, there would be no path for the signal from the eye to travel to. There are kinds of brain damage that could cause someone to be blind, and certain chemicals that can cause you to go blind. Methanol which apparently tastes nearly the same to regular drinking alcohol, absorbs into eye tissue and kills the nerves.
It'd be funny if it was a 5 second video with him saying "Nothing" and laughing
I assure you being blind is not funny.
+Snoop Dogg Well this blind guy sure is laughing a lot.
Lindy LeBlanc I uhh, I didn't say anything that warranted that lecture. I was just saying what the OP is saying is perfectly reasonable, Tommy is an awesome, funny guy. No need to get all social justice warrior on me, I assure you I bear you no ill will, but to the same affect I really didn't ask for your life story. I do wish you luck with your child. Just saying you went a bit overboard.
Lindy LeBlanc Excuse me for thinking a paragraph starting with my name that never used rhetorical transition was for me. My mistake.
HAHA true
Basicly he can see black BUT he doesnt know how black looks like
Now im more confused
Anestaras SP if he knows light or dark, just say black is darker then darker and really dark
@@dxncerr1233 But he does not know what "light" or "dark" is.
White is the absence of color and what can he not see? Colors, therefore he sees white
Uzi Solis it’s not about seeing colour. It’s about seeing anything. A black hole allows no light out. He sees black. Especially if he can tell when there’s a light source. If he sees white, is he seeing a whiter white? No.
Anyone else keep closing their eyes during this and looking at light
Squire _FN_ yeah I think everyone did
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Omg yes
It’s difficult to perceive what “nothing” really is.
Because we never see... "Nothing". It's always something, the back of your eyelids or lack of light coming through always see something.
Just think what do you see out of your foot ,nothing that’s how it would be except for your eyes they literally have no vision at all. thats what I’ve heard
@@JACOBGalan my brain cant imagine what my foot can see
@@diogodavid3557 try to see from the back of your head, you dont see black , you see nothing
But eyes are meant to see and if they see nothing what they see?????? We can't see from our foot because they are not eyes ,😭😭😭so confused!!!
You're making me appreciate that I can see. Thank you!
Why wouldn't you appreciate it
@@spooky6431 I assume because vision is something you often take for granted, but not everyone has it, and that makes you appreciate it more.
@@danny6714 yeah I enjoy my vision it's the best
@@spooky6431 ye
@@danny6714 replying at 4:48 am up late I see
Theory: maybe blind people do see black, but they've never seen any color, so that makes them think that complete blackness looks like Nothing
What about people who WENT blind?
Steel Project true
That ain't a theory, smart people already know that.
I know someone who went blind and they say that they just see basically black when they are in a dark place and a lighter kinda colour when they are in a lighter place...
Rindez so light would be like the colour white?
quick answer: he cant see anything bc hes blind
thanks
@@starfishjunky your welcome
@@Rain-pk3fx awww 😊
But... what does nothing look like? (Vsauce music
**Illuminate music starts playing**
This guy has one of the most positive but genuinely comical attitudes I've ever seen in a non sighted person.
God bless you as you really made me giggle mate.
Respect dude
Yes everyone knows that good humor comes from the ability to see
you must’ve made him so happy after reading this comment
Not to dis you, and he is very happy and all. But he doesn’t understand what he is missing. So nothing is “ different” he is giving just as a normal life as you and me.
It's hard to wrap our heads around it, but I think that if Tommy can recognise the presence and absence of light, then he probably "sees" what we see exactly when we close our eyes, but the only difference is that we've learned to identify this thing that we see as the colour black, while he has never seen colours before in order to be able to confirm to us that he sees exactly what we see... We can't communicate effectively with him.. If you and i both saw something, i can point at an object and say "is this the colour that you saw?" to which you'll say "yes", because you and i share an understanding of the concept of colour, whereas in Tommy's case, communication is impossible in that regard!!
Yeah I agree. Close your eyes in a bright room, then cover your eyes with your hand. You can tell the difference between the light and darkness. I imagine that's how he sees the world.
Black is just another way of saying "no color", so he understands what black is, I think.
Sounds legit.
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People aren't explaining to him correctly, the absence of color is the color black and the absence of light is that same color, when he sees the sun he's a different type of color which is no longer black or the absence of light which happens to be black
Tommy: *has eyes closed*
People: hey what do you see since your *BLIND*
Miami Thug you’re buddy
tanner jones does everything have to have grammar or something? He’s trying to be funny not being a god dam english teacher
Cynica mane i respect u for ur pfp as a jammy dodger
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1:24 you can see his eyes
@@Deuguui it's a fucking joke broo hahaha pranked
you have a good sense of humor regarding your blindness.
+LordShip 1881 So true, would be so much harder if you get blind after some time, now thats just life.
+Bigdipshit1 When you're different from other people, even if you've always been 'that way' you know that you stand out. Sometimes it's not so easy to have a sense of humor about it. Tommy does a great job at keeping things in perspective. It's true that you may feel more of a sense of loss if you were 'normal' for a bit and something made you abnormal/different, but you'll know you're different even if you've never experienced 'normal' because people will treat you differently. (How I know I'm not talking out my butt: I was fully sighted until about age 6 or 7, then I lost vision in my Right Eye. I'm in my 30s now and don't actually remember what it's like to see out of that other eye anymore, but I sure as heck notice when people give me dirty looks because they tried to pass me in a grocery store on my right side and I couldn't see them and therefore didn't move out of their way. I also notice the panicked look on people's faces when/if they DO realize I'm partially blind after being a jerk to me.)
he's blind he can't read this
Most mind blowing thing I’ve ever heard from someone truly 100% blind. A man who has no eyeballs. Someone asked him what he sees. He said something along the lines of “what do you see out of your elbow” fucked my brain up.
Exactly, you dont see black, you just see nothing at all
@@R3cce and it’s so wild cause ur brain literally can’t fathom it.
@@jsjsnwnsjsj6280 You see inside of your eye lid. some lights usually lights through it.
Yea that makes alot of sense...but I can't wrap my mind about what nothing looks like we can't cause we have seen.
@@markg999 That's the same thing blind person think of about seeing something. They can't fathom it, because they can't imagine how "something" looks like.
The question "What Do Blind People See?" is essentially what is the color of nothing. I cannot wrap my head around what the color of nothing is. I don't think they even see black. It's really weird to think about.
close one of your eyes...
The thing is he isn't just closing his eyes. When you close your eyes they still send information to your brain about what they are seeing so you see black, when they don't send any information about that to your brain you literally can't see anything.
Reckfullies I gave that as an example to prove that if by closing one of your eyes, you can't see anything, try to imagine the same effect in both eyes. It would as be impossible for us to comprehend doing so as sight would be to Tommy.
This is how to kind of kind of kind of (I still can't imagine it which is really really sad :()
"Actually this isn't the right way. Closing your eye doesn't disable your visual perception. Green_Salt has it the other way around: What you see out of your closed eye IS black, NOT "you don't see anything at all".
Just look straight to an object, make sure your eyes don't move, and try to perceive the edges of your vision. You can view the curtains but you can't view the drawer to your left, for example, because it isn't in your line of sight. Now imagine how blind people - that is, those who never saw to begin with - don't have anything in their line of sight. They see nothing. Not black, but no sight at all. They don't perceive.
When you close your eyes, you still have a field of perception. It may appear black, or you may see lots of these very small dots flashing all over the place on a black background, whatever, but that isn't equal to nothing. Even with your eyes closed, you are still 'perceiving' that visual field. You just can't distinguish it as easily from nothing as you would when you had your eyes open.
An example with a different body part: Try to imagine what it's like not having a tail. You don't feel like something is missing, because you didn't have it in the first place."
CrynoKing ikr
When I close my eyes, I see black. It blows my mind how I can't even imagine not seeing anything.
I imagine it as the nothingness at the back of my head. There is no color, not even black. Or another way, when we have a field of vision, everything outside is how blind people "see".
He has nothing to compare with. Black is just a word for him. If we tell him that his nothingness is black then he can relate this word to his experience. Then he will understand, ah ha so nothingness is the blackness. He sees blackness but he cannot see colors. Nothingness which is pure black is the background and the foreground is the colors. He exist only in the background and cannot perceive the foreground and cannot understand it when we speak of it. When we talk about shades, shadows, colors such as red, blue, green and so on, that we can see shapes or contours of the objects in a dark room which lacks all colors. These are just words for him. So when we say "can you see black" it is just a word which he cannot refer too something, and he has to guess what black is and apparently his guess of what black is is wrong.
Imagine what you see out off your elbow? Also try closing one eye and see what you see with the other.
What if he does see black like us but its just he doesn’t understand that its black cause he never had vision since birth to see colors and understand
@@DragonStrke12244 black is something we see ..when u close ur eyes u see black because light doesn't get to his eyes ..cover ur eyes with both ur hand ..u see black because u see hand covering ur eye ..But in his case he is blind he can't see there for he can't see black
My husband lost his eye sight before we started dating. In order for me to be more sensitive to the dilemma of total blindness, I spent a day blind-folded. The things I learned about the fear factor, when someone is leading you around, was eye-opening. Food doesn't taste the same, because not being able to see the food, somehow diminishes the taste. I realized how I tensed up, as my friend was leading me around the mall. I had never needed to trust someone like that, before.
I appreciate my BLIND husband. He was a real man. His humor was gigantic. He had phenomenal coping skills. He went to Braille and learned living and cooking skills (without sight). Boy, could he cook. I used to tease him about his blindness to add more pleasure to his day. I would say things like, "Here, you drive. I'm tired. Don't worry baby; if you get lost, stick your (white) cane out of the car window. They'll give you the right-of-way. You'll do just fine." His response would be something like, "I would, baby; but I gotta go to the bathroom in a hurry and you drive faster." On another day, I might finish getting ready for church. He'd say, You really look nice today, mama. I just might take you out to dinner." One day, at church, he was presented with a plaque. He was guided up to the mic. He reached into his shirt pocket and said,, "Well, it looks like I left my reading glasses at home; so I won't be able to use the notes I prepared for my acceptance speech. Bear with me saints." Do you know, they were too afraid to laugh? I couldn't believe how awkward it felt in that church, that morning. I was the only person laughing... and we weren't even dating each other yet. We were just friends.
This is the title to my RUclips video about how I appreciated my hubby. I recorded it after he passed away, to remind all that are married, why we need to appreciate our mates. "APPRECIATE the BLIND Person, You're Married To"
Wonderful! God bless!
Jam Agaton God bless you, too.
maczu mangu Thank you for you empathy. Blessings.
I insightful. Seeing monocular,mythology is thinking you see darkness,grey,black etc. You see no color ,nothing.My preserved sight keeps me from being in control of hospitalization.I am tested all the time.
Teresa Miller What caused it?
There best way I’ve heard this explained is to close one eye. You don’t really see darkness you see more of nothing out of that eye.
well i see darkness
Ethan Schule no you dont see darkness if you close both your eyes you see darkness but if you close one eye and try to look that way you see your nose
@@ozanoruc3796 well i just see darkness in that eye when i close it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ethan Schule how??? When i close it my eye just like vanishes from existence and there isnt an eye at all
@@ozanoruc3796 idk
when i read the title, in my head i said, "uhh, nothing???"
He doesnt know what the color black is
@@icewallowcome4618
I'm sure he knows that....
keira rushing same
Either prove it or shut the fuck up !!
keira rushing its pretty simple. Either prove that’s what you thought of when
You read it , or shut the hell up. Liar
You can't see comments on FB and youtube.
.....And thats an advantage
Actually, I can see comments on RUclips and FB. Thank you for yours. :-)
Wait...what?
+Budzie HAHAHAHAHAHA
+Charlizes Corner He can hear it. Its an app i think. The phone reads it for him.
Uh yeh. Blind people can read comments on Facebook and RUclips and stuff, it's called voice-over on IOS, talkback or voice assistant on android and jaws or supernova on windows. And it isn't an app, it's in settings, and it's on everybody's phone
🍍 🍕
SharkRule64 lol 😂😆 😝
That's a good one
*Bruh*
*lives 50+ years blind*
The longest bruh moment
Yo look at the likes on this comment
My uncle is loosing his eyesight and it has been difficult for us to understand what was going on with his eye sight. He has difficulty explaining as well. Now is clear. Thank you for sharing and making this video. You are amazing
He must save a fortune on his electricity bill
Ryan h haha
maybe not. if he left all his lights on maybe he couldn't tell
Ryan h nah he still sees light lol
@Real muscle fitness for life why?
Eduardo Cornejo that has happened to him once, a neighbor told him his lights have been on for a few days
Asking what a blind person sees is like asking what a deaf person hears.
But the deaf guy won't hear it
@@LoversOfSaheehAlBukhari r/woooosh
Aqua-Mad r/wooooosh
It’s like asking what language a mute person thinks
you cant even ask them 😂
Honestly I expected a 2 second video of him saying "NOTHING!"
Then just shut the fucc up and let your brain discover the education he gave..
Tida Lain shut up, it’s a joke
Tida Lain it’s a joke chill out
@@liamgl9218 fuck off
You copied this comment
hi you don't know what I said. Enjoy the rest of your day
Plot twist: We live in the matrix and your mother is actually your father
Plot twist: we actually live in a simulation and we are from The Sims 46.
Plot twist:im gay
Plot Twist : We actually exist inside a simulation coded by high dimensional beings and we're all actually way back in their history to be simple our children evolved and are controlling time flow
You hella high when u wrote this fo real chief
Q : What do blind people see?
me : nothing
*case closed*
That's exactly what I said when I saw the title
Blindness effect
In born blind you dont know the word "see". So if someone asked? Just tell them"Uhmm whats that?" or "i dont know what are you saying"
But what is nohting
I clicked on this video just to say this but it looks like you did first. 🤣
"I see nothing."
"Well you must see black then."
"No, you have to see to be able to know what black is."
Mind fucking blown
Kostas Sterling ikfr
Kostas Sterling is something that is like black but is not fully black
Thats obvious -_-
Myb he sees black, but he doesnt know what the black is, so he says it is nothing, so his "nothing" may acctually be black. Or dark.
karlo čović yea i agree with you.
When he said he couldn't see black because it was a color, I felt like a high person trying to do a math problem
But isn't black just the absence of light and not actually a colour?
+night lock But he still doesn't know what that is, so he doesn't know if he's seeing black or not
My theory is he can see white and black but he has no concept of color he doesn't know what that means or is so he just assumes he can't see it but idk
+night lock Black is a all colors combined.
Master Luis thats not how light works you dunce
Plot Twist: he didn’t know You can open your eyes.
🤣omg!!
1:24 he did try it. i am pretty sure he did not see anything
@@Atrulion r/wooosh
His eyelids are atrophied
@@mustardgas750 wat does that mean
Plot twist: he’s just a dude talking with his eyes closed
1:24 u can see that he is blind cause he slightly opened his eyes
Frost Gaming I think he was just joking m8
oh wait 'til he sees this
@@egilleinarsson8793 😂😂😂
@@egilleinarsson8793 that was so lame xD
Nobody:
RUclips recommendation: do you wanna know what do blind people see?
Fax
me: why not?
Me too
Kinda
This style comment is played out. You fucking suck
Blind people do see black it's just like he said they have no concept of what black is so they can't really tell us this. I know this cause my friends uncles vision was restored and he said all he saw was black. EDIT- this is just what my friend told me I don't know if it's fact
I KNEW IT!!!!!!!
no. when your eyes literally cannot give you vision you see nothing. my pa is blind and he compares it to me trying to see out of my elbow, you just percieve nothing
well your pa and his uncle are saying different shit. Where is the blind solidarity
Seth Will He said he know when there is a light source or not.. I think it is the same for us when u suddenly turn the lights off u see nothing
+Saleh Alabdullah when we close our eyes we see our eyelids, for them its like what we see out of our leg
I have never thought of vision as a concept. In an ironic way you really opened my eyes to the world. Thank you for sharing this experience
Thats so weird, you cant see black, so what do you see when you don't see black? It's so hard to understand xD
He probably does see black, but because he doesn't know what black looks like so he doesn't know what he sees
So think the area you can't see behind your head, thats what its like for him. Nothing!
+Zantite hahahaha i like ur name
You can see you're being pulled by something. true story
Imagine trying to see out of your foot. You just cant. That's how it is for him, all of the time.
*why don’t blind people just open Their eyes*
Oh I see
Genius
Cos they shoot lazers like cyclops
Good question
That's rude, i hope any blind person read this
I'm actually blind in one eye so I can say that blindness is not just closing your eye. I literally see nothing in one eye. I don't see black. The best way to describe this is imagine having 3 eyes if you can see out of two eyes. What do you see out of your third eye? Nothing. Excactly nothing.
Thank you for this! Very helpful. :)
So is it actually just like having one eye on your head? Do you forget your blind?
+andrew gill Intriguing
Andrew Gill ooooh now i get it
Why there are so many books behind him if he's blind?
Juan Pablo Rodríguez Vigueras he reads
Qwenz he can’t read if he can’t see
Braile
Kiwi Lasagna then it’s not reading it’s feeling
Nightmare Stuffy it is reading you idiot. he still needs to identify the letters and put them together to distinguish each word.
"what do blind people see"
*confused screaming*
No.
Just confusion
*visible*
*invisible confusion*
PS1 Hagrid have my babies
What do you see behind your head? Nothing, not even pure black. I always assumed that's what it's like.
Desktopfall clever
crap I am scared
+Icybubba Sorry 😂
holy shit its so weird thinking about it that way
A great analogy, that's what it's probably like.
To describe what blind people see, just imagine seeing what’s behind you right now without looking, that’s what it’s like to be blind.
The problem is I know what’s behind me lol
@@Reactiontime6000 but can u see it?
Naaahhh I think they see black. But conceptualizing the color black is like describing what's behind you. If you were to get someone who is blind in one eye. Then have them completely cover there good eye. They would say they see black.
Empty ..
@@sebastianpoe3934 by covering eye ur still not blind ur eye is just covered by skin that's why u see black
I know this video is 11 years old at this point (and it's still a gem!), but it amazes me that to this day people are still posting comments like "he sees black but doesn't know it's black" when 30 SECONDS into the video Tommy explains this is not the case ... wtf is wrong with people?
This is fantastic. I love how he is giving us permission to feel comfortable talking about his experience. He's laughing about it, and not expecting us to be overly sensitive. He's not precious about his blindness, and doesn't want us to be either. It's absolutely fascinating as well. He stops being a blind person, and becomes to us what he is. A person who happens to be blind.
Serious question, have you ever done LSD or any other psychedelic drugs? It isn't illegal to admit prior drug use, so please don't feel compelled to retain information. They can create mental images of things you've never conceived of before and I wondered how blind people react to psychedelic hallucinogens has to do with something going on in the brain, not the eyes.
How is he going to read this
Pgsycadelics like lsd work with the subconcious mind so everything you see on lsd is stuff youve thought of or seen before even if you swear you havnt, you have. Its litteraly impossible to think of something in your brain you've never seen or heard before
Probably they will hear some noises
Text to speech
DMT will be an even crazier visual experience
This is why u shouldn’t take anything for granted, it’s so scary to just close your eyes and imagine never opening your eyes ever again
It would be like trying to see using your hands, thats how it is.
Then what colour is nothing
@@moth5724 nothing
Maybe this accurately depicts the sight of the blind, but unfortunately people like me won’t be able to understand how that works 😂
Cryspy there is always a colour
A Cunning person ya that doesn’t make sense to me, if he can tell the absence and presence of light then he can see colours but maybe he doesn’t know which ones are which.
Tommy, I just wanted to say thank you so much :) It's just so precious that you share your experiences with us who otherwise could never have experienced them ourselves...that is amazing.
First he says he doesnt see black, then he says he sees the presence or absence of light in a room. Black is the absence of light, so he sees black.
***** Wrong. In order to "see" black you would need to have a point of reference. Black would be the absence of light or complete absorption of light that you see. In low level lighting or no lighting, he would see "nothing", not black. He wouldn't be able to differentiate really low light settings and no light settings. If his eyes aren't picking up the low light, he isn't able to "see" anything. His brain isn't receiving any information (nothing is being passed through the visual cortex), thus, his brain isn't processing any imagery. Not processing imagery doesn't equate to black. Nothing equates to nothing. So, he literally "sees" nothing, because he isn't able to register the absence of light or very low light.
As an example, some people have the ability to see more colors than others, because they have more photoreceptor cells. Where they see an unexplainable color, or a completely different mix of colors; you may see "nothing" at all. Your brain isn't processing this light, because to you, the light isn't visible, or in the correct spectrum.
Also, asking a blind person what they see would be like asking a person that was born without nerve cells that detect damaging stimuli, what type of pain they feel. If you are incapable of feeling pain, you feel no pain. Their brain isn't receiving any signals, because there are no signals being sent. Burn their hand, prick their skin, or kick them, the result is the same. They feel "nothing". Nada, zip, zilch.
***** A good way of thinking about it is to imagine you have a 6th sense right now that doesn't work.
Some sense coming off the top of your head that would otherwise allow you to see the world in a way you literally could not possibly imagine. You have NO possible way of understanding this sense, the vocabulary of this sense, and the aspects of the world you are missing.... because it doesn't work.
It's the same thing. You tell a blind person he sees black, and he has no earthly idea what that means.
He does not see anything.
It's as difficult for us to grasp the idea of seeing nothing as it is for a blind person to grasp seeing.
+Taun-Chi Gaming My theory is that they see something, but they don't know what it is, what color it is, and anything at all, because they have no relation to it. That's pretty much why it's "nothing." They can't tell you what it is. It's like describing the color "blue" without saying "it's the color of the ocean" or "it's the color of the sky."
Yeah but he doesn't know what black is to explain it
Natalie He says he sees the presence or absence of light in a room, but I think he is simply wrong on that. He's using that language (shadows, light, etc) but the aspects of his personal experience he is referring to (probably combos of temperature and other senses) are not true shadows and light. He would not be able to grasp the concept of actual shadows and light.
I just realized that blind people can't really be racists
How is that?
+Most Creative Name On RUclips They can't see different skin colours :)
Mike X probably didn't mean it that literally
They can hear about crime statistics or black culture and be racist.
It's mad to think that blind people are the one's that are truly awake
It's 10pm in 2024 and this video is making me google things about blind people dreaming or visualizing .. It's giving me an existential crisis.
You are a beautiful human being n may god bless u forever!!!
You know he isn't gonna see this comment right
I am absolutely amazed by his genuinely positive attitude and sincere happiness :) He may miss a pair of eyes but he is one truly amazing person!!
This guy is cool
No if YOU were blind
He really is
yes
Indeed
Maybe 7-10 years ago, on new years eve, I was very sick, and when me and my dad was watching all of the fireworks from the window, I lost the ability to see for a couple of minutes. Everything just went black, so I always imagined that, that was what it was like to be blind. Luckely I got my sight back after 2-3 minutes, but it made me appreciate the fact that I could see.
Do you realy kinda SEE the light source, or you feel it's warm?
I really see the light source, it comes from my eyes.
Oh thank you for answering! I don't know if you've read my other coment (the video where you opened them), but I realy want to tell you what are your eyes like!
So, shortly, to me your eyes are like Hans Zimmer's muisic, the Docking Scene from Interstellar movie. Have you listened to it?
+TommyEdisonXP This light source we can name WHITE and without a light source we can name BLACK now u know 2 colors :D
+TommyEdisonXP
I assume you know that because if you cover your eyes with your hands, that doesn't work, right?
You do realise that that darkness is what we call black, and that brightness is what we call white (if it's strong enough)? Other colours are obviously completely different (did anyone try to shine a very strong blue light on you and a very strong white (normal - what you see when the sun shines through a window) light on you and see if you can distinguish the difference?), but it sounds like you can understand what black and white are.
What you're describing as your vision is basically what I see with my eyes closed.
I don't understand how this guy can get downvoted, he's so wholesome.
reddit incel
This isn't reddit
Imagine being insulted for using a word.
@@Neopolitan420 im playin with ya homie. No hard feelings
It’s like the magic conch shell says, “Nothing.”
It's somewhat weird that he can sense light sources tho, almost feels like his blindness is more like when we have our eyes closed, when we have our eyes closed we can't really tell whats going on but we can see that there is light source somewhere.
I think being blind is not really a concept that sighted people can grasp, since we have never known anything other than "seeing" Just like the conecpt of seeing can never truly be grasped by a person born blind, since they have never known anything such as "seeing".
close one of your eyes, try to see through it, that is what blind people see
Actually, that "seeing from you elbow" concept made me "imagine it". It's not that hard, just try to understand seeing with your elbow and you can quite feel like how it would be to not see even black. It's not that hard if you've never been sighted.
Shark: what is it like to not sense electromagnetic fields?
Humans: we just don't.
Shark: well surely you sense something.
Try to think of it like this:
Close one eye and use the open eye to focus on something. What does the closed eye see? Nothing.
😱
Close both eyes you see nothing. I dont understand why closing one eye and the other not. He has no idea what seeing is.
@SGRP 270 Yes
@SGRP 270 you dont see black you just see nothing because of the darkness. Or are your eyelids black?
You are an absolute genius. It felt like my left eye didn't even exist, and there was like tv fuzzy imagery. Now I get it.
My friend: He's looking to the infinite darkness
Me: that's deep
If it is infinite, can it be deep?
@@jeronimokrebs2567 Its so deep there isnt a bottom
You are so precious! You seem like such a kind, happy soul. Subscribed xoxo
Is there any way to temporarily cut off stimulation from the optic nerve so that a sighted person could experience actually seeing nothing?
Trains i think it is
Trains it'd look like black to us, because we know what black is
Anna Clegg No it wouldn't
Dan Makes Me Howell yes it would be black to a sighted person.
I went blind at 14 after an extremely high fever destroyed my optic nerves everything is black. but since I knew what black was due to 14 years of sight, I know what to call it , it's like standing in pitch blackness i get no light or shades the to total loss of optic nerve.
so I'm forever in complete blackness , but since i had sight for 14 years I do dream and have extremely vivid dreams of color as if my mind amplifies what it remembers
I dream of all sorta thing even women
and I use speech2text I chose female UK voice but at a very high speed as you get used to hearing super fast speech then a similar program to dragon dictate or dragon naturally speaking to type , it has autocorrect and very basic grammar tools it works better in chat like there's s trillian plugin or Google hangout plugin but it sucks on Facebook
It's like trying to see behind you. You get nothing. Just the absence of vision.
I always thought blind people saw what sighted people see when we close our eyes. You can't see a particular color, but you can see light and dark. This is a question only people who went blind can answer rather than people born blind.
People who are blind does only see black, but because he has never seen any real colors or shapes in his entire life he can't tell what black is
that actually makes sense
+ElliotTheMighty But how do you know that's what they see if you aren't blind and haven't experienced that?
Someone who went blind have had and do understand sight. Blind since birth, absolutely no concept of sight.
It's hard to understand, but he sees only light, not colors or non-colors. He doesn't see black, because he doesn't have any receptors. Only if there's light or not.
Pretty much the entire comment section is: People who can see argue about what people that can't see, see.
It’s so hard to wrap my head around, knowledge isn’t understanding and this proves that. I literally cannot comprehend what nothing is.
when you can tell that there is light, you are seeing, and you probably are seeing white, when you can tell there's no light you are seeing, and the color you are seeing is black, so if you can remember the experience of knowing there is light in the room you are remembering the color white, tommy probably wont read this but i think it would give him a better idea of color
What about if you hold an object, can you visualize what it would look like by making a mental mapping of the object in your head? Or can you just not comprehend what you are touching?
Add859 TankiOnline AHH I WANT TO KNOW THIS TOO
He can remember the shape of something he has felt, but not the colour.
This is such a good question
Add859 TankiOnline of course he can make a mental picture from touch. this is how blind people "see" other peoples' faces! remember, his mind still works...
Anything with the words "visual", "see" are intangible concepts to a blind person.
I love this guy's sense of humor :)
I wonder if since he has light perception, if they removed the cataracts from his eyes if he would have any type of vision like even blobs and stuff?
So i've seen a few videos. Love the humor. The first four seconds of this video had me subbed. What do blind people see. WHAT?! lol
Me too lol
Stevie Wonder walked into a bar. Then he walked inside.
if you can distinguish light vs. dark, then dark would be the closest description I can give for black. But I'm not really sure
But he doesn't know if black is light or dark.
hmm He might know it if I tell him. I'll tell him something like: "Hey I turned the lights off so it's dark now and dark is close to black"
ofc l could be wrong.
+peace bewith u , it's seems as easy as that. But he doesn't know if the word 'dark' means light or dark and vice versa. It's confusing to describe.
yeah I know. My idea was just to tell him what's he's currently perceiving, to merely name it. I probably should stop thinking about this for now lol
+peace bewith u Can be blindsight. Meaning he sees it bus has no visual image of it.
This is a question you have to ask someone that wasn’t always blind
*6 Years later, This is in my recommended.*
Same 😂
?WhAt dO bLinD PeOple SeE?
How much is 0?
It's a good question as for people that have been seeing for their entire lives we literally have no actual clue what "nothing" even is.
Is there any medical research on what "nothing" is?
What if he sees black or white but thinks, that he is seeing nothing?
@@Portulak007 They have never experienced the sense of sight therefore they probably see "nothing", sort of like when you don't sniff you don't smell anything.
@@Portulak007 Black is the color of the light spectrum that a working retina can see when very little light is reflected from an object and then stimulated to the brain via light sensitive cells and that trigger nerve impulses which creates the visual image in the bain. In blind people, the retina does not send that light transmitted information to the brain. People who were born blind would not be able to describe what color they see because their eyes have never seen the light spectrum. People who have gone blind will generally say they see white or black, depending on their cause of blindness.
@@thecomprehensionhub4612 do they can imagine? or not? if can then what they can see in their imagine? can they see the shape of things in thier imagine when they touch it or we describe it to them?
It’s weird to think about that the same way we can’t wrap our head around what nothingness is like and how light could affect that nothingness, he can’t wrap his head around what seeing is like.
So thankful for my vision 🙏🏽
When my eyes are closed, I generally see the backside of my eyelids. I only see back when it’s dark.
The backside of my eyelids has a reddish hue which I assume are blood vessels. Sometimes I see gray which might be light coming through my eyelids.
"What Do Blind People See"
*Invisible Confusion*
Close your eyes, that’s how he sees the world.
Just black
No. The colors are created by the light reflected from the object into your eyes. (or in the case of black, the object does not reflect light) Imagine tearing your eyes from your head. How could you see the non-reflection of the light if you don't even have eyes? Blind people dont see black. They don't see. Their world is just 3D in nothingnes.
Because I want to flip my phone
Isn't that how it really is??
Close one eye and try to look out of it, you can’t, you can’t even see black. That’s basically what he sees
@@Isaiah-fo1ks I just did it bro and I dont see anything. Your a genius
Thanks for expressing yourself.
Tommy: People ask me what do blind people see...
Tommy: WHAT!?
Lmbo this dude.. He's awsome.
You should try seeing Phosphenes. Press on your eyes and you might see shapes like circles, patterns or flashes.
He can't even see that since his eyes aren't sending any information to the brain.
@@everettduncan7543 but he just said he can see light?
Just close your eyes and that’s what being blind is like...
Quikz Ray no cuz ur still looking at the inside of ur eyelids
zo70 no it’s still the same and try holding up a light to your closed eyes, you can understand where he’s coming from when he says that he can feel the light
@@nate_h3437 achoo sorry I snenzed
@@xdswenzie4270 ok boomer
zo70 but it’s black.... Lmaooo don’t see nothing
He says he can tell the difference between light and dark, but then he also sees nothing. I think he just doesn't understand that darkness is typically associated with nothing. Take the universe for example, wherever there are no objects (stars, planets, galaxies, etc.), it's just black. There's nothing. Not air nor light exists. That's what I imagine blindness to be
Oh so you can sense light and dark? I thought you were totally blind as in completely cannot sense light
Same.
Exactly. Although most blind people have some minimal light perception, I thought he’d often specified that he had literally no vision at all. I wonder if it’s even more like heat perception.
icturner23 , right! I’ve heard him say that all the time that he doesn’t even sense light. Oh well.
Ya and it seems that if he can see light then he can see black, since black is simply the absence of light..
Well it’s not all about that. In a dark room your eyes feel more relaxed compared to a brighter room. If you try yourself you’ll see.
Okay let me get something straight...
1- if ur blind why do you have books...
2- how do you make youtube videos and read the comments
3- how do u know if the camera is working
4- how do you use a phone...
I really hope you don't Honestly think that he does this all by himself.
He has a video for almost everyone of those questions...
People can read books to him.
Someone helps him make the videos and reply back to people's comments.
Someone is helping him record.
They make phones for blind people.
people do all of that stuff for him he just tells them what to do
there are book for the blind in which they read using bumps someone helps him someone records for him and yes yes they do
If he can distinguish if it is Light or Dark because of the sunlight, what happens if there is a very strong Red or Green light. Is that Light/white to him light sunlight?
Nono.
Light and dark does not equal white and black.
It's very complicated.
All blind people are colorblind so it dont work
+Hina Face not really
+RandyVidz I'm color blind, but I can tell red from green. I have a hard time with green and blue. Black, dark purple, dark brown and dark navy blue really trip me up. I can't tell which is which, but bright colors aren't a problem.
Why is this the most wholesome blind man ever
I saw this and his colours episode. if he can distinguish light in a room. he can detect if its there. with his sight. so what if someone showed him a coloured light to the intensity of the sun. will he see colour?
Omg he needs to do a video on this!
I doubt it, if you close your eyes and someone shone a blue light at you, would you see blue? I don't think so. Just because he can detect light doesn't mean he has sight. Close your own eyes and you'll find you can sense light too even though you can't see anything- I imagine that's what it's like for him.
for me, if I look at the sun with my eyes closed, I see red.
that's the blood in your eyelids
Did you never learn about cones and rods in school? Rods see brightness, cones see color. It may be that the rods in his eyes just barely work and the cones don't work at all.
WHAT DO BLIND PEOPLE SEE?
...they don't.... that's why they are blind...
The. Tardis WHAT DO DEAF PEOPLE HEAR?
...they don't.... that's why they are deaf...
The. Tardis WHAT DO NOSELESS PEOPLE SMELL?
...they don't.... that's why they are noseless...
+The. Tardis Well, you gotta see something.
Whether it be solid color or that "light" that he's talking about.
The light has to be SOME color. But, since he can't see, maybe he doesn't know what that color is supposed to look like, so he can't tell.
Only if you want it to be
The. Tardis I guess what the question means is they have to see something they probably don't know what that is but it has to be something you can't literally see nothing to us see nothing would be black which is a color which means they would be able to see something
I really feel bad about hem
He's so cheerful
I tear a bit😔
Why do you feel bad? Seems like he's doing okay :)
@@Lithrilla well can you imagine ur self being blind .... U feel sad thinking that the rest of your life will be spent in complete dark and unable to see the world ...
@Apollo The Wolf yeah i know but i mean wouldn't he be happier if he could see
guys have you ever wondered what people with no eyes see well someone said that people with no eyes see nothing so it’s like trying to see out of you elbow but when you try to do it it makes so much not enough since
What do blind people dream?? nothing?
Maybe he experiences his other senses in his dreams
maybe he can still imagine how things could look, and that's what he is dreaming about
5777 I think he only has auditory dreams? I'm 100% not sure, but that should totally be talked about!
5777 there's already a video about this!
That depends what kind of blind. If you were made blind sometime in your life I would assume you can still have dreams about what you have seen in the past, while if you were born blind you wouldn't
Close your right eye and don’t move your left eye. What you see on your right eye is what blind people see.
If he can distinguish light and dark, then his darkest of dark IS black. Someone explain this to him.
not really because if you listen he says he can sense the light and dark. His eyes don't work so he can't see any colour? You might not understand because it is hard to comprehend, and believe me I have no idea either. If you close your eyes and looked at a light, and then looked away with your eyes still closed, you would tell the difference. It's just like that with out colour (I think, forgive me if I'm wrong)
***** Well, you don't actually see the back of your eyelid if no light is shining through. Your eyes can only "see" when there is light. When there is no light, your eyes are not picking up anything, and it appears "black"
Brian Rana I've been temporarily blind due to another illness, but I can explain to a slight degree. Close your eyes in a pitch black room, then using your imagination remove all the black. What's left is what he sees, nothing. By the way don't really try this, I can't do it either.
***** Well, you could use the electromagnetic spectrum as a comparison. Were you to use the distance from LA to NY to spread out the spectrum, the part visible to us would be less than a few inches, if memory serves. So, as a comparison, know that all sighted people see a very tiny portion of the light that permeates the universe. Gamma Rays, Xrays, Radio Waves....all are light, but not at wavelengths our eyes are able to see. So tell me, what color is a Gamma Ray Burst?
***** simplified, it means there are several colors, rather wavelengths of light our eyes do not see, so imagining how much color we don't see could be a way to sorta understand. If we could see all of the spectrum, I think it would be a very confusing world.
So it’s basically like closing you’re eyes and trying too see
Blind people see as much through their eyes as you see through your knee.
In a very weird way that actually kinda makes a lot of sense
Flash 205 So tur *true
I love the ending, it really puts it into perspective lol
I'm amazed to Know that blind people can tell a difference between light or dark!
Well that THIS blind person in particular can. It means there is some functionality in his eyes. There are a variety of causes behind blindness. If his was from a missing or completely detached optic nerve, there would be no path for the signal from the eye to travel to. There are kinds of brain damage that could cause someone to be blind, and certain chemicals that can cause you to go blind. Methanol which apparently tastes nearly the same to regular drinking alcohol, absorbs into eye tissue and kills the nerves.