An odd question
 

This has been freaking me out for some time.
Any feed back would be great.
If you removed your right eye from its socket and leaving the wires all hooked up.
You then held it just in front of the left eye( 5 or 10mm) facing each other.
Looking directly at each other.
What yould you see ? :confused:
How would the brain cope with this. :confused:

Not sure what made me think about it, now I cant stop. :(
Any ideas?

Well I do know if you look deep into a blondes eyes you will see the back of her head. :)

OK, that's disturbing.

If you gave it some thought I'm sure you could rig up a series of mirrors and find out.

Thanks, Rick. :D

Thats a good idea.
Not sure how to rig it up to get it close enough to the right eye. :confused:

2 mirrors at a 90° angle in front of your face would do it.

The deal is this, most folks have a dominant eye, and I believe that it's possible for the brain to make either eye dominant. So you would see whatever the dominant eye is seeing.

When you look through a telescope when studying the stars or when you fire a gun, you're only using one eye, but it's generally considered best practice to keep both eyes open.

focus on something, now put one hand a few inches out from your face in front of one of your eyes. You can still see and maintain your focus on the item that you only see with one eye. Your brain will mostly block out the fact that the second eye is just seeing your hand.

The brain is an amazing thing.

Either that, or it'll be like crossing the streams which as we all know, is very bad.

horrible drawing, but...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1321661337.jpg

You would see little but a blur because your eyes won't focus at 10mm.

Your parallax wouldn't be working.

Yes, but how would you know what eye was seeing the other?
You would see an eye, but what eye?
Or would it just be a fuzzy pic ? :confused:

I had a party buddy back in the day, who had a glass eye. When he would get wasted, ,he would take it out at the bar, and drop it in his beer, and then finish drinking it. Used to gross me out.
Sorry, that is all I have to add.

Good point.
What about at 15cm, so it can focus.
One eye facing the other, with a small pipe joining the two.
How would you know what eye was seeing what?
Its like some nightmare eye battle. :confused:

you would not see anything b/c eye removal shocks the brain to the extent that most people will fall unconcho to the floor; the brain will not process the information from the eye even if still concho

Ask a snail

He's an aussie, his brain is pickled....

:eek: That is the weirdest question I've ever heard. You need a hobby - something to keep your mind occupied.

Nothing wrong with asking hard questions.
My hobby is asking the hard questions and looking into it. :)
Othewise the brain is restricted to its content.

the wires would break...

Change of focus! Sorry I could not resist that. You know why love is blind? Because when you kiss somebody you close your eyes. I hope this thread ends here - on a lighter note. The above poster has mentioned that u need a hobby. I think that he is right.

Why do yuu feel that way?

What good would that accomplish?

Why would yuuu do that?

A bazillion questions. all messed up.

rjp

Thanks Webby.
Is this always the case? :)

You would see nothing.

The optic nerve is not long enough to reach your proposed location. It is stretched almost straight by the time your eyeball is prolapsed past the eyelids. By the time you get to the nose your optic nerve would be avulsed, leaving you with a blind eye and nasty pictures.

The optic nerve component lengths are 1 mm in the globe, 24 mm in the orbit, 9 mm in the optic canal, and 16 mm in the cranial space before joining the optic chiasm.

Pictures here: http://www.sarawakeyecare.com/Atlasofophthalmology/neuroophthalmology/Neuroophthalmologypicture16opticnerveavulsion.htm

Thanks.
The question was a bit hypothetical.
Any idea what you would see if the nerve was long enough? :)

When I read the OP I immediately thought of the aliens in Life of Brian.

Life of Brian-Aliens - YouTube

hehe :D:D:D
Nice job.

You'd see another eye. Whichever eye is dominant would be seeing the other eye. Both eyes would have an image of another eye so even if you switched back and forth you'd still see an eye.

Good point.
Not sure it would be that clear.
Still not sure how the brain would cope. :confused:
But I see your logic. :)

Unless you were a quite high myope (nearsighted) the view would be too blurred to distinguish much detail so depending upon skin and eye color you might perceive a dark spot against a lighter background but no appreciable detail. If you are somewhere past 40 age wise you might not even have enough accomodation for that and would mainly see the blurry surrounding facial coloration.

It is still anatomically impossible.

Thanks.
Thats a great reply. :)

Is marijuana legal in Australia?

No.

Dood, you need to get laid!!

T9

One is going to see portions of a hand.

I know a bloke who sneezed, popped his eye clean out and went to the doctor holding his eyeball in his hand. Doctor just popped it back in.

He shouldve had the presence of mind to answer this question....anyway, youve got a 930 -find out for yourself.

Let him know the question.
Just in case. :D

What an intriguing and fascinating question, Vas!

I figure the question itself and the line of thoughts leading up to it is arguably more interesting than any potential answer. There are probably just a few individuals on this forum, or anywhere else, whose brains would even come up with contemplating it. Does not surprise me that you turn out to be one of them and thats a compliment. You seem to have a very flexible, open mind. Ready to observe the world with the focus of a child's brain capacity, that is its not limited by or narrowed from what you have been taught or told or otherwise experienced. The more I ponder your question the more impressed and bewildered I get.
I don´t have an answer. On the surface, physiologically, I suppose Steve (masraum) is close. But I am thinking there could be a deeper layer of the experience looking into your own eye(s) that way. Seeing yourself on a more profound level as it were. Suddenly understand who you really are.

OK. I just woke up. No breakfast yet. Low blood glucose levels. :D

Why thankyou , Sir.
Kind words from a true gent. :)

I think that your brain would over whelm the removed eye. Meaning the subconscious would perceive the situation for what it is and the remaining intact eye would see the removed eye.

Eye. Eye.

Eye, Eye.

I YI YI.

I did say it was an odd question.
Thanks for the replies.