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So, a question...
This question is vaguely fanfic-related, and while writing I realized that it's a question I myself couldn't possibly answer. It's from a Xander-centered short that's been languishing for a while now, one that's set about an hour or two after "Chosen" at a rest stop...
Say you once had binocular vision but recently lost vision in one eye and are getting used to monocular vision. Someone who has had monocular vision for their entire life asks you, "What's it like, seeing with two eyes?"
I cannot possibly answer this. Up until a few years ago, I never stopped to really consider the difference. I had vision training very early on and was never very concerned about my depth perception (yes, War, I know your apartment can attest that it's not perfect, but still) or how the world must look to someone with two working eyes. I don't think someone with binocular vision can answer this unless they've experienced seeing with only one eye.
Any thoughts? The creativity demons are chomping on the bit for once.
Say you once had binocular vision but recently lost vision in one eye and are getting used to monocular vision. Someone who has had monocular vision for their entire life asks you, "What's it like, seeing with two eyes?"
I cannot possibly answer this. Up until a few years ago, I never stopped to really consider the difference. I had vision training very early on and was never very concerned about my depth perception (yes, War, I know your apartment can attest that it's not perfect, but still) or how the world must look to someone with two working eyes. I don't think someone with binocular vision can answer this unless they've experienced seeing with only one eye.
Any thoughts? The creativity demons are chomping on the bit for once.
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Not sure if this is going to be of any help at all Mandi, but, it might be worth mentioning, so here goes.
About two months ago, I put myself through a thirty minute experiment in monocular vision while hiking up a mountain where there was a lot of fallen rock, loose gravel, fallen trees, twigs, and other obstacles here and there.
With only one eye, I had to slow my pace considerably to allow enough time to carefully work the one eye to look far left and right, as well as to continually turn my head in order to have the full field of vision I am otherwise accustomed to. See, with two eyes, I can go a heck of a lot faster, because I've got the full field of left and right vision. But with only one eye, I required more than double the time to assure my mind that the next step I made would be a safe one.
I didn't want to sprain and ankle, slip and fall on loose rocks, get stabbed by protruding objects, or get noggin lumps.
I can certainly understand how you would have needed training as a young person because for me, using one eye was quite and adjustment, not to mention a wake up call.
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Poor Nicky. According to E!, he just checked himself into rehab for alcohol abuse. I wish him luck.
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