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Participant _35 Vision explanation
I was standing in a grocery store, the first time I saw the vision of a kaleidoscope. These colours enveloped my field of vision, obscuring reality – and leaving me disoriented. The vivid vision completely overwhelmed me.
The colours moved before my eyes, and what little sight I did have – it deleted it entirely! I was paralysed, unable to move or react because my sight had been stolen.
Petrified, I did not know what was going on. I couldn’t move, I couldn’t do anything, because I couldn’t see.
You don’t know what to do. You might as well be blind because you – ARE – blind.
Blindness is a traumatic event, and the brain reacts creatively to such stress, drawing on all its resources from past, present, and future.
So, presenting this way isn’t too surprising.
Interestingly, I loved kaleidoscopes as a child! It seems that every vision relates to who I am as a person.
Understanding this connection might make it more palatable for others to accept that it’s not entirely unrelated.
Participant _23 Vision explanation
It was just an ordinary day, and I was going for a walk but there were blue bright flowers on the cactus in my yard, but Cactus do not have blue bright flowers. I looked up in the Texas Ebony tree and there were blue flowers in the Texas Ebony tree too.
Not only have I lost my vision, but now everything’s got blue flowers.
The first time I was “terrified” because I didn’t know about CBS. I ran into the house and called my retinologist thinking I was losing more vision.
Participant _34 Vision explanation
I’m in my bedroom and there are two other persons lying there—and they are there sleeping. That disappears and I’m seeing this camera-like Super 8 movie-and there are images of the war. There is a ditch, and two soldiers in the ditch, and they had circular hats. So, I am thinking that it’s the Second World War and these images are invading the space like ghosts.
A psychic with this spiritual church said to me that I had been given a special gift of healing: that is the Charles Bonnet images. I was in denial, and I thought I was being trained as a medium. So, what I used to do is –write it all down: I was very proactive. But when my sister visited and I showed her my notes, she went off her brain at me! She really did. That really got to her, you know.
So, I changed to watch and don’t react. There are no specific thoughts. I listen to my radio and pay attention to the broadcaster or listen to music. The radio is my own method of coping with the CBS images.