Asklemmy

Think of sight kind of like hearing and sonar, but confined to a cone of detection that is almost 180 degrees wide, and maybe about 45 degrees up, and 45 degrees down. This field of vision is incredibly detailed at the center of focus, which is a spot around 6 degrees wide. Detail drops away rather quickly, the further away from your center of vision it gets. The visual information isn't missing, it's just not coming in at the same fidelity, like background conversation when you're listening to one person. You can get more information by shifting your gaze/focus as needed.

Imagine reading braille, but the pad of your finger is just a patch of skin in the middle of a large field of skin, like on your back. In order to read, you'd have to stick the entire page to your back, and then move that center of focus all over the page. You'd feel the braille all over your back and recognize it as such, but you'd only be reading that one spot. That's roughly what shifting your gaze is like.

Light is like loudness, in that too much of it hurts, and wipes out detail. When there is very little light, detail gets wiped out as well.

Think of the visible light spectrum like the notes of the musical scale, where the note F always sounds like an F, regardless of the octave. The colors do seem related to each other in a similar manner as musical notes; orange does look like it fits between red and yellow, the way that C sharp/D flat fits between C and D.

Seeing is to the eyes what hearing is to the ears. Just as you can hear sounds, tones, and voices that tell you about the world around you, seeing allows people to perceive light, shapes, colors, and movements. Imagine being able to 'feel' everything around you without touching it, from a distance. It's like sensing the presence, shape, and texture of objects, but from afar and all at once. Colors, which are a significant aspect of vision, can be likened to different tones or pitches in sounds. Just as a high note feels different from a low note, different colors have their own 'feel' visually. Overall, seeing is a way of sensing and understanding the environment from a distance, much like how you can hear someone talking from the other side of a room

If there's nothing between you and an object you can feel it at a distance. Texture is a little dulled, and some textures are easier to feel than others, but there's also a whole second kind of texture that we call color. As light gets dimmer it gets harder to feel the difference between those textures, and it gets harder to feel the distance to things, until there is nothing left but a single all encompassing flat texture at a single unknowable distance which we call dark.

Also, some objects only partially block your ability to feel what's behind them, and things like windows are designed to be so easy to feel through that it's hard to feel them at all. Unless they get dirty. Then you can feel the dirt on them.

I assume that, over time, you've memorized where everything in your living space is. You have some idea of what shape the space around you takes.

Seeing is knowing what shape a space takes without trial and error. The depth of a room or the texture of a couch. Knowing where an item is without having to touch it, or be told where it is.

How it feels... it feels safe. Seeing makes me feel safer. That's the only word that comes to mind.

Like hearing but with color.

I would describe it as a cacaphonic symphony that you eventually get used to. It packs as much information into one sense as you can get from your other four put together.

Much like how you can discern an individual instrument type in a symphony, sight lets you discern individual objects from afar, and gives you a mostly accurate summary of its basic properties.

Also much like with sound, it can be very appealing or unappealing, depending. There's an intrinsic beauty to the sense itself though. Every object has color, for instance, and color is more like smell. It can give you hints about what something is, but its mostly an arbitrary blend of different "flavors" that combine to create more complex examples.

It's the super-sense, the one sense that binds them all. When one of your other four detects something, your first instinct is to locate it with sight to determine more information before you do anything else. You "look at it" first. Almost without fail.

It's like knowing where everything in front of you is without having to touch or hear it. Sight works with your other senses too. For example, if a pillow is laying on the floor in an unfamiliar room I'll know what shape it, how far away it is, and that if I pick it up it'll feel soft. If the pillow was really gross looking I'd be able to tell without smelling it first.

Like echolocation on crack

A million fingers going in all directions to sense how far everything is away from you and tell what property’s things probably have

Millions of long range hands letting you feel the front of everything around you all at once. But they only work when certain area auras are in effect.

You don't. To a blind person touch texture and sound become your main ways to interact with the world. Its hard for people who can see to imagine a completely different mode of human experience. A truly blind person has more appreciation for the other senses they do have. I have heard of some blind folks learning what colors look like through psychedelics. their brain registers colorful flashes due to the visual cortex being stimulated since psychedelics make your brain parts all work together in ways they otherwise wouldn't.