Comments on: Flowers, falling maple leaves and wriggling dwarves http://mindhacks.com/2010/08/18/flowers-on-stones-falling-maple-leaves-and-wriggling-dwarves/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike Marinos http://mindhacks.com/2010/08/18/flowers-on-stones-falling-maple-leaves-and-wriggling-dwarves/#comment-8928 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:52:48 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13429#comment-8928 I remember my grandfather after a stroke in a hospital bed completely mystified that the doctors, nice as they where, couldn’t see the lovely moving pictures on all his walls. He described them in great detail and they where obviously a source of great comfort to him.

]]> By: Madalynn http://mindhacks.com/2010/08/18/flowers-on-stones-falling-maple-leaves-and-wriggling-dwarves/#comment-8925 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:17:18 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13429#comment-8925 Reminded me of a great TED Talk by Oliver Sacks about Charles Bonnet Syndrome, a condition where visually impaired people experience hallucinations. I think some of the individuals he cited also saw small dwarves. Weird.

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]]> By: k http://mindhacks.com/2010/08/18/flowers-on-stones-falling-maple-leaves-and-wriggling-dwarves/#comment-8915 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:47:53 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/?p=13429#comment-8915 Although I don’t have access to the article I strongly suspect some of the sketches would be included. Most Japanese I know are good at drawing – perhaps because of their written language, perhaps because of the lack of a coherent street address system necessitates drawing maps rather than providing verbal directions.

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