It does, your MBTI rating has a lot to do with how information is processed, including information processed through the Frontal Eye Fields, how imagination is used and visualized, etc.
And yes, I’m aware, we have a member blind, no eyes at all, she is used as a example occasionally. Doesn’t undermine my position, that observation isn’t restricted to a monochrome even in a impossed monochromatic world, externally in the case of controlling the light, or internally, with random lesions to your inner eye.
Reason why is, sight has much more to do with the interpretation of seeing, and maintaining this, than actually seeing. I can, for example, write a essay on musical composition with musical ear syndrome, even if I became completely deft… that music comes from my memory, new each time… but the music is encoded to learned rules… but it’s always The Best Music Ever for that kind of music (it’s true, look into musical ear syndrome). Deft people hear it, or people in strict isolation, like I was on guard often in the army. Its never just something you’ve heard, but a new formulation of music at it’s best. Someone like Mozart (if I recall, he went deft, might be thinking of someone else) might of always been at that high level, and not noticed after losing his hearing fantastic music playing… might of been normal for him, but for me, it is always great music. You’ll find this mentioned a lot on Musical Ear Syndrome pages. Not so for when the lack of sight forces images… they can come off as bizarre or outlandish.
I believe this eventually dies off in the completely deft and/or blind, as the brain adjusts to not needing that sense, so you gotta factor in Locke’s outlook of a person constantly in a state of change.
If you just poke your eyes, you’ll see flashes of light similar to hypnogogic hallucinations… not quite the same, but similar.
And yes, I know who you are, came across this thread long ago, found you online. When I saw you signed up again, brought it back. From my limited knowledge, you also have a background in the classics, you’ll find Aristotle wrote on the eye phenomena… I’ve recently been leaning back towards the idea (in a much modified fashion) of how Aristotle approached sense perception, since researching Hynogogic Hallucinations. I don’t do drugs, smoke, or drink… so it’s not artificially simulated. And naturally personality type differences that effect how your brain processes info will in turn mean your using parts of your brain others of a far different type don’t use as much. Its one of the side effects of why I notice this happening, I do believe, over those who can’t see anything at all, unless they are near sleep.
Optometrists tend to know a lot on this subject, even your small town doctors. I can’t see how this woman doing these tests in isolation, wouldn’t possibly notice her sensory system going into fluxuations. If she us trying to lust all phenomenal ranges, she would have to explain every oddity, traced back to it’s source. I’m holding my smartphone in the dark, I blink, IRS “light” bleeds into my sight.
I turn away, a largely white screen bleeds into Green. I see color. I close my eye near it, I see red. I close them, I see red, yellow, green.
If you start cutting out chunks of the mind though, or take someone blind from birth, this differs. Blind from birth people have occasionally sworn they see colors in a dream, but honestly, I doubt it. I seriously doubt you can just beam a image into their head via some scifi “wifi” and will notice any change at first. To us, it’s common sense, sight is right in front of us, but if you turned it in for no one who never had it before, even compensated with a chip for all the brain and neural degeneracy of never using that part of the mind… would they even know they are “seeing”, or would it not even register till some painful conditioned responses kicked in? Like waving in front of the face… feeling the air from the hand… then snaking them hard… then waving, smaking… a few dozen times, until that say “wait… something is odd, what is this… I’m not certain, I never noticed this before”.
It may take along time for them to descern the cardinal directions visually, despite knowing it haptically. Optical illusions would stump them. Staring at the sun will burn their eyes, all the while not knowing they are even looking at it… they may see it just their eyes hurt, and are getting watery, and they are blinking often, to everyone else sighted we would know they are starring at the sun.
It takes us a while as babies and even as children to get this. A grown adult with haptic equivalents should get it faster, but not at first.