Mark,

40 years ago, when I was 16 years young, I did LSD 9 times as a blind
person.  I sure did hallucinate.  One Saturday afternoon, as I lay on my
back on my bed, I felt like I was at the bottom of a fishbowl.  I saw sand
castles and fish drifting through the air as if it were water.  One time I
was listening to Country Joe and the Fish I had recorded on my Sony open
reel recorder.  Without realizing it, I laid my hand on one of the reels as
it turned.  Suddenly, my tape recorder began melting and dripping down the
side of the dresser it was sitting on.  When I removed my hand, I burst out
laughing when I realized what I had done.  Most of the hallucinations seemed
to be sound related but I did, at the same time, seem to imagine various
objects and things at various times near me that were never there.  It is
sort of difficult to explain.  I have written about some of these things on
my website in my autobiography called "Liquid Purple," for what it is worth,
and it is found as a link on the main page.

Phil.

K0NX
The Zenith Tube
www.RedWhiteAndBlue.org



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frederick" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: off topic Can Blind People hallucinate?


> Hi
>      I have a sighted friend (Bob) who has been wondering, can Blind
People
> hallucinate? He says that people who hallucinate see things that are not
> there. So, therefore he wonders since blind people can not see he wondered
> if it was possible for them to hallucinate. I had never contemplated the
> matter much but I told him I would forward the question to the list. I
will
> be glad to send any messages you have on the matter back to him.
>      Thank you for helping to answer this retired policeman's question.
>
> God bless,
> Mark
> God loves you!
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