Oliver Sacks, What hallucination reveals about our minds

[littlemissmartypants]

Oliver Sacks·TED2009

What hallucination reveals about our minds

[jalan48]

1. Fascinating talk. Thanks for posting.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. You're welcome. ❤

[mopinko]

2. dang i love this guy. i had hallucinations as a kid.

had my head bashed in. had seizures in the form of hallucinations for 15 yrs. a couple stayed w me for life, tho they were not frequent. like smelling gardenias, something that only happened a few times.

this makes me sort of hopeful, oddly. i had 1 form that i actually enjoyed. the others fell into the- pink and blue tiles category. the face things seem creepy, they could be fun, right? and the cartoons? c'mon. maybe rly old age wont be so bad.


my youngest also had them, tho, and hers were unnerving. she saw people following her out of the corner of her eye. got a dx of ptsd, only figured out it was epilepsy later.

[Warpy]

3. Gardenias? Lucky you

Phantosmia (smelling things that aren't there) usually don't involve pleasant smells and people don't have to be bashed in the head to get them. Usually it's something noxious, like ammonia or cigarette smoke.

Funny side note, last year when I had my case of presumptive and couldn't smell anything, the phantosmia went away, too.

Hallucination is probably a lot more common than most of us suspect. They're not particularly troublesome and people know they're not real so they dismiss them rather than tell their GPs and risk being sent to a mental hospital.

[mopinko]

5. it was my da's only gardening fail.

he had a couple in the house. they lived for a couple of years, and bloomed once.
i need to get a couple.

smelling perfume is a common sort of 'ghost sighting', tho.

[littlemissmartypants]

8. I'm glad you found comfort in understanding. You may like this, too...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017650903

❤

[Martin68]

4. Sacks is a brilliant story teller - and every story has a point. I've learned more bout the human

brain from Sacks than any other source. His humanity always comforts me.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. American Masters is running his episode now. -Oliver Sacks: His Own Life- You can watch it here...

https://www.thirteen.org/programs/american-masters/oliver-sacks-his-own-life-audio-descriptive-version-fa4fvl/

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Audio Descriptive Version*)
Explore the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact.

And here: https://www.thirteen.org/programs/american-masters/oliver-sacks-his-own-life-qdlync/

Total run time: 1:49:28
AIRED: 4/9/2021
EXPIRES: 5/8/2021

*Audio description is a means to inform individuals who are blind or who have low vision about visual content essential for comprehension. ... Audio description is usually added during existing pauses in dialogue. Audio description is also called “video description” and “descriptive narration”. https://www.acb.org/adp/ad.html


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❤ pants

[magicguido]

9. That explains it; republicans hallucinate reality