I wonder if there’s anyone out there who can’t see their nose at all?
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Are your eyes at the same level as the bottom of your nose? Are you Stevie from family guy?
Stewie. Not stevie.
My wife has a notably tiny nose, like can’t wear sunglasses without the pads that stick out or they fall off, and she can still see some of the bottom of her nose. So someone seeing nothing at all would have an incredibly small nose.
I can absolutely see the same as what you see there. The brain’s pretty good at blocking stuff out like that in general. Between my nose and my glasses frames, it’s amazing how I mostly go through the day ignoring impeded vision.
Add to that the blind spot right in the middle of each eye that the brain just kind of doesn’t care about. It’s pretty amazing, but it’s also useful for thinking about consciousness and what it isn’t. I.e., the missing info isn’t like a hole in the screen of a movie. Unrepresented info just… isn’t. That can help us get over the misconception of a “mind’s eye” that’s somehow watching the movie of your inputs playing out in your brain (which, logically, was always just a “turtles all the way down” trap/fallacy, anyway).
Your blind spots aren’t in the middle of each eye. They’re offset or else you wouldn’t see what you’re looking directly at. You wouldn’t be able to read. In fact, the center of your eye is the fovea which has the highest density of cones in the eye.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovea_centralis
The blind spot is where the optic nerve enters your eye.
There are online tests that show you where your blind spots are. It works even on your phone, but you have to hold your phone just 3-4 inches from your nose, not the 10-12" like on a monitor. It’s fun to see the circle completely disappear.
https://lasikofnv.com/blog/try-these-three-fun-tests-to-find-your-visual-blind-spot/
I get visual migraines and the onset of one presents as a blind spot right in the center of my vision, and I can’t read. It’s interesting to watch it evolve and see what my brain fills it in with. At first it just looks like your regular blind spots. My brain fills it in with surrounding colors, but as it expands and moves off to the side, it becomes a shimmering, crystalline, spiral rip in the universe.
Do you have two noses on either side of your face or something?
How many eyes do you have?
Do you have a single eye directly above your nose?
I can’t see my nose at all.
I don’t really understand the image you shared, but I would imagine that people with flatter noses might see them less than those of us with pointier noses.
Close your left eye and notice your nose in relation to your bedroom. Now close your right and do the same. Now take a picture of your bedroom and draw the two sides of your nose roughly how they looked with each eye closed.
My nose blocks the lower third of your picture. It’s amazing how our brains just ignore it isn’t it.
If I look straight ahead, I don’t see any part of my nose. I don’t know if that is because it’s small enough that it does not cross my vision, or if I am merely so accustomed to it I can’t even actively see it without actually pointing my eyes at it.
Simply put: Your brain has learned to ignore it completely, or nearly completely.
The simplist and probably inaccurate way I can show this: Look to your left and right with both eyes. You might see something of your nose, though it mostly appears invisible. Now close one eye and look in the direction of your nose. You can see it, as you would expect. So it’s there and quite in the way.
Now close one eye and look in the direction of your nose. You can see it, as you would expect. So it’s there and quite in the way.
If I just look left and right without also looking down, I still don’t see my nose. I see the bridge; but not the rest of it.
Look over your nose, not down at the floor
I can barely see it if I look forward. If I look down though it takes up the entire side edge of my vision.
