History Main / SeeingThroughAnothersEyes

* In the Judges Guild generic RPG supplement ''Masters of Mind'', the psionic ability ESP allows the user to experience another creature's sense perceptions. This includes being able to see through the creature's eyes.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}'' series runs on this trope as its core stealth-horror gameplay mechanic, which allows all playable characters to see through the eyes of the Shibito (Yamibito in ''Siren 2'') and find their blindspots to hide in as they patrol the area. It also allows the player to experience what it would be like to be a shambling and cackling reanimated corpse, which to say, is not a pleasant experience.

This skill can sometimes be used as replacement vision by a character who suffers from [[TemporaryBlindness Temporary (or not so temporary) Blindness]]. Even they are not blind, a character may use it for a similar reason if the host has a [[SensoryIndex different type of vision]] and [[SuperSenses can see other things the viewer]] [[TrueSight normally can't]], although this is normally more temporary.

* This is used several times in the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series, mostly between Heralds and their [[BondCreatures Companions]] ([[SapientSteed horse-shaped]], but not actually animals).

** ''Arrows of the Queen'': Talia appears to do this at one point when testing the strength of her bond with Rolan. Noticeable in that their bond is one of the few where [[{{Telepathy}} communicating with words]] is difficult.

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When a character is able to use a PsychicLink or similar to see what another character is seeing, particularly when at a distance. Basically, a form of clairvoyance using a host character as an on-site medium.

* In ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'', Saito is able to hear and see through his mistress Louise's senses. It comes off a ''very'' useful when he needs to crash through an expensive-looking glass window and slash downward at [[spoiler:Viscount Wardes]] just in time [[WeddingSmashers to interrupt a wedding]].

* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
** Pain has 6 bodies, each having [[MagicalEye a pair of Rinnegan]]; one of its functions being a "shared link of vision" between them, allowing him to look at many directions at once.

* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': As the protagonist Akira is a DifferentlyPoweredIndividual with {{Telepathy}} via wireless BrainComputerInterface, he’s able to set up a PsychicLink with his PlayfulHacker teammate Shirou, allowing Shirou to see through his eyes. This is apparently a standard thing with government employed Old World Domain Connectors.

* A short ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' arc called "Blink" featured a man who, while [[EyelessFace having no eyes of his own]], could do this to people by touching them. He mostly used it to find out people's bank details and scam them, but got drawn into Batman's world when he witnessed a murder.

* Among the many powers that revenants resurrected by ''Franchise/TheCrow'' have is the ability to see through the eyes of the bird.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': A graphic example in ''ComicBook/TheFallOfDeadworld'' when a recently turned-evil psionic Judge uses a foot soldier's [[EyeScream ripped-out eyeball]] to see what's happening elsewhere.

--> She could almost see the lock before her, badly damaged, hanging between her hands and against the tree bark. She needed a moment to realise that she ''did'' see it, from the perspective of the imp.
* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/30/Gap-Year-Adventures Gap Year Adventures]]'', young Assassin Horst Lensen blunders from one catastrophe to another. He is subjected to [[Creator/RichardHarris corrective and instructive torture]] by a tribe not unlike Sioux Indians[[note]]realised there is no works page for the film ''a Man Called Horse'', so linking to the Creator page to star Richard Harris instead [[/note]]. Near to death in the Sun Dance, he realises the thing about seeing your life pass before your eyes is at least half-right. He gets to see his own life, in all its hideous embarrassing detail to date, played out ''through the eyes of other people'' who witnessed him screwing up and making an idiot of himself. He sees himself as others saw him. And gets their unvarnished scathing opinions about him. But this is accompanied by a reassuring voice telling him it doesn't ''have'' to carry on this way. He survives, and takes the message to heart.
** There is also the work ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8774066/1/There-s-nothing-like-a-fresh-pair-of-eyes-is-there Nothing like A New Pair of Eyes, Is There]]'', inspired by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqx18CHDxbI the Adverts single about Gary Gilmour]], quoted in Music below. In this tale, a student Assassin blinded in the course of Education receives new eyes via the Igors. She is not told they were cloned from corneal cells donated by one of her teachers. She then becomes psychically linked with Madame Deux-Epées, and both get to see through each other's eyes... Catherine discovers many aspects of her teacher filter back into her unformed fifteen-year-old psyche over several months.

* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': Any Sister can see through the eyes of any other Sister. However, as 11111 notes, this is part of the reason for their growing divergences. They can only process a couple sensory inputs at once (including their own), making it impossible to be completely up to date on the entire Network. 11111 sometimes borrows other's eyes when they're watching a movie or something, but other than that everyone largely has their own stuff to deal with.

* Film/{{Eragon}} does this with his dragon Saphira, using magic to be able see through her vision. He doesn't do this in the book.
* ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'' is about a door that allows you to go inside John Malkovich's head.
* ''Film/InYourEyes'' references this in the title. However Dylan and Rebecca's [[PsychicLink connection]] extends to their other senses as well.

* ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'': Because his eye was transplanted into the FrankensteinMonster, Alan experiences uncontrolled instances of seeing what the monster is seeing.

* Creator/RayBradbury's short story ''The Homecoming''. One member of a family of magical creatures (vampires, werewolves, etc.) is Cecy, who has the ability to (among other things) look through the eyes of other people.
* A variant is used in ''Literature/TheDarknessOnDiamondia'' by A.E. van Vogt. The planet has a psychic influence on everyone who lives there for more than a short time, allowing them to effectively share another person's body although normally only to the extent of experiencing what the host is experiencing and to communicating with the host. They cannot control the host's body or mind, and the host is always aware of the presence of the other person so it's useless for covert spying. This ability is so common that the concept of holding a person incommunicado never occurs to the planet's natives.

* ''Literature/DuneMessiah''. Emperor Paul Atreides' eyes are destroyed by a stone burner, leaving him blind. When the Face Dancer Scytale threatens to murder Paul's two children, Paul is able to see through the eyes of his son Leto (who also has the power of prescience) and throw his crysknife at Scytale, killing him.
* In the short story ''The Four-Hour Fugue'', the protagonist is blind and "sees" by telepathically accessing the eyes of those around her. She doesn't believe it at first (would you?) but a man she talks to proves it by demonstrating that she's using his own vision, which is colorblind.

* In the short story "[[https://www.castofwonders.org/2013/07/episode-86-ieia-by-s-k-bickley/ Ieia]]", the title character is a goddess who has been cursed to inhabit a statue. In a mild twist on this trope, she sees through the eyes of anyone who is looking at the statue. When more than one person (or animal) is looking at her, the views overlap, and when no one is looking at her she [[AndIMustScream has no senses at all]].
* Dinah, in ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', is blind, but is sometimes able to "sight-share", as a former teacher of hers calls it. The teacher did consider it a fantasy, but it's made clear to the reader that Dinah really can see through someone else's eyes at times. Unfortunately for her, she has to deal with how their resident psychotic sees the world.
* Several times in the second book of Isobelle Carmody's ''Literature/TheLegendsongSaga'', Glynn has dreams where she is inside [[spoiler: Solen's]] mind, seeing and hearing what he sees and hears. This is due to [[spoiler: the feinna bond making them MindlinkMates]].

* In ''Literature/TheObernewtynChronicles'' Elspeth is able to link with Mathew and see through his eyes, particularly useful [[spoiler: while he is playing bait for the slavers]]. Once he is [[spoiler: taken]], she is unable to find anyone else with a suitably compatible mind, relying instead on relayed images.
** In ''The Sending'' Elspeth has several dreams where she views scenes through Rushton's eyes, [[spoiler: thanks to their golden MindlinkMates bond.]]

* In the early run of ''Literature/PerryRhodan'' this is the sole power of Mutant Corps member Ralf Marten. It's considered its own distinct ability and depicted as more a form of targeted {{astral projection}} than straightforward telepathy.

* Skinchangers and wargs in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' can brainjack animals. One in particular frequently uses his ability on birds to scout out territory ahead of his party. When the ability is first used on another human, one states he had thought the feat impossible.
** The entire Stark family seems to have warging in their blood: when their latest generation sleeps, they start seeing through/becoming their [[BondCreatures pet]] direwolves.
* In the novel ''Literature/ThreeDaysToNever'' by Creator/TimPowers, Charlotte is blind, but psychic, and can see through the eyes of people near her. The ramifications and limitations are explored in some depth.
* In ''Literature/{{Threshold}}'' by David Palmer, the [[MindlinkMates protagonists]] also use this method as a mirror, while {{Shapeshifting}}.

* ''Literature/PilgrennonsChildren'':
** Prendick, one of the villains of ''The Emerald Forge'', lost both his eyes in an industrial accident. He can see through the eyes of one of [[spoiler:Gamma]]'s mind-controlled eagles, since both of them have a BrainComputerInterface. [[spoiler:Gamma]], who can take away his sight at a moment's notice, uses this to ensure his loyalty.
** When Dana rides a horse that also has the interface, she can feel its heartbeat and the dirt under its hooves, hear the flies buzzing in its ears, and see its panoramic view.
* In ''Literature/IslandsEnd'', every oko-jumu, or spiritual leader, has a spirit animal. Uido's turns out to be a squid, through whose eyes she can see as it travels underwater. Her mentor, Lah-ame, tells his own spirit animal, a serpent eagle, to let Uido into its mind so she can see what it's like to fly.

* ''Literature/MermaidsSong'': When Kagor and his sharks attack Dria, Elan, who is some distance away, views the situation through Dria's eyes in order to give her better [[{{Telepathy}} cross-spoken]] instructions.

* [[TheBeastmaster Dar]] of ''Series/BeastMaster'' would often do this whenever he uses his power to communicate with his eagle.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "A Message from Charity", Charity Payne, a Puritan girl living in the [[UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies colonial Massachusetts]] village of Annes Town in 1700, and Peter Wood, a teenage boy living in the Massachusetts town of Anniston in 1985, gain the ability to communicate with each other across time and see through each other's eyes after they both contract cholera. Charity and Peter can also experience sensations from the other's perspective. For instance, Peter introduces Charity to the unimaginable luxuries of his time such as orange juice and chocolate ice cream and she quickly becomes drunk when Peter has a glass of wine.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqx18CHDxbI A hit single from The Adverts]] was denounced at the time for its sheer bad taste and subject matter. This dealt with American serial murderer Gary Gilmour, who asked for any useful parts of his body which were serviceable after execution to be harvested and used to help others so that his death had some useful purpose. In the event, only parts of his eyes were taken for transplant into somebody else. The Adverts asked exactly how the recipient of Gilmour's corneas might feel, knowing who they'd come from and in what circumstances. And would anything of the donor carry over to the recipient...

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* In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', Zia's {{telepath}}y can allow her to enter other's minds and experience what they're seeing, thinking, and feeling.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}}''
** ''Arduin Grimoire Volume 4: The Lost Grimoire''. Illyander's Spell of the Infinite Eyes allows the caster to see through the eyes of the target of the spell for 13 minutes. The spell works no matter how far apart the caster and target are.
** ''The Compleat Arduin'' ''Book 2: Resources''

* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Cthulhu Brittanica'', adventure "Bad Company". The monstrous Madame Onlenia Byragan can see through the eyes of her magical creations, the Straw Men.

* ''TabletopGame/DCHeroes''. The Eye of the Cat power allows the user to see through the eyes of an animal within range. If there is more than one animal within range, the user decides which animal is affected. The user gains the benefit of any special visual powers the animal has.

*** Issue #34, adventure "On Wings of Darkness": Two dog handlers each have a magical Whistle of Command +1 which, when hung around the neck, allows them to see through the eyes of their dog while it is up to one mile away.
*** Issue #40, adventure "Khamsa's Folly": The Southern priest spell "Animal Vision" allows the caster to see through the eyes of any animal (insect, reptile or mammal) up to hundreds of yards away.
*** Issue #50, adventure "Felkovic's Cat"" The dark lord of Valachan, Baron von Kharkov, can see through the eyes of any feline in his domain at will.
*** Issue #61, adventure "Jigsaw": Because Victoria von Lendstein created the flesh golem Udo, there is an emotional connection between them that allows him to see through her eyes.
*** Issue #70, adventure "Kingdom of the Ghouls". Doresain, the King of the Ghouls, has small enchanted bats called the Eyes of the King. He sends them out to accompany his True Ghoul patrols. He can see through the bats' eyes, giving him first hand information on conditions in the kingdom's tunnels.
** ''Magazine/WhiteDwarf'' magazine
*** Issue #40, article "Inhuman Gods Part II": Ssrrpt'ck is the deity of insects and similar creatures. It can see through the eyes of any insect at any time it chooses.
*** Issue #44 "Fiend Factory". A were-yelg is able to look through the eyes of any regular yelg within 100 miles.
*** Issue #64 article "Treasure Chest: Spells for Friends". The spell Sense Tap allows the caster to use all of the senses of (including seeing through the eyes of) anyone holding an enchanted item.
** ''Magazine/{{Imagine}}'' magazine #16: The Egyptian deity Sobek can see through the eyes and hear through the ears of any crocodile anywhere on Earth.
** ''Magazine/{{Polyhedron}}'' magazine #27, article "Dominion: An Unofficial New Spell Category for Magic-Users": The spell Empathic Link allows the caster to use the sensory abilities of the target.

** In ''Mythic Masters'' magazine #2 Gary Gygax presented the Familiar, a minor spirit sent to aid a Witch or Warlock. The Witch/Warlock master can spend Heka (magic) and experience the sensory input of the Familiar as long as it is within 1 league (3 miles) of the master.
* In 6th Edition ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'', any Slann in a Lizardmen army could cast spells within range and line-of-sight of any Skink Shamans on the battlefield, with this as the explanation. This compensates for their different varieties of {{Squishy Wizard}}ness, as Shamans are fast and stealthy but cheap, weak casters, and Slann are ponderous, valuable and need protecting.
* Judges Guild generic RPG supplement ''Masters of Mind''. The psionic ability ESP allows the user to experience another creature's sense perceptions. This includes being able to see through the creature's eyes.

* In ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'', during the last bossfight, the player character has to control summoned Deep Ones to flip four switches so Mother Hydra's shield is deactivated.

* Among the many other [[WhamEpisode atomic bombshells]] dropped in Chapter 19 of ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'', [[spoiler:Finlorda informs the party that, in addition to rewriting Notte's memories so she believed she grew up in South Grastaea, he also rewired her senses so they could feed back to him, all the way in the Faerie Kingdom, as a means of monitoring Euden.]] The "drone" all but breaks on the spot upon discovering this, while almost everyone else is outraged; the only reason [[spoiler:Finlorda]] isn't shouted down or [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown worse]] is because Chelle commands everyone to shut up and let him explain.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' the Clairvoyance ability allows Raz to see through the eyes of another being and see how they perceive him. For example, Sasha Nein sees Razputin as [[YouRemindMeOfX a younger version of himself]], while Raz's [[ShipTease possibly-crush]] Lili Zanotto sees him as a PrinceCharming type.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Susan gets feedback from her fairy summon that enables it to [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2018-01-03 serve as a second set of eyes]] for her.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation''

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': A graphic example in ''Fall of Deadworld'' when a recently turned-evil psionic Judge uses a foot soldier's [[EyeScream ripped-out eyeball]] to see what's happening elsewhere.

** [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFifthEdition 5th Edition]]: A character within 100 feet of their {{Familiar}} can use an action to borrow its sight and hearing for the next round, making use of both the familiar's vantage point and any enhanced senses like InnateNightVision.

* [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFifthEdition 5th Edition]]: A character within 100 feet of their {{Familiar}} can use an action to borrow its sight and hearing for the next round, making use of both the familiar's vantage point and any enhanced senses like InnateNightVision.

** A homonculous is a magical creature created by a magic-user. The creator can see and hear through the homonculous' eyes and ears.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', Raven enters Robin's mind and sees through his eyes to confirm whether or not he's just hallucinating fighting against Slade, and it affects her in the short moment she did. [[spoiler:Though he really is hallucinating, YourMindMakesItReal so it really affects him and whoever is linked to him, just to hammer the point.]]