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> silence isn't silent Blindness isn’t “no sight” or pitch black, there’s visual snow. If you pay attention, you can always feel your muscles/joints. Sometime
by armchairhacker 8mo ago
> silence isn't silent
Blindness isn’t “no sight” or pitch black, there’s visual snow.
If you pay attention, you can always feel your muscles/joints. Sometimes I smell burnt popcorn, but not usually, but maybe that’s because smell is always present. Similarly always taste saliva.
Also see sensory deprivation experiments. We don’t seem able to experience “absence of sensation”.
- sonofhans 8mo agoThis is not analogous to tinnitus. I remember before and after tinnitus, and it’s as different from visual snow as real snow is from an ice pick in your ear.
- interloxia 8mo agoAs I fall asleep the blackness of what I see suddenly disappears. I would describe it exactly as the absence of sensation. Unfortunately my mild tinnitus doesn't stop at the same time.
- throwaway613746 8mo ago[dead]