+274 If you try to "see" something that's behind your head, you see nothing at all. That must be what a person who is blind from birth "sees". amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hmm, people are disagreeing...I thought this was a good conceptualization of what a blind person sees. If you disagree, what do you think they see?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah me too, I thought it was such a brilliant way of defining it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I disagreed because I can still see when I try to see something behind my head. everything is just blurry. Maybe I'm not doing it right or something...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I disagreed because if you try to 'see' what's behind you without looking, you can still imagine what is there. And you are still seeing what's in front of you. So I don't think it's anything like being blind. I mean, if you think about it, do blind people even have any concept of color?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

retard, if you can't see what's behind you and you've never seen in your life, then you have no idea of what's behind you and you can't see it... so you're incredibly wrong on that point.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That -might- be what it's like if you're blind from birth. Keyword being "might", you don't really know, I think that's why people are disagreeing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

On the plus side, it's better to have sight and wonder what it's like being blind than to be blind and wonder what it's like to have sight.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Soooo true.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You just blew my mind. :O

by Anonymous 13 years ago

wait I don't get it, what do you mean "see" behind your head?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

When you look forward, you can't see behind you can you? You have to imagine what's there, and if you try to look, you don't even see anything

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the part I'm confused about is the "if you try to look you don't see anything." do you mean like moving your eyes to the back of your head lmao! I'm just not getting this today headache sorry :P

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha oh that's okay. It's just hard to explain.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, I don't mean moving your eyes. Here's a way I could rephrase it: at this very moment, you can only see the things that are within the range of your peripheral vision. Everything else, you can't see at all. This is what a blind person sees, period.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or you can just close your eyes....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This post seems very short-sighted (pardon the pun!). A blind person would have no concept of what things look like except for what they can feel. So everything might 'look' black, but with shapes? I think we need an actual blind person to comment on this . . oh wait . . .

by Anonymous 13 years ago

a blind person could, they use text to speech.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Blind people don't "see" anything. A friend of mine lost her sight, and tried explaining it to me what its like. She says she sees nothing, not even blackness. It is literally and irrevocably nothingness beyond darkness.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wow, that's pretty unbelievable

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It makes me really think too, (that was me btw, I wasn't signed in)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is very clever, but concept of blindness still boggles my mind...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't know whether to agree or disagree. Because we have seen before so we can assemble or imagine the picture of what's behind us. Like if i've seen my bed before and I'm not facing it, it's blurry but I know how it looks like. If i'm not facing the street I can still imagine what kind of cars are driving behind me. But I agree in the sense that if i experience something knew with a sense that's not my sight, like a new/abstract sound, then it would sort of fit. Except that we will use our memory to build of and imagine.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

but if your blind from birth how can you even imagine what anyhting looks like? for instance pretend im blind and define a square for me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The face of a milk carton, but with sides all the same length.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm not talking about putting together a mental image. Read my above comment.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

._______. *mind implosion

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Omg brain fartttttttt

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have been blind since birth and I would describe it more like closing your eyes. I am blind so I would know.

by Anonymous 13 years ago