Do you see black or nothing with your eyes closed?
2 min readByNeal White
When I close my eyes and try to imagine something, I see black, yet I can sense something hidden beyond the black “glass wall”. Nearly all my dreams are also black, but I can see images during my rare lucid dreams.
I have also seen “nothing” which is not the same as black (which is a color).
Some people that get migraines see “auras”. I have seen several types of auras, but this one only happened once: I lost ⅙th of my visual field, radiating out from the center, like a slice of pie, but the normally straight edges curved downward, sort of like a spiral. Moving my eyes did not affect the position of the missing wedge, but moving my head did. Most of the wedge had no color (or existence) at all. If I were to draw it, I'd use dark gray, but that's just an indicator, since I can't draw nothingness. Inside the wedge were straight lines that moved outward, frantically bouncing between the edges. The lines were red, yellow, or blue and so thin and sharp it almost hurt to look at them. Over the course of about 45 minutes, my normal vision faded back into view. I can still identify the exact center of my vision, at the center point of where the pie wedge was. There's a miniscule circular point there, which is visible under certain lighting conditions, now that I know where to look.
What do you see when you close your eyes?