10 Things I’m AMAZED You Can Actually See!
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I'm Molly, a typical sushi, makeup, and fashion loving millennial girl who just so happens to be blind! I was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa at just 4 years old and began public speaking at age 5. I started just doing motivational speaking, but now I make videos and even model! Even though I can’t see, I know that there are bright spots in everything we face. Let’s find them together. 💕
You know how you can feel different textures? You can see them, too! Water is a different texture than air, so you can tell the difference.
That's a really good way to explain it. I was going to mention how you can see the interface between the air and the water and try to equate it to feeling the surface of a soap bubble, but your analogy is better.
There's more to it than that. On a really hot day, you can see the heat rising from the hottest surfaces even though that air doesn't have a different texture, and I'm sure there's some people who are too blind to see texture but can still see water. I'm pretty sure it's about things with different densities refracting light differently.
Well said 💓
I feel like this is an awesome explanation!!!
yes!! I was going to say this. it's got mass. air doesn't have mass.
I feel like I need to explain what clear and see through means. It doesn’t usually mean absolutely invisible.
It means that you can see what is behind the object. Water, glass, or any other see through material does warp and mess with how things look.
So when sighted people say they can see water, what they are saying is that they can tell where the water is. Because it is distorting the light enough that you know water is there.
Glass most often is visible because it gets dirt stuck to it or it reflects the light of the area around it. But if it’s cleaned very well almost everyone can and will walk into the glass.
I mean it’s very often that even birds will slam into a window because they don’t know it’s there.
So everything out of glass / water is basically a semi-mirror! You see through it, but you almost always see a reflection: plain on glass and still water, distorted on water when it’s moving a bit (like small waves).
Birds mostly fly into glass windows when there are trees outside the window, so that the glass reflects the tree like a mirror and the bird thinks the tree continues. They are more confused by the reflection than by the see through glass.
@@derfranz5770 if you focus on the glass with the near vision then it’s more mirror like. But looking through it with distance vision you can see some reflections in the peripherals but you see through it. Not all glass is clear, and not all water is fully clear. But as far as clear glass and clear water yes. There is so much to vision and it still baffles me. If I think about it I do find it amazing.
Thank you I like that! I never heard it like that lol
I feel like molly just complemented me for 20min.
"you can see the texture of things?? you're incredible!!"
lol I like how she calls us "sighties"
As an artist who tries to capture different visual experiences, it would be amazing to sit down with Molly and talk through these different textures and things.
Yes! I was just now thinking how, when painting water, it's all about the reflections.
Yes, I had that thought, too.
Omg that would be an awesome video too!
Girl, my fully sighted co-worker walked straight into a glass wall TWICE in the same day at our last workplace. So yeah I think she's actually done it more than me LOL.
That said, I totallly understand what you're saying about glass and water, but here's the thing: It's all about the light. You see lights and glitter, well basically those clear entities make light reflect, so basically you can disern the shape from the way light reflects off of it. I'm oversimplifying a bit, but that might help you wrap your head around it! 😅
To add to that, we can see water because the light reflects colors into the water. The ocean is the best example of that, it reflects the color of the sky and any particles in the water can affect how it appears. The water itself isn't actually blue. Even being sighted that has always been amazing to me.
8i have walked into the screen but screens are not even as clear so sometimes you can see a screen door but the times i couldn't i bumped into lol
I knew a sighted woman walked into glass door and it broke. She survived but was injured.
@@auntyangie33 I am guessing it wasn't tempered glass.
Frosted stickers (that are partway up the glass) on large pieces of glass (like floor-to-ceiling glass) are usually for people to avoid running in it to and for safety reasons.
Your description of the sun as a "brighter glow" describes what it sometimes looks like on overcast days. On most days, the sun is a distinct circle that has well-defined edges.
I love this very descriptive comment of something that I personally have never experienced either.
But it's also usually too bright to directly look at, so we sighties don't actually see the sun directly that often. At sunrise or sunset the glare is less bright and you can actually look at it comfortably, then you basically see a red or orange circle.
@@UmbraKrameri Huh! I didn't know that. I love comments like these because I actually learned something. Also, it's chucklelicious to me when a sightie refers to the sighted community as we sighties. I don't mean that in a rude way at all, it's just pretty rare for me to see a sightie use that. Usually it comes from other blind people (Like: you sighties!), or sighted people I know really well. So it's humorous and refreshing. 😄
@@khanhhm5762 I heard this term in this video for the first time (english isn't my first language and in my native language I don't think we have a nickname for people with sight) and I just find it really cute sounding, so in this context from now on I will happily refer to ourselves as 'we sighties'. :))
@@UmbraKrameri Hahaha. I don't think most sighted people have heard that term. In fact, when I have used it around colleagues and friends (in a joking manner), they are like: what? And then they end up using it. I bet someone in the blind community came up with that term years ago.
The idea of blind people seeing "nothing" as opposed to "black" is incredibly interesting to me. I think it has to do with perception itself and how sighted vs blind people learn to "view" and understand the world. As a sighted person, to me when I see "nothing" I'm seeing black (black is the absence of light, light is needed to see) so the difference between the "nothing" that blind people see and the black that I think of when I see "nothing" is not something I can even perceive because of how my brain has developed to perceive the world. An interesting side note about this whole perception thing is that there is evidence to suggest that being able to see "blue" as we know it now is fairly modern and most likely our ancestors would have perceived the world very differently before blue dyes were developed and languages started creating words for blue. All this to say, perception in general is incredibly variable and super interesting!
Just read a couple comments above with good explanations:
From @Yang Yang Xue try to see out of your elbow
From @Rhianna Allen when you close both eyes you see black, but if you close just one I you see nothing out of that eye.
I know what you mean. Seeing nothing is hard to imagine. Bc we think of blackness when we close our eyes. But, I think it would be like if our eye was not an eye but just an egg like round object in the socket. You would not have an eye to see. Hence nothing.
I kind of make sense of it that if you truly can’t see anything and especially if you were born not being able to see anything your brain literally can’t process visual input. I think it’s not really a matter of “not seeing” but more of just not having that “sense”, that process in the brain.
Like some animals supposedly can feel the magnetic fields of the earth. That’s a “sense” us humans don’t have. So we don’t have any concept of what it might feel like, how a magnetic field or the absence of one feels because we just don’t have that sense, our brains can’t process it. It’s just not part of our perceived reality.
Blue has always existed in nature. The sky, birds, flowers, food. Maybe it is the creating blue items that was really hard until more recently?
@@ginacodding4135 ASAP science has a video on it and the reasoning I can remember is that blue actual is fairly rare in nature. You’re more likely to see many shades of green or red and so societies had words for them first. When they did see blue it was often ubiquitous like in the sky or in the water so they just didn’t really recognize it as it’s own color, more just a fact of life. I may be wrong about any of that, it must’ve been at least half a year since I last saw the video but after typing this In definitely going to go rewatch it
Adding a note about water- it has a magnifying effect, so you can see the distortion. But honestly sometimes, if the surface of the water in my glass aligns with the pattern/structure of the glass, I have trouble knowing if there is water in it. Also, pure water is very slightly blue, but you can only see that when the water is deep (this is the reason swimming pools are blue).
But yeah, sighties see reflections on the clear things - like water surfaces, windows etc.
wait wait wait what do you mean pure water is slightly blue?? but also, swimming pools aren't pure water. Do you mean like how the air is slightly blue because of oxygen?
@@mx.noname4710 Pure water absorbs red and green wavelengths first, only allowing the blue to travel back to your eyes. But it absorbs very little, so it takes some depth to see the effect. I know swimming pools aren't pure water, but as far as I know it is mainly the water that causes the colour (not the chlorine), though it may contribute. I also know some people dye their pools.
The next time you are at a pool (undyed) with steps and a white bottom you can observe the light absorption by looking at the steps. Usually you can see that the water above the topmost steps is slightly greenish blue, and then it gets bluer and bluer. This is because the red color is removed first (leaving greenish blue), and then the green colour is removed (leaving only blue). It's fascinating, and while I was doing my masters in ocean colour, I would blow a lot of minds.
For more info there is a Wikipedia page called "Color of Water".
@@HomeWithMyBookshelf oh wow, thank you for explaining! I'll look it up!
@@HomeWithMyBookshelf Very interesting. It's one of those things I didn't know I knew, if that makes sense? When I traveled in Canada and saw lakes melted from glaciers, I was amazed by their aqua color. Now I know why.
Wait whaaaat? I thought water was blue because the SKY was blue and it was a reflection! That’s what I was taught at least. Could it be both at all?
I've seen perfectly sighted people walking directly into glass doors and walls. The dirtier they are the easier they are to spot, also it depends on whether there is some visible glare and the person walking is paying attention.
Yeah anytime I walked into a screen door I just haven't been watching where I was going. Lol 😂
Yeah, I can see perfectly fine, but I walk into my walls and doors all the time. Just very clumsy.
I am sighted but have a pretty strong prescription and it seems like the older I get, the harder it is to look at screens. Window and door screens give me a headache, especially if I am trying to look at something on the other side of the screen. It's like my eyes can't focus through the screen, they only want to focus on the screen itself and it makes my eyes and head hurt.
This is why we have stickers around eye-level on the glass doors and magnetic pretty things sticking to each other through the screens... easy to smack into clear things when you're not paying attention.
not to mention many birds injure themselves by flying into glass
on point 3, There are blind people who work on astrophysics! They use data which is converted into sounds so they can identify patterns and relationships in the sounds to make new discoveries.
That's AMAZING!
Holy sheep this is so cool
So cool!!!
That is REALLY neat! I think it would be amazing if you collabed with them on making a video of how they go about their day in the lab; I would LOVE to see that ❤
That is SO cool!
My cousin went blind 2 years ago after having surgery to remove a tumor in his brain. Through this new journey in life he’s been going to a school for the blind learning how to navigate through life. I recommended him to you and talked about some of the relatable things you guys experience and was pleased to hear that they play your videos in the school! You’ve made a difference in so many peoples lives and you are amazing Molly 💜
When Molly started talking about fur my instant thought was polar bears 😂 because their fur is actually transparent (just looks white when all put together). I just thought transparent fur would be funny to Molly
Same with humans with white hair. It's hair that has lost all of it's pigment and is now transparent (but looks white).
@@thevirtualtraveler however polar bear is hollow not just transparent. This has extra warmth because basically it's like dual pane windows but in their hair.
@@musicalatv wait now i want hair with windows in it
curse you random stranger
As a sighted person, I cannot comprehend that you see nothing. To me, "nothing" is black because black is the closest I can get to seeing nothing. The fact that there is an indescribable nothing beyond the black I see when I close my eyes, is INSANE to me! Also I can't comprehend being able to see lights and shadows WITHOUT the black. It's so wild and fascinating.
Great point!
Molly doesn't see nothing. She sees some things, as she has explained in previous videos. Most blind folks have some bits of vision, but cannot see enough to put together a full picture that is useful.
I've heard it described as trying to see with your elbow instead of seeing black.
I'm blind so I can't verify this but according to tiktok if you close both eyes you see black but if you close one you see nothing. I am curious to know if this is true so can someone try this please
@@rhiannaallen9676 correct
It’s crazy how we take all these things for granted, but for Molly these are super shocking things to her.
People in general take things for granted but when u don’t have it it is your norm
@@Jayleigh2796 definitely!
Might Molly not be reading comments to her videos herself?
@@VulcanOnWheels she would be using a screen reader most likely
@@VulcanOnWheels She can using Talkback like she showed in the video
For number 10, the sunglasses and tinted windows, its true what your mom said! There are sunglasses that have a sort of mirror like tint on the outside which still lets a little light in and no one will be able to see into it. I think its sort of the same kind of tint that they use in interrogation rooms where it looks like a mirror but its a window from the other side
I'm deafblind, born both hearing and sighted, and I'm forgetting certain sighted and hearing things 😅 I forget that you can see fine mist/sprinkling rain. There are a LOT of things that I forget people can hear. It was really shocking when I got my cochlear implants lol
Molly talking about being mind blown about non contrast colors while wearing the most gorgeous pastel splash top is making me laugh so hard 🤣🤣🤣 yellow on white, white on pink, GIRL YOURE WEARING IT! Hahah so cute
yeah i have a feeling this is just a funny video and not to be taken TOO seriously
@@iloveowls90 oh I definitely think she’s being serious! I think it was a happy coincidence. She can’t see color at all so she wouldn’t know what color she was wearing unless her mom told her beforehand.
@@iloveowls90 Very insensitive comment. Of course this is a serious video. Consider yourself lucky that you are sighted and can't relate to it. Molly Thank you for sharing and reminding me all that I have to be greatfull for being sighted.
@@samcait yes, Molly does ask her mom to initially be her eyes when it comes to colors. But remember that color coordination goes beyond that. It is more than how something visually looks. It includes putting together different textures to create the aesthetic that you want. I'm a blind woman and I can't see colors, yet I wear contrasting outfits all the time depending on my mood and what kind of look I am wanting to achieve. Each blind person is different, and how I see colors is not the same way most sighted people do. But it's never a coincidence how things are put together.
@@iloveowls90 not a funny video at all. I am a blind person, and all of these things that Molly mentions in her video, I can completely relate to being amazed at.
The answer to both water and glass is reflections! The light hits them differently than it hits clear air. You know how you see glitter? That's kinda what also happens to glass and water.
That being said, if the light isn't hitting it properly you can definitely walk into glass or step on water you didn't know was on the floor.
The reason why they reflect is their refractive index.
The 12pt font I felt in my soul. I remember sometimes in school I'd get docked points if after writing my paper I forgot to lower the font down to 12pt font... which I could barely read.
With sunglasses it really depends on the model. Some have dark enough tints in the glass that you can't see the eyes. Others (especially those made for a "sporty" look) have very reflective glass so that you can't see the eyes either but instead you might see yourself in them like in a mirror. But through the majority of "fashionable" sunglasses you can see absolutely the eyes. But it all also depends on how far away you are from the person wearing the glasses. If you are far away you usually can't see the eyes and also if you take a picture of someone wearing sunglasses you often can't see their eyes either.
Yes, it depends on the brand of sunglasses and which direction light is coming from. Certain angles of light make it easier to see a person's eyes.
So water is “clear” but it also has a shimmer to it, on its surface. So you can see where the air ends and the water begins, if that makes sense :)
Is it maybe the reflection that you see most of the times? The same as with windows / glass… 🤔
@@derfranz5770 the surface of water can reflect light, but water you can usually see because of refraction. The light travels through it differently and your brain can distinguish it. Glass refracts almost the same way as air so you can usually only see it by reflection. That's why you can almost always see water no matter the light but often you can't see glass (unless it's dirty).
It's like sequins or glitter.
It also might be interesting to Molly that we can often tell if water is hot or cold using sight alone.
@@enduringbird Yeah, like the way sound travels differently in air and water, waves of light have a similar difference in quality. The water distorts the light.
Just like you can see water and glass, you can see «heat» (like heat above the ground when its very very very hot), since it makes the air go a bit wonky (for lack of better word), shimmery maybe could be a word to use.
It makes the air move differently. You can feel it as well as see it.
Great explanation! "Warped" or "distorted" might be the word you're looking for.
This is because warmer air is less dense due to the particles having less energy. When a light ray goes through a substance with a different density, it refracts or changes direction. So the heat alters the airs density which makes the light change direction and thus the image appears warped.
I do hope you all commenting realise that I already knew what you are saying, and how you are explaining the fenomonon, but my focus in the commen was on trying to explain the visual apperanse of this fenomonom it to someone who can’t see 😅
I call seeing heat and cold air as seeing a thin fog
Hey Molly, when you were talking about how can we see rain or water I have something that might now help you. We can see the water because of shadows and the reflections of light within it. Shadows define the edges of rain drops on the window, and light reflects on the water to make it shine (kind of like glitter or gemstones). Also water is reflective so it paints a picture like a mirror, or picks up the color that it is closest too. Such as when there is a glass if water on the table sitting next to a vase of pink flowers, it may pick up the reflected pink color from the flowers next to it, and the glass of water then looks somewhat pink at different angles. Also we can see through water, anything on the other side you can see but it is distorted in shape or size.
Its all about light, shadows and reflections. I hope that helps you a little. I am not sure if it would but I figured it might. I love your content and I have learned so much from you. You allowed me to know how to guide a blind owner who was actually bringing their guide dog in to our clinic for his annual exam. I wouldn't have known the correct way to guide them without you. They also had a guide dog too that looked similar to gallop and Ben, and I thought of all of you when I met him. Keep up the great work.
You’re really seeing the reflections of other things in water, such as the sky, trees, rooms, even yourself. I find it incredible that rainbows are split spectrums. It’s fascinating.
I IMMEDIATELY went to the sink and caught a handful of water bc I went "... she's right, how DO I see water?!?" I found it's more about the reflective edges and the distortions. If a clear, round cup is full of water, placing it in front of a left-facing arrow makes the image projected through the water point right. Frothy water full of bubbles is easy to see because the bubbles make it look white or cloudy. The small distortions are also how it's easy to see rain. I guess it's like... backward bubbles? Glass is also reflective, and can have, like, white streaks on it from light sources. Both glass and water get dirty pretty easily too, so outside windows often have dirt on them. But yeah I've totally walked into a screen door before! My cats do too, so we sewed a little zig-zag pattern into the screen at their eye level so they can see when it's closed.
The sun is a round circle of ouch that leaves a blue-purple stain on your vision when you look at it. Clouds are actually really big, they can cover the whole sky! I love them, they're very soft-looking, like a fluffy puffy blanket.
I think quite a bit of seeing bugs, especially flying bugs, is seeing their movement more so than the features of their little bug body. Navigating the dark is almost like texture-at-a-distance? It's all one color and it's not very specific, just "I know that big square thing over there is my desk" but I can't really identify anything sitting on it. And I still run into things!
Thank you so much for your wonder! I loved this as a reminder of how grateful I am to be able to see and read, and you've just brightened my day so much!!
Very well explained!!
Good explanations! I would also add that another interesting thing about seeing in the dark is that our eyes have to have time to adjust. Like a camera can overexpose or underexpose an image, our eyes have to adjust to let in more light to see in the dark, so if you walk into a dark room from being out in the sun, everything can look quite dark because your eyes are "underexposing" the room.
As our eyes adjust, they use whatever little bits of light are available, and you can sort of see outlines of things without much for color (similar to how Molly described being able to see color only with high contrast) or detail. If there truly isn't ANY light for our eyes to use, it is pitch black; that's just rarely the case because our eyes are so sensitive.
A lot of what your talking about is how light refracts!
Excellent explanations! I had the same reaction as you. I was literally mind-blown by this 😂 Like holy crap, she's right. How does this even work 🤯
Hi, Molly my names deaf-blind with a passion, I’m a deafblind subsrciber, of yours. I have followed you for a while now and before I blind, being deaf first, I watched your videos, and liked what you were uploading! ☺️ I used captions, to access your videos, thanks for putting them on by the way. ❤️ As I’ve become completely blind, now with just light perception left, I’ve been able to keep up with you. 🙂 🌼 I use a refreshable braille display and voiceover, and use that to, have the voiceover on the captions, but Its pretty slow process, because I have to play and pause pretty frequently, but still love you and what you post! ☺️ ❤️ I was wondering, if it were possible to add transcriptions to your videos, for easier access and more of an enjoyable time “watching” your videos. ❤️🌼 I love how you speak about accessibility for blind people and other disabilities and inclusion! ❤️ I love how your so confident, when my family uses PTASL Pro tactile American sign language to express your voice and emotions through your videos also! They’ve explained what you look like, as I’ve come to slowly start losing my visual memory. You have helped me as a teen, during my time through middle school and high school dealing with being deaf, with very dark thoughts. Then going going through vision loss through two years of middle school, and high school, now I’m in my last year of high school, I want to be an advocate for deaf blind people, blind people, and deaf people. Sorry my comment is so long. 😅❤️ I just wanted to say that, and you can know more of one of you favorite subscribers, and to ask for transcriptions. Thank you so much if you have read my comment through till now! ❤️ I hope for when your dealing with your dark thoughts, that you know I still love you as a friend, and hope for you to have good and positive thoughts. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I’m going to watch your video now! Have a good day/ night! If it’s possible It’d be so cool, if you could respond to my comment. Love you!!! ❤️❤️🙂❤️🌼❤️
Hi there!! Obviously I’m not Molly but I wanted to let you know that there are transcripts in on all You Tube videos. You may have to get a sighted person to help the first time to find it quickly, but there is a "Show Transcript" command at the very bottom of the description box. I hope this helps out and that you have a wonderful and blessed weekend 🤗🙏🏻!!
@@rebeccaude4412 That's interesting - thanks for pointing that out - didn't know that feature exists. BTW - the link didn't show at the bottom of the description - had to click on the three dots at top to see option.
@@rebeccaude4412 Thank you, for replying, yes, there are transcripts on videos, but not all videos, and other TH-camrs channels as well, I know what you are saying. My family and friends have tried to help but they say there are none on the videos without transcripts.😅❤️ Just alot of Molly’s videos, don’t have the “Show Transcript button on the bottom of her description box, just captions and this applys for other TH-camrs as well, thank you for your feedback though. ☺️❤️ Have an amazing weekend as well! ☺️🌼❤️
@@JM-ig4ed Hi, this is deaf blind with a passions, sister, just to let you know, this is just captions, not the transcript, they are different but pretty similar, the captions are on screen for videos, and transcripts are a full dialog of the entire video, ( in the bottom area of descriptions of videos ), like captions are for the whole video, with time stamps for the transcript by each sentence spoken by the person or people talking in videos, as well as described noise or nosies in the background or videos, as well as captions do this to. I’m glad that you know about both of these features. Have a good day/ night! 🙂
@@Girl_-fs6nx OH NO 🥺🥺🥺!! That is such a bummer and makes me very sad that it is not available on every single video as it should be. It may not make a difference but I am going to send a direct message to Molly and her team asking for a response to your request! Especially since it is very confusing for we sighted folk who think that transcript option is what people are looking for. Thank you so much for being kind in your reply. I hear well and am fully sighted but I have multiple autoimmune and musculoskeletal disorders that affect my independence as well as my general day to day life. I am not sure if anything makes me more upset than a lack of accessibility REGARDLESS of condition or level of spectrum because every person has something to contribute to our world! Sending you lots of hugs, love & prayers for a phenomenal 2022 🤗💜🙏🏻!!
#1 cracked me up! You’re totally right that it doesn’t make sense if you can’t experience it 😂 The best way I can describe it is that clear things still have texture and they reflect light.
Imagine trying to explain those images just look like busy chaos that when you stare at long enough and make your eyes 'look through' you see an image pop out. I think this would blow your mind, Molly.
I think 95% of us sighties have walked into glass doors or screen doors at some point in our lives. Pets and birds do a lot, as well. Your glass comment made me remember the funniest zoo story. It was my family of 4, my cousins family of 4... we were all sort of wandering through the zoo. I walk into the dolphin exhibit and see my dad and brother CRYING laughing. I asked what the heck was going on? Well, their entertainment was watching a not small percentage of visitors smashing their heads into the super thick glass that was the tank for the dolphins!! Depth perception is actually really difficult with glass that thick so bang, over and over sighties were hitting their heads, making my dad and brother laugh over and over. It was more entertaining than the dolphins, I will admit.
I once took out a screen door bc the handle was clear and I just didn't see it. I felt so bad, my aunt had JUST gotten it lol but thankfully it was easily fixed.
If you're watching Aunt Paige, I'm still sorry about this, even though I was like, 10 years old 😂
This made me realize how much we take for granted. On another note, it also blows my mind that people see nothing. I know it's not darkness or light (for some), it's just nothing but my mind as a sighted person cannot wrap my head around what this means!
It's the same as what your foot can see or your hand! It's like sticking your foot into a shoe and saying what colour is the inside-its not that its darkness its just nothingness!
Just read a couple comments above with good explanations visual nothingness:
From @Yang Yang Xue try to see out of your elbow
From @Rhianna Allen when you close both eyes you see black, but if you close just one I you see nothing out of that eye.
@@alicenolen-walston5176 not quite. I am one of those people who doesn't see anything, and those comparisons don't work for me because my brain doesn't have any understanding of colors the way someone with sight does.
Your insights about experiencing different things is as shocking to be from a sighted perspective as it is to you from a blind perspective. It’s mind boggling and sooooo interesting!!! It’s shows how important it is to try and understand different peoples experiences regarding an abundance of issues! Tanks for this insight, it was so cool!
Why does it always make me emotional when molly says she’s never seen the stars?! 🥺
You’re amazing molly always enjoy your videos! x
As a fully sighted person, I've walked straight into glass doors so many times, and there have also been instances I've had to reach out and touch a window to see if it's closed. So I definitely can't blame you for being confused how we see them, some of us still sometimes can't, lol. They do get easier to see when they get dirty.
So water is a clear liquid, but it's properties refract or "bend" light and reflect light, which means it causes a glare. There are times where the water is so clear you can see what is at the bottom of the lake, or whatever body of water you are on, like there's nothing between you and the bottom. It can be trippy.
Glass is similar, but it refracts/reflects slightly differently.
I always think it’s amazing how we say, “Do you see what I’m saying.” Because many times depending on how someone understands you they’ll say yes. But we can’t physically see what you’re saying we hear it or interpret it ☺️ I always think it’s neat how language works in that way when we describe something.
Technically, it is the brain that sees. Many people think that the eyes see, but in fact, the eyes send signals and information to the brain which in turn makes sense and interprets what it is receiving based on a number of factors including knowledge, perception, and experiences.
I could literally listen to you talk about what fascinates you for hours, it's so sweet and you are so sweet of a person!
Water and air and the glass all have different densities.
They reflect light differently
As a result when light passes from one to another it is possible with normal or only slightly impaired vision to see a surface.
Ok I gave this a lot of thought because it messed up my mind a bit when you said it...water. How do we see water? And I think it's like glass. It's not so much the water you are seeing but the reflection off of the water that you see. Or how it distorts items around it (when its in a clear glass). Sometimes it is hard to see and you have to lift up your glass to know how much is really left...depending on the angle. Don't know if that helps.
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molly talking about the brail pattern, and how you ARE NOT supposed to see brail but feel it it's the CUTEST thing ever
Ah Molly, I’m sighted and through watching your videos I’ve come to appreciate my sight so much more. Sometimes I remember this throughout my day to day activities. It’s truly crazy. Also I’ve lost the majority of hearing in my one ear when I was 5 so I have experienced the impact of some kind of disability in my life, it affects me everyday (it’s not like it isn’t there at all) even though it’s only in my one ear. Anyway, you give me major life lessons but I watch all your videos particularly for your fun personality and good energy! Have a nice day!!❤️
I love these videos because it really makes you think about all the different ways light interacts with objects.
Sighted people see clear things because of how the light bends for example.
You should see the walk through exhibit of Van Gough. You get to experience his art through light and they re-create his art so that you can walk through and interact with the places and things he painted
This is very eye opening as a sighted person (no pun intended). Things I don’t ever think about. Which makes me happy that companies are starting to reach out to blind people and people with other disabilities to help them create these apps and things.
As someone who loves the stars so much I studied them at university, it makes me sad to think you have never seen them. The tiny twinkles smaller than fairy lights in a random scatter across the sky that humans have made shapes and stories from for eons. It is so beautiful. It is peaceful- probably because to see them properly you have to go somewhere in the country away from other lighting. It feels magical to see them and know they are so far away and yet a lot of them burn brighter than the sun, which is why we can see them. Also it's wild to think that the light took hundreds of years to travel across space in order for you to be able to see them.
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I felt better when you told us awhile back that fully Blind ppl don't see "black", but "nothing." It's one of those things that always made me sad that Blind ppl were always seeing black really scared me on their behalf.
I still can’t wrap my head around what seeing ‘nothing’ is.
@@stephanie7142 I wonder if it could sort of be compared to when a part of your body goes completely numb. It's not like there's necessarily an overriding sensation, it's that there's no sensation...no input to your brain and so no awareness of touch.
If someone in the comment section here is blind, could you tell me if that makes sense?
I think the thought of only seeing black is scary to sighted people because, to us, darkness is scary because one of our main senses (sight) is either completely gone, or at least significantly impaired. We're not used to having to depend on other senses to navigate, so having our sight compromised is scary and confusing to us. I would think a blind person wouldn't have the same fear toward black, because their sight would be compromised (or completely missing) with any colour.
@@stephanie7142 Right? My dumb ass is like, what does nothing look like?? 🤣
@@stephanie7142 It's pretty impossible to understand unless you have been born with it. I mean, there are people who have lost all of their site later in life, but it isn't quite the same. It's just a concept that is not possible to convey through words. The only way I could think of to convey something like that is through a mind meld or telepathy, but we haven't evolved to that yet. But I think all these difference in perspectives make life fascinating. TH-camr Joy Ross talks about the concept of not having any site anymore, yet for her, it's like a gray fog. Whereas for me, light and darkness in the way that people understand it just doesn't exist.
I have WALKED into glass doors and am fully sighted. I never realized how important size was until I found you however.
I geuss specifically we don't see water itself, we see the reflection of the light that bounces off of it and gives it shape and colors
Textures cast shadows so we can see how many shadows, the shapes of them, how deep they are and it helps us determine texture without touch. And yeah, fur is the same.
As an autistic person, I stopped the video to find out what Google has for autistic adults. They actually have a Google Cloud hiring program for autistic persons specifically where they are giving accommodations in the interviewing process to applicants be it more time for the interview, not expecting us to look them in the eyes (that is huge) or even letting autistic people do their interview in writing in Google docs! Oh and give us the questions ahead of time so that we can prepare and not be taken by surprise, because you know we don't like surprises! This is so huge! I didn't see any apps aimed at us, but that doesn't mean they don't have them. Oh, and Stanford University has a program to help employers to create hiring programs that will employ autistics too! Thank you Molly for sharing this sponsor with us! I know, they are paying you to do so, but this is so helpful!
You know what we CAN see that we rarely do? THOSE CUTEST FRECKLES!
You should a video on things sighted people don't notice but you do because you pay more attention to your other senses. Sure some baffle you too. Sort of like you understanding the 10x faster voice (Talkback?) on your Phone.
"what do you mean see braille? of course not, you feel it" hahahaha awwww that made me laugh and shows your innocence when you were younger :)
Great video! My brother and I watched it together. We learned, we laughed. Great time all around. Thank you Molly!
Thanks for sharing Molly! This was definitely relatable as I am legally blind myself and can’t see things like bugs, rain, etc and I am always so shocked by what people can see! love your videos 💕
Your videos like this are my favorite because you navigate the world so differently. All these things sighted people see, they just are to us like breathing, but when you as a blind person have to have them explained to you you have to try to imagine what that would actually look like. The perspective is wildly different. Thank you for sharing.
I love when you do these videos!! Make a whole series bc it’s one of my favorites!!! Love you Molly!
When I bought my dog doggy ice cream the other day I saw the braille label on the side before I even picked it up and immediately commented how cool the braille was for all the people with seeing eye dogs. I didn't even think about how I recognize braille by sight, not feel.
Wow! This video was so fun, interesting and wholesome. The thing about sunglasses is true. With really dark or mirrored pairs, you can't see the person's eyes. With lighter ones you can. I also get the texture thing. I am kinda nearsighted, I can see a tree from far away, I can't see the individual leaves. With glasses, it's a totally different experience. I am also a tactile person. I can see the texture, to really experience it, I have to touch it. I know it's comparing apples to zebras, not really the same thing. Thank you for sharing.
Okay, so recently Molly, at the age of 39, I found out I have something called Aphantasia and once I realised I was basically like you in disbelief that others saw the world in a different way to me. Basically what it is is that although I am sighted I have no visual memory. Apparently when most sighted people close their eyes and think of something, like say for example their mother they get a visual image in their minds eye (some people get clearer images than others) and "see" an image in their head of that person. I do not get this it is just completely black for me and instead I can recall facts I know and feelings I felt and that is how I assumed everyone was but apparently not.
A great video I would love to watch from yourself would be how you recall memories seeing as you cannot get the visual input in the first place... I can only assume it would work similar to me memories of facts and feelings but very curious if that is true or if anyone else can explain either I would be interested.
That's interesting, didn't know such a thing existed. So do you recognize people you know by sight? Could you pick them out at a line up?
@@limiv5272 Yeah I didn't know it existed before either...
Your question is a very good one and I wonder about it myself. People I know well of course I know recognise them, it's hard to explain but it is more that I remember things I have learnt about them and associate with that person and it counts on much more than visual input to do this. The answer to would I recognise in a line up..i think that it would really depend, here is an example... A courier droped off a package a few weeks ago, I was in the middle of a works meeting on my computer, my dogs started barking and I had to go answer the door which I did in a rush took the package off the guy, signed something, said thank you and shut the door... If the police later asked me to pick him out of a line up something may make that guy subconsciously seem more familiar to me but given that a line up is of people who are very similar I would not trust my memory/feeling to give a definitive answer...all I remember about the guy is he was wearing a DHL uniform and had dark hair!
Now if it was my regular post lady in a line up, who I have seen quite often over years then that would be much easier as my brain has had a lot more time to collect information, and would probably be able to pick her out.
But again if I close my eyes to try to picture them I don't see a visual image. How about you, now that you know about it...close your eyes and think about someone you know well, does an image pop up in your minds eye... scale 0-10 where 0 = complete black and 10 = fully formed clear picture.
I am a 0
@@clairebarnes_162 I'd say for people that I know well the quality and detail of my mental image is a 9. Not perfect, but very close to what they look like in real life. I'm very visual and have an active imagination that includes mostly images and other visual things, almost like movies I make up in my head. It's hard for me to imagine it being any other way.
As for the delivery guy, I don't think many people would remember a face after such a short and meaningless interaction. I definitely wouldn't.
I found out some years ago. I always thought people are making up stuff when they did like guided meditation with the classic imagine a deserted beach or a pleasant place but they actually "see" these things inside, totally baffled me. (I have btw one daughter whose mind is also blind and one who is "normal", it's a wild ride lol) I have an outstanding memory, facts too but especially memories that are connected with sounds, scents and feelings. I only figured out through Molly's descriptions though, that I don't see black when I try to imagine something, it's literally just the absence of everything, so kinda not black, because black would be something for me. It was actually as enlightening as finding out that aphantasia existed.
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To me, I'm usually able to visualize people I know in my head. I even get frustrated when I want to remember someone's face, but I can't. But even though I can do that, I wouldn't be able to draw them from imagination. Like, the same way if you ask me to draw Spongebob from imagination it will end up looking sort of like Spongebob, but there will be something about it that would be wrong and I wouldn't be able to tell what it is exactly. Drawing from imagination only really works for more general stuff (like a random face, a random car) or for stuff you're used to drawing, and I wonder why I can't draw a person from imagination if I have a clear image of them in my head. It must be that my brain doesn't store all the detailed information needed. Still I would be able to look at different drawings of someone I know and be like: Oh, this one is better than that one.
As for the lineup, I wouldn't be able to recognize someone I've met just once, I would just remember one or two features about them. I would prefer not to pick someone on a lineup, because studies have shown it's not a reliable method and it usually reflects people's prejudices.
Love learning about you and how you have overcome your challenges.
It's amazing how there are so many perspectives in how people see things. It really intrigued me, when she asked how you could see water, or glass if it's clear.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. As a seeing person that was really interessting to me. The seeing in the dark thing is that there is mostly still light but so little that it is really hard to see. I liked your comparison to seeing people being not really able to read braille with their fingers. Maybe seeing in the dark is somewhat similar to when braille is flatter or was made on thinner paper - it is just much harder to see in the dark as it would be to much harder to feel less pronounced braille? THat is how I would imagine it.
Some of these things I relate to, being a visually impaired individual. I’ve walked into glass doors many times thinking nothing is there, lol! I can tell a glass door is in front of me if there’s a door handle or a pane on the piece of glass. I can only see rain drops if there’s good color contrast behind them, when falling.
This video made me realize how different everyone of us are in our experience of the world. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for sharing how we might see things and enjoyed your reaction to seeing things
Love learning about you 😍
This is so mind-blowing for me as a seeing person! (I mean without glasses I'm pretty lost but not at all blind in any form) What I can't fathom is how good you are at felling/touching and tell what it is! Me trying to fell braille is just a nightmare 😂 All I sense is bumps, no pattern, no connection... This video is so interesting!
First time watching - very entertaining! And educational - water - you can't see it - you see the shades of it when it moves ... you see reflections against it - and so whilst clear, the movement is very visible .
Glass doors - you see reflection - you see slight reflection against the glass which makes it visible
The best I can explain water and doors and windows is yes they are seen because they are somewhat reflective and distort light a bit as well
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I myself am visually impaired and have seen Mollys other videos, some things that I find surprising that I can’t see are things like, sing into cars or houses, seeing all the details on people’s faces or seeing signs on the side of the road when you drive past. My vision impairment is actually caused by the brain and the connection from my brain to my eyes so for me everything up close I can see pretty clearly, things like colours or light or water I’m still able to see, but I do think it’s interesting the amount of things fully sighted people can see and how crazy it is to be able to see into people‘s homes or all of the super textual stuff, I’m still able to see details like patterns on fabric, but only up close. The amount of things fully sighted people see you on a daily basis is just so crazy, the amount of colours that exist the amount of things you can see from such far distances away, like Being able to see signs when driving past in the car or seeing someone waved to you through their car window.
I‘m a sightie and I read braille by feel. When I first heard about it, I wanted to learn it the „correct“ way, how it was intended. So I bought a braille pad and stylus and punched an alphabet sheet for reference and lots of words on index cards. At some point I started to go through them at night after turning off the light. Now I often take quick notes at night on my braille pad so I don‘t have to turn on the light.
(And I may or may not have had notes in my pocket for an important presentation.)
Your Google ad was fascinating! Learned a lot. I almost forgot we were listening to a sponsorship because of your genuine interest in the product!
Everything has a different reaction to light which helps us see the difference between textures and things like water or glass. At night things are just dimmed as the moon and street light is a dimmer light source than the sun . I think like tint depends on the opacity of the tint like Molly’s mom stated. Very interesting to hear from your perspective.
This is one of my favorite videos!!! You are so funny!!!! Love watching you! BTW if you wear mirrored sunglasses, anyone looking at you will instead be seeing themselves 👍
A sighted person here. I had just cleaned a large glass sliding door/wall, that was usually kept open during business hours. I did such a good job cleaning it that I walked right into it, smashed my nose, knocked down, stunned myself, and broke my glasses. Soon afterward the owner of the shops had red dots installed on the doors. Being how I was the one who had cleaned the windows, was extra embarrasing,
Yes! I am so with you on most of these! I have an efficient that I can see braille, and I can sometimes see water. Like, coming out of a Fossett. I can also see it move.
Another thing I’m always surprised by that sites people can see, the pores on your face.
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Before I clicked the video the first thing I thought you would talk about was water and it was in the intro🤣🤣 honestly I get it
This is so interesting!!! Thanks for sharing
Thank you for putting all this into perspective! It´s interesting and nice to know how other people percieve the world.
just commenting for the algorithm, loved the vid!
i love your videos! I can see most things but i struggle with small things and I also know how the sixe 18 font as a child i couldnt see size 12 well. have you ever thought of using Braille to see the stars? you could ask a sighted person to map the star systems out in Braille or in tactile gemstone stickers then you could feel how the stars look?.
One interesting thing about water is that as you get deeper in a body of water, the colours you can see change. In the top few meters, you can see all colours, but very quickly you can't see reds, and as you go deeper the amount of the colour spectrum decreases until you can only see blues/greens, and eventually no light passes through so it just looks black. Because it's about wavelengths of light passing through water though, if you bring a dive torch and shine it on something you can see all the colours again
When I got my glasses as a child I was so amazed with seeing stands of grass, carpet strands, and leaves on trees!
I'm sighted and have walked straight into a glass/screen door before lol. It can happen under certain lighting conditions.
Most of the time though, these "clear" objects like water and glass will still refract or reflect some light in a way that they can be noticed. Like say you have an object that is partially obscured by water. You can see the object through the water, but it will be disjointed and skew slightly from the rest of the object that isn't obscured by water. This is refraction and its caused by a change in the speed and direction of the light wave as it is passing through another medium (in this case, passing through water versus passing through just the air).
Glass things like windows or a glass cup will usually have imperfections like smudges or a bend that will reflect the light and make it visible from the air around it.
As for the sun.. most of the time I would say that yeah its just a MUCH bright glow than other things in the sky. You're not supposed to look directly at it, but if you manage to do that or maybe see it through something that dims it slightly, then you can see that its just a very bright yellowish white sphere in the sky.
I can relate to not being able to see small distant objects though. I have 20/400 vision when I'm not wearing corrective lenses. When I got glasses for the first time I was amazed that you could see the individual leaves on trees or the individual blades of grass. Before then, they were just blobs of green lol
How do you part your bangs apart like this and keep them out of your face, even though they are so short? Sometimes I have a bad bangs day and I can't do this to them.
Edit: One more thing to add.. if you wear mirrored glasses, they're best for hiding your eyes. All we see on the other side is a mirror of ourselves.
I love this content! Such a relatable but positive video 💕
My school always made us use size 11 font, I had to have it a lot bigger and then size it down😂. My mom has stargartz and can't read anything anymore because the text doesn't get printed big enough. Thank you for sharing this with the world Molly, it is so appreciated.❤❤
Welll i cant really see raindrops.. but im also partially sighted 😂
Edit: i have also walked into glass doors before lol and i cant see stars either. And the sun? Its just a very painful white circle in the sky
Also, my mobility teacher who has 100% sight, she can read braille by feeling it, so not ALL lol!
I’m sighted and learned braille by touch (and sight)
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I've walked into glass doors before, fully sighted. Yesterday I even checked to make sure there was still glass in a door window at my work because it looked so clear. So the cleanliness of the glass does play a part in being able to see it.
The only way I can compare water would be like feeling wind. Air is imperceptible until there is a gust of wind, and then we feel it. Water reflects light, so a drop has edges and causes shadows we can see, and the rest of the drop reflects/distorts light
By the way I have fun with you I love your videos and I’ve said before you’re my favourite TH-camr
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Hey molly as a visually impaired person I can still see light just some respect I noticed that it’s bright outside if you know it is a lot of sunlight and just that’s right no there’s like outside it’s just that’s me
I’m also visually impaired, I have watched other videos like this that Molly has made in the past and while I do agree on somethings like seeing into cars or houses, which I also have never been able to do things like seeing colours or light or water I cannot obviously still see and I think it’s interesting how different people can see different things, for me my vision impairment is actually caused by the brain so everything up close I can see pretty clearly it’s only when things are far away that it becomes more challenging or faces or words so something that’s been shocking to me is being able to see big signs or people‘s faces and detail.
Hello, Molly! Science teacher here.
What makes sighted people see "see-through" things is the difference in density of the said see-through objects. When a thing is denser, it can bend light in such a way that it creates a visual difference, just like how you would feel a different texture when you feel different types of fabrics. So, for glass and water and the air around these two objects, they have different densities. Air does not bend light much so it look clear to us; water can bend it a little so at its surface, we see a dark boundary where the water level is, and glass does not bend it much except around the tips where the light is concentrated so it has a dark edge too. If these dark edges are not visible, we also don't see them and a lot of sighted folks still walk through glass doors to the point that glass doors had to be labelled with a "Caution: Glass door" because glass does not bend light so much that it does not create a visual difference.
Basically, the density of the see-through material and its ability to bend light are what allows us to see the see-through objects!
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I have walked into glass a few times in my life if its very clean (and i am fully sighted) but what helps usually if its dirty you can see streaking you can see dust maybe and you can see reflections as well depending on where the light is
so true, never thought seeing water was something weird because thats my normal. it's refreshing to hear other peoples point of view in life, and to learn that the things i take for granted isn't so obvious to everyone else. 😊
I always think of how my when my friend got glasses, she said "OH can you see the individual leaves on trees????". From that day I use that as a measurement for my own vision: Can I see individual leaves? Then I'm probably still fine without glasses.
Thanks for sharing Molly! It’s really interesting to learn about things in the blind community & simple but profound things sighted people see. I learned a lot!
I’m sighted, but I also have Dyslexia and other learning disabilities. I also have to have my service dog for PTSD & medical alert.
I got some rough stuff going on, but it’s definitely different from being blind.
Love your content & of course Your Guide dogs & miss Lavender! ❤️