Scientists blindfolded people's eyes to 4 days, and hallucinations were incredible
Sometimes our brains can do funny things. Take, for example, a study in which researchers took 13 people, blindfolded for 96 hours (ie 4 days), and recorded everything that "saw" these people. In the ten participants in the experiment began visual hallucinations, some of them were very intense and bright. Many hallucinations consisted of simple lights, some were more complex. But in each case, the participants know that everything is just the fruit of their imagination.
Here's what one of them says: "Hallucinations started somewhere 12 hours after blindfolding and turned into a series of different images, as if in a dream." Another participant said that she saw a butterfly, has turned into the sunset, I saw an otter and a flower. She also saw the city sky, lions. All these visions were so vivid that she "could barely look at them." "If it was a sunset or sunrise, then watch the sun was impossible, because it was an incredibly bright».
Here is the opinion of the authors of the experiment:
«All 13 subjects volunteered to long visual deprivation, were perfectly healthy people who have not been cases of cognitive dysfunction or psychosis. They also have not had any ocular pathology. They were specially designed bandages, and in the course of the experiment specialists recorded their feelings on tape. Ten subjects (77%) reported visual hallucinations that were both simple (in the form of bright spots of light) and complex (decorative objects, landscapes). In most cases, hallucinations began at the end of the first day of visual deprivation. The subjects were aware that their vision is not real. This experiment clearly shows that rapid and complete visual deprivation is enough to cause visual hallucinations have absolutely healthy subjects ».
blockquote> One subject, a 29-year-old woman, saw a hallucination after 12 hours of deprivation. This happened at a time when she stood before the mirror. That's when she dreamed green face with huge eyes that really frightened her. Another 24-year-old woman reported that her hallucination was one and the same event. It seemed to her that she was asleep, waiting for her sister to come. When the sister finally came into the room, she noticed that her eyes instead of patches of light.
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