What kind of v/hallucinations does a blind schizophrenic have?

[commander bunnypants]

:shrug:

me and coworker was kicking the idea around.

Before I am flamed I work in the field under psychiatrists


CB

[buff2]

1. Only hears voices???

:shrug:

[Goldmund]

2. You mean one born blind, right?

[commander bunnypants]

4. yes

we actually have one. Her guide dog is really great. She is sweet also

CB

[Goldmund]

8. It's a really interesting question

not only in the narrow sense, but I think it's metaphysically interesting.

I think that hallucinations would have to draw from the world of sensory experience. She obviously relies much more on her hearing than the rest of us do, so I take it that her hallucinations are also aurally centered. Visually... the question really translates to whether or not a person born blind has a visual world at all. I guess that their brains and their consciousnesses are wired for visual input, but there's no "signal" coming from the optical nerve. It's a different thing from being a member of a species that simply has no eyes. I don't know... But you've just given me a brain-worm to torture me the rest of the day.

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. That's actually not a silly question; I'm curious myself.

Would there be another type of sensory hallucinaion? New voices? I wonder.

[commander bunnypants]

5. any sense can have hallucinations

tactile, gustatory-very rare though

cb

[gWbush is Mabus]

10. delete

[ret5hd]

6. really really scary ones

[AngryAmish]

7. My guess

People who have aquired blindness would have full blown hallucinations. They still have a visual cortex. I would make an analagy to phantom pain syndrome in amputees. They are still feeling pain but lack the limb.

Blind since birth I would assume that part of the brain for vision would be severely atrophied/turned over to other senses. They would probably have fewer and not well formed.

I am not a professional in this field but I have a little knowledge about the brain.

[Droopy]

9. Probably hearing voices

I could imagine a blind schizophrenic person think that there are people in the room with him/her that are not there and carrying on conversations with these imaginary people.

[stellanoir]

11. There is a very, very, fine line between

brilliance and psychosis. That being said, enhanced intuition can manifest through both clairaudience as well as clairvoyance.

If one was blind it would be irrelevant because the hallucinations/visions would come through the mind's eye (aka the third eye), through the hypothalmus. Very simply, one doesn't open their eyes to have visual images during their dreams, but one often sees images nonetheless.

I would imagine that a blind persons ability to see inner images would depend entirely on the cause, degree, and possible extensive damage to their hypothalmus which may or may not have also resulted in their blindness.

Just guessing here.

Having personally experienced both clairaudience and clairvoyance, I really don't think that either has a whole lot to do with optic function, unless in extreme cases.