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Visual hullucinations

Beefree
over 3 years ago

Hi

Does anyone else experience visual hullucinations?

My brain and visual system do this weird thing where they take a collection of objects and merge them into something new.... Like a tree a street sign and a flower box suddenly become a donkey..... 

Most of the time it is so ridiculous I know it is happening but at other times it is more challenging like i might see a person bending over, and I wonder what is wrong so if I am on my bike I will turn back to see if they are OK only to realise it was just a Bush and a dustbin... 

This tends to happen when I am more stressed.... 

Can anyone help? 

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  • over 3 years ago in reply to mouse2

    If you have vision loss then what you might be experiencing is a condition called "Charles Bonnet Syndrome", a condition where the brain can't interpret the lack of stimulus from areas where the eye has suffered damage so it fills in the lack of signal with old information that the brain thinks make sense. 

    It's usually associated with central vision loss like macula degeneration but it can happen in any condition with vision loss, it's just more rare. 

  • over 3 years ago in reply to mouse2
    mouse2 said:
    Apparently the hormones released when stressed can affect eyesight

    That's interesting....-  I'm suffering from a lot of stress right now and I'm aware of 'movement' in my peripheral vision - sort of like if a bee flies past or a big spider on the floor - my brain is triggering a response but there's nothing there.    Hmmmm.