If a blind person took LSD, would they get visual hallucinations?

[Wonk]

What about other psychadaelic drugs like magic mushrooms or peyote?

What if they were just color blind, might they see colors they hadn't before?

Just curious. The thought crossed my mind, and I figured someone here might know :shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

1. Only you, Wonk, could come up with this question.

:hi: :D

Here's a discussion of this on another message board.

http://forum.hempfiles.com/viewtopic.php?p=39417&sid=8bf96cf99a12c48ad111777fab7954da

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Woohoo! I was right!

[Wonk]

4. That makes sense, that it depends on the cause of the blindness.

Thanks for that link Maddy, as well.

[Maddy McCall]

5. You're welcome, Wonk.

Hope all is well with you. :hi:

[Wonk]

7. I'm fine. Not planning to poke my eyes out and drop acid anytime soon ;-)

The question just came to me upon seeing that Timothy Leary thread at the top of page one.

[REP]

6. And Probably When The Blindness Occurred

A blind-from-birth person wouldn't experience visual hallucinations in the same way someone who had lost their vision as an infant, and that person would process those hallucinations in a different way than someone who lost their vision as an older person. In other words, someone who had never experience vision as a sighted person understands it would most likely not have visual images of any coherent sort; a person who lost their vision just at the point when colors and shapes were beginning to be processed would have another sort of visual image; and a person who has developed a complete visual repretory (colors, shapes, depth, perspective, etc) would have yet another, perhaps more like what a sighted person would experience.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. I would have to say yes on all accounts.

Oftentimes under hallucinogens, the visual effects are stronger with your eyes closed. Really you shouldn't see anything, but you can see amazing things. Also, both blindness (in many cases) and color-blindness have to physically do with the eye itself. It's a physical defect with the eye. The brain itself still functions, as normal. Hallucinogens, aside from some physical side effects, work by affecting the brain. The hallucinations are all just a product of your brain. I see no reason why a blind person couldn't hallucinate visually or a colorblind person couldn't see colors they hadn't before.

The outside stimuli is the same, but the brain is throwing out all sorts of shit. That's just my theory. Based purely on a couple of college biology & psychology classes, with some personal tripping experience thrown in.

[Ptah]

8. Are you trying to decide to be blind or not? n/t