How does light go into the eye?

I'm really confused because we learnt about the rule of the angle of incidence=angle of reflection but how do we see all the things around us if light travels in straight lines? I know this is an extremely dumb question but I cant understand it. I attached a paint drawing to help u understand why I'm confused don't judge please

Rather than thinking about it as one straight line, think about it as loads of them, billions and trillions of them. Trillions from the lightbulb bouncing all over the room. Trillions bouncing onto and back from the surface of the desk. Since there's so many of them, some of them must get into the pupil.

I'm really confused because we learnt about the rule of the angle of incidence=angle of reflection but how do we see all the things around us if light travels in straight lines? I know this is an extremely dumb question but I cant understand it. I attached a paint drawing to help u understand why I'm confused don't judge please

You have oversimplied you diagram...its more like this

yeah that's true but where would the light on the orange lines come from?

I'm really confused because we learnt about the rule of the angle of incidence=angle of reflection but how do we see all the things around us if light travels in straight lines? I know this is an extremely dumb question but I cant understand it. I attached a paint drawing to help u understand why I'm confused don't judge please

I know what you mean but wouldn't the line of incidence have to come from that area (the orange line) and if so how would it get there?

Light bounces off the walls travelling in numerous directions some will enter perfectly through the center of the eye whilst some will enter from an angle, due to the eyes curvature the light rays are refracted, correcting the light rays path to hit the optimal point at the back of the eye.

I have over simplified whats going on, i hope it makes sense still.

Okay so I'm going to assume this is a room as there is a lightbulb. In order to see that desk that clearly then than means light ito travel from the lightbulb, bounce off of the wall and onto the desk that way and then into the pupil. In the instance that there are no walls, the light wouldn't bounce off of the wall and so the desk wouldn't be well illuminated and would be in shadow. Does that make sense?

it is not at all a silly question. we take light for granted in our lives without thinking much about what it is or how it works. so if you are looking at a wasp on your windowsill there must be "wasp photons" coming into your eyes. but as you have noticed, those photons were not specifically "wasp photons" before they bounced off the wasp. they probably started in the Sun then traveled millions of miles to our planet, through the dust of the atmosphere, hitting many different objects before bouncing off part of the wasp and entering your optics.

it didn't let me attach the image so is the light orange line correct?

it looks good to me

I think the light catches the district line from Victoria station and then goes from their to your eye. All dependent on Traffic of course. You know how London gets at Rush hour.

I created an account just because I thought the previous answers perhaps didn't quite explain in full detail.

There are two reasons why light from the table is entering your eye.
The first (drawing A), is that no surface in the real world is truly flat. The surface is microscopically rough. The classical physics model with angles of incidence and reflection still applies. However, the "flat" surface is actually uneven, meaning their surface normals point in many directions. This effect is called diffuse reflection.

As some answers have previously described, light from the bulb can bounce off other surfaces in the room, eventually arriving on the table and reflecting into your eye (drawing B). However, the majority of the light entering your eye is through diffuse reflection. Light bouncing off other surfaces "adopts" the colour of the surfaces they are reflecting off of. For instance, if you shone a torch at a bright red wall, objects near the wall would receive a red hue.

Although light bounces off in all directions via the diffuse effect, light also bounces off as per your original drawing. When a surface is particularly glossy (metal, for instance), you will get a direct reflection of the light source (drawing C). This is the white sheen you see on glossy objects - it is called specular reflection.

In answer to your original question, the reason you can see the table is due to diffuse reflection. Secondary reflections also help, but not as much as diffuse reflections. Hope this helps.