conuly

I'm legally blind but almost as sighted as you can be while still being legally blind. 20/200 in the left eye. Not much depth perception though, as the right eye is far worse. Went blind in my 20s. I've noticed since then that the visual quality of my dreams has decreased. Plus, sometimes in dreams I specifically xan't see things because of my vision problems; they're too far away now, too blurry. That could be adapting psychologically, but even when the dreams include no blindness-anxiety, they seem to be adapting to my new lessened vision.

I also am forgetting what it was like to see far better than I can. Vision seems to be a particularly tricky thing. It seems like unless you have active anomalies like floaters, you adjust to whatever vision you have so it feels totally normal. It feels like the amount of vision any person would have. It feels natural. I think this is part of why so many people I know vividly remember their first pair of glasses. But likewise, you adjust too smoothly. I think this is why driver's don't always realize when their visual abilities have become too poor. There's something in the brain that just goes - this is the way it is, don't even realize it's a big thing.

Sudden changes are always noticeable, but slow ones, I fear, are frighteningly easy to miss.

But basically, my point is that I'm not surprised that a sighted person gone blind could forget vision.