HuntingBP
Tommy Edison, who was born blind, talks about his understanding of vision, what impresses him about sight, and one fear that’s motivated by blindness.
Directed/Edited by Ben Churchill
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“Killer Aggressive Hip Hop” by T-S-U Musik
“Adolescence” by Grizzly Beatz
“Life Is A Miracle” by The Tinkerbell Effect
“Giving Back” by Grizzly Beatz
“Score” by Jim Ross
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drawings are like 3d but just on a microscopic/miniature level.
Anyone else started seeing things after this to really appreciate it
Imagine there's another sense that none of us have that would blow our minds
Why do your eyes turn blue when you become blind (or are blind since birth)
This guy is amazing lol 💛
This is sad.
Vision is a sense that allows you to become aware of a distant object without needing to hear, smell or touch that object.
Now imagine we think we understand reality assuming that all of truth and reality has to fit in our mere 5 senses. . . . How childish of humanity.
omg i love this perspective. I think blind from birth people have many answers for humanity. Underrated.
This is the way I try to explain my idea of ghosts or angels or demons or gods or aliens or whatever you want to call them. But maybe there are things in the universe that are all around us, passing us by casually and we don't have the right senses to even know it's there.
Why is Tom's eyes closed? Throughout the whole video, his eyes remain shut.
P.S. I HAVE A SON AND A CAT
your a legend mate. all the love in the world
I love what he said about 3D and 2D at 2:29. It really puts into perspective how losing one's eyesight really takes away what it's like to exist in our dimension. He can't make sense of the 2D plane!
but sir…how do you know dark?
The way he says we truly have a gift makes me feel very bad. Like I've taken the smallest gifts for granted. 🥺
Most fascinating video ever.
I love you, your loved, I so wish with every fibre of my being you would get eyesight x
He answered the question perfectly
I love you
There are fish that can detect magnetism. And I think birds can do that too. I think sight is what detecting magnetism is for any human. We know there's a sense that can detect it, we even have some ways of measuring it. But we have no idea how it must feel to a fish.
I'm probably not qualified to suggest "better ways" to explain something to a blind person, but I always think it's good to appeal to the senses they already have and know and use them to explain senses they don't know. Just replace vision with sound.
So think of vision in the context of sound – it's almost like every object is constantly emitting very distinct noise that we can "hear" (see) and immediately know what it is. This sound also lets us know how far away those objects are relative to us OR other objects we "hear" – you actually have SOME version of depth perception through sound as well, for example, if you stand right up to a wall where you are nearly but not quite touching it with your nose and then just say "ahhhh" loudly, you will HEAR a difference, you will HEAR that there is a wall in front of you because you can hear how it's deflecting your "ahhh" back, and if you back away, the sound will change and you will know that there isn't a wall right in your face. Depth perception to sighted people is the same concept except it works at FAR distances.
I have ADHD which can also cause objects that you see every day to kinda blend into the background. You have no idea how many times I couldn't find something that was right in front of men because my brain automatically filtered out that item as unimportant. If i'm doing a task and i put an object somewhere, no less than a minute later i'll be looking for where i put the item because my brain completely erased the memory.
These recent comments from people who A) seem to think he's going to see your comments (even if he could see at all) and B) that somehow he makes these videos himself.
Well there's a good video… have a well-drawn, but simple, item (not those people who hundreds of random wispy lines outside the main outline of a cloud and call it part of the cloud, for example), that looks exactly like the real object. Have all the lines raised, and then see if Tommy can tell what the drawing is.
That is a pretty neat looking reel to reel tape recorder behind you in this video. Do you use it? Are you able to load a tape & play it on your own, or does someone put a tape on for you. I have about 5 reel to reel tape recorders. Most are for multitrack recording. Thanks for the video.
Hey man, your videos have always made me So happy!
You're incredible. Thanks for sharing 😊