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quote:Completely Blind From a Reddit AMA from someone who was born blind and underwent surgery:  I'm trying to wrap my head around this mindfuck of a concept of seeing "nothing", I always figured that it was just pure black, but apparently it isn't??? What the gently caress???
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May 7, 2022 22:40
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They see the truth and also honest greeks
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May 7, 2022 22:47
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Justice
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May 7, 2022 22:49
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Its hard to fathom this because your little primate brain is so used to seeing what we are all able to see for years and years. Our brains control this for specific reasons to learn and move forward and whatnot. Asking a bling person to "See" something we are explaining to them is the same way we try to comprehend us "Seeing" what a blind person sees.
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May 7, 2022 22:54
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Think of a sense that you don't have, OP. It's like that.
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May 7, 2022 22:55
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Turn off your monitor, OP.
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May 7, 2022 23:08
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When I was in elementary school we had a blind person give a presentation and answer all our dumb kid questions. Her answer to that one blew my mind: it's not what you see when you close your eyes, it's what you see out of your kneecap
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May 7, 2022 23:10
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i like nice words
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Anne Whateley posted:When I was in elementary school we had a blind person give a presentation and answer all our dumb kid questions. Her answer to that one blew my mind: it's not what you see when you close your eyes, it's what you see out of your kneecap that helps me imagine it better. i can see how your hearing would get better in that scenario because you simply don't have as much info coming in. although now i'm wondering if that is a myth.
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May 7, 2022 23:14
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I always heard it as "what you see out of the back of your head" but yeah it's just nothing. It's the picture showing on a tv screen when it's turned off.roomtone posted:that helps me imagine it better. It's totally real and that's pretty much exactly the reason why, more of the brain's computing power can go into processing auditory input, and in computer terms the "core" of the processor that usually does visual tracking switches to auditory tracking instead https://www.washington.edu/news/201...20Chang%20said. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 23:19 on May 7, 2022 |
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May 7, 2022 23:16
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it’s probably like being dead but your brain still works
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May 7, 2022 23:18
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they see your good posts op
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May 7, 2022 23:18
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Anne Whateley posted:When I was in elementary school we had a blind person give a presentation and answer all our dumb kid questions. Her answer to that one blew my mind: it's not what you see when you close your eyes, it's what you see out of your kneecap This still fucks my brain so hard. I wonder what it's like, I really can't imagine it even with such a clear explanation. It's so strange. It's similar to trying to explain colors.
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May 7, 2022 23:28
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Yeah this is like trying to picture a new color, you can't its impossible. I never really though about it before though
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May 7, 2022 23:38
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Big Scary Owl posted:This still fucks my brain so hard. I wonder what it's like, I really can't imagine it even with such a clear explanation. It's so strange. It's similar to trying to explain colors. Look up synesthesia.
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May 7, 2022 23:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7_WyB-GMnk Kyle hill did a pretty neat video on super black materials. its like looking into the void.
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May 7, 2022 23:41
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Big Scary Owl posted:This still fucks my brain so hard. I wonder what it's like, I really can't imagine it even with such a clear explanation. It's so strange. It's similar to trying to explain colors. You should try kissing your own elbow.
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May 7, 2022 23:51
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roomtone posted:that helps me imagine it better. I don't think it is. Have you heard the story of Ben Underwood? The boy who lost his eyes at a young age and used echolocation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFRkAYb1uk Sadly, Ben died recently. Also, my mother is albino. This also causes her eyesight to be so bad that she is legally blind. She could hear a pin drop at a The Who concert.
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May 8, 2022 00:40
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To be blind is to see only divine truth
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May 8, 2022 01:55
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just imagine if someone asked you what its like to not be able to smell out pheromones.
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May 8, 2022 02:34
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just imagine if someone asked you what its like to not be able to smell out pheromones.
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May 8, 2022 02:34
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C-C-C-COMBO x3
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May 8, 2022 02:34
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the beatific vision true salvation is staring at a solar eclipse trumbo knows
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May 8, 2022 02:36
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Big Scary Owl posted:From a Reddit AMA from someone who was born blind and underwent surgery: Black is a color, to denote the information of absence of light. It's pretty easy to imagine the concept of seeing nothing, just pay attention at your own field of view with your eyes closed - there's a part where it goes from black to nothing. You can't see anything in the back of your head. It is even more hosed up because you don't even have a sharp distinction between information and no information, we progressively get less information density the further away from the center so you have a weird transition between black and "nothing".
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May 8, 2022 02:43
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I sort of wonder if at some point the brain just turns off the concept of vision which is where the disconnect of this question comes from. Like you or I are trying to picture it as being in a completely lightless room but that's because we're used to vision and are trying to see even if we can't, gotta imagine a blind person's brain doesn't keep trying to see and focuses on other stimuli.
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May 8, 2022 02:50
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I have a fun neurological disorder that when my brain gets overwhelmed it shuts down that processing part because it can't handle it. I mostly get it with auditory processing but sometimes visual (rarely). It's a thing where if there's a tonne of sustained loud noise or light and especially if they're conflicting sources my brain sorts of breaks down and just gives up. And I just go deaf temporarily. I've only lost vision once when there was a poo poo tonne of strobe lights in different colours around at a show. It's loving hard to describe. Silence is not the same as no sound. Walking down a silent street is fine and even relaxing. Walking down the road to get a soft drink at night goes from mundane to terrifying when you can't actually perceive sound. A group of dudes just laughing and having fun is normally whatever, but I can't hear so I don't know what they're saying, if they're laughing or screaming. I can't hear if someone is right behind me or next to me. Suddenly a key thing I rely on is just gone for a while. The one time I went blind was the same. It's not silence, and it's not black. It's just absence. My experience is not the same as the one in OP tho, since mine is simply my brain refusing to process those signals. But poo poo it hosed up.
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May 8, 2022 02:52
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A bright future as a religious text memorizer
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May 8, 2022 02:56
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they are lying to us. they know we are not ready to experience what they have seen. they may be sightless, but it is we who are truly blind.
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May 8, 2022 03:16
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I don't know, but I hear it is as dark as the inside of a Nazi's rectum.
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May 8, 2022 03:37
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Get really high sometime and keep your eyes shut for like 30 minutes or so, eventually you'll start feeling your other senses getting better. You'll start sensing stuff like sound bouncing off of walls letting you know how far away they are without looking. Also when you touch things, your "memory" of when it felt like sticks around longer almost letting you map things by touch. I imagine being blind is like that, but even better.
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May 8, 2022 03:47
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I often wonder if my deaf dog hears something like the tinnitus I have. It’s not real it’s a sound being generated by my brain. Gotta wonder.
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May 8, 2022 04:30
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Elentor posted:Black is a color, to denote the information of absence of light. It's pretty easy to imagine the concept of seeing nothing, just pay attention at your own field of view with your eyes closed - there's a part where it goes from black to nothing. You can't see anything in the back of your head. It is even more hosed up because you don't even have a sharp distinction between information and no information, we progressively get less information density the further away from the center so you have a weird transition between black and "nothing". im making myself really uncomfortable with my eyes closed trying to see the part of stuff i cant see, makes my stomache a little queesy to keep trying. i think i can almost see it but i cant tell what it looks like kind of like in between black and white but not any kind of grey or staticy lines that hurt
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May 8, 2022 04:32
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Khanstant posted:im making myself really uncomfortable with my eyes closed trying to see the part of stuff i cant see, makes my stomache a little queesy to keep trying. i think i can almost see it but i cant tell what it looks like kind of like in between black and white but not any kind of grey or staticy lines that hurt Do not look into the face of god!
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May 8, 2022 05:02
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Colonel Cancer posted:also honest greeks lol
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May 8, 2022 05:05
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If I was blind I'd just eat acid all the time. If I wasn't blind I'd also eat acid all the time
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May 8, 2022 05:15
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I'm lost.
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May 8, 2022 05:24
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Big Scary Owl posted:From a Reddit AMA from someone who was born blind and underwent surgery: I don't know why but this absolutely terrifies me to the core of my being, like I'm physically uncomfortable. If this happened to me I couldn't kill myself fast enough.
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May 8, 2022 05:28
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Dial911 posted:I don't know why but this absolutely terrifies me to the core of my being, like I'm physically uncomfortable. If this happened to me I couldn't kill myself fast enough. I feel like that's pretty normal... We rely on sight so much it would be crippling for most people to lose it. But I don't think I'd off myself just like that.
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May 8, 2022 05:30
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You shouldn't either. No one should.
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May 8, 2022 05:31
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Dial911 posted:I don't know why but this absolutely terrifies me to the core of my being, like I'm physically uncomfortable. If this happened to me I couldn't kill myself fast enough. imagine the time before your were born. its that life is just a quick fever dream =]
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Chinatown posted:imagine the time before your were born. its that word
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