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{{quote|'''Obi-Wan''': This time, let go your conscious self and act on instinct.
'''Luke''': With the blast shield down, I can't even see. How am I supposed to fight?
'''Obi-Wan''': [[Trope Namer|Your eyes can deceive you.]] Don't trust them.
|''[[Star Wars]]''}}
In an attempt to show the supernatural affinity of a character with the skill he is training, [[Mentors|The Mentor]] will [[Blindfolded Vision|cover the pupil's eyes with a piece of cloth]], and say some [[Don't Think, Feel|"Don't 'see' the enemy, 'feel' the enemy".]]A really key part of this is that the student ''always'' complains (either first thing or after getting their ass handed to them), and it rarely comes up again.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Syaoran went through this when he learned to use a sword in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]''. Turns out people in that show have some sort of infrared sensor.
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* Done to Cedric in the tourney episode of [[Covington Cross]]. Perfectly justified, as his opponent later manages to blind him by throwing sand in his eyes.
* In ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand|Spartacus: Gods of the Arena]]'', Gannicus is forced to fight a gladiator match blindfolded. He isn't hindered that much, especially because his opponent stank and made a lot of noise whenever he moved.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* During their Jujitsu training in Japan, the hosts of the [[History Channel]] reality show ''Human Weapon'' were taught a samurai trick that lets them dodge an unseen (and unknown) attack from behind and counter in one, fluid stroke. How this would be useful to the samurai - besides possibly giving them a paranoid advantage over [[Ninja]] assassinations - is never fully explained, but it looks cool.▼
** This is also used in modern Taijutsu: One way of proving that you're worthy of the next belt is sitting down blindfolded and being able to avoid, block or counter your master's next attack.▼
* Blindfolded training is sometimes done in grappling systems like wrestling, sambo, judo and brazilian jiujitsu. Because the two fighters are already in physical contact, the aim is to get them to focus more on their senses of touch and balance to tell what an opponent is doing rather than just sight.▼
** Particularly justified in that sweat in the eyes is very common in grappling and blood in the eyes isn't rare in MMA.▼
* One of the most common form of "your eyes [in fact, your whole body] can deceive you,": being trained to fly by instruments in poor visibility conditions.▼
* From a more metaphysical point of view, this statement sums up Plato's (and other rationalist's) stance on epistemology: The senses are not only unreliable in obtaining knowledge, they only convey a limited image of the world. Greater understanding and higher knowledge must be achieved through reason alone. See the [[wikipedia:Plato's cave|Allegory of the Cave]] and the [[wikipedia:Analogy of the divided line|Analogy of the Divided Line]]. See also René Descartes' [[wikipedia:Descartes' meditations|Meditations on First Philosophy]], which seek to build a construct of absolute knowledge through extreme scepticism of all sensory information, i.e. assuming the possibility that all we believe to know about the world is false.▼
** Empiricists dispute this claim though, stating that sensory experience is indeed very valuable, even necessary, towards understanding the universe.▼
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* Done in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', against an eyesight distorting enemy.
* In ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' a team of assassins injects sleeping Count Dooku with a poison that greatly affects his vision. Being trained as both Jedi and a Sith, he declares "I do not need my eyes to see" and dispatches the trio of assassins with relative ease.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* During their Jujitsu training in Japan, the hosts of the [[History Channel]] reality show ''Human Weapon'' were taught a samurai trick that lets them dodge an unseen (and unknown) attack from behind and counter in one, fluid stroke. How this would be useful to the samurai - besides possibly giving them a paranoid advantage over [[Ninja]] assassinations - is never fully explained, but it looks cool.
▲** This is also used in modern Taijutsu: One way of proving that you're worthy of the next belt is sitting down blindfolded and being able to avoid, block or counter your master's next attack.
▲* Blindfolded training is sometimes done in grappling systems like wrestling, sambo, judo and brazilian jiujitsu. Because the two fighters are already in physical contact, the aim is to get them to focus more on their senses of touch and balance to tell what an opponent is doing rather than just sight.
▲** Particularly justified in that sweat in the eyes is very common in grappling and blood in the eyes isn't rare in MMA.
▲* One of the most common form of "your eyes [in fact, your whole body] can deceive you,": being trained to fly by instruments in poor visibility conditions.
▲* From a more metaphysical point of view, this statement sums up Plato's (and other rationalist's) stance on epistemology: The senses are not only unreliable in obtaining knowledge, they only convey a limited image of the world. Greater understanding and higher knowledge must be achieved through reason alone. See the [[wikipedia:Plato's cave|Allegory of the Cave]] and the [[wikipedia:Analogy of the divided line|Analogy of the Divided Line]]. See also René Descartes' [[wikipedia:Descartes' meditations|Meditations on First Philosophy]], which seek to build a construct of absolute knowledge through extreme scepticism of all sensory information, i.e. assuming the possibility that all we believe to know about the world is false.
▲** Empiricists dispute this claim though, stating that sensory experience is indeed very valuable, even necessary, towards understanding the universe.
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