What would happen to a person’s field of vision if one of his/her eyes falls out of the socket but the nerve remains intact?

Question

How would the brain interpret this?

In: Biology

Answer 1

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.