You know what I always wondered so I thought I would ask you. If a person has a wandering eyeball what do they see? Like for instsance if their eyeball is aiming at the ceiling, do they see the ceiling? If they are talking to somebody and their wandery eyeball is pointed somewhere else are they looking at 2 different things?
It's called Strabismus.
It can be a lack of brain coordination between the brain and the eyes. Many times an Ophthalmologist can help and treat people with this condition.
As to what they see? Don't know. I would guess their brain would piece it together to make sense.
OK I'll bite. The brain can't process coflicting images so it ignores the image from the weaker (wandering) eye. The process of the brain ignoring the image from the weaker eye is called amblyopia and the muscle weakness that causes the eye to not move in the right direction is called strabimus. Normally people are diagnosed with both stramismus (the muscle or alignment problem) and amblyopia (the inability of the brain to process the image from the bad eye) together. This is why when the strabismus is corrected, a child will wear a patch on the healthy eye - it trains the brain to start to accept the image from the other eye and eventually the brain will process both sides together. If this isn't corrected while a child is fairly young, the amblyopia will be permanent, progressive and untreatable. My SD was treated for both when she was 5, then her mom said it was OK to stop wearing glasses when she was 7. It wasn't OK but we didn't know that for several more years. She has very limited vision in one eye and will very likely be legally blind in that eye later because it's too late to treat it again. Strabismus (misalignment) of the eyes can be treated in older children and adults, but the brain's inability to process that image from that eye can be permanent.
They don't see out of that eye...the brain stops processing information from the unaligned eye. Otherwise they would have double vision.
I am effing cracking up!!
I'm curious too. Good (weird) question.
A minature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.
You know what I've always wondered? If I was a dead dog, would I hear a tree fall in the forest?
You're talking about a lazy eye. There's actually a medical name for that. (I forgot what it is and am too lazy to look it up.) I have a picture of me and my college roommate with a guy whose one eye is looking at the camera and the other eye is looking to the side. It's kind of strange to talk to someone when both of their eyes are not looking at the same thing.
The brain sees what it wants to see, and that's from what the stronger eye is looking at. Young children with this sometimes have a patch over their good eye so that the weaker eye HAS to work. Sometimes they do surgery for this, but it doesn't always work.
What does the lazy eye see? The brain just kinds of turns that part off. That's what I understand from people with this problem.
Dawn
I used to wonder, too. Now I have fibrosis in my right eye muscles so I can tell you. In my case, I have double vision. Two perfectly clear pictures of the same thing, one diagnonally above, to the right and skewed at an angle from my good eye. Really a drag.
I had this as a kid - not sure why, but it corrected with glasses. Your eyes see what they are looking at individually. They are like cameras. When they point straight, your brain puts them together into one. When they don't "line up", you see the images separately. My eyes pointed in toward my nose, so I saw double images of everything. Same as if you cross your eyes on purpose. I would assume if a person's eye wandered up, each eye would see what it's looking at, and it would be really wierd.
