• ZephrC@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    If there's nothing between you and an object you can feel it at a distance. Texture is a little dulled, and some textures are easier to feel than others, but there's also a whole second kind of texture that we call color. As light gets dimmer it gets harder to feel the difference between those textures, and it gets harder to feel the distance to things, until there is nothing left but a single all encompassing flat texture at a single unknowable distance which we call dark.

    Also, some objects only partially block your ability to feel what's behind them, and things like windows are designed to be so easy to feel through that it's hard to feel them at all. Unless they get dirty. Then you can feel the dirt on them.

    • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      I find this somewhat sad but also quite beautiful. Those with sight often feel bad for the blind, as they miss out on much of the world we see, but simultaneously it appears as though the blind experience a world of its own beauty that those with vision could never feel or imagine. I don't often pay mind to textures or feel objects that are out of reach. If you and I are standing in front of a waterfall, I suppose everything is still there for you except for how it looks - so who am I to determine that what you're seeing in your minds eye is any less spectacular? I can say with certainty that when I'm standing in the middle of a deep forest, the way it looks is an afterthought when compared to what it makes me feel. Maybe both worlds are equally beautiful.

  • LanAkou@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I assume that, over time, you've memorized where everything in your living space is. You have some idea of what shape the space around you takes.

    Seeing is knowing what shape a space takes without trial and error. The depth of a room or the texture of a couch. Knowing where an item is without having to touch it, or be told where it is.

    How it feels... it feels safe. Seeing makes me feel safer. That's the only word that comes to mind.

  • Candelestine@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I would describe it as a cacaphonic symphony that you eventually get used to. It packs as much information into one sense as you can get from your other four put together.

    Much like how you can discern an individual instrument type in a symphony, sight lets you discern individual objects from afar, and gives you a mostly accurate summary of its basic properties.

    Also much like with sound, it can be very appealing or unappealing, depending. There's an intrinsic beauty to the sense itself though. Every object has color, for instance, and color is more like smell. It can give you hints about what something is, but its mostly an arbitrary blend of different "flavors" that combine to create more complex examples.

    It's the super-sense, the one sense that binds them all. When one of your other four detects something, your first instinct is to locate it with sight to determine more information before you do anything else. You "look at it" first. Almost without fail.

  • unce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    It's like knowing where everything in front of you is without having to touch or hear it. Sight works with your other senses too. For example, if a pillow is laying on the floor in an unfamiliar room I'll know what shape it, how far away it is, and that if I pick it up it'll feel soft. If the pillow was really gross looking I'd be able to tell without smelling it first.