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  What about when people go to sleep with their eyes open? They don’t seem to actually see and react to anything
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  Eyes just collect the visual data, the brain turns it into an image. Have you ever been watching TV but so immersed in thinking about something else that you can't even then recall what you've been watching the last few mins despite looking at the screen the entire time >
  
  You described my entire school period >
  
  Yeah and mine lol 
  This shower thought also made me think of hysterical blindness which sort of serves as an example. During ww2 some soldiers became so traumatized they would temporarily become blind, almost as if the brain just decided to stop processing the images (it just decided fuck this lol) >
  
  Wow seems horrible