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Oliver Sacks talks about Charles Bonnet syndrome. Charles Bonnet Syndrome is where visually impaired individuals suddenly see things that are not there, commonly known as hallucinations. Typically these hallucinations of various different people are not known to the individuals and they are colorful and rather boring as they go about their activities, while the patient watches them in alarm. He describes how the faces of some of the these individuals are malformed, eyes to big, teeth to big and these is due to the fusiform gyrus being deformed or activated in some way. He also says that these hallucinations are due to the visual cortex being hyperactive due to the blindness of these individuals. Anyhow, this is an interesting subject, which

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