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You are definitely experiencing things differently from me. There is no question or ambiguity for me that I am 'seeing' something in my mind. It is nearly as c
by blindmute 5y ago
You are definitely experiencing things differently from me. There is no question or ambiguity for me that I am 'seeing' something in my mind. It is nearly as close to seeing as I do with my eyes; there is no way that if you had this sense you would be unaware of it. I am not seeing the blackness of my eyelids at all. I'm completely unaware of the blackness. I'm seeing something as though it were in my vision. I can rotate it around and view it from any angle. It's as though the vision processor gets unplugged from the eyes and gets plugged into some part of the brain; different input source, but the output, that of experiencing sight, is nearly the same.
I expect that the clarity of this sense varies on a spectrum, with some people low enough that they don't have it at all, and others kind of having it but not very clear. I expect that the latter group are the ones commenting things like "I'm not sure if I count or not." But from what I can tell, I'm toward the higher end of clarity, and the sense is by no means uncertain.