What Color do we see when we close our eyes?

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asked Nov 20, 2020 in Science by BelleChen (870 points)
What Color do we see when we close our eyes?

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answered Nov 20, 2020 by smit303 (1,030 points)

The color we see when we close our eyes is black.

Although some people also see splashes of other colors when they close their eyes as well but when I close my eyes I see black.

Some people also see splashes of colors and flashes of light on a not quite jet black background when their eyes are closed.

This is a phenomenon called phosphene, and it boils down to our visual system which are our eyes and brains that don't shut off when denied light.

We can see our dreams when we are sleeping because our brains are what stores information and processes things we see.

When we are asleep our brain activity is nearly the same as when we are awake and our brain is actually was sees the things we see.

Our eyes are just a lens that takes in the things we see to allow our brains to see it.

We can see our dreams when our eyes are closed because the dream is in our brain.

We are basically seeing what happened before in our lives or what may happen in the future.

The brain is actually what processes what our eyes see and what we are seeing in our brain is already in our brain and not coming through our eyes.

Even blind people can see in their dreams.

The human eyes are just receptors for vision and help us see what we do so see but it's our brains that actually process that vision.

Our brain actually 'sees' whatever we see, eyes are just receptors for vision.

If we were to cut the connection between eyes and visual cortex in brain, or if there is damage to visual cortex in brain, a person would be blind despite having absolutely normal eyes!

Same way, even if someone has lost his eyes, he can 'see' things if visual cortex is stimulated artificially.

During dreams our eyes are not transmitting new information to brain.

It's just brain that takes up bits and parts from memory stores and 'sees' it as dreams.

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