Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

“with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see”

This Beatles lyric actually makes a rather interesting philosophical point: With eyes closed, you don’t get any direct visual input; instead, you make predictions about what you would see if your eyes were open. The only time you get anything approaching visual input from the outside world is when those predictions are wrong — i.e. there’s a misunderstanding. In those instances, your other senses give you new evidence about the real world that you use to correct your predictions. Thus, those misunderstandings are, quite literally, all you see.

Of course, the more obvious interpretation is simply that you don’t see much if your eyes are closed.