Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

functional blindness is so weird as a concept. like, my left eye can see! it’s busted as fuck, don’t get me wrong, it’s about as farsighted as it’s possible to be, but it does have some shitty vision! signals are actually reaching the visual cortex!!

but my brain was like “nah pal it’s shite, we’re just going to use your right eye and turn that left one off! unless you close your right eye, I guess, but that is going to HURT for more than a few seconds and also we will try to use your closed right eye anyway so the back of your right eyelid will be superimposed on everything”

and then I put on a VR headset and my brain goes “oh fuck this visual input doesn’t make sense unless we use the left eye signals too, uh… okay cool I guess we turn it back on so we can play Beat Saber”

and THEN, off comes the headset and the brain is like “oh hey! actually there’s some useful input coming in from the left here! keep it going I guess!”

and I was sitting there in my parents’ dining room poking a chair and crying because I COULD SEE DEPTH for the first time in my life