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That's an interesting perspective! It’s amazing to consider the differences between what we experience with our senses, and how those who are unable to use them must find other ways to navigate their world.

You are correct, it would be impossible for us to comprehend what they would see.

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Actually "seeing nothing" is quite rare. Most legally blind people have some vision left. Many see rough shapes, and bigger patches of light and dark. Even pretty far down that scale when you would say they see "nothing", the very most people still have a sensation of "light" and "dark".

Which is why I said ‘’fully’’, meaning there is no influx from the optical nerve

If you close both of your eyes you see black. If you close one do your eyes, you see nothing

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if they can't see, do they see a color, or are they just a walking brain?

someone once told me it’s like seeing out of ur elbow or something

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Apparently they can still see hallucinations

but how would they know??

Because they’re blind, and had vision at one time in their life

ah so this person wasn’t born blind then

Most blind people aren’t born blind

If you close one eye your brain ignores the signal from the closed eye. That is what people who are completely blind see, nothing.

But you can still see light through the eyelid, meaning a closed eye without light is seeing black, not nothing… or maybe I’m just an idiot

Depends ! Not everyone does, this is called the Charles Bonnet syndrome

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I see black

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Try putting any object of any color up to your face and cover your eye, it still works

But it's black