Yes I have seen light till I was in my early teens. No I cant make out if
there is light on or off iin the room or even sunlight. I have slept many
times in rooms when I have been travelling alone or at home alone with
lights on. My neighbors have called out to me to switch on or off the
lights as the time of day may be.
I know it is the inner light that I see. Some days, I see a very bright
white light in the middle reagon of my forehead glowing like a flame of a
deea or candle! Like the shape of a standing up eye.
Warmly
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complete darkness?
However, in my case, I do not "see" anything.
I cannot experience light/darkness.
Though I can tell a lot about the light as a form of energy, I cannot
experience it.
Dear Preeti, have you ever seen external light.
I mean, can you tell if there is or is not a source of light available?
If somebody switches off the lights, can you feel the difference or not.
If the bright light you refer to is not from an external source, it is
nothing but the imagination of your mind.
Because, if you can see the light even after you close your eyes, it is
not through some external source but through your internal matabolism.
In that case, doctors would not agree that you see the light.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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