The Mind's Eye: What The Blind See By Oliver Sacks

Many people believe that human reality and experiences are the direct outcome of people’s senses and people’s reality and personal experiences are created that base on the reactions with surrounding’s stimulates. However, the production of people’s reality and personal experiences is a very complicated process, the surrounding’s stimulates are just part of it. In “The Mind’s Eye: What The Blind See” Oliver Sacks talks about the different characteristics that the blind people have and he points out that physically blindness will not destroy the blind people’s psychologically vision. In his case, many blind people still have the ability the imagine the pictures of articles. Even though that in some specific fields, the blind people are more capable …show more content…
However, this kind of tendency also bring some negative impacts to the society, such as the overproduction form education system for children’s self-esteem could weaken their ability to resist setbacks. People’s reality and personal experiences are not the outcomes of single human sense, in some extreme situation, they are not even created by human senses, thus the missing of one sense will not make people lose their reality and personal experience. The production of human reality and personal experiences is a very complex process. Sacks points out “Comparable studies in those born blind, or blinded early, show that some area of the visual cortex may be reallocated…with this reallocation of parts of the visual cortex, hearing, touch, and other senses in the blind can take on a hyperacuity that perhaps no sighted person can imagine” (Sacks 331). Human reality and personal experience are the very complex system, people’s sense of reality and experience will maintain on a stable level. The single sense lose will not make a huge fluctuation for the overall reality and experiences. This mechanism is a simple supply