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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.