SEEING

“The Secret of Seeing” The lights are off, visibility zero, you here a noise, you get up and fall over your table; now imagine that experience your whole life by being blind. There is more then what meets the eye when we refer to sight. The eye can be surgically trained to see but the mind can not identify the object if it has never been seen. When blind patients feel an object they know …showed first 75 words of 1053 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1053 total…restore, the brain must be trained. When a baby is born it matures along with the eyes and the brain. When a baby is born blind the brain forces itself to mature into identifying objects by touch and/or smell. For those individuals who choose to receive surgery to see, there a lot of things that are not “seen” after the surgery. Bibliography Works Cited Krist, John, “Learning to See The World”, Oxnard Star, February 22, 1996.