I always wonder about deaf and blind...

So I always have wondered if deaf people on psychedelics have ever had the experience of "hearing" sounds/vibrations/buzzings whatever within their mind. Also same for people that are blind getting "inner eye visions" and actually "seeing" fractals or other weird things in their brain.

HMMM

You never know what psychedelics can do

 

dude thats an awesome thought. heres my theory.. like.. take a deaf person whos been deaf from birth. because theyve never heard sound, their brain probably doesnt know what sound is and like, i dont think theyd be able to have any audio hallucinations. same with a person blind from birth, i doubt theyd really see any visuals or hallucinations because theyve never even seen anything before, their brain wouldnt be able to reproduce that. but i bet people who became blind/deaf could probably get some sweet visual/audio hallucinations. im probably waaaaaaaay off though.

 

yeah theres some on shroomery about this, the brain has never had sight so it doesnt really even know what that is, and because they picture their world in a different way, they just trip out with their other senses, still creating a new world.

 

yer because when people are blind/deaf anyway for example their touch is super sensitive. imagine what it would be like feeling stuff if you were blind/deaf on acid.

 

Yes, and perhaps they would experience "inner" eye synthethesia type experiences.

Also what if a person who was born blind or deaf...So they had the experiences of sound and sight at a young age??

 

I remember someone telling me about an interview with Stevie Wonder where he said he had the experience of colors while dosed.

 

This thread just blew my mind...

 

haha i was pretty psyched readint the shroomery one.

 

I've always wondered what the blind see when they think. Fabricated images of what they think the world looks like? Colours. Tones. Wow.

 

we see with our brains, not our eyes.

it all depends on the cause of their blindness, whether they're blind because the eye doesn't work properly or because the brain doesn't work properly.

someone with cataracts will still have crazy visuals.
someone with total visual brain damage will not have visuals.
someone with partial visual brain damage will have some visuals (e.g. some color but no shape perception)

 

I've always wondered about that. Not so much the deaf, but more so the blind. I would expect them to have CEV. There's no way their third eye is blind too!

 

perfect answer.

colorblind people will see colors on psychedelics... but i don't think any of us have perfect, uncensored, unfiltered senses, so we all see things and hear things and feel things that we normally wouldn't, just at different degrees...

you know, there is a thing that deaf people can have put into their brains that hears/records sound (it's complicated, so i don't know how to describe what it does), and it makes the person hallucinate those sounds, by altering their brainwaves and stuff... it's not perfect; the sound is a little warped. but people who have been deaf for life are able to hear for the first time. most of them find it really annoying at first .

if they can do that with sound, it won't be long before they can do it with other things... not that i think they WOULD, but it would eventually be possible to create a little device you put inside your brain, that would allow you to see/feel/smell/hear/taste whatever you wanted...

that would be wild. if someone you loved was in a coma, you could tell them you love them and give them a hug and let them eat their favorite food, hear their favorite song, pet their cat... you could get rid of pain... or you could torture people. it will probably never be invented, because it would just blow everyone's mind too much, and we'd all go insane, but it is possible...

science, man...

 

true, but in the case of people who have been deaf or blind from birth, a sudden, "new" sense is generally found to be very, very, offensive. science notwithstanding, you can't just magically re-wire and develop certain brain areas that had never been developed/used in the first place.

there is definately the scientific capacity to induce these new senses to the handicapped, but there are lots of moral problems involved with doing it and, as mentioned, the fact that some brains (the ones that are deaf or blind from birth) are literally designed to not experience these senses...

it's complicated, at the least.

 

i feel that people who are blind probably miss out alot on trips; personaly i have horrible eye sight, and i do not notice visuals on even an intense trip(w/o glasses) . i always keep my glasses on trippin

 

funny i just made a tread with a theory just like this

 

My friend who is blind can't smoke weed because it is far too intense for him.

-Mike

 

Dude That Mushroom Finger Looks Like The Pope!

 

luok @ me und gu bleend, zeen try it ouout un LSD.