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Oliver Sacks - Blind Rosalee sees Arabs on stairs
Identifier
013552
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
The source is not actually Oliver Sacks but the little old lady with the vision, but Oliver Sacks gives other examples and it is thus better to group them under him
A description of the experience
Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome — when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon
The source of the experience
Sacks, OliverConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Brain tumourEpilepsy
Suppressions
Blindness, macular degeneration and other sight impairmentBrain damage
Deafness and tinnitus