Like, is it just total darkness or, the opposite? Is it easier for them to fall asleep given that there’s no light to distract them whilst trying to nod off?
I feel like an absolute ass for asking these questions, and I’m honestly not trying to hurt anyone’s feelings or anything.
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Here’s a neat trick to imagine what it could feel like. Close both of your eyes. You see darkness, right? Now close one eye and leave the other one open. You don’t really “see” anything out of that closed eye at all. There’s no darkness. There’s just nothing there.
I saw that some blind people actually have difficulties falling asleep. Because they cant see the sun, their circadian rhythm and they’re sleep/wake signals are all out of sync.
Huh?? Do I see differently than everyone else? I can definitely still see my one closed eye’s darkness. It’s like a 98% transparent overlay on my open eye’s vision that’s a slightly different colour.
Good analogy, but not for me, one eye is very dominant, so if I cloae that lid initially I see out of the other eye but slowly it all fades to black as my dominant eye tries to take over and feed the blackness to my brain. Then it sonetimes reverses to vision again.
This question would only be valid if there’s only one type of “blind” and this being the type of blind where you have no sight at all.
Much more common is the type of blind where you do see, but it’s unusable. Depending on the reason this will look different. For example just plain bad sight everything blurry as hell and not correctable.
Or it could be that you have a tiny tiny dot like vision. Or some type of defect causing your eyes to be not properly controlled, jumping around wildly causing effectively a lack of vision but for different reasons.
I read a good description on Reddit once. Imagine what you see out of the back of your head. That’s what a completely blind person sees.
I know a blind guy who used to see for half his life, like roughly 16 years and then became super blind. He told me it’s nothing like closing your eyes. He sees as much out of his eyes as i see out of my elbow. This still kinda fucks with me
