Comments on: Do deaf people hear hallucinated voices?

By: Terence Winship

Terence Winship — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:41:18 +0000

I’M A 74 YEAR OLD Male RETIREE. And profoundly deaf It was only a week ago i was resting in bed when i began to hear a male choir. I CHECKED MY bedside radio and it was switched of, I then got out of bed and checked throughout my home. I then went outdoors to check and no sign of any group singing.
The choir consists of all male voices,tenors bases etc . They sing sea shanties and sometimes hymns. I’m not a religious person. Cheers Terence

By: Sandy G

Sandy G — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:11:13 +0000

Vaughan,
Charles -bonnet syndrome is well-known and Sacks in his TED talks published today discusses the case of a blind woman having visual hallucinations; though these are not psychotic in nature? perhaps, you are more interested in psychotic blind hallucinations?

By: mickgrierson

mickgrierson — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:17:43 +0000

Hi Vaughan.
Very interesting. On a related note, it reminds me of studies on visual imagery in the dreams of congenitally blind people.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00199-4
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00155-4
And some critique here:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1053-0797.14.4.230

By: Neuroskeptic

Neuroskeptic — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:21:41 +0000

Here: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_info10.shtml

By: Neuroskeptic

Neuroskeptic — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:20:49 +0000

Fascinating, thanks for picking up on this.
There’s a few first person reports on Erowid.org about colour-blindness and LSD.