What hallucination reveals about our minds | Oliver Sacks
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Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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Every time i do mushrooms or san pedro i see distorted faces with huge teeth that resemble squidward from spongebob. I think there is a connection between hallucinogens and this syndrome blind people experience.
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sure wish we had teachers like him in college
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wisdom
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I'm a paranoid schizophrenic this is very helpful and interesting.
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I was just looking over some interesting studies in which people were blindfolded for four days. Sometimes visual hallucinations would begin within the first few hours of the experiment. One woman in particular recalls seeing Elvis Presley!
I kind of want to test this myself. I'm sure it'll be boring and tedious, but this talk makes me super curious about seeing things for myself. -
hallucinations are there to tell us that almost all of what we experience are hallucinations
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great honest guy ...
the world needs this guy ... this guy should live 200 years
he is rare .. that means he is highly valuable like gold
psychologists today are useless .. they lack interest
if i were millionaire id like to give this guy what he deserves -
I travelled inside my brain on magic truffles. they need to be studied
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so if I damage my hearing I'll be a great musician?
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Thought this would be some Terrence McKenna type of thing when I clicked on it. It's pretty interesting though
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Jesus and God love you.
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I don't remember Kermit the frog being apart of sesame st. did I miss something?
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yeah right
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That moment when you see memes everywhere.
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They are just glitches in the matrix
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I wonder if the fact that you have different brain cells associated with certain things, relates to the experience of nostalgia.
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Drinking Fiji in 2009...now that's early vaporwave...
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this guy's got the Frasier accent! The transatlanic
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I once got a visual hallucination when I was very young but never took a drug. I saw crystals around me that were small, I tried touching them but my hands went through them and saw that the small shards of crystals were reflecting light and making small rainbows and it all disappeared after I blinked.