If you are blind, do you see black, or do you see like you see out of your chest (not even there)

I know there are some blind that can see colors and such, but not those kind of blind people

Not sure many blind people will be reading to answer you. :eek:

Well every time I'm blind I'm usually to busy vomiting to worry about seeing anything, then when I can start to distinquist light it is usually spinning. :beer:

Originally posted by anon-e-mouse
Not sure many blind people will be reading to answer you. :eek:

I know many blind people who frequent forums.

Perhaps you can get them to reply to the question then :) I would be interested in the answer.

I would imagine there might be a difference between temporary blind to born and/or permanently blind :confused:

Well i'm sure if you had your eyes riped out from the sockets and shoved down your throat you would see like you do out of your chest...

What do you mean? Are you having us on or can you actually see out of your chest? :eek: Or is this some American term that I have never heard of?

Well like i tried to explain in the first place, you can't see out of your chest, there is nothing there and you don't realize it's there.

So is being blind like that but for your head?

There are many forms of blindness
With tunnel vision you see something, but just a very small part of it. The rest is black

With macular degeneration you can't see anything in the center, and it blurs out until the outside is clear.

Cataracts blur everything, and it is kinda like macular degeneration in terms of what you can see.

With diabetic retinopathy, you see blurred patches.

Only around 15% of "blind" people can't see a thing. Almost all of them can tell the difference between light and dark.

As far as dreaming goes, they still dream, but they don't see anything. That is, unless they saw earlier in their life.

Though for people who have no visual input, they get nothing. Like if you tried to look out of your foot.

How can they dream and not see anything?

They still have other senses.

But still, dreaming without seeing?

is0lised, stop it or you'll go blind

Yes.

Though for people who have no visual input, they get nothing. Like if you tried to look out of your foot.

Kind of but not really. I'd describe it more as black. I know because I actually went blind in 1 eye a couple of years ago from a detached retina. It was a real 'eye opener' when I would look in the mirror with 1 eye and the other was wandering around trying 2 find some kind of visual reference. Fortunately, most of it was restored after 2 surgeries.

This is something I now notice in movies when actors play blind people. Their eyes almost always sync up and look in the same direction. Maybe they don't have contacts that truely blind someone in their eyes to get that 'real' look.

A clinically 'blind' person though could just be someone who cannot have their vision corrected to anything better than 20/200 with any form of corrective measures. These people could see things but not make out enough detail to do things such as read.

my hindsight is 20/20

Someone born blind will not have a visual reference but someone blinded later in life will still have memories of visual impressions. I have a good friend who was completely blinded from diabetes as an adult. She uses words like 'see' and 'look' and will describe colors that have been described to her. She is very aware of the colors in her environment (like when she redecorates) even though she can't see them. Like most blind people she has a mental spatial reference to move effortlessly around familiar areas as well as a heightened auditory sense.

Thanks for the clarity, Alex :)

Sisterscape: That's more or less on par with what I've read and had told to me.