And then... she can see what's in front of her, just as if her eyes were open.
Sort of.
Nothing is quite the same colour as usual, and the visual concepts of dark and light are not just flipped but also scrambled in some way; the more light falling on something, the dimmer and more obscure it looks, but the visual effect isn't dark the way normal human vision understands darkness. It's something else, some shadow-vision alternative.
The word in the textbook is 'undark'. Similarly 'unbright', for things 'unlit' well enough to see. And now Maurabel knows firsthand why there needs to be a separate vocabulary.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2014-04-08 02:44 am (UTC)Sort of.
Nothing is quite the same colour as usual, and the visual concepts of dark and light are not just flipped but also scrambled in some way; the more light falling on something, the dimmer and more obscure it looks, but the visual effect isn't dark the way normal human vision understands darkness. It's something else, some shadow-vision alternative.
The word in the textbook is 'undark'. Similarly 'unbright', for things 'unlit' well enough to see. And now Maurabel knows firsthand why there needs to be a separate vocabulary.