Quote Originally Posted by Robot_Butler View Post
While growing up, I knew a woman with a bad case of macular degeneration. She is now completely blind. When I was a kid, she would always tell me about the crazy things she would see. She knew they were not there, but that did not stop them from seeming real. I later learned there is a name for this, and that it is extrememly underreported. Most people with failing vision don't want to mention that they "see things" for fear of being labeled crazy and losing what little independence they still have. I've always wondered how common this really is.

It is interesting to think about it in relation to fear-of-the-dark mythology such as ghosts, UFOs, and alien encounters.
That's really intersting... I spent about a year helping a blind woman and she never said anything to me, but yea probably because she was worried about sounding crazy. The mind filling in blind spots is such an insane thing... complicated enough to fill in patterns even! Do you know if this phenomenon has a name or anything? I don't know why it would only occur during SP, though...