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  Scrolled to find this...why did CO single out the ears? You pretty much can't see anything on your own face
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  Mr Orange would like a word… >
  
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  genuinly started humming this while I waited for the comments to open. Was pleased to find you here. >
  
  Oh you wish that were true but everything can be cut of/out and shown to your eyeballs. >
  
  except the both of your eyeballs >
  
  Well pull one out and point it at the other. >
  
  but that’s your eye not your eyeballs >
  
  Then what r your eyeballs if not your eyes? >
  
  yh but eyeball is for when it’s out of the socket right? (im not english so sorry if im mistaken) >
  
  I think eyeballs can leave the socket and still be attached to the optic nerve in some cases, so it's technically possible. >
  
  Definetly possible and not so uncommon in medicine.
  For example it happens in some industries that people get metal splinters into their eyes and they can wander to the backside of the eyeball. In the hospital they then scoop out your eyeball and remove the splinter before putting it back in >
  
  I imagine it like a charging cable >
  
  i did not need to know this information in my life >
  
  I’d argue that things that are reflected are still “seen”.
  Everything you see day to day is refracted to some extent, and we still consider that we can see things properly.
  I don’t see why reflection should be treated differently. >
  
  Obviously reflections show the thing being reflected, but I think what OP means is you can’t actually see it with your own eyes. Mirrors can be distorted, cameras can be inaccurate, etc. It doesn’t necessarily make a difference in this situation, but reflection’s definitely don’t always look 100% like the original >
  
  Nor does anything since all light is distorted before getting to your eyes, be it reflection or refraction.  You have never, and will never, see something that is 100% accurate to the original.  Even air distorts light that passes through it. >
  
  Well, true, but that’s exactly what “see it with my own eyes” means. The best we can do to see a “true” image is to see it with our own eyes, even if our eyes are technically flawed, that’s still how we see. >
  
  I don’t think there anything about “see it with my own eyes” that discounts reflections.  
  The idiom just means to see something yourself, especially when it is something that you would not believe to exist or be true if you did not see it. >
  
  I see your point, and respectfully agree to disagree lol, seeing something with your own eyes is definitely the best way to see a “true” image, and while the phrase can be used to dismiss something “unbelievable” I’ve also heard it used when something doesn’t look quite right, could be a picture, a reflection, etc. You can’t undisputedly know for sure what something looks like unless you see it with your own eyes. Think of “funhouse” mirrors, we know that they intentionally distort images, but there’s no way to tell (hypothetically) that a standard mirror isn’t distorting at some small amount. I’m only defending this post because I’ve absolutely seen reflections of things and had to turn around for a proper look to be sure what I saw. I agree the post is being intentionally thick, because obviously we can see a near perfect reflection of ourself, but it’s true we can’t really tell what we look like from real eyes >
  
  I get you, you make a good point too! I’m mostly just exaggerating my opinion to poke fun at the original post >
  
  Yeah it’s a dumb post, but the old argument of “is a reflection a real image” is definitely a valid debate lol >
  
  If a person has really shitty eyesight and sees something blurry in the distance but then puts on glasses which allows them to see the same object similar to those with 20/20, what would be the real image to you? >
  
  Well corrective lenses are very different than a reflection of an image, but I see your point, I don’t think a reflection could do anything except distort the image, even if only microscopically, corrective lenses are just meant to balance out imperfections in your eyes >
  
  Did anyone else try pulling their ear in front of their eyes >
  
  I was so sure I was going to be able to see it.. >
  
  That’s not true.. somebody could always cut them out and show them to you..
  What you will never use is both your eyes at the same time >
  
  If you go close enough to a black hole, or any sufficiently curved spacetime, light from your ears can take a "straight" path to your eyes. >
  
  You better hope that remains true because otherwise you will have quite problem >
  
  Quiet problem >
  
  r/angryupvote >
  
  I suspect that there are people who've stretched their ear lobes with earrings, etc. that could see part of the lobes. >
  
  Related shower thought: you never see anything except photons. >
  
  There could be a tiny vampire on my ear and i’d never see it >
  
  nah, you'll be fine. we don't use silver in mirrors anymore. >
  
  I didn’t know that  was ever a thing and also why is that what makes you not able to see them. I am not up to date on vampire lore sadly >
  
  silver has anti magic properties. it kills werewolves also. the vampires image gets destroyed by the silver backing of the mirror.
  or something like that. >
  
  that’s actually pretty interesting. I have learned something today >
  
  Your definition of seeing something is very weird. And also wrong?
  Seeing something is just the reflection of Light hitting your eyeballs. That reflection could hit a mirror first, I don't care, it's still the reflection of light from my ears. >
  
  Idk why but that made me sad.. you are right…I will never see my actual ears ☹️ >
  
  ...the same is true for so many parts of our body
  What's your point? >
  
  Let’s add a caveat: Hopefully.
  Hopefully you’ll never see you’re own ears. >
  
  Yeah, or your eyes or face, so what?
  I think it's at least more impactful that we never see our own face vs our ears. One is a lot more important for a lot of things, including self-image.
  Also looking into a mirror is not much different from looking directly, although mirrored image of course, if it's a decent mirror. But our own image could be considered a mirrored image, which doesn't matter all that much when talking about most people's ears, but does matter when talking about our face.