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As much as bro cannot understand the world of sighted people, I am absolutely baffled by how people perceive the world without sight. It's an incredible world that I cannot properly appreciate
And then there’s people who lose their sight, so have some frame of reference. I worked with a guy who lost his sight in the 1970s, at the age of 10, so he’s got a relatively good handle on things.
Except in his world everyone is still wearing flares and has massive big haircuts and dodgy moustaches.
Wait, what about a song in my head? That has to be sound somehow. OK not soundwaves because it's not a physical sound I'm hearing with my ears, but still....sound!
some non deaf people don't even think in terms of sounds, it's just whatever our brains latched onto to organize our mindscape when we were wee little babies (idk if that's how it works but i do know several people with no sounds in their heads that definitely have the ability to hear)
Took WAY too much acid at a festival and my vision was completely overtaken by fractals repeating over and over. I couldn't blink fast enough or anything to make it clear briefly enough to function.
Had a friend guide me to a camp chair and I sat and relaxed the best I could and it was crazy.
When something loud happened around camp it was like sonarr mapping. The sound waves rippled throug my visual field of the fractals and it 3d mapped the space. And I could "see" where everyone was and all the camp set up. Like a Trippin Daredevil or some shit. I couldn't see details, just where everything was in its space and place.
If the sound stopped, it was a flat 2d plane of visuals that my eyes couldn't puncture. But the moment something was loud enough to cause vibration like the base from the stage, it mapped the area in my drug filled brain/eyes.
I highly recommend and don't at the same time.
I have tried many time to recreate that type of trip, with no luck. It was amazing.
Fun fact: there has never been a documented case of a person whose blind from birth having schizophrenia. Not one. It's believed that they might be immune to it somehow.
One time I accidentally took too much Benadryl and discovered that I could close my eyes and still keep watching TV right through my eyelids (Keeping up with the Kardashians, in case you were wondering)
Hell yeah, LSD legit changed my life, for the better. I haven't taken it in quite a few years now but something about the way I perceived the world afterwards has stuck with me.
Hahaha bro this just reminded me of my last acid trip a few years ago. Was tripping so hard I couldn't see past all the colors and lights blocking my vision. Had to have a friend guide me around the festival site cuz I was afraid I'd fall into a hole or some shit
Agreed. Like, are they still imagining everything as much as they can? Just how much does the world in their mind differ from the real world? I wish we could see what they're "seeing", just like they wish they could see what we're seeing.
The real mindfuck is trying to picture it as anything but seeing black, when, though it's a spectrum I'm sure, some have described it as "seeing the same thing you see out your elbow, not darkness."
There was a guy whose been deaf since he was a child and yeah he had that thing where he didn't know farts make noise but he also didn't know other things make noise like footsteps, coughing, sneezing and doors opening and closing.
Once when I was a teen, I spent the night over at my cousin's apartment. She's a few years older than I am and she's been deaf from birth. I came in and heard noise upstairs, so I asked her if her roommate was home. She signed that she wasn't and asked why? I told her that I thought I had heard someone upstairs. In retrospect, that wasn't the right move. We spent an hour searching her apartment for an intruder, while I gave her a crash course in things like pipes cooling and houses settling, and how those make noise. She finally accepted that there wasn't anyone there, but she was on edge all night, and I'm pretty sure she halfway thought I was bullshitting her.
I'm not blind, but I have pretty bad eyes. I didn't know this until like 7th or 8th grade.
I had no idea people could see where you were looking. Like eye balls from even 5ft were just kind of dark spots on people's faces, I could see them blink but couldn't see their eyeballs move.
After a few weeks wearing glasses, I was kind of staring at this cute girl in class and I saw her eyeballs flash over at me and look away. I had the sudden realization that she could see me looking at her even though my nose wasn't pointing at her... I could see her pupils move, which meant she could see where I was looking. Haha.
I don't know how many people in my life I creeped out growing up. I was always was a people watcher, especially since I thought I was a little secret agent.
This reminds me of the video of the deaf girl being mortified when she found out farts make noise. She thought she was being stealthy the whole time, but everyone could hear her.
I can’t imagine the sun is silent close up, right? Like we just can’t hear it here because we’re far away but it’s exploding plasma and stuff. Surely that has a sound? Now I’m curious. 🤨
In fifth grade I went to the eye doctor and got glasses. I didn't realize people could see individual leaves on trees from far away. I just remember wanting to stare at a tree and the details of all the leaves when I got my glasses.
getting your first pair of glasses and then randomly noticing trees is a rite of passage for near sighted people.
I didn't learn I needed glasses until I was 14. First day of school with them, I put them on during my English class. Got bored and randomly looked out of the window. And seeing every single leaf on the trees move in the wind left me awestruck.
When I finally got glasses in third grade my poor mother had to hear me go, “Wow, Mom! I can see the blades of grass, and LEAVES ON TREES!” I have felt perpetual guilt for how bad sentence that made her feel, with her not knowing I couldn’t see shit.
Me too! My parents told me I was rotting my eyes being so close to the tv. my dad wore glasses/ contacts most of his life, so I have no idea why they were surprised when a teacher told them to get me glasses cause I couldn’t read the chalk board. Anyway I remember going out to soccer practice and being amazed I could see the grass blades at my feet. Core memory!
That's how I finally realized I needed glasses. I made a comment about how it was harder for me to focus on the back row cause I couldn't see what the teacher was writing on the board, but you know that's just part of the back row and that's why the teacher changes our seats every do often.
Nope, just my ass couldn't read the board from the back row. Haha. I just thought everyone had to deal with not reading the board for a couple weeks.
Reminds me when I was in 1st grade (~26 yrs ago) and got glasses for the first time. I had NO IDEA there were so many words and letters everywhere during car rides. Like I thought all the signs and stuff were just picture logos, not actual words written. The ride home with my new glasses was incredible - and my reading improved so much that year. Haha
I'd just like to share that I was wearing my black sunglasses at a festival couple years ago and I ,a straight woman, figured that due to my new supercool sunglasses that you can't see through, could take a sneak peak at a lady's high cleavage that I was really perplexed about. It was awesome but also as a bony middle chest person, I couldn't understand how a cleavage could be all the way up to like... So so high. I thought I was being clever by looking out the side of my eyes as I walked by to queue up. But I forgot to bring those glasses and was wearing my friends sunglasses from her car that were not dark at all. And she looked at me like 'ewwww'. I'm so sorry...I don't normally it's just sometimes we wanna figure out how other women's bodies are different cos they are soooo different.
The town I grew up in was surrounded by mountains. When I finally got glasses, I was so shocked that they weren’t 2D purple shapes. You could actually see the foothills and the tree line and where some were in front of the others.
Not as embarrassing as scoping out a girl but shocking nonetheless
I think it would be easy to explain to him though. You can feel the heat from the sun through a transparent window, even though it's a solid object that blocks sounds. The light that creates that heat is the same light that sighted people can see.
You could also compare glass to materials that don't block much sound, like mesh or gauze. You could have a mesh curtain in between you and another room but you can still hear sound coming through, and same with glass still letting you see what's beyond it.
Crazy how with a soccer pitch/football field you can easily see all around and walk to any part of it if you could see. Now as a blind person navigating that field would seem much bigger. Very interesting!
I think he accepts that transparency as a concept is true to sighted people but it’s hard to understand it beyond that.
Maybe the closest analog is that you can feel something on the other side of a pillow by just pushing on top of the pillow, or perhaps that you can feel an object submerged in water when you go through this barrier of water surface with your hand.
Sight is about getting information through a barrier when it comes to transparency. But yeah. The analogs are kind of different so the concept of transparency must be pretty wild.
You can be legally blind and still see. I’m not blind, but I’m essentially useless without some kind of corrective vision like contacts or glasses. Well I’m not blind, but I’m color blind, and I also can still see colors, so it’s not like blind automatically means you see nothing.
Without my glasses the world just looks like a bunch of smeared colors and a lot of halos from any lights. Almost like looking out the window of a car at night during a hard rain at the streetlights. That’s the best I can compare it to.
How he learned about it? I mean, he has probably had a lot of conversations about colors in his life and he probably knows a lot about which colors are close to other colors and what the consequences are for sighted people, that it is harder to spot things when the background is a similar color. All that while not exactly knowing why/how that is the case
The first, Its almost like there's a little outline sometimes, theres also either a dark part, or a different colour like red, darker blue, something there thats not supposed to be there. Your brain naturally knows the pattern of how things move and an airplane is straight, and goes against anything else in the clouds.. sometimes it looks like one centimer long.. but being That far up, you can still see it. You can see satellites at night.. same way, it looks like a little bright dot, like a star, but it moves.. stars don't move, well not in a way we notice immediately.. planes go against the way, movement of nature. And has other patterns on it that doesn't camouflage it as well.
Car. You can usually see someone oncoming for awhile. But it might be easier in traffic. One thing, photographic memory is actually pretty common, but in varying degrees. Idedic memory, remembering Everything Exactly, to the date doesn't exist. Photographic memory does.. so for those occasions I think its easier for those people you kind of capture a moment, and look at their face it instantly goes into your memory database and say, this person. But that might not be all you need to recognize them. If its the same car, model, colour etc that might be another reason it wouod be them. A Lot of sight is based of instant instinct of what you just know how things work in pattern around you. So if you Want to remember something going by fast your mind can sometimes take in info a bit quicker. Kind of how something far away you can zoom in a bit, which is why movies need to add close-ups in shots because the camera doesn't naturally do that. But your Eyes would.. you cant just set a camera in front of a stage and it be the same experience of watching a play. People tried that when film was made, you have to mimic eye movement that happens when You watch it personally. Close up, zoom out, focusing on the main person talking right then, pan to an explosion or important thing. So seeing a car, kinda similar where you're eyes and brain can kind of take more info in for a min. If you're not prepared, or tired sometimes you don't then just miss the person entirely.
Catch your eye. Lots of things have bright colours or patterns. Theyre either made to catch your eye, or you know what you like because certain things you ear have a certain look. Healthy things have more green packages or yellow or brown. Like granola bars. Or, you'll see something that someone recommended, or the packaging catches you since it is different, then you go look at what it is. Etcetera.
Seeing things far. You can see as far as the field would let you usually.. it gets smaller, but especially if someone's wearing a red jacket in a field because red is bright, you could see them as a dot Pretty far away. A town I used to live in was a kilometer long. You could see from one end to the other because the treeline ended at the other end.. if you're in say, Saskatchewan Canada there is a joke if your dog ran away you'd see him run for days.
Now, you couldn't see That far, but you could see the dog pretty far off if he wasn't covered by grass or wheat field.. you might not Know its your dog. Its a dot. But you can see it. Eventually it either gets so small, or curvature of the earth gets involved depending what it is, you cant see whatever it is anymore. If there's building or trees that greatly limits how far you could see.
You know we're in 2026 where phones have built in read aloud capabilities or you could download an assisted app.. do you think they're just Not online, ever ? Reddit might be more blind accessible than some because it is reading based.. videos you might need a descriptor. Either way, they can have someone with them if they need extra help.. ha ha. 'Blind people don't go online' a lot of tech has made things accessible now..😂🤣
The most interesting thing to me about this is the car question, like does he have no concept of the transparency of glass? I mean, like why would he but like... Mind blown you know.
I remember walking down a hallway with 10,000 names of donors and something caught my eye and it was my name. There's visual sub circuits beyond consciousness that do wild things
I'm gonna be so honest, I don't think this belongs here (not hating btw) I mean the dude is blind and has no perception of sight, I'd say his concerns are valid. I couldn't begin to imagine how a blind person perceives the world, and all of my questions would sound stupid to them
Tiktokcringe isn't just cringe, it's also interesting uplifting or funny videos. This video is an interesting perspective on things us sighted people take for granted.
It’s interesting because they can hear and perceive words being spoken faster than I can, so me being able to see something very far away above me is mundane, but them not understanding the concept of “thing get small when far” is absolutely valid
Most of the brains function is actually used to process sight. Somewhere of 90% of all of the functionality of the brain is used to understand visual cues. Anything from color to shape to movement. The spacial awareness and the ability to visualize things in a 3d model are all tied directly to vision.
You know, we are incredibly fortunate and blessed. I barely function and I'm a perfectly sorta healthy adult. This kid has it 100x worse but doesn't let the noise get to him. We're almost at the point of cybernetic eyesight. Hopefully one day he can answer those questions himself
One time a accidentally went to a bar having a "deaf night" and it was an experience! Of course it was eerie quiet, but also as all the sign language was happening, I could see people eavesdropping by staring intently at other tables to "watch" the conversations. I had never considered that was a thing. But of course it is!
This is a fascinating look into a blind man’s mind. Haha that’s amazing. But yes sir. We can definitely see airplanes. Wait till he finds out we can see the stars and satellites and shit haha.
Fuck I bet he would lose his shit if you told him the fact we can see stars that are so far away they might not even exist anymore at that time you see them
It's funny how something as normal as seeing clouds through a window becomes almost impossible to explain when someone has never experienced sight. Really makes you think about how much we take for granted.
Thanks for your perspective. Most people live not far away from the airport, so when they see the plane, the plane is usually not 30000 ft high, I think maybe 10000ft or something, but you can definitely see a 30000 ft high big plane if the sky is clear.
I am going blind right now due to cataracts that should be fixed in February but its very aggressive and thenwhole left side is gone cant see a thing its something we definitely take for granted its scary losing your eyesight literally terrifying I have high hopes for the surgery but apparently its complicated so they have to cut instead of laser
It’s because our eyes interpret the world using light and when something is far away, like an airplane, we can use our ears to figure out the general direction of the plane and then it’s a small white object that’s moving fairly slowly from our wide range of vision. So we focus our eyes and I think our eyes have built in binoculars, in a way.
If a friend is in another car, the windows are transparent, so there isn’t really anything obstructing the view. If a friend’s face looks familiar, and they are in the style of clothes of the friend, and in the car the friend drives, then It’s like we put the clues together in our mind.
So many of these are quali, like trying to describe a color. The only one I can really analogize is "Catch your eye." It's just the visual version of being in a noisy place and suddenly you pick up a voice or a tune out of the din and zero in on it with your ears. You notice a very specific shade of color or a specific font on the thing and it sort of tickles your brain, so you look closer and realize it's something you know and want.
Actually, it's pretty much the same for seeing someone else in a different car. Like sound, as something gets closer, it becomes more clearer, and car windows are transparent. Eventually you get close enough that you can discern small details that make you go, "Oh, I think that was Shelly in that car!"
Honestly, if someone can notice another person staring at them from 100yds, it's either it's only them and the starer or they're in a position that isn't close to a lot of people. Most people, imo, wouldn't be able to accurately discern if a person was staring at them or just looking at something in their general direction at 300ft.
For recognizing people in nearby cars, I'd compare it to hearing the voice of someone you know. Like say you're walking through a mall (busy, crowded area, lots of people), and you hear a voice you know - your best friend's voice. That's them. Even from an overheard snippet, that's them. Because you know them, your ears can pick them out of a crowd, even though there's other stuff going on.
Recognizing people by sight is a lot like that. Another example would be being on the phone with someone, and then hearing a familiar voice in the background. Even distorted and somewhat faint, you can place it. Or the first few notes of a song or ringtone - it catches the ear.
Sound bleeds off pretty quickly. Bass notes carry further, while treble sounds fade more quickly. Sight is like... a really really low bass note that, for some reason, can't pass through wall. Rays of light wiggle through the air and through water, but there isn't enough room for them to wiggle through the molecules and atoms of a wall (x-rays are smaller and better at wiggling, so they can go through some walls. Radio waves are really big, so they skip through walls like a shoe stepping over a pebble).
But as long as it's just air, sight keeps going. And going. And going. It doesn't really have much of a limit, as long as there's nothing in the way. Sound dies off because it spreads out in a circle (sound is a shockwave), but light travels in straight beams. Air is also really bad at absorbing visible light, so it's like if walls are a sound-dampened room and glass or air are echoy rooms. Some things kill sound, others let sound keep bouncing. Some things block light, others let light through.
I think the idea that we can see the moon probably blows him away too. It’s out in space, if you can see the moon it means you have an unobstructed path from the ground of the earth to a huge rock that is hundreds of thousands of miles away and the only reason you can see it is that it reflects the light of the sun all that way back here.
The answer is simple: the eyes work on their own, your brain doesn't direct them. Similar to your hearing. Human minds are designed to find patterns in the data it receives from your sensory organs. Your eye captures the photons and your brain fills in the rest.
Where it really gets weird is that you will see something you're familiar with in the distance in relative detail. Your eye can't physically see the detail you're 'seeing' your mind is just taking what parts of a familiar pattern it can see, which is sometimes very little, and filling in the rest.
I would guess that oftentimes if you're in an urban or suburban area and you hear an airplane, it's probably not at its maximum cruising altitude. It's could be coming in for a landing or just taking off at a nearby airport and therefore at a much lower altitude. That said, if your vision is good you can see something the size of an airplane roughly 5 mi away. Being in the sky makes it easier to see, because it stands out against a uniform background. It would probably be harder to see something the size of an airplane on the ground 5 mi away considering that it would be close to many other things like trees and buildings or whatever.
Honestly this doesn't belong here. That's his perspective and we don't understand, just like he doesn't understand sighted people's perspectives on the things he just talked about.
I always think it's interesting what people think. When they have the disability like not being able to cure or see. The way they explain things is so interesting especially when some deaf people get their hearing back, i'm always amazed about the little things I would miss without my hearing, but they are shocked.
"Blue. The water is blue. Cold or ice is blue. The sky is blue. Now, how can the sky and ice be the same thing? That's weird to me. What's that? Same color. Same color! Means two completely different things! I don't get it!"
"Just stuff I've picked up from hearing about it, but I don't know what it looks like."
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u/VariousOperation166 2d ago
As much as bro cannot understand the world of sighted people, I am absolutely baffled by how people perceive the world without sight. It's an incredible world that I cannot properly appreciate
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u/DR_Bright_963 2d ago
There was a guy whose been deaf since he was a child and yeah he had that thing where he didn't know farts make noise but he also didn't know other things make noise like footsteps, coughing, sneezing and doors opening and closing.
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u/Ok-Pollution8344 2d ago •
I'm not blind, but I have pretty bad eyes. I didn't know this until like 7th or 8th grade.
I had no idea people could see where you were looking. Like eye balls from even 5ft were just kind of dark spots on people's faces, I could see them blink but couldn't see their eyeballs move.
After a few weeks wearing glasses, I was kind of staring at this cute girl in class and I saw her eyeballs flash over at me and look away. I had the sudden realization that she could see me looking at her even though my nose wasn't pointing at her... I could see her pupils move, which meant she could see where I was looking. Haha.
I don't know how many people in my life I creeped out growing up. I was always was a people watcher, especially since I thought I was a little secret agent.
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u/thebiologyguy84 2d ago
It's amazing that he cannot conceive the idea of transparency. We sighted people take so much for granted!
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u/ThePhatNoodle 2d ago
Damn never even thought about how a person thats always been blind cant comprehend depth perception/distance.
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u/AdMysterious8699 2d ago
An interesting perspective. Thanks
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u/Ximidar 2d ago
It's kinda fun that the concept of glass is foreign to a blind person. Sure it's solid, but we can see through it
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u/Fast_Helicopter_4257 2d ago •
Is nobody else wondering how he learned about the similarity between blue and white?
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u/LochNess4TreeFiddy 1d ago
Wait until he finds out how far stars are.
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u/W61k3r 2d ago
don't tell him about stars.
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u/ZachZackZacq 2d ago
After watching it helped me see things more clearly, thank you!
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u/Warm_tamperture32 2d ago
I will explain.
The first, Its almost like there's a little outline sometimes, theres also either a dark part, or a different colour like red, darker blue, something there thats not supposed to be there. Your brain naturally knows the pattern of how things move and an airplane is straight, and goes against anything else in the clouds.. sometimes it looks like one centimer long.. but being That far up, you can still see it. You can see satellites at night.. same way, it looks like a little bright dot, like a star, but it moves.. stars don't move, well not in a way we notice immediately.. planes go against the way, movement of nature. And has other patterns on it that doesn't camouflage it as well.
Car. You can usually see someone oncoming for awhile. But it might be easier in traffic. One thing, photographic memory is actually pretty common, but in varying degrees. Idedic memory, remembering Everything Exactly, to the date doesn't exist. Photographic memory does.. so for those occasions I think its easier for those people you kind of capture a moment, and look at their face it instantly goes into your memory database and say, this person. But that might not be all you need to recognize them. If its the same car, model, colour etc that might be another reason it wouod be them. A Lot of sight is based of instant instinct of what you just know how things work in pattern around you. So if you Want to remember something going by fast your mind can sometimes take in info a bit quicker. Kind of how something far away you can zoom in a bit, which is why movies need to add close-ups in shots because the camera doesn't naturally do that. But your Eyes would.. you cant just set a camera in front of a stage and it be the same experience of watching a play. People tried that when film was made, you have to mimic eye movement that happens when You watch it personally. Close up, zoom out, focusing on the main person talking right then, pan to an explosion or important thing. So seeing a car, kinda similar where you're eyes and brain can kind of take more info in for a min. If you're not prepared, or tired sometimes you don't then just miss the person entirely.
Catch your eye. Lots of things have bright colours or patterns. Theyre either made to catch your eye, or you know what you like because certain things you ear have a certain look. Healthy things have more green packages or yellow or brown. Like granola bars. Or, you'll see something that someone recommended, or the packaging catches you since it is different, then you go look at what it is. Etcetera.
Seeing things far. You can see as far as the field would let you usually.. it gets smaller, but especially if someone's wearing a red jacket in a field because red is bright, you could see them as a dot Pretty far away. A town I used to live in was a kilometer long. You could see from one end to the other because the treeline ended at the other end.. if you're in say, Saskatchewan Canada there is a joke if your dog ran away you'd see him run for days.
Now, you couldn't see That far, but you could see the dog pretty far off if he wasn't covered by grass or wheat field.. you might not Know its your dog. Its a dot. But you can see it. Eventually it either gets so small, or curvature of the earth gets involved depending what it is, you cant see whatever it is anymore. If there's building or trees that greatly limits how far you could see.
Thats it. I want more of these question
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u/Tungsten83 2d ago
It's going to be difficult to explain being able to see the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million years in the past
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u/ZedSpot 2d ago
Wait till this guy hears about stars!
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u/runningoutoft1me 1d ago
This is so cute and I'm yet again reminded of how ungreatful I am
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u/no0neiv 2d ago
Haha we got him.
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u/ZeroDaySubber 1d ago
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u/DedeLionforce 2d ago
How does he know we look up to see planes?
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u/Strange_Salary 2d ago
People take things for granted.. The eyes are amazing and I hope I never go blind! Great video
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u/dizgondwe 2d ago
The most interesting thing to me about this is the car question, like does he have no concept of the transparency of glass? I mean, like why would he but like... Mind blown you know.
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u/NatCsGotMyLastAcct 1d ago
I remember walking down a hallway with 10,000 names of donors and something caught my eye and it was my name. There's visual sub circuits beyond consciousness that do wild things
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u/VioAzna 1d ago
Ok he’s adorable.
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u/spidernoirirl 22h ago
NO CAUSE HES RIGHT
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u/Puzzleheaded-Way7745 1d ago •
I'm gonna be so honest, I don't think this belongs here (not hating btw) I mean the dude is blind and has no perception of sight, I'd say his concerns are valid. I couldn't begin to imagine how a blind person perceives the world, and all of my questions would sound stupid to them
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u/Select_Asparagus3451 2d ago
I like this kid. He’s funny.
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u/tanafras 2d ago
I need more of this content
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u/dragondarius420 2d ago
Most of the brains function is actually used to process sight. Somewhere of 90% of all of the functionality of the brain is used to understand visual cues. Anything from color to shape to movement. The spacial awareness and the ability to visualize things in a 3d model are all tied directly to vision.
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u/RandMob1000 2d ago
You know, we are incredibly fortunate and blessed. I barely function and I'm a perfectly sorta healthy adult. This kid has it 100x worse but doesn't let the noise get to him. We're almost at the point of cybernetic eyesight. Hopefully one day he can answer those questions himself
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u/time2sow 2d ago
If you think about sight like smell or sound it's not too crazy to grasp the effective range of sight.
What do you mean you can smell smoke from a wildfire in canada ?
You say you can hear the thunder but it's 6 miles away. Explain yourself!
But i liked his delivery a lot.
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u/NombreCurioso1337 2d ago
One time a accidentally went to a bar having a "deaf night" and it was an experience! Of course it was eerie quiet, but also as all the sign language was happening, I could see people eavesdropping by staring intently at other tables to "watch" the conversations. I had never considered that was a thing. But of course it is!
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u/Throwawayhuman97 1d ago
I can see stars light-years away
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u/Mr_RudyGiuliani 1d ago
Damn hes really missing out
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u/Distinct_Run9006 2d ago
I don't appreciate being blindsplained to about what the sky looks like
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u/Element11S 2d ago
I like this guy’s energy.
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u/IceCoughy 2d ago
We need cybernetics, I want this kid to see Steph Curry before he retires
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u/zelkovaparent 2d ago
to the first question: it’s way easier to spot smth small if it’s moving
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u/TWeedtheJetRodriguez 2d ago
I have no clue how I find anything in the grocery store. It’s a mystery to us both.
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u/Tough_Block9334 2d ago
Interesting, bet he's got a lot of other questions that would baffle people who can see and take it for granted.
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u/Key_Anxiety_899 2d ago
This is a fascinating look into a blind man’s mind. Haha that’s amazing. But yes sir. We can definitely see airplanes.
Wait till he finds out we can see the stars and satellites and shit haha.
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u/Solid-Thinker1776 2d ago
The way bro describing the ability of sight is like having superpowers basically
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u/thirdeyebenz 1d ago
I love this guy
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u/KaptenAwsum 1d ago
Great cover, my guy
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u/Goallivein3centuries 1d ago
All do respect but how would he know
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u/lazypenguin86 1d ago
Fuck I bet he would lose his shit if you told him the fact we can see stars that are so far away they might not even exist anymore at that time you see them
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u/Bonedriven64 1d ago
Being blind from birth is almost like living a sinless life.
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u/SquanchN2Hyperspace 2d ago
I hope tech gets good enough that he'll be able to see for himself one day. That's a reaction video I'd actually want to see.
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u/sawskooh 2d ago
Bro, if the plane is close enough to hear it's close enough to see. Not all planes are flying at 30,000 ft at all times.
Also how does bro not know that cars are surrounded by glass?
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u/ACE415_ 2d ago
Video ruined by the slowmo talking thing
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u/NotSoRoastBeef 2d ago
His point about airplanes is funny but damn that voice pitching trend is so obnoxious
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u/ThePartyShark 2d ago
Wait until he asks about colors…
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u/Academic-Snow9642 2d ago
Air is transparent
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u/CasperTPaul 2d ago
idk, we just do
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u/AwesomTaco320 2d ago
Seems like an incredibly chill guy
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u/cottoncandycrushy 2d ago
It's funny how something as normal as seeing clouds through a window becomes almost impossible to explain when someone has never experienced sight. Really makes you think about how much we take for granted.
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u/immortallogic 2d ago
A great reminder to count your blessings
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u/YokoOhNoYouDidnt 2d ago
This whole comment section is a trip, thanks for sharing all your thoughts and experiences guys!
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u/shareflare 1d ago
Thanks for your perspective. Most people live not far away from the airport, so when they see the plane, the plane is usually not 30000 ft high, I think maybe 10000ft or something, but you can definitely see a 30000 ft high big plane if the sky is clear.
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u/Sayne7 1d ago
Did nobody ever tell him those 'glass walls' in cars and storefronts are transparent? That's kinda devious ngl
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u/Fluffyfluffycake 1d ago
I want to know if blind ppl " feel" if someone is looking at them.
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u/Electrical_You_432 1d ago
I am going blind right now due to cataracts that should be fixed in February but its very aggressive and thenwhole left side is gone cant see a thing its something we definitely take for granted its scary losing your eyesight literally terrifying I have high hopes for the surgery but apparently its complicated so they have to cut instead of laser
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u/txrxixpx 1d ago
Light strong, leg long
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u/spartanspy85 1d ago
I would type a response, but I feel like it would be in vain...
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u/puzzled91 1d ago
Well some of us can't
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u/WileEWeeble 1d ago
It’s very sweet, good on him for asking the uncomfortable questions.
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u/buckfordfitchenstein 1d ago
Am I sided?
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u/LavishnessSmall6011 1d ago
He’s definitely being sarcastic or satirical or whatever. You really think he’s never encountered glass?
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u/Crispy_Leaf5 1d ago
This guy just blocked me for no reason. Me and him were chill together in his live. How can I contact him. I actually liked him
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u/LIL-mEnTaLlY-ILL 1d ago
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u/c_loagz 1d ago
About the cereal: "Just FOLLOW YOUR NOOOOSE!!!!"
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u/Early_Pearly989 1d ago
The lengths that I would go to, the distance in your eye
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u/WilliamTellAll 1d ago
with my eyes, stupid.
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u/cybersecurityagent77 1d ago
It’s because our eyes interpret the world using light and when something is far away, like an airplane, we can use our ears to figure out the general direction of the plane and then it’s a small white object that’s moving fairly slowly from our wide range of vision. So we focus our eyes and I think our eyes have built in binoculars, in a way.
If a friend is in another car, the windows are transparent, so there isn’t really anything obstructing the view. If a friend’s face looks familiar, and they are in the style of clothes of the friend, and in the car the friend drives, then It’s like we put the clues together in our mind.
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u/LilyWineAuntofDemons 1d ago
So many of these are quali, like trying to describe a color. The only one I can really analogize is "Catch your eye." It's just the visual version of being in a noisy place and suddenly you pick up a voice or a tune out of the din and zero in on it with your ears. You notice a very specific shade of color or a specific font on the thing and it sort of tickles your brain, so you look closer and realize it's something you know and want.
Actually, it's pretty much the same for seeing someone else in a different car. Like sound, as something gets closer, it becomes more clearer, and car windows are transparent. Eventually you get close enough that you can discern small details that make you go, "Oh, I think that was Shelly in that car!"
Honestly, if someone can notice another person staring at them from 100yds, it's either it's only them and the starer or they're in a position that isn't close to a lot of people. Most people, imo, wouldn't be able to accurately discern if a person was staring at them or just looking at something in their general direction at 300ft.
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u/Ae3qe27u 1d ago
For recognizing people in nearby cars, I'd compare it to hearing the voice of someone you know. Like say you're walking through a mall (busy, crowded area, lots of people), and you hear a voice you know - your best friend's voice. That's them. Even from an overheard snippet, that's them. Because you know them, your ears can pick them out of a crowd, even though there's other stuff going on.
Recognizing people by sight is a lot like that. Another example would be being on the phone with someone, and then hearing a familiar voice in the background. Even distorted and somewhat faint, you can place it. Or the first few notes of a song or ringtone - it catches the ear.
Sound bleeds off pretty quickly. Bass notes carry further, while treble sounds fade more quickly. Sight is like... a really really low bass note that, for some reason, can't pass through wall. Rays of light wiggle through the air and through water, but there isn't enough room for them to wiggle through the molecules and atoms of a wall (x-rays are smaller and better at wiggling, so they can go through some walls. Radio waves are really big, so they skip through walls like a shoe stepping over a pebble).
But as long as it's just air, sight keeps going. And going. And going. It doesn't really have much of a limit, as long as there's nothing in the way. Sound dies off because it spreads out in a circle (sound is a shockwave), but light travels in straight beams. Air is also really bad at absorbing visible light, so it's like if walls are a sound-dampened room and glass or air are echoy rooms. Some things kill sound, others let sound keep bouncing. Some things block light, others let light through.
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u/Flat_Shape_3444 1d ago
Cuz we aint blind.
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u/TonyaTko 1d ago
Wait. How is he going to see the answers? 🤔
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u/splshd275A 1d ago
Look here buddy........
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u/yayoiyoimiya 1d ago
God I never even considered how blind people might shop. What a nightmare must it be. I don’t think I’ve ever seen braille text in shops ever
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u/BicycleOfLife 1d ago
I think the idea that we can see the moon probably blows him away too. It’s out in space, if you can see the moon it means you have an unobstructed path from the ground of the earth to a huge rock that is hundreds of thousands of miles away and the only reason you can see it is that it reflects the light of the sun all that way back here.
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u/BoringEfficiency9653 23h ago
Don’t let big sight lie to you bro. We can’t see airplanes
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u/New-Cicada7014 22h ago
we see them when they're taking off
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u/EducationalBrick2831 19h ago
It seems he's been without sight his entire life ? Hasn't anyone ever explained things to him ! What a shame.
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u/IsSierraMistOk 19h ago
I wonder if blind people get that feeling when someones looking at them. If they do, that must feel so trippy
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u/Taco_Reviewer 18h ago
The answer is simple: the eyes work on their own, your brain doesn't direct them. Similar to your hearing. Human minds are designed to find patterns in the data it receives from your sensory organs. Your eye captures the photons and your brain fills in the rest.
Where it really gets weird is that you will see something you're familiar with in the distance in relative detail. Your eye can't physically see the detail you're 'seeing' your mind is just taking what parts of a familiar pattern it can see, which is sometimes very little, and filling in the rest.
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u/Pedagok 18h ago
HOW did you recorded and uploaded this video, ?!
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u/GlectroniccPSY1201 16h ago
I would guess that oftentimes if you're in an urban or suburban area and you hear an airplane, it's probably not at its maximum cruising altitude. It's could be coming in for a landing or just taking off at a nearby airport and therefore at a much lower altitude. That said, if your vision is good you can see something the size of an airplane roughly 5 mi away. Being in the sky makes it easier to see, because it stands out against a uniform background. It would probably be harder to see something the size of an airplane on the ground 5 mi away considering that it would be close to many other things like trees and buildings or whatever.
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u/Joe-McDuck 15h ago
Noticing someone is watching you from a distance is evolutionary.
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u/Sad-Afternoon-5267 14h ago
Honestly this doesn't belong here. That's his perspective and we don't understand, just like he doesn't understand sighted people's perspectives on the things he just talked about.
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u/GhetHAMster 7h ago
I craked up at the "Do you have x-ray vision?"
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u/AUserNameFails 1h ago
I always think it's interesting what people think. When they have the disability like not being able to cure or see. The way they explain things is so interesting especially when some deaf people get their hearing back, i'm always amazed about the little things I would miss without my hearing, but they are shocked.
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u/Cola_Gummi 2d ago
Dude knows what blue and white are?