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So my boyfriend does shrooms once in awhile and asked me the other day what would happen if someone who is totally blind would have visual halusinations if they have, or haven't seen before? it got me wondering. i told him maybe he should blindfold himself and find out what happens, but for people who've never had sight what would happen? if anyone knows i'm really curious. Would anyone take some kind of halusinagent at least once to see if they'd see anything if they were totally blind since birth, or even totally blinded but has seen before.
When I was 8 or so I used to, experiment, with my Asthma medication and I'd see all kinds of freaky stuff. Course I'm not total but there you are.
Totals who have always been blind don't have visual hallucinations. They trip though, but it's more auditory and tactile than visual. Rather like the way we dream, I guess.
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As a total, I can say definitely yes. Not visual, as, for at least some of us totals, we don't have the real understanding of vision, but definitely sound and motion. (had some meds that did some weird stuff once.)
Ok, halusinations are all in the mind, obviously. Now as a totally blind since birth individual, I've never known what it is like to see anything. Taking shrooms or LSD or anything that can cause halusinations will not suddenly make you see. Basicly, it is tricks of the mind, and you're mind can only go on what it knows. I mean obviously halusinations are often strange, but that is because you're mind mixes certain things up. For example you might see a giant blue monkey waving a banana at a purple trafic warden...and if you do, i want some of what you've had. but what i'm trying to say is, you're mind is using what it already knows. If it's seen a monkey, a trafic warden, and the colours blue and purple, then that halusination is perfectly possible. For a blind person, i'd think that the halusinations would be more tactile or audio based. Perhaps that makes them less powerful, i'm not sure. I've been stoned enough to have believe that my hand wasn't my own, but never halusinated, though my friends often begged me to take acid so that i could better answer this very question. But the short answer is, if you have never had sight, then you will not see anything during halusination. If you have and subsequently lost you're vision, then it is perfectly possible, even probable, that you will halusinate visually, because you're mind knows it.
lol why don't you some shrooms and find out for yourself? lol
well i still have a bit of sight so wouldn't find out anything if i did, but i might just once to see what the trip's like. lol
Even if a person had vision before, they stilll might not halucinate. Your mind would only take what it knows out of whack, so if you forget what it's like to have vision, I don't believe that person would halucinate.
Not sure, I'm a partial, but I've halucinated before, certainly, both visual and auditrally.
I am totle, but lost it when I was eight. I remember what it was like to see. I got morpheen last summer because of some ishues. I had a small amount threw an i v and I started to hear my fiance and the nerse talking to each other and i was replying to them, Come to find out nothing was said at all. I actually halusenated it all. Yes I remember what it was like to see, however I saw nothing. All though weather it would be the same for all I can not say.
Been there dun that, not fun! Anbian the sleeping drug is not the drug of choice! If anyone offers it to you to help you sleep, say hell no! I have light perseption, and let me tel you, I felt like I was in the sea or something. I was seeing all these diffrent kinds of lites that would sort of flote across my field of view and around my room like raths, also they were diffrent cullers. Also I was hereing a loud buzzing noize. Needless to say, no more anbian for me.
lol ah, I see I'm not the only one that's had some interesting experiences with that one.
Actually, if you forget what it was like to see consciously, your mind can possibly pull it out of your subconscious. Never done it and not total though, but if I lose what's left of my sight and do shrooms I'll make sure to let you know. lol
Actually, Ambien worked quite well for me when I needed it. However, I did hallucinate as a result of a medication once, and as others have said, not fun. I imagine it's the same as when those of us who have never had vision dream. Our minds take what they know, and just run with it. My hallucinations were all auditory and tactile, as others have said. Not an experience I'd care to repeat, thanks.