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Night Blindness
10 min read
Also known as: hemeralopia · nyctalopia · poor vision in the dark · twilight vision disorder · night vision weakness · difficulty seeing at night · impaired vision in darkness · twilight blindness
Your Body Is Speaking
During the day, you see clearly. Everything functions, everything is visible, everything is under control. But as soon as the light fades, the world blurs. Contours dissolve. Paths become uncertain. What felt familiar just moments ago turns strange and threatening. You feel your way through a space others cross without a second thought — and you wonder why your eyes, of all things, fail you in the dark.
Medically, night blindness is a dysfunction of the rod cells in the retina — the receptors responsible for vision in low light. Vitamin A deficiency, retinal diseases, genetic factors can all play a role. The psychosomatic perspective asks a different question: What does it mean when someone can only see where everything is fully lit — but loses their sight the moment things go beneath the surface?
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