You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?
OK, so there's a physical problem with our eyes: We move them in short fast bursts called "saccades", right? very quick, synchronized movements.
The only problem is: they go all blurry and useless during this
1. make the vision go black during movement. (Some VR games do this!)
2. just keep showing the last thing we saw prior to movement
Your brain does neither of these options, really.
then when you finish your saccade, it shows you what you now see at the new position. and then it pretends it can time travel.
And because your brain is not a computer with a consistent clock, this shit works.
Look away (with just your eyes, not your head), then look back to the second hand.
It'll seem like it takes longer than a second to move, then resumes moving as normal.
and the answer is simple! your brain has EVEN MORE UGLY HACKS on top of this to avoid you seeing that
You can see in color all throughout your vision, it's color everywhere?
Well, most of your cone cells (Which are sensitive to color) are in the fovea, a little spot in the center of your vision

But I bet if you shift your attention to your peripheral vision right now, it's in color.

They actually see the ball as bigger because they need to hit it. their vision is exaggerating it to make it easier to see!
So if you want an accurate visual representation of what things look like? Use a camera. Not your eyes.
You're blind during those moments. But you still think you are seeing.
Stare at L with only your left eye, adjust the distance, and the R will disappear. You don't see "nothing" or "black", you see the background, because you expect to.

So you damage a small spot of your retina and your visual system covers it up.
eventually you accumulate so much damage that your visual system simply cannot manage hiding it all and your vision rapidly degrades.
There was an experiment back in 1890 where someone wore glasses made with mirrors in them to flip their vision.
After about 8 days, they could see just fine with them on. Their vision system had started "flipping" the image.
It only took them a few hours to get back to normal after taking these glasses off, though.
We don't, but only because our visual system has had our whole life to adapt to this.
(Really, it has "vampires", while still being hard-SF)
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Everyone likes to forget this episode just because it's terrible, but we were really sleeping on inherent comedy in a unfreezing an investor 300 years in the future and having them discover we've transitioned to a moneyless post-scarcity utopia.
it's like a classic twilight zone episode.
in fact, it IS a twilight zone episode.
The Rip Van Winkle Caper, Season 2, episode 24.
Four criminals steal a million dollars of gold bars, then put themselves in suspended animation for a hundred years to hide from the law.
they wake up, then start killing each other from mistrust, then the last one dies in the desert, as he offers a gold bar to the driver of a passing car, asking for water and a ride into town
the confused driver walks back to his car with the bar, and his wife asks what the gold bar is.
he says something like "It's gold... they used to use this for money, before we figured out a way to manufacture it."
He tosses it away, and drives off.
— Star Trek Minus Context (@NoContextTrek) January 28, 2021
it's like a classic twilight zone episode.
in fact, it IS a twilight zone episode.
The Rip Van Winkle Caper, Season 2, episode 24.
Four criminals steal a million dollars of gold bars, then put themselves in suspended animation for a hundred years to hide from the law.
they wake up, then start killing each other from mistrust, then the last one dies in the desert, as he offers a gold bar to the driver of a passing car, asking for water and a ride into town
the confused driver walks back to his car with the bar, and his wife asks what the gold bar is.
he says something like "It's gold... they used to use this for money, before we figured out a way to manufacture it."
He tosses it away, and drives off.