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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it’s a pretty hard thing to understand since we process our vision pretty much 100% of our conscious lives, sighted people that is. the people who have been blind since birth have never seen anything at all, and black is just the absence of light. so it’s inaccurate to say they “see black” since they can’t see anything.
the best example i’ve encountered went something like “when you close both eyes you see black but when you close one eye your other eye sees nothing”. not sure if that helps you understand but it made something click for me when i heard it
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