ellenallien said:

i bet they still get trippy colors.. ever get closed eye visuals? sometimes cooler/more profound then open-eye. im going to be blind by 40... this will be me at the RAVEs

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tymoteusz3 said:

ellenallien said:

i bet they still get trippy colors.. ever get closed eye visuals? sometimes cooler/more profound then open-eye. im going to be blind by 40... this will be me at the RAVEs

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Aww really?? Why!!

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Tetriana said:

Effects of a Hallucinogenic Agent in Totally Blind Subjects:

http://www.lycaeum.org/research/researchpdfs/1094.pdf

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very cool! so this is gonna be me..!? 

ellenallien said:

Advanced Macral Degeneration...

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frith said:

ellenallien said:

Advanced Macral Degeneration...

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Macular Degeneration? my gdad had it.

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

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tymoteusz3 said:

I was at this rave the other day and saw a blind man there, with his cane and glasses, just moving slowly to the music. It was really cool cause where else but a rave do you get stuff like that :P (With no one making fun of him etc, but always doing their best to aid him, like random people helping him walk through the crowd etc).

But anyways it got me thinking, if a blind man took a heavy psychedelic dose, what would he see? (Or she lol).
Would he have CEVS? If so, I wonder what they would see. Because we see scenes in our vision that have been recreated from stuff we see normally.

I wonder anyone has ever done a study on it

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Nothing I generally see on higher doses of mushrooms has ever been experienced by me before The parts of the brain responsible for mental imagery are different than those responsible for vision - if anything I would imagine a blind person has very good powers of mental imagery.

Sheeno said:

I suspect all this is related to dreams.

Take a congenitally blind person - someone blind at birth whose brain never once assimilated the concept of visual perception. At night, these people dream too, but they have strong auditory, olfactory and tactile hallucinations; visuals do not play a part.

Someone who has become blind midway through their life, whose brain (whether consciously or subconsciously) could once visually perceive do also visually dream. These non-congenital blind people do, however, note that the longer they've been blind for, the hazier the visual aspect to their dreams and the more accentuated the other senses become.

I reckon this would be the same with tripping. A completely congenitally blind person would have no visual aspect to their trip as their brain cannot comprehend the very concept of visual interpretation. One who has developed blindness at a later stage in life, however, would have a visual aspect to some degree.

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