I cannot fathom seeing nothing as opposed to just seeing pitch black. An example I was told is “it’s like trying to see out of your elbow”. I still do not get it
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When I was a kid I used to think blind people must see blackness because that’s what I see when I close my eyes, but then one day I realized that I don’t see blackness behind my head or beneath my feet or anywhere else I don’t have eyes. When you close your eyelids your eyes are still working, it’s just that all you’re seeing is the absence of light (darkness) akin being in a perfectly dark cave or the like. The experience of not being able to see behind you, for example, is from a lack of vision not a lack of light, which means you don’t even see blackness, there’s just no visual input at all. In order for you to ‘see’ darkness you must have functioning eyes, but if your eyes are scooped out of your head or whatever then those spots will revert to being like the bottom of your feet – no visual input at all, not even blackness.
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