If I was to ask you that question - Can you see without your eyes? - you would probably answer "Of course not", right? And, if I was to say that we don't actually see with our eyes, you would probably start to think I was crazy!
However, in reality, we don't see with our eyes. Let me explain. When you have a pair of binoculars do you say you are seeing through them or looking through them? The latter, right? And why? Because we are using the binos as an instrument to gather pictorial information. The same goes for our eyes.
We look with our eyes, but actually see with our brains. Whatever information we take in with our eyes gets translated into images in our brains and is then further translated back into words. Our brains use images to see and we use our eyes to gather those images from our surroundings.
Someone who loses their sight will still remember how things looked from the images they see in their brains. When you use words to describe something - a tree, green grass, a log fire - their brains immediately recall the images enabling them to see what you are talking about.
So the next time someone says they see what you mean, you'll know that their brain has created or recalled an image of whatever it is you are talking about.
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