Re: Charles Bonnet syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yes. Didn't know what it was called or that it had a name. I used to belong to vOICe, a site a blinded guy who invented this echolocation device for the blind started. The blind folks on the discussion board--a few of them who used to have vision--talked about having these hallucinations. They knew they were not real. It was like he brain was used to receiving signals from the eyes so the signals were rerouted. Rather like when somone loses a limb. The circuit ways to the brain are still there so they feel a phantom limb that possibly still 'hurts" because the signals have been rerouted from some other part of the body. I remember a lady on Discovery Health saying that when the wind blew on her cheek her missing limb would ache because the nerve signals had been rerouted fro  where the missing limb was to the nerve endings in her cheeks. Strange huh?

Thanks for sending! Now we know what it's called and I will post this to my blog!

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Kathy I know you teach people who have no sight or visual problems I ran across this.....so strange have you heard of this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet_syndrome

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From: Jeanne
To: Kathy Michael

Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 8:11:32 PM
Subject: Charles Bonnet syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia