Trailing vision: Pallinopsia interactive

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Interactive Experience

Creating an interactive experience helps viewers to understand some of the symptoms that are a reality for people day-to-day. One of the symptoms I live with is a trailing of vision called palinopsia. Images repeat and blur. It can become quite confusing and tiring to the mind.

The blurry, trailing vision is a good example of a simple visual hallucination. There is no mental confusion involved. Delusional hallucinating is very different from visual hallucinations. The idea that if you see things or hear things, you’re going mad, is a common stigma.

Understanding how large the gap is in these experiences helps to explain to friends and family your own experiences.

Oliver Sacks, a well-known neurologist, explained the difference between delusions and visual hallucinations, by the following quote:

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you, they seduce you, they humiliate you, they jeer at you. You interact with them. There is none of this quality of being addressed with these Charles Bonnet hallucinations. There is a film. You’re seeing a film which has nothing to do with you — or that’s how people think about it.