If I pulled my eyeballs out of their socket & turned them to face each other, what would I see?

Question

The above questions assumes that you forget about pedantic stuff like lighting levels etc...

How would my brain react in terms of processing that information?

What I mean is without severing the optic nerve (THAT COMES UNDER REMOVING PEDANTIC STUFF) get one optic nerve to basically look into the other optic nerve thus looking into itself. Both eyes would need to be directly touching and again, forget about lighting etc. I am purely asking about the principal.

Blood on your hands etc. also counts as pedantic stuff for gods sake. People are so damn serious!

Answer 1

In fact, the optic nerves would still likely function, and the blood on theeyeball woudl *not* block vision-only perhaps make it pinkish. THe strain on the optic nerve might cause severe pain and/or light flashes.
Assuming that the eyes worked perfectly (which anyway is fairly likely), they would see an process whatever they were looking at-so yes, your eyes would see each other, andyour brain would process that as it would normall-If you have ever looked through a small hole with just one eye-say, a microscope, then your eyes were getting completely different views...you can think of many times when your eyes were focused on totally different things, and yet your brain didn't get scrambled or confused...it went with the view that *you* were interested in- The brain will make dominant the view from the eye that you are focused on-so, if you are looking through a microscope, you see (with the micro eye) a slide of a leaf-but with the other eye you see the side of the microscope and the table- YOur brain brings the leaf side to the top, and enhances it over the other, because it is what you are interested in. If you took your eyes out and faced them to each other, you would get two views of eyeballs-your brain wouldnt scramble or freak, it would just switch dominant views based on you attention at that second.

And I absolutely guarantee the optic nerve would NOT seperate from the eye itself- I've had to dissect these before and they are attached extremely well- I have also had the misfortune of being with a guy who had the orbit of his eye broken, and his eyeball bulged out-he could see with it fine, though it hurt horribly, and once the eye was put back in , there was no permanent damage

Answer 2

When I was younger I had a friend who had an accident which basically entailed his eyeball coming out of his socket. He didn't damage the optic nerve in anyway so there wasn't any real damage and the hospital just put it back in again. Anyway, he said that when it came out it hung down onto his cheek and so one eye was looking straight ahead whilst the other one looked at the floor and he couldn't control it. The result was that he was sick because his brain got very disorientated.
I guess in your scenario you would simply see into the back of the other eyeball (which would be black). If there was some light shone into both then you would see the light reflecting from the retina (like cats eyes in the dark).
I don't think it would be very remarkable, but because you brain is designed to translate the information from each eye into a 3D image, assuming that they are in the right place (i.e. several cms apart), the resulting image would be double vision (like when you go cross eyed).
This would obviously confuse the brain and you'd feel very disorientated and sick.

Answer 3

Assuming you had normal vision, and the eyes continued to focus near infinity after pulling them out (yes, pedantic stuff), and they were lined up accurately,
then each would see the fovea of the opposite eye in the centre of its vision appearing in focus infinitely far away. This would be surrounded by retina.

Your brain would however only see one fovea, which would have a double vision appearance, as they would not be identical, being near mirror images. Your brain would be confused as it would not understand why it could not correlate the two different images properly. Possibly the single image in your dominant eye would take over.

Given that the brain at any instant actively sees only a very small arc of view, you would in fact presumably see only the fovea of each eye. The brain sees a "wide" view by constantly moving the eye to hunt around the scene. It is not like a camera where all parts of a wide image are recorded simultaneously. Only changes and movements get our attention in the periphery of our vision. As the eyes are presumably static there would be no changes in the scene and so you would only be aware of only the fovea in the centre.

If you look through a (direct) ophthalmoscope set to zero dioptres, you are essentially looking along an illuminating beam of light through an empty hole, and you are automatically focused at infinity on the retina.
Similarly if you faced two identical cameras lens to lens, one with film in, and the other with the back open and for example a transparency at the film plane, you could photograph the transparency reproduced at 1:1 magnification.

Are you asking about the principal or the principle? NOW I am getting pedantic.

Answer 4

Nothing. The optic nerve would separate from the retina.

*supposing* that didn't happen, you would see a very blurry image of 2 superposed eyes. There would be no visual feedback, like if you point a video camera at a screen, for the simple reason that neither of your eyes acts as a display screen.

Answer 5

Oww! I hate eye ball things. I think your brain would short circuit having tore the optical nerve. My husband was borned with crossed eyes. The doctor screwed up his surgery and the brain just shut off that eye. As he is an organ donor, if that eye was transplanted into someone else, they would see.

Answer 6

Take 2 tubes through which you can look thru with only
1 eye each. Then hold each one up to one eye and look in the
mirror. Direct the tubes to look at the opposite eye in the
mirror and move closer and farther until you only see the
eye. I just tried it.

Answer 7

You would see your own soul since the eyes are the windows to the soul and then your brain would explode taking out the whole city.

Answer 8

Brains will signal your hands to let the eyes return to normal position. If your brain is with you in the darkness

Answer 9

You'd see what you decided to focus on. The brain would sort it out in the same way as when you go cross-eyed. It's good like that.

Answer 10

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