How would the brain interpret this?
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I don’t think the optic nerve is long enough to allow for eyeballs to dangle out of the socket.
It probably wouldn’t be too weird to see, they would just see different things out of each eye. You could get a similar effect by putting different pictures in front of each eye with something to separate them. It would just be like half their field of vision is looking forward, while the other is looking down at their feet, and in the middle the two views would kind of overlap.
But at that point I would imagine they have bigger problems to worry about.
Cross your eyes and you will get an idea.
Funny thing is eye balls are popped out of their sockets for some surgery’s (unless I was told a fib but I am pretty sure that was from a documentary).
Hold one hand very close to one eye, so it can only see hand and the other eye can’t see your hand. Focus on a distant object. Now focus on your hand.
Note how the brain basically erases the image from the mis-aimed eye. The brain does a lot of post-processing work to the signal your eyes send to create an image. That can include entirely ignoring one eye if it’s blocked or mis-aimed.
On a related and gruesome note, I don’t think the nerves and musculature attached to the eye will allow it to “fall out” without some cutting involved.
It’s similar to crossing your eyes.
Source: tinkered with a VR setup to move the point of view separately for each eye.
The professional wrestler the Tennessee Stud, a.k.a. Ron Fuller, a.k.a. Ron Welch tells the story on a podcast/youtube vido of the original Dutch Mantel breaking a guy’s orbital socket during a shoot wrestling match. The other wrestler’s eye fell out.
According to the story the guy immediately fell to the mat and started vomiting.
This was a tale relayed secondhand by his grandfather who trained under Dutch. And I’m not a scientician, so YMMV.
If the removal was performed carefully, and the nerve wasn’t damaged, vision would remain. Since the eye would no longer be able to adjust position in relation to the other eye, depth perception and focus ability would be impacted.
My dad actually popped his eye out of the socket when he was 8 years old (around 1947). The eye was suspended just out of the socket by the optic nerve and muscle attachments. The emergency room doctor just popped it back in. The trauma caused enough permanent damage that he could only differentiate light and dark with that eye from then on.
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