Is there a vision disorder in which you can't see what is right in front of your face?

It's almost like everything in your eyesight blurs together? Or, could you be "seeing" things but your brain says you don't see something?

I think that happened to me recently, and I don't understand how that's possible.

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DunningKruger · 61-69, M

A friend of mine recently had a stroke that damaged the peripheral vision in his right eye. He said that he would see things in the "blank" area that clearly weren't there, like an apartment building where there wasn't one. It turns out that his brain was just confabulating in order to fill in the "blank" were it was expecting to have input. Something like that?

perceptivei · 36-40, F

@DunningKruger opposite. Thank you for your answer though.

TheThinker · 56-60, M

@DunningKruger There's a wonderful book I read about 20 years ago called "Phantoms in the Brain" by V. S. Ramachandran. It's mainly about phantom limbs and how they're generated in the brain, but there's also a section about similar effects in the visual cortex... and it discussed cases like your friend's, in the example he gave, the patient saw cartoon characters in the missing area!

There may also be something similar discussed in Oliver Sacks' two wonderful books "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "An Anthropologist on Mars", although it's been so long since I read them that I can't remember which book has which cases in them.