Classically, blindness represents either an unwillingness or inability to see the truth, or conversely a character’s inner wisdom and vision. For example, when Gloucester is blinded in King Lear, he later cannot recognize his true son Edgar, and almost kills himself as a result, later dying when the truth is revealed.

Guilt and Shame The play begins with a declaration from the oracle at Delphi: Thebes is suffering because the person guilty of the murder of King Laius has not been brought to justice. Oedipus sets himself the task of discovering the guilty party—so guilt, in the legal sense, is central to Oedipus Rex.

Persistence in finding the truth is the theme the pushes Oedipus through the process of his tragic downfall. It is this persistence that leads him to realize he has fulfilled the prophecy he thought he had escaped, and in turn leads to his ultimate ruin. Action vs. punishment is what starts and ends the play.

Antigone Themes

• Pride.
• Individual versus State; Conscience versus Law; Moral or Divine Law versus Human Law.
• Gender: the Position of Women.
• Inaction/Lack of Agency versus Agency.
• The Threat of Tyranny.

To be “figuratively blind” means to refuse to recognise or perceive something which may be bad or good or important or relevant in a particular way.

Biblical Passages on Visual Impairments. The Bible also frequently used the analogy of being blind to being spiritually lost. This did not mean that the blind themselves were spiritually lost, but that they were unable to see, as someone who is spiritually lost is unable to see the Truth.

If you dream about being blind, you may be refusing to see the truth in a situation in your waking life. What are you trying to avoid? If you saw a blind person in your dream you may be letting opportunities pass you buy. It might be time to make the most of something at the time rather than wishing you had afterwards.

People who were born blind have no understanding of how to see in their waking lives, so they can’t see in their dreams. But most blind people lose their sight later in life and can dream visually. Danish research in 2014 found that as time passes, a blind person is less likely to dream in pictures.

When dreaming of being unable to see clearly the dream may indicate that there is a situation that is overwhelming, something that is so overpowering that you can’t focus on it. This type of dream may also be a dream advising you that you are too close to a problem and need to take a step back to see more clearly.

Driving while legally blind requires the right vision enhancing devices, common sense and an understanding of specific state law. For example, most visually impaired people prefer to drive in the daytime and in good weather because the light is best for driving in those conditions.

People who are totally blind cannot see. They see nothing. It is called NLP (No Light of Perception). For the people who can see naturally without making any conscious effort, the concept of being able to see nothing can be a very profound concept to grasp.

A person who looses his sight sees the same as nothing, meaning blackness. Persons who are born blind will not have a concept of sight embedded in their brains and will not see anything, neither black or white.

Reflex blinking in response to a foreign body will be absent without eyelids. Also, there will be permanent retinal damage when exposed to bright light chronically, as there are no eyelids to cut off the bright light from entering the eye. In the long run, without any management, it will lead to blindness.

You don’t need eyes to survive However, they are not essential for human existence. Some people may lose an eye due to an injury or have one removed because of cancer. While a lack of eyes can create many challenges for a person, they technically aren’t a vital organ for survival.

Originally Answered: Can humans see without eyes? Yes, if you provide a signal from another source, our neuroplastic brains can learn to see without out eyes.