We kind of do. There’s tons of animals that don’t even have eyes. I don’t know what your definition of alien is, but there could be animals under the ice on another planet that don’t even have eyes.
Ondřej Vitík I can see how that would be a reasonable perspective. I’ve had that happen to me in life, but I still believe those anecdotal occurrences don’t necessarily represent human nature. We’ve all been burned, but that doesn’t mean everyone is bad. And this guy just exudes authenticity in my opinion. Hope I’m right about him.
yep, it's one of the ways i think about it. bees can see a bunch of colors we can't. above ultraviolet and under infrared. we can have no concept of those colors.
It's like explaining seeing gravity. We can feel it but unless its interacting with us we can see it's changes. For instance we can't feel how strong the moons gravity is unless we go there
If I think of it as a gift or miracle.... it's like we actually have the ability to connect with what is outside, and bring it inside of ourselves. Our eyes take it in. The storm outside the window comes into our vision and therefore into us, but not as something to felt, heard, smelled, experienced....just seen. Seeing closes distances so even a very far off mountain is right there in our immediate perception. How strange, if I think of it.
It's nice to take yourself back to earth every now and then and just name things you are grateful for, because it's so easy to take it all for granted.
You may not have the gift of vision, but you have something far greater: a kind, fun, charming soul. That gift is worth more than it's weight in gold and is no doubt just as rare.
Green Man can we just agree that it’s humbling? Maybe very humbling? Super humbling? I know I’m picking on you and you don’t deserve it in particular, but I’m tired of everything being the “best ever”, “worst thing ever”. Common speech needs a new phrase.
My mum is deaf, and when I was talking to her once I was facing her while pouring water out of my vision. I stopped at the top and she asked me how I knew to stop there, and it blew her mind that you can hear how full a cup is. Another funny anecdote is my dad (also deaf) getting mad at me for "ignoring him" while I was sleeping. I had to explain that we don't hear when we are asleep lol
I think we are very used to using our senses and perceive based on their input. Understanding the inner doings of Machine Learning helps a lot but you just relate to what you in a very smart way or the guy in this video say. How am I able to spot a person or something and get to it? Sometimes at night I just switch on the light for a second to get an image of where I want to go and traverse the path as if it was in daylight. Even in daylight we get an image of the room and you go straight away to something without paying attention to anything else immersed in your thoughts. That’s what happens when you drive, when you play an instrument, when you play sports… your senses give you a whole lot of detail but your brain knows what to account for. I am not an specialist but vision is very related to physical perception. So… how do you do that? It’s just our brain making use of a huge input such as vision. How can sound be related to vision in cetaceans? It’s similar. Our brain is making sense of a vast quantity of input to see. And baby’s don’t see quite out of the blue… they have to learn. They learn what’s space, what’s close, far, what’s left behind, that something does NOT vanish by just disappearing from their eyes. It is our brain that makes sense of it. And it’s intelligence. So whenever someone is saying you don’t see it by your eyes but by your brain it is exactly what you need to know about this and many other things like knowing when to pour water on a bottle by just paying attention to sound…
please watch the movie, At First Sight 1999. It will give you a new perspective. Or atleast^ research what the movie is all about.. then it's up to you if you would give it a go.. You wont regret if you try and watch it.. ;)
Shirley: Thank you so much for mentioning this movie, I remember I watched parts of it on TV while I was a kid, but I never knew the name of it. I remember it did quite an impression on me at that time, even though I was way to young to really understand much of it then (my first language is not english). I need to watch it now that I am actually able to understand it.
Oh i am so glad i was able to refresh your memory about that :D my first language is not english too! :D Enjoy the movie.. I appreciate your kind comment :)
What's even crazier is that no description of sight to him will ever do it justice. Like he's probably imagining sight as a really rudimentary, basic way of interacting with the world. But the amount we can see, the detail, the distance, all the different colors, the ranges of light, it would probably blow his freaking mind. Man, I wish I could make this guy see.
Free M8son I can imagine describing how sound works for a deaf person; hell, just get a sound loud and deep enough and they'll feel it, and even besides that sound waves are really easy to visualise with drawings and animations etc. But sight, the sense that takes a large amount of our brain's processing power, especially when compared to the other senses, is infinitely more complex than our hearing.
Sight has been restored to a handful of never sighted adults. They can "see" but the the part of their brain that interprets sight never developed as a newborn and they still can't "see". I saw one on a PBS show whose sight was restored but after ten years he still needed his dog and cane. He said it was more hindrance than help. I find this fascinating.
What I just realized watching this is that he doesn't even see black. He literally sees "nothing". And that is something a sighted person will never be able to comprehend.
The way I think of it is, think about how much you see behind your head. NOTHING. Just pure NOTHINGNESS. That is what he sees in the back AND front of his head.
"I don't understand how you can draw a three-dimensional thing on a flat piece of paper." I've had sight my entire life and don't understand it either. Art is an incredible thing.
Without feeling....with only sight....the world around you would be like a 3D drawing on a 2D piece of paper...an illusion Imagine all other senses didn’t exist...your sight would be a moving 3D image on a 2D screen
I believe that there is a way to explain a bit, but it takes a lot of effort. He does have the sense of 'feeling'. In a way, his sight is what he feels (and hears, but that's not important in this case) So, in a way, real sight just expands apon that. He was having a hard time understanding how we can draw 3D objects on a 2D space. When he brought up pottery he gave me an idea on how you could probably explain it. For the sake a simplicity, a Triangle/Tetrahedron (pyramid with a triangular base) shape would be easier to explain. First, have them draw a triangle. Then have them hold a tetrahedron. Have them notice/recognize that all sides are triangles. Have them place the tetrahedron down on a sheet of paper and draw the outline of it. Imagine that the edges of the tetrahedron are lines, too, and that if you were to squish that shape down flat you would have 3 lines meeting in the center from each corner of the triangle. If you were to turn the tetrahedron slightly you would have comepletly different lines. You can make a tratrahedron out of sticks and project these lines on the wall with a flashlight to understand what I'm saying. For him, a drawing of a 3D object using simple lines is just a mess until it is extrapolated out into a 3D object that he can touch and feel. However, those with sight are able to make sense of it because with sight comes depth perception. Without depth perception, the world would be a mess to us too lol. Vision is like having an infinite amount of hands stretched out that you use to 'touch' (see) the world around you. Now how about explaining something like 'Color'... That would be really impossible lol.
What's amazing is that this guy has no idea what sight even is. He can't even fathom it. When he dreams or thinks in his mind it is completely auditory. That's the difference between born blind and gone blind.
And what is also amazing is that futuristic technology will probably allow this man to see, in like 20 years time perhaps. And boy, let me tell you he will be ecstatic.
I don't think it's all auditory. He can also feel and smell and taste. I often experience a full range of senses in my dreams. Heck, I can't count the number of times I smelled something that was occurring in real life and it became a part of my dream.
@@user-ob5hj5vn8c probably not. Via some research brought up in another comment there are cases of people who were blind from birth or very early and regained sight later in life. Pretty much all the documented cases end up with a person with very limited spacial reasoning. Look it up, it's not like all of a sudden a person could be granted perfect sight. Their brains just can't process the information that we can so they often don't understand what they are seeing.
He's been deprived of sight longer than he can remember, to him not being able to see is completely normal, he has no other standard to compare to. If he was suddenly given the ability to see, he would have to learn how to use it. He would have to go to therapy to understand this new sense hes been givin.
@@michaelmccarthy9088 I think thats not that bad, I have "all" my senses, but if I could get another one I would go to therapy and learn to use it, sounds AMAZING!
@@seanmatthews6998 Your post really through me for a loop because I always imagined blind people "seeing" just black like I do when I close my eyes. Holy crap 🤯
You are super talented. We are. When you hear people are “born with talent, or a gift”, we forget to remember we are. Don’t take it fore granted and try to use your “special powers” for good. Just because you’re not unique doesn’t mean you’re not talented.
I think it would be cool to see if Tommy would sit down with someone who wasn't blind from birth but was blinded by an accident or something and grew up seeing. I think their conversation would be really awesome.
There is a channel called Breaking Blind and she went blind at 19 and she does a lot of QnAs and how she does everyday tasks, really interesting. She's a sweet person, if you have heard of the youtuber edbassmaster, that's his sister's channel :-)
+Amber T like Amber said, check out maureen's channel breaking blind. The way she gets around and just seems to fulfill a great life is wonderful as this guy tommy. Just a correction, she lost her eyesight at 17, not 19. I think it was amazing seeing Tommy draw the picture of the car, but you can see Maureen when asked to draw still sort of remembers what it looked like to see and had a residual ability to draw from memory. The whole concept of blindness really fascinates me because I can enjoy music the most when I close my eyes. I can enjoy a woman's kiss the most when I close my eyes, amongst so many other things. Peace and love.
I once heard being blind described as the following. Imagine your eyeball is in your elbow and now look around using your elbow. Nothing… not black or white or anything. I feel so blessed to have sight.
@@Peter_1986 But... can people develop an intuition for a 4th spacial dimension? Or do they just *think* they can? Is the intuition actually a reflection of reality, or is the intuition just an illusion in your mind?
@@jeremiahsmith8499dimensions aren't hard to grasp. Everything everywhere has dimensions. The 4th dimension is like what the 3rd dimension is to the 2nd. It has to exist. There isn't a single thing that is flawed anywhere. The universe is like a car rolling through traffic without a driver. It doesn't care like humans can do. We don't know why it took off or why. Long story short - it's real.
Fishcraft123 4 It's incredibly hard not have vision?? Uhmmm are you not aware of the millions of people born blind or the millions more who suddenly lose vision? (Like my mom) Or just those millions who need glasses, who up until like 100 years ago, were fucked if their vision was poor
I think a great way to describe depth perception to a blind person is by comparing it to directional hearing. The reason you can hear which direction something is in is because you have two points of reference, and depending on how much louder something is in one ear compared the other allows you to determine it’s direction. Depth perception I believe follows that same principal. Since we have two eyes that see independently from one another, we are able to determine how far away things are based on the small differences between our two points of reference.
If you close one eye, you can still tell how far away something is, just not as well. Mainly because you know how large or small things are up close and they seem smaller the further away from you they get.
I had to do a class once and be blindfolded for basically the entire day, even going outside and everything. It was a very valuable experience to say the least and quite humbling. I had an assistant by my side for dangerous things but this is something I think everyone should try...even if it's just a few hours. Humans take their eyesight (myself included) WAY too much for granted. Even the simplest things like using a salt shaker or using the bathroom became monumental tasks, let alone trying to pour hot coffee or crossing the street. Is this water ? Is my cup nearly full ? Is this too hot to touch ? Am I near stairs ? Or an overhang ? Shopping was impossible without assistance. Just a very humbling and rewarding experience. Thought I'd share it. Hats off to this gentleman. 😊
At 3: 07 when he said : I dont get it. It is really strange. You have quit a gift" i felt really bad for the guy and suddenly i had this 'new found respect' for life and things that we take for granted but some people dont have them
And then the next day you and most viewers forget/prioritize memory for your life and continue routines, possibly watching memes and anime and first world problem solving and financial/educational work/stress to keep you and your family/future of a family happy. What are life lessons if not fleeting reflections in a one way mirror?
Light works almost like sound. It comes from light bulbs and the Sun and some other stuff, and when it hits stuff it bounces off it. You "hear" light with your eyes, and color is kind of like the pitch of the light. Different colored things "sound" different to your eyes.
The Real Flenuan Light is three-dimensional: time, color and brightness. Sound is three-dimensional as well. Time, pitch and volume. Pitch and color are similar, so are brightness and volume.
PerunaVallankumous It's hard to quantify "dimensions" when it comes to sound perception, but in reality it's just amplitude over time (2 dimensions), and our perception of 3-D space is layered two-dimensional projections.
"You have quite a gift, you really do" -Tommy Edison Every time I feel like giving up, or complain about little things, you're voice; saying that quote, always go through my head. I know you've heard this a billion times, but I really mean it, you really are an inspiration to everyone.
I was born with a visual impairment and struggled my whole life I'm 21 now and I'm losing what little vision I have. Be grateful for what you have nothing is guaranteed
To explain us knowing how far away something is, imagine hearing a sound. If it's louder, you know it's closer than if it's quiet. You can hear how far away something is, just like we can see. If you ever follow someone's voice, that's like seeing something and walking up to it.
+Ava Nicole This is what I was thinking. Seeing stop lights is like having three speakers on a pole. Only one speaker goes off, with a different tone, at a time. As your far away the object is small (or quiet) as you get closer the object gets bigger, or louder. However, vision, like hearing is very complex. When you walk through the park you hear a lot of different sounds, close and far. When you see it's the same thing. You see as much as you would hear. So I guess vision is like having a thousand speakers all over the place ringing at different pitches, but your brain handles it by turning it into a picture. You still only really focus on one thing at a time, like the words I am typing, probably similar to how you would focus on the foot steps of someone you're following rather than all the birds in the background.
Hearing you vocalize how sight is difficult to understand from your perspective made me kind of feel as though sight is almost like a projection of consciousness similar to teleportation. For you, you have to physically interact with your environment to understand it, but for those with sight, that interaction is still there on a technical level, but it's done from a distance and with minimal physicality. Strange world.
Vision is crazy because technically you’re not seeing anything, you’re seeing light and light bouncing off objects which your brain puts together and forms what you understand as an image
Tommy, the videos don't have to be funny to be fascinating and entertaining. This was one of your least funny but best videos so far. Although I do like your sense of humor, don't give that up, just know the videos don't all have to be funny for us to enjoy them.
@@LuchoCastle_11 actually it varies from one another. On one hand it is cool to not know what youre missing, so you can just move on. On the other hand, it is cool having seen for a while to understand what it is like.
Maybe you can think that it's like hearing things but with a different organ. You can hear things from various distances, color is like timber and when it's dark it's like putting your hands on your ears.
just what I was thinking. I thought that explaining the depth and 3d drawing would be kinda possible using perspective lines that he can draw with his hands (so he has a grasp of what figures translates into brain shortcuts) Color and temperature would be possible explaining through the concept of synesthesia as we have scales for every sense (pinch to punch for touch, for example, sweet to sour for taste) and so on I know blind people can't possible understand the whole concept of sight but we can have tools clear enough to give a basic knowlenge of the ruling principles of sight
@@MrSlenderman the way you can explain seeing distances is with math, it also can show why its easier to tell 10 feet from 100 feet vs 100 feet from 110 feet. You imagine your eyes and the object in question as part of a triangle. The way we can measure distance is from the angle between our eyes when looking at an object. As the the object gets futher away your eyes get closer to becoming parallel, but at extreme distance this change is very small and hard to detect but at close range is very easy.
@@willhaney96 exactly, perspective works with shortcuts the brain makes to interpret things, like the same way with catching a ball, as we use the knowledge of an object changing positions and then the brain recognize a pattern and it speculates where the ball will go next. abstract processes can be described with abstract but objetive disciplines like math, geometry...
yeah I mean my vision is....kind of crap, and I used to freak out about it, and if anything its gotten kind of worse over the years (and im 20 lol, quite a way to fall) but these videos kind of make me go "you know what, I dont care, at least I can see and act independently in that way" but in a way if my vision does completely fail somewhere like my 30's or something, I dont think that'd scare me that much anymore either
My daughter was born blind, it’s so comforting to see blind people thrive. I always worry for how life will look like for my baby girl but I can only give her resources and education to help her! Thanks for the video I have so much hope (:
Before I saw his videos, I was like:''Ohh I want to have that, and that and so on'' But now, I'm really just happy that I'm healthy, that all of my parts of the body function. Thank you for giving me a lesson about life, that nothing matters more then your health and happiness,family and friends.
this is super sweet and mind blowing... i have seen many people who got blind eventually as their for example genetic illness started to show up.. but i never really thought about people being blind since they were born. their life must be extremely different.
Terinka14 is a theme so interesting that makes me think, how society will work if we were all blind, like how we would think we look? how we would make mathematical and many other science problems?, will we consider see as a weird thing?
eatl 96 oooh thats an interesting thing! I think perhaps, our capacity for memory and memorisation would probably be very heightened, there would be some way to compile easy to decipher audio files and stuff and I think.. sight wouldn't even be considered a thing unless animals still have sight, perhaps we would see it as how certain birds and reptiles can detect magnetic waves to navigate and stuff, we wouldn't call it sight, we would call it the ability to detect and process electromagnetic waves
If nobody had eyesight, they'd have other abilities that would make up for it and we'd live our lives differently, that's all. If we weren't capable enough as a species to survive without eyesight, I doubt we would have even come as far as we have regardless of our ability to see.
There is a very high propability that in 10 years we will have a artificial vision technology, propably even better than we have. No God or Jesus or bullshit. But technology and knowledge is the only solution to all problems.
DzaMiQ I'm gonna set a reminder in 10 years right now to come back to this post and see if we have that technology. See you then! (Haha get it. SEE you then)
I love that Tommy is very honest about how hard it is for him to imagine, instead of trying to come up with a comparison based on what people tell him. Vision really is this almost magical thing and I'm so grateful I have been able to experience life with vision, and at the same time, grateful for people like him to be able to experience life in different ways and to be able to connect with people who have such different experiences of life.
That's close I think... the sighted perceive the world two dimensions with two inputs simulating 3D. The sightless experience only three dimensions because they have no input for two dimensions. Probably using the same circuitry the sighted use for simulated 3D. Likely tied in with the aural circuitry... also a 3d system. I made that all up.
And he's so incredibly sweet about it, like we really don't realize how blessed we are, like sight is a gift, and instead of being jealous he's just amazed and almost humbled by it.
Seeing is like hearing, but every object in the room is singing a very specific tune based on its shape, color, and location. Seeing is being able to hear all those songs at once and understanding how they fit together to create the world around you in 3 dimensions.
"I always thought sighted people see everything. I'm surprised when you don't see something." Goosebumps when he said this. It's like there is a double meaning to it. And that is, the irony that despite being able to see, I'm unable to see how lucky I am to have all the wonderful people and things in my life.
This guy needs to be on the #1 list to get vision repaired. I think he said in a video that he wouldn't want it if it was possible, but I think if he experienced the gift of sight he would be so happy. The funny thing is that even though he is blind, he sees more than most people.
Ambo -- Yeah but he was /born/ blind so his brain never developed the ability to process visual information. That part of his brain is handing other sensory information. It'd be like if you were given an operation to be able to sense electromagnetic frequency changes without any sensation of touch involved. It'd just be sensory "noise"; you'd be getting sensations but they wouldn't mean anything. There are some older children with certain kinds of blindness that are able to practice learning sight after corrective surgery and become fully sighted, and the brain is indeed a very adaptive instrument. But developing the ability to see and understand visual information is a very complex process for the mind to undergo and simply receiving visual information isn't going to allow someone to become sighted. Adults blind from birth aren't going to be able to undergo these brain structure changes. It's like when some people go blind after experiencing a stroke--their eyes still work fine but the part of their brain that made sense of the information became too damaged to function.
I think if you got something damaged in your eye, you can get that replaced and restore vision. But if you are e.g completely missing your eyes, there aren't really anything to be done. This is just a guess though, i'm not a doctor ayy lmao.
Tinyjb0 It's really his call. I mean, gaining sight after a lifetime of blindness would be pretty monumental. It's not like, gaining a new ability or skill or something, it's a brand new SENSE. Something nobody can comprehend fully, or describe in words, no matter how hard they try. It might scare a person who'd never been able to see before. It just depends on what he wants, I suppose. Sorry for the paragraph, didn't mean to be preachy. It's just a really interesting subject to think about!
i want to make art for blind people as a tactile experience. completely made out of textures that are meant to be touched. a whole canvas made of hundreds of different sorts of textures, and when you move your fingers across the canvas you feel all sorts of different sensations.. which must be similar to what colors are for blind people
well. ive seen alot of sculptures with textures, meant for the eye, but they got em. sculptures are literally shapes, so sure you could put extra emphasis on the texture, or make something of soft material or decide on Wood vs Stone for specific reasons, but all in all when a blind guy touches a statue of a dog he will find it is sort of dogshaped just as i do@Lindner Akademie
I'd suggest going blind to make art as a blind. Use a blindfold to perceive the world. You can't just make 2D paintings with different textures for colors. You need to feel how a human uses hands to see
I LOVE this. Thank you. This is the kind of thing that makes me realize how constrained we are in our perception of reality. And that gives me so much hope. Reality is so much more vivid and multidimensional than we can conceptualizer, and it’s incredible to think that one day we will reconnect with it in its fullness.
If I was blind, I think the best explanation of sight would be like having infinitly long arms. You stretch your arm till it reaches an object and thats how you'll know how far away it is. With the assumption that you could do that at light speed and like 300 times a second ofcourse.
I think it's pretty much what he described but that's actually amazing to him and gives even more confusion. I would explain it on the basic level. Some objects emit light rays which are actually waves, almost like sound waves but made of subatomic particles and those waves are touching our sensitive cells in the eyeballs. When the cells detect these particles, they send an image to our brain and we see full shape of an object. Imagine ears are only 2 detectors of sound waves but eyes have billions of detectors of light waves, that's why we see so much detail in the image.
@@hihtitmamnan A blind person would not understand your explanation even a little bit. Light rays, light waves, Image and Shape are words unperceivable to a blind person.
@@hihtitmamnan Ofc he knows what shapes are. but it just doesnt mean much when ur blind. And how can you say light rays are easy to understand to a blind person? ur basically trying to explain how a color looks like using other colors.
These videos always bring a tear to my eye. I feel sad because you are so content with what you have and I am given this superiority in a sense, physiological superiority, but what do I make out of it? I think you can worship life way more than anyone who is given a perfectly working body. And I envy you for the peace you seem to have found in yourself, because I have not.
Fraxton i think one of the reason he is so content of being blind is because he never experienced seeing anything before, for him its just normal to not see.
This video makes me more grateful for all the gifts of life. Thank you sir! I have a feeling that though Tommy Edison doesn't have the gift of sight, he sees much.
A good way for you to imagine vision Tommy would be to get a lamp that's really warm and then feel with your hand, the closer you get to the lamp the warmer it feels, but also the easier it is when you move your hand left or right to no longer feel the warmth, while further away it's less warm but you can feel it in a much wider radius moving your hand around. People see with light, the closeness is the details, the more information we get from an object, that's the intensity of the warmth, but the further away the more things we see, the wider the warmth radius. But the less details, the less heat
Thexevilxwulfy actually, blind people use their cellphones to read in youtube, they have an option where they can put their finger over something and it reads all the information, I'll search for the video.
Seeing is actually a lot like hearing. Things that are farther away are smaller while closer things are much larger and more pronounced like when you are trying to make out sounds far away verses coming from something close to you. The 3d shapes on paper show up looking 3d to us because as things get further away they get smaller and look on a slant in the distance. When drawing 3d we make things farther smaller and then slightly slanted to show the perspective in which our eyes would be looking to show this off. Like the sound produced from the farther side is smaller and sounds like it's in the distance and the closer side is louder and more legible. This is also why when drawing thing that appear far away they are sometimes drawn blurry. As things get so far we miss out on a lot of the subtle details like when trying to distinguish a sound from far away. When in a room full of people finding your friend is sometimes hard. There are so many people sometimes that they are hard to pick out from the crowd, much like when you are trying to listen for that one voice but everyone's conversations are getting in the way. Add this to distance and it can become really hard for us.
Ultra Gamer He can. By the way, I think they could "show" Tommy a 3D painting where the lines bulge, like a cube, so he could understand at least how 3D images are drawn on a flat piece of paper. like he could touch the 3 lines that represent the height, width and depth of an object.
You shouldn't feel bad, rather think about how much we (as healthy human beings I'm assuming) are blessed with. I couldn't stop smiling in this video cause of this, we really take it for granted.
I would explain my sight to a blind man with tact. It's kinda as if we had hands coming out of our eyes that can touch everything in front of us with very precise detail, all at once. These hands are like ghost, invisible and don't collision with anything. They can't be turned, bent or twisted, they are straight, so we can't see behind objects. That's also how I'd explain drawings. If you give an object to a blind person and allow him to touch only the front part he would then feel what we see in a drawing, although a drawing is an illusion to these hands, making them feel as if the object had depth. These "ghost hands" extend forever as long as there are no obstacles to be seen or "felt". Depth perception I would explain simply as the feeling of how far away you feel these "ghost hands" to be. They retract when there's no light, like the snails eyes when touched, and therefore we can't see anymore, yet over time they become less shy and slowly extend again, although they remain shy and don't extend fully so we see worse. Colors are like textures for these ghost hands. Actual hands can feel if a surface is rugged, smooth, etc. These ghost hands can see if something is red, green, etc. Senses can only be explained with other senses, though, and never properly :/ I hope Tommy gets to read this and it helps, somehow, to understand a little bit more
it's really hard to imagine the straight lines hitting a 3d object, I would use those old toys with pins where you dd put your hand or face and it dd push some pins, I dd flatten it out and show it him and tell him you can only kinda see the top of them and not the sides of this at all. Then I think depth perception in 2d objects is just an illusion of color.
Tommy, the algorithm suggested this to me and it's amazing! Thank you for doing this. More understanding for the blind. More appreciation for my sight.
I somewhat know how you feel about trying to understand vision. I have Aphantasia and with that I've never seen a mental image in my brain. my memory of anything I've ever done has no images, audio, sense of taste, touch, or smell. Having Aphantasia causes me to not to remember my father who passed away when I was 16. I'm 40 now and I don't remember my dad's voice or anything I ever did with him. I grew up thinking that the word image was a figure of speech and that everyone was like me. That all changed about a month ago when I found out that Aphantasia was the name for it and that other people have it too. It crazy to think that I never knew people were actually really seeing images in their minds. People who can imagine thinks everyone is like them and people who can't imagine grew up thinking the same way. So I've been asking everyone I know to try to explain to me what it's like to imagine things...like do they imagine in 1st or 3rd person...things like that. That's why virtual reality is such a big deal for me! It was the first time I could see something other than what was in front of my face. I will never truly understand what it's like to have a mind's eye
Wait, so you think only in words? Like you don't imagine images, sounds, smells, touch etc. but you can remember descriptions of things and recognise them? For example, can you recognise people's faces based on their characteristic features? That's fascinating. I, on the other hand, don't have 3D vision which makes me see things flat like on a photograph or a TV screen. I can only imagine how it is to see in 3D. I've heard it's absolutely beautiful and mindblowing, as if you could almost feel space between objects...
Anthony Jones Hmmmm that is really interesting. so I will explain my best. Imagining: -vision: imagining something to me is really weird because when you imagine something it doesn't necesarily has to be visible. Most of the time you can't see what you imagine, for example, when I was a kid I would imagine a man running super super fast at the side of my car as I looked outside from my window. it would jump and do weird things, but I couldn't see it. It's just a strong strong strong sensation of the thing you imagine being there. No image but the closest to being an image you just know it's there cause you imagine it. however when I lay down at night and I close my eyes I can actually imagine and see things very roughly and colors but because your mind is the one responsible of mantaining those images going on, they are usually really short and erratical and since it's late at night I sometimes end up blending it with a dream without noticing and I fall asleep. About remembering: You can "see" images from the past but very little detailed. this is very hard to explain like you kinda feel the image more than seeing it and you can't focus on details. like you might be able to see an image of you and your friends one day that you went on a dinner (for example) and even though you "see" that in your mind you won't be able to like try to figure out the color of one of them's shirt. I don't know if you dream or if you are able to remember them but it's similar, you can't really focus on detail but you have certain snapshots of your memories kind of like if you were looking at a picture from too far away and you might know what is going on in it but you certainly can't answer to questions like "what is it writen in that sign" or simmilar. Sound: This one is the one I'm more fluent on. Same way you can think words and you know you think them but you can't hear them it's how it works. but you get a feel of the voice you imagine. it's like if someone is saying it but your ears don't work but still you get the message to your brain. And about music ohhh not only you could get a really realistic feel of how music sounds without hearing it but sometimes if the music you think of is very familiar you find yourself really close to hearing it. you don't hear it but it's almost indistinguishable even if your ears don't capture any sound. If I was bored I would just re "hear" my favorite songs in my head. To kind of explain this let's say the best way I could explain is: if a speaker is so everyone can listen the music and a headphone is so only you can hear it, how about a headphone that is a wire to your head, no one hears it, not even you, but the wire sends your brain the signal anyway. That would be like imagining sounds. Touch: I can barely barely imagine a touch. You can have a really really slight feel of a touch but nothing compared to sound or image. Taste and smell: This might be the more subtle imagining I have. I really can't imagine taste or smell but I only only only get a tiny bit feeling of it like if I imagine smelling a rose my nose feels nothing but my brain "screams" rose smell. I can remember it and remind myself of it but I don't smell it. kind of like going to the directory of my brain picking up a pile of memory files finding the rose atributes and saying "ok, yeah I know that smell but I can't smell it now but I remember". And same goes with taste. "Ok pizza I remember the taste but I can't taste it now I only get a demo" it's not like sounds that in case of boredom I could supply my needs of music by singing in my head. in this case I can't supply my needs of flavor by imagining flavors it just feels dull or even worse, it makes me want to actually taste it. This is the best best best explanation I could give, I hope you understand :)
+Pardock That's a pretty good explanation. Also fun fact, human's remember odors the best. There is a trick where you can study and put a parfum on from which you don't know the smell, and if later during the test you put that parfum on again to smell it, it will be easier for you to remember the situation of you studying, and by doing so , you will also remember your course.
I feel like I am quite good at thinking in senses. I can for example imagine what an orange and a peppercorn taste like together even if I have only tasted them seperately. Because I wanted to go into arts some of my visual thinking is extremely detailed because I thought about an object for a really long time. So i know exactly what colour tones are in someones eye or how big someones nose is. But it is more of a learned image, i have to measure it out while looking at an image so i can recreate it. And it will still be far of the original. I enjoy thinking in senses alot. So I try to see if i start a basic rhythm in my head how many sounds and instruments i can add onto it. Same with objects i try to spin them in my head or thow an imaginative ball into a room and let it bounce. If what I think about gets to complicated it usually causes me an headache and the music falls apart the ball is stuck in air. I hope this was interesting as another perspective on thinking in senses, sorry if it was too long.
This is an incredible video topic. Of course we've all wondered about this all our lives. We truly cannot imagine how it may be to have no vision. I am an artist, and was quite worried about having double cataract surgery, so of course I just had one eye done. Came out so perfectly that 3 years later I had the other eye done. It is truly a miracle. If we are human at all, and have human feelings, then my heart goes out to anyone without the gift of vision. Tommy has such a cheerful attitude in life. Many sighted persons do not. And therein lies a great dialectic. I have to applaud Tommy's outlook and even delight in helping to convey to us what life without vision might be like. God bless him and all without the sense of sight.
Also, to (forgive the puns) see someone else's point of view is directly connected to being a more efficient thinker. If we keep things like that in mind, we can stay a bit closer to our potential mind power. When he talked about not understanding how we can depict a 3d object on a 2d surface was pretty crazy.
I believe that you were blessed with the vision of spirit-a true gift that many lack. We all have our gifts for a reason, and in your beautiful way of explaining blindness to those with sight, your gift shines so brightly. Thank you for sharing your perspective and wisdom with us-
I feel like I can explain how vision works to blind people: It's like knowing where are the outlines of things, but only is there is nothing closer to you in the way. To compare it to sound, you hear a little less a sound when there is wall between you and the source of that sound, but with sight, it's radical: either you see, either it's completely hidden behind the other object. Colors are hard to explain if not impossible, but it's like recognizing a music note played by 2 different instruments: you hear them the same way, but you know they are not the same because your senses tell you so. Explaining how we can imagine 3D objects by looking at pictures is more simple: just like when you hear distant sounds, far away objects appear smaller to us the farther they are, but we can almost always understand where the object is because of the size it's supposed to have and because we see things with both eyes, which helps our brain calculating the distances. When we see a drawing of a 3D object, some lines are distorted to represent the far away parts, just like when we see real far away objects. It's usually harder to get since a drawing can't be perfect, but by looking at the shapes, you can understand how it's oriented. I hope my way of "seeing" things helped you understand vision a little better!
This man makes me so sad and feel so blessed he's truly beautiful. I find him so amazing he seems so content it makes me smile. I wish I could give him vision 😔😪
I know it sounds kind of selfish, but it would be better if that didn't happen (if it was possible, of course.) It'd probably make him feel bad after because he could only see for so long before going back to his old self; it could crush him.
Tommy. one of the artists most famous for perfectly capturing depth and perspective was actually a blind person. Seeing depth may be so amazing to you, but there was actually an artist who so well understood perspective and how it affects shapes he could draw landscapes and buildings better than nearly any sighted artist!
+Micah Philson "better than nearly any sighted artist" is quite an overstatement. His works are astonishing nevertheless, but would be easy to overlook for someone not knowing the story behind the artist.
Fadex Most normal artists never quite perfect perspective, especially with buildings. Here is a guy who can draw in perspective with more accuracy than most people who see it every day. I agree in some of his works, the angles seem a bit off from the ground, but relative to depth, the detail is actually really good. Did you see the "Stan Lee's Superhumans" episode with him? It was one of the first things on google and is pretty good.
+Micah Philson I mean he's amazing for being blind, but if I were to judge his paintings without knowing he was blind, I definitely wouldn't say he was above a high school art student.
Dark Star the first reason is......in a place that you are very familiar with, like the route from your bedroom to your bathroom, or kitchen to the living room. Close your eyes really tight-no cheating, and do a simple task, like walking from one room to another and wash your hands, open the back door, set a table , any simple, every day task. This alone will make you realise how amazing this man, or any blind person is. If you can’t be bothered or can’t do the above , just close your eyes for a whole tv show. Again. You don’t understand until you do it.
Thanks sir for making me appreciate something marvelous that I just normally take for granted. Next time I start feeling down, I’ll remember to count my blessings. What a wonderful person you are.
I think it's easier for sighted people to imagine being blind because we can close our eyes (maybe use a blindfold) and try to live as a blind person for a day. You described perfectly how hard it is (if you never had sight) to understand vision/paintings that our brains see in 3D. There are optical illusions that I bet a blind person would never comprehend. Yes, vision is a gift and thank you for making us realize how grateful we should be. I'm also grateful for you. Thank you!
Just putting a blindfold on wouldn't do it. At all times, you would still be seeing the back of your eyelids. You would see black, not nothing. Sighted people like you and I can't comprehend seeing nothing.
@@AccelerateHedge you are correct. I come from a place of ignorance. Thanks for explaining how seeing fully black isn't the same as nothing. I still cannot truely get it, but I understand that perhaps I never will.
Damn. Making me feel like I’ve got a super power.
We kind of do. There’s tons of animals that don’t even have eyes. I don’t know what your definition of alien is, but there could be animals under the ice on another planet that don’t even have eyes.
Mátyás Vitos I’m pretty sure birds can see a bit of infrared so that’s color that we can’t even imagine right there because we only have our ROYGBP
@@HearMeLearn insects can see ultraviolet, many plants have shades of ultraviolet colors that attract insects but that we can't see
It really is.
Is your profile pic from 1983?
What a likable human being this guy is. Heart of gold you can just tell.
Wc Papírral törlöm a seggem
Totally.
So wholesome😍
You can't tell from a video what a man is like 😉 Sometimes you know someone personally for years and then realize they are different than you thought.
Ondřej Vitík I can see how that would be a reasonable perspective. I’ve had that happen to me in life, but I still believe those anecdotal occurrences don’t necessarily represent human nature. We’ve all been burned, but that doesn’t mean everyone is bad. And this guy just exudes authenticity in my opinion. Hope I’m right about him.
I guess for a blind person, describing sight is like me trying to think of a color that doesn’t exist.
yep, it's one of the ways i think about it.
bees can see a bunch of colors we can't. above ultraviolet and under infrared. we can have no concept of those colors.
i already made a color that did not exist and got a name for it yet cannot find it to exist or a painting of it :(. Happened in a vision.
im blind in one eye
that is the exact way to describe it. all colors exist, we just dont see most of them. the only difference is that his set of are the colors _we_ see.
It's like explaining seeing gravity. We can feel it but unless its interacting with us we can see it's changes. For instance we can't feel how strong the moons gravity is unless we go there
When he said 'you have quite a gift' when refering to 99 percent of the world, i caught a smile. :)
Seriously his heart is so pure
If I think of it as a gift or miracle.... it's like we actually have the ability to connect with what is outside, and bring it inside of ourselves. Our eyes take it in. The storm outside the window comes into our vision and therefore into us, but not as something to felt, heard, smelled, experienced....just seen. Seeing closes distances so even a very far off mountain is right there in our immediate perception. How strange, if I think of it.
don't forget he can see light and dark though
I take so much for granted...
Your eye sight, for example
Most of all of us do.
Same fuck me
We all do.
It's nice to take yourself back to earth every now and then and just name things you are grateful for, because it's so easy to take it all for granted.
You may not have the gift of vision, but you have something far greater: a kind, fun, charming soul. That gift is worth more than it's weight in gold and is no doubt just as rare.
That is so nice, thank you so much for that.
You are most welcome, and thank you for all the smiles you give us all
exactly! :)
Bruh be can't say that
didn't expect to see you here, but yo your pranks are hilarious
“Being able to catch a ball is neat” Possibly one of the most humbling sentences ever.
Green Man can we just agree that it’s humbling? Maybe very humbling? Super humbling?
I know I’m picking on you and you don’t deserve it in particular, but I’m tired of everything being the “best ever”, “worst thing ever”.
Common speech needs a new phrase.
Dark Star Ok dude whatever makes you the happiest person ever.
Green Man Whatever makes you the most well spoken person ever.
this was the weirdest exchange i’ve ever seen on youtube ;)
mr doob Can we just agree that it’s weird? Maybe very weird? Super weird?
My mum is deaf, and when I was talking to her once I was facing her while pouring water out of my vision. I stopped at the top and she asked me how I knew to stop there, and it blew her mind that you can hear how full a cup is.
Another funny anecdote is my dad (also deaf) getting mad at me for "ignoring him" while I was sleeping. I had to explain that we don't hear when we are asleep lol
This is gold. Very interesting, thank you
Haha, love that! Seems like a good relationship with your parents.
Oh my gosh this are such interesting experiences. And a you know we all keep learning new things...
I heard of a deaf kid being told by the teacher not to fart in class, he didn't know farts made sound and everybody knew whenever he farted. 😅
I think we are very used to using our senses and perceive based on their input. Understanding the inner doings of Machine Learning helps a lot but you just relate to what you in a very smart way or the guy in this video say.
How am I able to spot a person or something and get to it? Sometimes at night I just switch on the light for a second to get an image of where I want to go and traverse the path as if it was in daylight. Even in daylight we get an image of the room and you go straight away to something without paying attention to anything else immersed in your thoughts. That’s what happens when you drive, when you play an instrument, when you play sports… your senses give you a whole lot of detail but your brain knows what to account for. I am not an specialist but vision is very related to physical perception. So… how do you do that? It’s just our brain making use of a huge input such as vision. How can sound be related to vision in cetaceans? It’s similar. Our brain is making sense of a vast quantity of input to see. And baby’s don’t see quite out of the blue… they have to learn. They learn what’s space, what’s close, far, what’s left behind, that something does NOT vanish by just disappearing from their eyes. It is our brain that makes sense of it. And it’s intelligence. So whenever someone is saying you don’t see it by your eyes but by your brain it is exactly what you need to know about this and many other things like knowing when to pour water on a bottle by just paying attention to sound…
Damn I want this man to see.
Help discover the technology then.
hopefully he has enough years left. he's probably in his late 50s or early 60s.
please watch the movie, At First Sight 1999. It will give you a new perspective. Or atleast^ research what the movie is all about.. then it's up to you if you would give it a go.. You wont regret if you try and watch it.. ;)
Shirley: Thank you so much for mentioning this movie, I remember I watched parts of it on TV while I was a kid, but I never knew the name of it. I remember it did quite an impression on me at that time, even though I was way to young to really understand much of it then (my first language is not english). I need to watch it now that I am actually able to understand it.
Oh i am so glad i was able to refresh your memory about that :D my first language is not english too! :D Enjoy the movie.. I appreciate your kind comment :)
When he talked about not understanding drawing... That got me man
the boss man lol
somehow i know there is a blind guy somewhere who must be listening to that and thinking"aaaaaah whatever, if she FEELS good !" :D :D @Phil Charles
Philip Charles That’s just because it’s not customary to feel people up as you’re going around.
@@ppman8737 whats funny?
that's where I can relate.
What's even crazier is that no description of sight to him will ever do it justice. Like he's probably imagining sight as a really rudimentary, basic way of interacting with the world. But the amount we can see, the detail, the distance, all the different colors, the ranges of light, it would probably blow his freaking mind. Man, I wish I could make this guy see.
Free M8son he would literally cry.. watch a color
Blind person just seeing color for the first time ... beautiful
@@seanmulholland7597 because of how overwhelming it would be. Watch deaf people hearing for the first time.
Free M8son I can imagine describing how sound works for a deaf person; hell, just get a sound loud and deep enough and they'll feel it, and even besides that sound waves are really easy to visualise with drawings and animations etc. But sight, the sense that takes a large amount of our brain's processing power, especially when compared to the other senses, is infinitely more complex than our hearing.
Sight has been restored to a handful of never sighted adults. They can "see" but the the part of their brain that interprets sight never developed as a newborn and they still can't "see". I saw one on a PBS show whose sight was restored but after ten years he still needed his dog and cane. He said it was more hindrance than help. I find this fascinating.
Kidneedonor
They need to find a way to replasticize brains so adults can learn like a child.
“I get around in the dark just fine”
He has the best attitude
Jeez, this really makes me think about how much we take for granted...
Being Blind and being sited are equal in both positives and negatives
It's kind of justified to take sight for granted though, since that is how we're built. It's one of our core features for survival.
Strange Brew True. But if all humans were blind and had a deaf person. we'd think that were taking hearing for granted
Same!
What I just realized watching this is that he doesn't even see black. He literally sees "nothing". And that is something a sighted person will never be able to comprehend.
Samuel Mason Are you right there Keyboard warrior?
+Samuel Mason
I have literally zero idea what you're talking about. Maybe you responded to the wrong comment?
lol
+Samuel Mason who pissed in your cereal damn
The way I think of it is, think about how much you see behind your head. NOTHING. Just pure NOTHINGNESS. That is what he sees in the back AND front of his head.
I would really love to see this man seeing
PonyNoDie imagine some future technology allowed that ugh I'd give anything to see this beautiful man seeing for the first time
He’s satisfied with being blind because he doesn’t know what it’s like to see.
shut your eyes
Simon Brianese he’d love to *see* him seeing, not see *what* he’s seeing
@@simonbrianese2273 that's not how being blind works
"I don't understand how you can draw a three-dimensional thing on a flat piece of paper."
I've had sight my entire life and don't understand it either. Art is an incredible thing.
It’s because you don’t have actually draw something 3 dimensional. It’s a full illusion
It's a gift. Thank you for reminding us of this precious fact.
hit me too
Same here.. Thanks Tommy..
Thor you mean?
Na, he meant Ancient Aliens
Abu Abdullah Al Britani But Allah obviously existed, right? lol
The 3D car on a 2D piece of paper blew my mind cuz I realized that he really can’t understand what it’s like
I literally felt like an ass and thought to myself "you can use shading to show depth". Mom, Dad. I'm sorry, you raised me better than this
Derek Lewis HAHA
Vision is 2 dimensional
Without feeling....with only sight....the world around you would be like a 3D drawing on a 2D piece of paper...an illusion
Imagine all other senses didn’t exist...your sight would be a moving 3D image on a 2D screen
I believe that there is a way to explain a bit, but it takes a lot of effort. He does have the sense of 'feeling'. In a way, his sight is what he feels (and hears, but that's not important in this case) So, in a way, real sight just expands apon that.
He was having a hard time understanding how we can draw 3D objects on a 2D space. When he brought up pottery he gave me an idea on how you could probably explain it. For the sake a simplicity, a Triangle/Tetrahedron (pyramid with a triangular base) shape would be easier to explain. First, have them draw a triangle. Then have them hold a tetrahedron. Have them notice/recognize that all sides are triangles. Have them place the tetrahedron down on a sheet of paper and draw the outline of it. Imagine that the edges of the tetrahedron are lines, too, and that if you were to squish that shape down flat you would have 3 lines meeting in the center from each corner of the triangle. If you were to turn the tetrahedron slightly you would have comepletly different lines. You can make a tratrahedron out of sticks and project these lines on the wall with a flashlight to understand what I'm saying.
For him, a drawing of a 3D object using simple lines is just a mess until it is extrapolated out into a 3D object that he can touch and feel. However, those with sight are able to make sense of it because with sight comes depth perception. Without depth perception, the world would be a mess to us too lol. Vision is like having an infinite amount of hands stretched out that you use to 'touch' (see) the world around you.
Now how about explaining something like 'Color'... That would be really impossible lol.
What's amazing is that this guy has no idea what sight even is. He can't even fathom it. When he dreams or thinks in his mind it is completely auditory. That's the difference between born blind and gone blind.
And what is also amazing is that futuristic technology will probably allow this man to see, in like 20 years time perhaps. And boy, let me tell you he will be ecstatic.
I don't think it's all auditory. He can also feel and smell and taste.
I often experience a full range of senses in my dreams.
Heck, I can't count the number of times I smelled something
that was occurring in real life and it became a part of my dream.
10,000 subscribers without any videos it’s literally like us perceiving the 4th dimension we just can not do it
@@user-ob5hj5vn8c probably not. Via some research brought up in another comment there are cases of people who were blind from birth or very early and regained sight later in life. Pretty much all the documented cases end up with a person with very limited spacial reasoning. Look it up, it's not like all of a sudden a person could be granted perfect sight. Their brains just can't process the information that we can so they often don't understand what they are seeing.
@@user-ob5hj5vn8c he may not be alive in 20 years, sadly.
The gift of sight is literally a super power from his perspective. Akin to time travel or clairvoyance. Blows my mind.
If we ever get a cure to blindness, no matter how much it will cost we need to get this man vision
For some we can. One day, blindless will be a minor thing. Just get this simple surgery and see. I hope that day comes.
He’s said before that even if he had the option to be able to see, he wouldn’t do it.
Yes!
He's been deprived of sight longer than he can remember, to him not being able to see is completely normal, he has no other standard to compare to. If he was suddenly given the ability to see, he would have to learn how to use it. He would have to go to therapy to understand this new sense hes been givin.
@@michaelmccarthy9088 I think thats not that bad, I have "all" my senses, but if I could get another one I would go to therapy and learn to use it, sounds AMAZING!
Im gonna try to appreciate my sight a bit more.
I only have one eye
I'm legally blind in one eye. We take daily things for granite. It's just what we do not to sound rude. It's just something you get so used to
@@cky2genrapper You are right
@Tweaky Robin even then you see black. You would be driven crazy seeing NOTHING
@@seanmatthews6998 Your post really through me for a loop because I always imagined blind people "seeing" just black like I do when I close my eyes. Holy crap 🤯
This guy makes me feel like i'm super talented or something
exact feelings
You are super talented. We are. When you hear people are “born with talent, or a gift”, we forget to remember we are. Don’t take it fore granted and try to use your “special powers” for good. Just because you’re not unique doesn’t mean you’re not talented.
we’re so fortunate to be able to see
This guy illustrates how amazing vision is...i.e. How amazing God is!
Hey it's Max Caulfield!
From the first game that made me cry.
This was the most unexpectedly interesting video. It is so easy to take things for granted. Thank God for the blessing of vision.
This video made seeing feel way more cool.
totally!
You don't afford ow?
Yeah!
It really really is. And we take it for granted...
I think it would be cool to see if Tommy would sit down with someone who wasn't blind from birth but was blinded by an accident or something and grew up seeing. I think their conversation would be really awesome.
There is a channel called Breaking Blind and she went blind at 19 and she does a lot of QnAs and how she does everyday tasks, really interesting. She's a sweet person, if you have heard of the youtuber edbassmaster, that's his sister's channel :-)
+Amber T like Amber said, check out maureen's channel breaking blind. The way she gets around and just seems to fulfill a great life is wonderful as this guy tommy. Just a correction, she lost her eyesight at 17, not 19. I think it was amazing seeing Tommy draw the picture of the car, but you can see Maureen when asked to draw still sort of remembers what it looked like to see and had a residual ability to draw from memory. The whole concept of blindness really fascinates me because I can enjoy music the most when I close my eyes. I can enjoy a woman's kiss the most when I close my eyes, amongst so many other things. Peace and love.
Naomi Nekomimi He did a video with a Asian girl
so strange, for Tommy vision is like a superpower and we just take it for granted.
I can understand, I cannot smell
just as I cannot imagine being able to@Zak Barrett
Hamo Newto smelling is overrated tbh
@@sean5623 but what if your house is on fire? I could not smell smoke, something in the oven? I could not smell it burning
Hamo Newto you would feel the heat and hear it when fire gets big it makes noise I’m not saying smell is useless just over rated
I once heard being blind described as the following. Imagine your eyeball is in your elbow and now look around using your elbow. Nothing… not black or white or anything. I feel so blessed to have sight.
Do blind people understand vision?
Tommy: How the hell would I know?
You are right man, thats ridiculous.
@@rafsan1578
If people can develop some level of intuition for the 4th spatial dimension, then blind people can develop some intuition for sight.
@@Peter_1986 But... can people develop an intuition for a 4th spacial dimension? Or do they just *think* they can? Is the intuition actually a reflection of reality, or is the intuition just an illusion in your mind?
Deaf people are better drivers "because they can see everything". So therefore yes, you can.
@@jeremiahsmith8499dimensions aren't hard to grasp. Everything everywhere has dimensions. The 4th dimension is like what the 3rd dimension is to the 2nd. It has to exist. There isn't a single thing that is flawed anywhere. The universe is like a car rolling through traffic without a driver. It doesn't care like humans can do. We don't know why it took off or why. Long story short - it's real.
i think it would be very interesting to do a double video with someone who is blind too, but wasnt born blind, and you two could
discuss differences.
Yes that would be fun to watch :)
+1
+1 !
Indeed! Please do!
they already did
Huge eye opener of how much I can actually do. And what I take for granted.
heh "eye opener"
Fishcraft123 4 It's incredibly hard not have vision?? Uhmmm are you not aware of the millions of people born blind or the millions more who suddenly lose vision? (Like my mom) Or just those millions who need glasses, who up until like 100 years ago, were fucked if their vision was poor
Killer Memestar Omg xD
I think a great way to describe depth perception to a blind person is by comparing it to directional hearing. The reason you can hear which direction something is in is because you have two points of reference, and depending on how much louder something is in one ear compared the other allows you to determine it’s direction. Depth perception I believe follows that same principal. Since we have two eyes that see independently from one another, we are able to determine how far away things are based on the small differences between our two points of reference.
If you close one eye, you can still tell how far away something is, just not as well. Mainly because you know how large or small things are up close and they seem smaller the further away from you they get.
The amount of money I would pay to see this guy actually see. Oh man, technology hasn't advanced enough yet
one day. stem cells. one dqy
I saw a color blindness glasses video on TH-cam.
I hope we have the same for full blindness soon.
Chanse id rase 20k and I don't even have $2
I have watched a video where a blind person sees for the first time..
Definitely, my thoughts exactly, the gift of sight would be amazing to give. We take it for granted
Damn and I take my vision for granted smh
darkangel13915 yep i was thinking the same thing
+Fishcraft123 4 pyramid*
true. I started freaking crying.
you should
I wish science could give him vision. I'd pay to see his reaction to the world.
yeah, that's nice, how much would you pay?
@@njclondon2009 like a few bucks like $20 or so. I gotta eat you know.
@@lordchampion2724 well i'm sure tommy appreciates your empty comment and your lowly donation.
@@njclondon2009 thanks man. Im sure he appreciates it more than your pathetic jealous comments.
Crowdfunding would easily reach 100K people donating $20 if it could bring him vision. I would be delighted to pay $20.
I had to do a class once and be blindfolded for basically the entire day, even going outside and everything. It was a very valuable experience to say the least and quite humbling. I had an assistant by my side for dangerous things but this is something I think everyone should try...even if it's just a few hours. Humans take their eyesight (myself included) WAY too much for granted. Even the simplest things like using a salt shaker or using the bathroom became monumental tasks, let alone trying to pour hot coffee or crossing the street. Is this water ? Is my cup nearly full ? Is this too hot to touch ? Am I near stairs ? Or an overhang ? Shopping was impossible without assistance. Just a very humbling and rewarding experience. Thought I'd share it. Hats off to this gentleman. 😊
At 3: 07 when he said : I dont get it. It is really strange. You have quit a gift" i felt really bad for the guy and suddenly i had this 'new found respect' for life and things that we take for granted but some people dont have them
Daghighan...dorost gofti.
And then the next day you and most viewers forget/prioritize memory for your life and continue routines, possibly watching memes and anime and first world problem solving and financial/educational work/stress to keep you and your family/future of a family happy.
What are life lessons if not fleeting reflections in a one way mirror?
now imagine having this feeling towards everything you have in your life and being thankful for every thing god gave you. This is heaven.
plaguelock lol call it whatever you want but just know that you didn't ask for what you were born with
Naruto31132 r/im14andthisisdeep
Light works almost like sound. It comes from light bulbs and the Sun and some other stuff, and when it hits stuff it bounces off it. You "hear" light with your eyes, and color is kind of like the pitch of the light. Different colored things "sound" different to your eyes.
Except sound is perceived as a one-dimensional stream of information, whereas sight is three-dimensional (including time).
The Real Flenuan Light is three-dimensional: time, color and brightness. Sound is three-dimensional as well. Time, pitch and volume. Pitch and color are similar, so are brightness and volume.
PerunaVallankumous It's hard to quantify "dimensions" when it comes to sound perception, but in reality it's just amplitude over time (2 dimensions), and our perception of 3-D space is layered two-dimensional projections.
The Real Flenuan You can perceive sound in 3D too.
PerunaVallankumous No; your conception of what a dimension is is inaccurate.
"You have quite a gift, you really do"
-Tommy Edison
Every time I feel like giving up, or complain about little things, you're voice; saying that quote, always go through my head. I know you've heard this a billion times, but I really mean it, you really are an inspiration to everyone.
Suubie Rex your*
I was born with a visual impairment and struggled my whole life I'm 21 now and I'm losing what little vision I have. Be grateful for what you have nothing is guaranteed
You are so right. It's so easy to take things for granted. How are you doing these days ? How is your vision now ?
This makes me feel bad for taking the gift of sight for granted😢
It's hard not to, vision is so important to humans
WakeClanVape too*
actually it's too :|....
Laura Maria
lol the incorrect correction
***** No really, It's "Me too" not "Me to". There is a difference.
To explain us knowing how far away something is, imagine hearing a sound. If it's louder, you know it's closer than if it's quiet. You can hear how far away something is, just like we can see. If you ever follow someone's voice, that's like seeing something and walking up to it.
+Ava Nicole That's an interesting way to explain sight.
+Ava Nicole but you don't stop knowing that something is far away if you cover one ear.
+Ava Nicole This is what I was thinking. Seeing stop lights is like having three speakers on a pole. Only one speaker goes off, with a different tone, at a time. As your far away the object is small (or quiet) as you get closer the object gets bigger, or louder. However, vision, like hearing is very complex. When you walk through the park you hear a lot of different sounds, close and far. When you see it's the same thing. You see as much as you would hear. So I guess vision is like having a thousand speakers all over the place ringing at different pitches, but your brain handles it by turning it into a picture. You still only really focus on one thing at a time, like the words I am typing, probably similar to how you would focus on the foot steps of someone you're following rather than all the birds in the background.
"Tommy, just open your eyes and you can see"
*opens eyes*
"Oh well would you look at that"
hehe
Omg
+Dealth ahhahahahahahahahhah dead
+Dealth That was brilliant HAHA
+Dealth "just look at it"
You make me appreciate the little things I have more. Always seem so happy.
Hearing you vocalize how sight is difficult to understand from your perspective made me kind of feel as though sight is almost like a projection of consciousness similar to teleportation. For you, you have to physically interact with your environment to understand it, but for those with sight, that interaction is still there on a technical level, but it's done from a distance and with minimal physicality. Strange world.
That was well said; didn't think about it like that.
It's an ability that allows you to extend the reach of your body. It's nuts.
Vision is crazy because technically you’re not seeing anything, you’re seeing light and light bouncing off objects which your brain puts together and forms what you understand as an image
@Stroll I know this and said it in my original comment. Kinda easy to miss, but my wording was purposefully careful.
@Stroll you seem to think that merely giving scientific names to things and processes makes them "nothing special or supernatural"
Tommy, the videos don't have to be funny to be fascinating and entertaining. This was one of your least funny but best videos so far. Although I do like your sense of humor, don't give that up, just know the videos don't all have to be funny for us to enjoy them.
I like the vids that r more deep
All he wants to catch a damn ball ... we need to protect this man!
What a lovely guy.
Tommy really puts into perspective just how lucky and blessed we are to have our vison.
I wish I could give him my sight for a day.....
WC_leader YT
For one day would be cruel. Because then for the rest of his life he would now actually know what he doesn’t have.
@@Brinta3 actually yeah.
It's actually harder for people that go blind because they know what they are missing.
@@LuchoCastle_11 actually it varies from one another. On one hand it is cool to not know what youre missing, so you can just move on. On the other hand, it is cool having seen for a while to understand what it is like.
It's better to have seen and lost than never to have seen at all. That love saying works for everything
Maybe you can think that it's like hearing things but with a different organ.
You can hear things from various distances, color is like timber and when it's dark it's like putting your hands on your ears.
just what I was thinking.
I thought that explaining the depth and 3d drawing would be kinda possible using perspective lines that he can draw with his hands (so he has a grasp of what figures translates into brain shortcuts)
Color and temperature would be possible explaining through the concept of synesthesia as we have scales for every sense (pinch to punch for touch, for example, sweet to sour for taste) and so on
I know blind people can't possible understand the whole concept of sight but we can have tools clear enough to give a basic knowlenge of the ruling principles of sight
@@MrSlenderman the way you can explain seeing distances is with math, it also can show why its easier to tell 10 feet from 100 feet vs 100 feet from 110 feet. You imagine your eyes and the object in question as part of a triangle. The way we can measure distance is from the angle between our eyes when looking at an object. As the the object gets futher away your eyes get closer to becoming parallel, but at extreme distance this change is very small and hard to detect but at close range is very easy.
@@willhaney96 exactly, perspective works with shortcuts the brain makes to interpret things, like the same way with catching a ball, as we use the knowledge of an object changing positions and then the brain recognize a pattern and it speculates where the ball will go next.
abstract processes can be described with abstract but objetive disciplines like math, geometry...
in the same way: tasting and smelling ... colors are like different tastes/flavours and smells/aromas.
You know he cant read this right? 😂😂
Watching his videos I know how blessed we all are just by beeing able to see, the most basic thing for most of us
I was thinking the same thing!
Sam Brown
Indeed..
Exactly...
Very humbling honestly
yeah I mean my vision is....kind of crap, and I used to freak out about it, and if anything its gotten kind of worse over the years (and im 20 lol, quite a way to fall) but these videos kind of make me go "you know what, I dont care, at least I can see and act independently in that way" but in a way if my vision does completely fail somewhere like my 30's or something, I dont think that'd scare me that much anymore either
My daughter was born blind, it’s so comforting to see blind people thrive. I always worry for how life will look like for my baby girl but I can only give her resources and education to help her! Thanks for the video I have so much hope (:
Sorry to read that.
Before I saw his videos, I was like:''Ohh I want to have that, and that and so on'' But now, I'm really just happy that I'm healthy, that all of my parts of the body function.
Thank you for giving me a lesson about life, that nothing matters more then your health and happiness,family and friends.
PHANTOM ! That's how I feel man. Tommy is great.
you wanted to be blind?
Pro Satan Pro Death Pro Snug Boi I think he means he wanted to have a lot stuff and things, but watching this video made him grateful for his eyesight
Learn how to read people
it is normal to want stuff. No one has to feel bad about wanting things just cause other can't have it. You live your life, they lives theirs.
this is super sweet and mind blowing... i have seen many people who got blind eventually as their for example genetic illness started to show up.. but i never really thought about people being blind since they were born. their life must be extremely different.
Terinka14 is a theme so interesting that makes me think, how society will work if we were all blind, like how we would think we look? how we would make mathematical and many other science problems?, will we consider see as a weird thing?
eatl 96 oooh thats an interesting thing! I think perhaps, our capacity for memory and memorisation would probably be very heightened, there would be some way to compile easy to decipher audio files and stuff and I think.. sight wouldn't even be considered a thing unless animals still have sight, perhaps we would see it as how certain birds and reptiles can detect magnetic waves to navigate and stuff, we wouldn't call it sight, we would call it the ability to detect and process electromagnetic waves
eatl 96 I think we would all be extinct if nobody has eyesight. We would all be starved to death before essential technologies are developed.
We would develop sonar systems like bats. These guys are blind, but know exactly their surroundings and can even sense things behind corners.
If nobody had eyesight, they'd have other abilities that would make up for it and we'd live our lives differently, that's all. If we weren't capable enough as a species to survive without eyesight, I doubt we would have even come as far as we have regardless of our ability to see.
man I really hope sometime in the future nobody has to be blind, I think being able to see is just one of the most amazing things in the world
Artifical eyes are the cure
Those who follow Jesus will have perfect bodies some day in heaven 🙂
@@davidt01.... Stop.
There is a very high propability that in 10 years we will have a artificial vision technology, propably even better than we have. No God or Jesus or bullshit. But technology and knowledge is the only solution to all problems.
DzaMiQ I'm gonna set a reminder in 10 years right now to come back to this post and see if we have that technology. See you then! (Haha get it. SEE you then)
I love that Tommy is very honest about how hard it is for him to imagine, instead of trying to come up with a comparison based on what people tell him. Vision really is this almost magical thing and I'm so grateful I have been able to experience life with vision, and at the same time, grateful for people like him to be able to experience life in different ways and to be able to connect with people who have such different experiences of life.
Its maybe like wrapping your head around 4d space...
Sebastian Amadeus van Brahms I was thinking the same thing
It's not because 4d is based on 3d
Except the fourth dimension is time/change/motion... and I think he has a concept of what those are.
That's close I think... the sighted perceive the world two dimensions with two inputs simulating 3D. The sightless experience only three dimensions because they have no input for two dimensions. Probably using the same circuitry the sighted use for simulated 3D. Likely tied in with the aural circuitry... also a 3d system. I made that all up.
Homo Sapiens Logicus
4D commonly refers to a 4th spatial dimension, not the 4th dimension which is time.
And he's so incredibly sweet about it, like we really don't realize how blessed we are, like sight is a gift, and instead of being jealous he's just amazed and almost humbled by it.
Like, omg yeah
Because he never experienced sight. People won't miss what they have never went through.
Seeing is like hearing, but every object in the room is singing a very specific tune based on its shape, color, and location.
Seeing is being able to hear all those songs at once and understanding how they fit together to create the world around you in 3 dimensions.
Yes, this is how I would explain it!
But we can only ‘hear’ objects if our eyes are pointed in the right direction
That is the best description I’ve ever heard
i think this is the best way to explain it, like a sonar kind of
I don't think, because what is shape of object? What is color? First explain these properties.. + depth perception..
Yet you are one of the freest people I’ve ever gotten to admire. Your story is more than inspiring.
"I always thought sighted people see everything. I'm surprised when you don't see something." Goosebumps when he said this. It's like there is a double meaning to it. And that is, the irony that despite being able to see, I'm unable to see how lucky I am to have all the wonderful people and things in my life.
This video blew my mind. Thank you Tommy, I never thought about how difficult it is to explain sight without actually experiencing it. Great video.
He can’t see this comment
+Jimmy Butler but screen readers exist.
💯
This guy needs to be on the #1 list to get vision repaired. I think he said in a video that he wouldn't want it if it was possible, but I think if he experienced the gift of sight he would be so happy. The funny thing is that even though he is blind, he sees more than most people.
i dont think that they can repair things like that
Ambo -- Yeah but he was /born/ blind so his brain never developed the ability to process visual information. That part of his brain is handing other sensory information. It'd be like if you were given an operation to be able to sense electromagnetic frequency changes without any sensation of touch involved. It'd just be sensory "noise"; you'd be getting sensations but they wouldn't mean anything. There are some older children with certain kinds of blindness that are able to practice learning sight after corrective surgery and become fully sighted, and the brain is indeed a very adaptive instrument. But developing the ability to see and understand visual information is a very complex process for the mind to undergo and simply receiving visual information isn't going to allow someone to become sighted. Adults blind from birth aren't going to be able to undergo these brain structure changes. It's like when some people go blind after experiencing a stroke--their eyes still work fine but the part of their brain that made sense of the information became too damaged to function.
I think if you got something damaged in your eye, you can get that replaced and restore vision. But if you are e.g completely missing your eyes, there aren't really anything to be done. This is just a guess though, i'm not a doctor ayy lmao.
even if they could make him see, he couldnt see normally
why everyone in the comments wants to give him sight im pretty sure hes much happier this way
Tinyjb0 It's really his call. I mean, gaining sight after a lifetime of blindness would be pretty monumental. It's not like, gaining a new ability or skill or something, it's a brand new SENSE. Something nobody can comprehend fully, or describe in words, no matter how hard they try. It might scare a person who'd never been able to see before. It just depends on what he wants, I suppose.
Sorry for the paragraph, didn't mean to be preachy. It's just a really interesting subject to think about!
Wow very humbling. We really do not appreciate the gift of sight enough. May God bless your soul for being such a cool guy.
This really made me appreciate my vision more. So thanks for making me thankful Tommy
Same here!
I can just hear the inner child in this man. What a pure person
Haha infantilizing disabled people is fun
@@GameyRaccoonYou did that, not op
i want to make art for blind people as a tactile experience. completely made out of textures that are meant to be touched. a whole canvas made of hundreds of different sorts of textures, and when you move your fingers across the canvas you feel all sorts of different sensations.. which must be similar to what colors are for blind people
Honestly a good idea, chase it
Have you done it now?
ehm. it is called a sculpture.
well. ive seen alot of sculptures with textures, meant for the eye, but they got em. sculptures are literally shapes, so sure you could put extra emphasis on the texture, or make something of soft material or decide on Wood vs Stone for specific reasons, but all in all when a blind guy touches a statue of a dog he will find it is sort of dogshaped just as i do@Lindner Akademie
I'd suggest going blind to make art as a blind. Use a blindfold to perceive the world. You can't just make 2D paintings with different textures for colors. You need to feel how a human uses hands to see
I LOVE this. Thank you. This is the kind of thing that makes me realize how constrained we are in our perception of reality. And that gives me so much hope. Reality is so much more vivid and multidimensional than we can conceptualizer, and it’s incredible to think that one day we will reconnect with it in its fullness.
If I was blind, I think the best explanation of sight would be like having infinitly long arms. You stretch your arm till it reaches an object and thats how you'll know how far away it is. With the assumption that you could do that at light speed and like 300 times a second ofcourse.
I think it's pretty much what he described but that's actually amazing to him and gives even more confusion. I would explain it on the basic level. Some objects emit light rays which are actually waves, almost like sound waves but made of subatomic particles and those waves are touching our sensitive cells in the eyeballs. When the cells detect these particles, they send an image to our brain and we see full shape of an object. Imagine ears are only 2 detectors of sound waves but eyes have billions of detectors of light waves, that's why we see so much detail in the image.
@@hihtitmamnan A blind person would not understand your explanation even a little bit. Light rays, light waves, Image and Shape are words unperceivable to a blind person.
@@NoName-kh5id uhh? Shape is something that they understand pretty good. And ray is not hard to imagine. He himself said he understands 3D but not 2D.
@@hihtitmamnan Ofc he knows what shapes are. but it just doesnt mean much when ur blind. And how can you say light rays are easy to understand to a blind person? ur basically trying to explain how a color looks like using other colors.
@@NoName-kh5id no, ray is also shape. Just straight line.
These videos always bring a tear to my eye. I feel sad because you are so content with what you have and I am given this superiority in a sense, physiological superiority, but what do I make out of it? I think you can worship life way more than anyone who is given a perfectly working body. And I envy you for the peace you seem to have found in yourself, because I have not.
Even feeling envy at all is something I hate about myself.
Fraxton i think one of the reason he is so content of being blind is because he never experienced seeing anything before, for him its just normal to not see.
You see, you're not blind yet you took your picture like you are. Are we searching for your caries & decay?
+2veki this doesn't really make sense to me
Fraxton you're patronizing him. It's so rude oh my god
This makes me appreciate the gift of sight, which so many people take for granted. Stay amazing Tommy :)
This video makes me more grateful for all the gifts of life. Thank you sir! I have a feeling that though Tommy Edison doesn't have the gift of sight, he sees much.
A good way for you to imagine vision Tommy would be to get a lamp that's really warm and then feel with your hand, the closer you get to the lamp the warmer it feels, but also the easier it is when you move your hand left or right to no longer feel the warmth, while further away it's less warm but you can feel it in a much wider radius moving your hand around. People see with light, the closeness is the details, the more information we get from an object, that's the intensity of the warmth, but the further away the more things we see, the wider the warmth radius. But the less details, the less heat
Thexevilxwulfy everyone like this so the person who edits his Videos can read this to him
Thexevilxwulfy dont expect him to reply xD
David Ayarra I think he actually has someone that reads the comments for him at times, if not I suppose it's stil fine
Thexevilxwulfy actually, blind people use their cellphones to read in youtube, they have an option where they can put their finger over something and it reads all the information, I'll search for the video.
"You have quite the gift, you really do" that really made me realise how capable I am as a human, thanks Tommy.
Seeing is actually a lot like hearing. Things that are farther away are smaller while closer things are much larger and more pronounced like when you are trying to make out sounds far away verses coming from something close to you. The 3d shapes on paper show up looking 3d to us because as things get further away they get smaller and look on a slant in the distance. When drawing 3d we make things farther smaller and then slightly slanted to show the perspective in which our eyes would be looking to show this off. Like the sound produced from the farther side is smaller and sounds like it's in the distance and the closer side is louder and more legible. This is also why when drawing thing that appear far away they are sometimes drawn blurry. As things get so far we miss out on a lot of the subtle details like when trying to distinguish a sound from far away. When in a room full of people finding your friend is sometimes hard. There are so many people sometimes that they are hard to pick out from the crowd, much like when you are trying to listen for that one voice but everyone's conversations are getting in the way. Add this to distance and it can become really hard for us.
a1rh3add now this is a thing I think tommy should definetily read.
Hopefully tommy read it
Tommy can’t read it
Ultra Gamer He can. By the way, I think they could "show" Tommy a 3D painting where the lines bulge, like a cube, so he could understand at least how 3D images are drawn on a flat piece of paper. like he could touch the 3 lines that represent the height, width and depth of an object.
This makes me value a gift that I have taken for granted. Thank you for this video ❤
This made me feel so bad for this guy! Him describing how amazing it would be to stop at a stoplight really makes me measure what I value.
You shouldn't feel bad, rather think about how much we (as healthy human beings I'm assuming) are blessed with. I couldn't stop smiling in this video cause of this, we really take it for granted.
I would explain my sight to a blind man with tact. It's kinda as if we had hands coming out of our eyes that can touch everything in front of us with very precise detail, all at once.
These hands are like ghost, invisible and don't collision with anything.
They can't be turned, bent or twisted, they are straight, so we can't see behind objects.
That's also how I'd explain drawings. If you give an object to a blind person and allow him to touch only the front part he would then feel what we see in a drawing, although a drawing is an illusion to these hands, making them feel as if the object had depth.
These "ghost hands" extend forever as long as there are no obstacles to be seen or "felt".
Depth perception I would explain simply as the feeling of how far away you feel these "ghost hands" to be.
They retract when there's no light, like the snails eyes when touched, and therefore we can't see anymore, yet over time they become less shy and slowly extend again, although they remain shy and don't extend fully so we see worse.
Colors are like textures for these ghost hands. Actual hands can feel if a surface is rugged, smooth, etc. These ghost hands can see if something is red, green, etc.
Senses can only be explained with other senses, though, and never properly :/ I hope Tommy gets to read this and it helps, somehow, to understand a little bit more
It's like staring at a hot looking woman at the beach and undressing her with your eyes (invisible hands).
How did you have time to write that
What about looking at a screen
@@arielklein1998 different textures
it's really hard to imagine the straight lines hitting a 3d object, I would use those old toys with pins where you dd put your hand or face and it dd push some pins, I dd flatten it out and show it him and tell him you can only kinda see the top of them and not the sides of this at all. Then I think depth perception in 2d objects is just an illusion of color.
dont worry about making us laugh. im here for perspective.
Tommy, the algorithm suggested this to me and it's amazing! Thank you for doing this. More understanding for the blind. More appreciation for my sight.
makes me teary eyed, I just feel sad, I want to help somehow. I want to find a way to show you what the galaxy looks like, the stars in the sky!
How nice, thank you. :-)
how do you read the comments? does someone read them for you?
bismo funyins i saw in another video he uses a reading robot or something, it reads the text and tells him it
does not make me teary eyed. makes me understand. he is great at talking about his advantages and his disadvantages. his videos enables learning.
Kristina Hoerler that would be the best present ever if you could give that to him
A blind guy making youtube videos, that surely gives me my hit of inspiration for the day.
I somewhat know how you feel about trying to understand vision. I have Aphantasia and with that I've never seen a mental image in my brain. my memory of anything I've ever done has no images, audio, sense of taste, touch, or smell. Having Aphantasia causes me to not to remember my father who passed away when I was 16. I'm 40 now and I don't remember my dad's voice or anything I ever did with him. I grew up thinking that the word image was a figure of speech and that everyone was like me. That all changed about a month ago when I found out that Aphantasia was the name for it and that other people have it too. It crazy to think that I never knew people were actually really seeing images in their minds. People who can imagine thinks everyone is like them and people who can't imagine grew up thinking the same way. So I've been asking everyone I know to try to explain to me what it's like to imagine things...like do they imagine in 1st or 3rd person...things like that. That's why virtual reality is such a big deal for me! It was the first time I could see something other than what was in front of my face. I will never truly understand what it's like to have a mind's eye
Wait, so you think only in words? Like you don't imagine images, sounds, smells, touch etc. but you can remember descriptions of things and recognise them? For example, can you recognise people's faces based on their characteristic features? That's fascinating.
I, on the other hand, don't have 3D vision which makes me see things flat like on a photograph or a TV screen. I can only imagine how it is to see in 3D. I've heard it's absolutely beautiful and mindblowing, as if you could almost feel space between objects...
Anthony Jones Hmmmm that is really interesting. so I will explain my best.
Imagining:
-vision: imagining something to me is really weird because when you imagine something it doesn't necesarily has to be visible. Most of the time you can't see what you imagine, for example, when I was a kid I would imagine a man running super super fast at the side of my car as I looked outside from my window. it would jump and do weird things, but I couldn't see it. It's just a strong strong strong sensation of the thing you imagine being there. No image but the closest to being an image you just know it's there cause you imagine it. however when I lay down at night and I close my eyes I can actually imagine and see things very roughly and colors but because your mind is the one responsible of mantaining those images going on, they are usually really short and erratical and since it's late at night I sometimes end up blending it with a dream without noticing and I fall asleep.
About remembering:
You can "see" images from the past but very little detailed. this is very hard to explain like you kinda feel the image more than seeing it and you can't focus on details. like you might be able to see an image of you and your friends one day that you went on a dinner (for example) and even though you "see" that in your mind you won't be able to like try to figure out the color of one of them's shirt. I don't know if you dream or if you are able to remember them but it's similar, you can't really focus on detail but you have certain snapshots of your memories kind of like if you were looking at a picture from too far away and you might know what is going on in it but you certainly can't answer to questions like "what is it writen in that sign" or simmilar.
Sound:
This one is the one I'm more fluent on. Same way you can think words and you know you think them but you can't hear them it's how it works. but you get a feel of the voice you imagine. it's like if someone is saying it but your ears don't work but still you get the message to your brain.
And about music ohhh not only you could get a really realistic feel of how music sounds without hearing it but sometimes if the music you think of is very familiar you find yourself really close to hearing it. you don't hear it but it's almost indistinguishable even if your ears don't capture any sound. If I was bored I would just re "hear" my favorite songs in my head. To kind of explain this let's say the best way I could explain is: if a speaker is so everyone can listen the music and a headphone is so only you can hear it, how about a headphone that is a wire to your head, no one hears it, not even you, but the wire sends your brain the signal anyway. That would be like imagining sounds.
Touch:
I can barely barely imagine a touch. You can have a really really slight feel of a touch but nothing compared to sound or image.
Taste and smell: This might be the more subtle imagining I have. I really can't imagine taste or smell but I only only only get a tiny bit feeling of it like if I imagine smelling a rose my nose feels nothing but my brain "screams" rose smell. I can remember it and remind myself of it but I don't smell it. kind of like going to the directory of my brain picking up a pile of memory files finding the rose atributes and saying "ok, yeah I know that smell but I can't smell it now but I remember". And same goes with taste. "Ok pizza I remember the taste but I can't taste it now I only get a demo"
it's not like sounds that in case of boredom I could supply my needs of music by singing in my head. in this case I can't supply my needs of flavor by imagining flavors it just feels dull or even worse, it makes me want to actually taste it.
This is the best best best explanation I could give, I hope you understand :)
+Pardock That's a pretty good explanation. Also fun fact, human's remember odors the best. There is a trick where you can study and put a parfum on from which you don't know the smell, and if later during the test you put that parfum on again to smell it, it will be easier for you to remember the situation of you studying, and by doing so , you will also remember your course.
I feel like I am quite good at thinking in senses. I can for example imagine what an orange and a peppercorn taste like together even if I have only tasted them seperately. Because I wanted to go into arts some of my visual thinking is extremely detailed because I thought about an object for a really long time. So i know exactly what colour tones are in someones eye or how big someones nose is. But it is more of a learned image, i have to measure it out while looking at an image so i can recreate it. And it will still be far of the original. I enjoy thinking in senses alot. So I try to see if i start a basic rhythm in my head how many sounds and instruments i can add onto it. Same with objects i try to spin them in my head or thow an imaginative ball into a room and let it bounce. If what I think about gets to complicated it usually causes me an headache and the music falls apart the ball is stuck in air. I hope this was interesting as another perspective on thinking in senses, sorry if it was too long.
This is an incredible video topic. Of course we've all wondered about this all our lives. We truly cannot imagine how it may be to have no vision. I am an artist, and was quite worried about having double cataract surgery, so of course I just had one eye done. Came out so perfectly that 3 years later I had the other eye done. It is truly a miracle. If we are human at all, and have human feelings, then my heart goes out to anyone without the gift of vision. Tommy has such a cheerful attitude in life. Many sighted persons do not. And therein lies a great dialectic. I have to applaud Tommy's outlook and even delight in helping to convey to us what life without vision might be like. God bless him and all without the sense of sight.
This video is so important. Its important because it makes us realize how grateful we should be of the things we take for granted
Also, to (forgive the puns) see someone else's point of view is directly connected to being a more efficient thinker. If we keep things like that in mind, we can stay a bit closer to our potential mind power. When he talked about not understanding how we can depict a 3d object on a 2d surface was pretty crazy.
As a sighted person, I can barely understand the things he doesn't understand.
Kay Cronin Same.
IKR
I can understand perfectly, just try to think like a blind
Felipe Hdez , no u cant understand
Chloroplast
what do you know?
This is amazing. You are amazing. This video made me kind of happy, you're so full of joy and that transfers!
Eva Toastbrot well said :)
I believe that you were blessed with the vision of spirit-a true gift that many lack. We all have our gifts for a reason, and in your beautiful way of explaining blindness to those with sight, your gift shines so brightly. Thank you for sharing your perspective and wisdom with us-
I feel like I can explain how vision works to blind people:
It's like knowing where are the outlines of things, but only is there is nothing closer to you in the way.
To compare it to sound, you hear a little less a sound when there is wall between you and the source of that sound, but with sight, it's radical: either you see, either it's completely hidden behind the other object.
Colors are hard to explain if not impossible, but it's like recognizing a music note played by 2 different instruments: you hear them the same way, but you know they are not the same because your senses tell you so.
Explaining how we can imagine 3D objects by looking at pictures is more simple: just like when you hear distant sounds, far away objects appear smaller to us the farther they are, but we can almost always understand where the object is because of the size it's supposed to have and because we see things with both eyes, which helps our brain calculating the distances.
When we see a drawing of a 3D object, some lines are distorted to represent the far away parts, just like when we see real far away objects. It's usually harder to get since a drawing can't be perfect, but by looking at the shapes, you can understand how it's oriented.
I hope my way of "seeing" things helped you understand vision a little better!
This man makes me so sad and feel so blessed he's truly beautiful. I find him so amazing he seems so content it makes me smile. I wish I could give him vision 😔😪
Damn, i would love too to just see this guy see if its just for a moment. It would be amazing.
mix0nix nothing lol
mix0nix wanna see what he sees? You'll see nothing
Zenen, read my comment again and think a bit about what you read. Because you misunderstood what i wrote.
I know it sounds kind of selfish, but it would be better if that didn't happen (if it was possible, of course.) It'd probably make him feel bad after because he could only see for so long before going back to his old self; it could crush him.
OMG! I almost cried watching this video. Like having a sense of guilty for having what he can't. Now I have a better understanding about blind people.
Tommy. one of the artists most famous for perfectly capturing depth and perspective was actually a blind person. Seeing depth may be so amazing to you, but there was actually an artist who so well understood perspective and how it affects shapes he could draw landscapes and buildings better than nearly any sighted artist!
who?
Илья Артемович Just looked him up again: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C5%9Fref_Arma%C4%9Fan
+Micah Philson "better than nearly any sighted artist" is quite an overstatement. His works are astonishing nevertheless, but would be easy to overlook for someone not knowing the story behind the artist.
Fadex Most normal artists never quite perfect perspective, especially with buildings. Here is a guy who can draw in perspective with more accuracy than most people who see it every day. I agree in some of his works, the angles seem a bit off from the ground, but relative to depth, the detail is actually really good. Did you see the "Stan Lee's Superhumans" episode with him? It was one of the first things on google and is pretty good.
+Micah Philson I mean he's amazing for being blind, but if I were to judge his paintings without knowing he was blind, I definitely wouldn't say he was above a high school art student.
He makes me feel privileged
Because you are
Kaeden wight there will always be people worse off or better off than oneself tho
+Kaneki Ken unless you are bill gates
+chickensnicket even bill gates ... maybe he has a small penis
Ace Ofspades not that it would matter ;)
I would go to extraordinary lengths to get this guy to see, even just a little.
Ur amazing.xx
Peaches Jackofski that’s a kind sentiment, but why is he amazing?
Maybe he is amazing in some ways, but just based on this video, what’s amazing here?
Dark Star the first reason is......in a place that you are very familiar with, like the route from your bedroom to your bathroom, or kitchen to the living room. Close your eyes really tight-no cheating, and do a simple task, like walking from one room to another and wash your hands, open the back door, set a table , any simple, every day task.
This alone will make you realise how amazing this man, or any blind person is.
If you can’t be bothered or can’t do the above , just close your eyes for a whole tv show.
Again. You don’t understand until you do it.
Thanks sir for making me appreciate something marvelous that I just normally take for granted. Next time I start feeling down, I’ll remember to count my blessings. What a wonderful person you are.
I love you man. You are an inspiration
Man...who is cutting onions here?
fucking ninjas, titanic, green mile, hachi and now again
@@gachibass_gavno_iz_ass39 wtf
me?
had to punch a wall to feel manly again
@@Brukn0ws
I had to punch something really manly to feel manly again.
So i punched myslef.
I think it's easier for sighted people to imagine being blind because we can close our eyes (maybe use a blindfold) and try to live as a blind person for a day. You described perfectly how hard it is (if you never had sight) to understand vision/paintings that our brains see in 3D. There are optical illusions that I bet a blind person would never comprehend. Yes, vision is a gift and thank you for making us realize how grateful we should be. I'm also grateful for you. Thank you!
I think what he means is what its like to be blind your whole life. We cant imagine that
Just putting a blindfold on wouldn't do it. At all times, you would still be seeing the back of your eyelids. You would see black, not nothing. Sighted people like you and I can't comprehend seeing nothing.
@@AccelerateHedge you are correct. I come from a place of ignorance. Thanks for explaining how seeing fully black isn't the same as nothing. I still cannot truely get it, but I understand that perhaps I never will.
@@nyreekrikorian You're welcome. :)