In my case, I see colors a flow in my eyes, mostly the shades of blue and red.
Renuka. On 2/26/15, Preeti Monga <preeti.mo...@silver-linings.org> wrote: > Hi I too am totally blind but I seem to see very bright white light all the > time, day or night, eyes open or closed, and this light comes through a kind > of very dirty small wire mesh. Sad that I can't see any colors! Interesting > that others also see something! I could see somethings, large things not > small things when I was very little. > > Preeti > > Preeti Monga - Chief Executive Officer > > > Inspiring INCLUSION! Fostering DIGNITY! > > > Mobile : 91 9871701646 > Landline : 011 22781446 > E-mail : preeti.mo...@silver-linings.org > Website : www.silver-linings.org > Our Services: Recruitment , Trainings- Unique Motivation Programmes, > Diversity & Inclusion, Prevention of Sexual Harassment > Connect With Us : > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf > Of Kotian, H P > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 3:48 PM > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled. > Subject: Re: [AI] FW: [The vOICe] Do blind people really experience complete > darkness? > > Hi > Well, my experience is just similar. There is always something happening and > moving. No moments of darkness at all. I wonder what is the trigger. > > Harish Kotian > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf > Of Dinesh Kaushal > Sent: 26 February 2015 14:05 > To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled.' > Subject: Re: [AI] FW: [The vOICe] Do blind people really experience complete > darkness? > > Wow! I have similar experience, but I don't see random light, I often see > imaginary scenes that are based on what I expect. I too have no light > perception. > > I am able to imagine total darkness when my brain thinks that it is dark. > > That could be partly because I lost my eyesight gradually. > > I am not sure if this is off topic. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf > Of raaju > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 9:51 PM > To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled.' > Subject: [AI] FW: [The vOICe] Do blind people really experience complete > darkness? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: seeingwithsound-bou...@freelists.org > [mailto:seeingwithsound-bou...@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Peter Meijer > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 5:17 PM > To: seeingwithso...@freelists.org > Subject: [The vOICe] Do blind people really experience complete darkness? > > Hi All, > > For your information. Appended is today's BBC News article. > > Best wishes, > > Peter Meijer > > > Seeing with Sound - The vOICe > http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm > > > Do blind people really experience complete darkness? > > By Damon Rose BBC News, Ouch. > > BBC journalist Damon Rose completely lost his sight as a child, but he says > his world isn't pitch black. So what exactly does he see? > > It's often assumed that blind people experience complete darkness, but in my > experience this is far from the truth. > > I appreciate this is going to sound odd coming from a blind person but when > people ask me what I miss most about not being able to see, my answer is > always "darkness". > > Let me explain. I am one of a very small number of people who have no sight > whatsoever. I'm properly blind. A "total" as we used to say at school. > > I lost my sight 31 years ago thanks to ill-advised surgery, and on my blind > person's registration certificate it has three, now very faded letters - > NLP, no light perception. > > The logical assumption is that when sight is snuffed out, a person must be > left in darkness. If you dive under the bed covers you can't see anything at > all. If you close your eyes then everything turns to black. So, blind equals > black? It make sense, right? Apparently not. > > Though I've had the cord cut between my eyes and my brain, it seems that the > world has not turned black. All metaphors, similes, analogies, and literary > flourishes about blindness and darkness should henceforth cease to be used > because I'm saying it's far from dark. It is, in fact, quite the opposite. > > So what replaces 3D technicolour vision once it's gone? The answer - at > least in my case - is light. Lots of it. Bright, colourful, ever-changing, > often terribly distracting, light. > > How do I even begin to describe it? Let me have a go. Right now I've got a > dark brown background, with a turquoise luminescence front and centre. > Actually it's just changed to green... now it's bright blue with flecks of > yellow, and there's some orange threatening to break through and cover the > whole lot. > > The rest of my field of vision is taken up by squashed geometric shapes, > squiggles and clouds I couldn't hope to describe - and not before they all > change again anyway. Give it an hour, and it'll all be different. > > If I try to block out all this distraction by closing my eyes it doesn't > work. > It never goes away. > > I miss those peaceful moments of near darkness: walking at night-time while > focusing on the streetlights ahead, the atmospheric shadows in a room with a > real fire burning, or travelling home late in the back of my dad's car > glimpsing cat's eyes lighting up in the middle of the road. > > For me, dark has come to signify quiet, and because my built-in fireworks > never go away I describe what I've got as a kind of visual tinnitus. > > When I first went blind I thought the brightly coloured lights were a sign > my eyes were trying to work again. It gave me some hope and I was quite > fascinated by it. I used to sit and stare at it. Now I know that it's my > brain making up for the fact that it no longer receives any pictures. > > Some people of faith have occasionally tried to tell me that I'm seeing the > after-life, and I never know how to respond to that. But what I have never > been able to find out is whether other people who have no light perception > also see what I see. > > And, assuming that full vision and driving a car are not on offer, do they > also long for a bit of darkness? > > Source URL: > http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-31487662 > > To unsubscribe, send a blank e-mail to seeingwithsound-requ...@freelists.org > with "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. 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