system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If the brain relies on the eyes to "see" images, how in holy hell can I "see" my dreams (and, related to that, how is it always in the first person perspective)?
gpt
Eyes don't produce vision. Vision happens in the brain.

Your eyes are just an apparatus for collecting light. Turning the information about that collected light into what you see is the brain's job.

Your brain is most certainly capable of producing images without your eyes telling them "there's some light here" whether it's dreams or hallucinations (which are surprisingly common) while you're awake.