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I have read some of his books. In Musicophilia he mentions what he did in the 60's and he mentions taking psychedelic drugs as well. Think about that! For those considering taking drugs that can teach us about the mind, you should :)
I am not so quick to write these off as seemingly meaninglessness noise or static in the non seeing eye...
I have no sight impairment and I can see all these things by just closing my eyes and using my imagination.
Add some psychedelics to my mind... and all bets are off... I am in a completey other world... Full of vibrant colors and shapes and tapestries and limitless forms of art and sounds... I have never seen anything that even comes close the same beauty in the "real" world.
Without wading through all 246 preceding comments to see if this has been asked before - does anyone know if this affects those who have been blind from birth (and have never, therefore, seen "real" people? Does one have to have a visual "memory" to get these hallucinations? Does it only affect those who have had normal vision and who then become impaired, eg via macular degeneration?
My Dad has Charles Bonnet syndrome, diagnosed by his neurologist several years ago. He is almost 98
@OriginalNightStalker I wondered the same thing. I bet you can find the research somewhere--maybe you can search Oliver Sacks and find his research and etc.
I really like the way they have him (or he has himself) sitting in this talk, as opposed to other ted talks. You can also tell that he is so engaged in what he is saying when he is leaning forward towards the crowd. He must have the luckiest grandkids... haha
Oliver Sacks books are brilliant. I don't get how on earth a person could thumbs down this beautiful speech by Oliver Sacks on the subject of hallucination.
@ogrish84 what I don't get though is, why you should care :) ....Sacks' true greatness will be recognized long after his death...let the dumb look after themselves.. :)
I wonder sometimes if the people experiencing these Hallucinations are sort of looking at life in a different dimension. Maybe there are hanker-chiefs floating around us all the time? We just can't see them? Or ... maybe I'm still tripping from that LSD I took 5 hrs ago... blah
understanding ourselves I believe is something which is almost impossible, atleast not completely. it is hard to believe we are compromised of just neurons and electrical impulses.
I thought I was completely alone in experiencing this phenomenon! Everyone I've mentioned it to, including the good people at the commission for the blind, behaved as though I'd sprouted another head. To whom can this be reported so more reliable numbers can be obtained?
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@Tribune99 I love this man.. I watched Awakenings and read 2 of his books.. I'd love to read musicophilia or The island of the colorblind!! He's so inspirational and he looks kind and caring as well <3
The old lady wasn't having a hallucination. She was time traveling. It happens to a lot of people in their nineties, and most of them see Saudi Arabia, because of the staggered time zone issue.
Interesting stuff. I'm legally blind and my vision progressively worsens. I haven't yet experienced any hallucinations but I wonder if I may, later on in life? Might be kinda cool, since the TV probably won't do me much good at that point. :)
As a specie's our first communication come from the faces of our caregivers. Meaning we actively engage our senses (physical), and firing synapses to figure out just what the hell that big, weird person is doing! Then life is a journey on which there are many markers, or what I call "event horizons" which are defining in the makeup and development of the human being. Which mind process and dwells until "reconcile" or "deforms". see next post
As a specie's our first communication come from the faces of our caregivers. Meaning we actively engage our senses (physical), and firing synapses to figure out just what the hell that big, weird person is doing! Then life is a journey on which there are many markers, or what I call "event horizons" which are defining in the makeup and development of the human being. Which mind process and dwells until "reconcile" or "deforms". see next post
Cartoons are a great visual representation of a "different perspective" Or really it's prolly just that cartoons are the way kids are exposed to the all mighty T.V.!! Plus animation is different than what they have been exposed to thus far in their short lives, or a "event horizon" that sticks with them.
I have hallucinations...schizoaffective disorder... i see a person, feel,smell,hear and taste all that stuff...... The guy that I see will walk up behind me and grab my shoulder and then run about 20 ft away and then stare at me then walk away......
When I was a young kid I was sitting down tying up my shoes, I looked up and there was a green man with white hair wearing a white robe. He was completely solid, feet on the floor staring at me. He just stood there less than 6 feet away. He disappeared right in front of my eyes He attacks me all the time. This is no hallucination. If I do kill myself it is just to get away from him and all the people who laugh at me and won't help (doctors included). He is completely real and we aren't going
I wonder why, under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, we see the particular things we do. Or, never mind the drugs--just the hallucinations that some people have accompanying dementia, for example. What, in the brain, creates the particular hallucinations any of us has? This is like our dreaming...where do the ideas and stories come from???
Some people have a hard time taking in information that actually has to be processed by the brain. You can usually spot these people by phrases like "huh wtf is they talkin about? This is stupid *thumbs down*"
13:50 "There is a part of the brain which is especially activated when one sees cartoons. It is activated when one draws cartoons, when one watches cartoons, and when one hallucinates them."
Could someone elaborate on which part is activated, what the lasting effects of this may be, and if there are similar occupations or observations which trigger the same region as cartoons? ...is this a good thing? --I like drawing cartoons...what's going on with my brain when I draw them? : )))
sorry friend, i don't know if i'm misunderstand what you are saying or the other way around haha (most likely my fault). but to clearify on my side, i wasn't talking of the number 23 being an actual hallucination. i was saying that some people say that it appears on street signs, bill boards, t.v. etc. and those people think it means something. but infact they are noticing it everywhere because they THINK it means something. i was wondering if hallucinations manifest for this lady because...
she's constantly thinking about Kermit, regardless of whether or not he has some sort significance. the women is constantly thinking of him so could that be why he manifests in her hallucinations so often?
i'm sure this gentleman has already thought of this, but in the instance that the women who hallucinated Kermit, she says that he has no particular barring on her, he has no weight so she didn't understand why he keeps comming back. Is it possible that he keeps appearing BECAUSE she saw him once and thought about him, and he appeared again and it snowballed after that? much like one can hear a word one day but that same word seems to pop up again and again because they are conscious of it.
in the same way some people seem to have the number 23 confess to them in their day to day life or a un/lucky number of any sort. Is it possible that Kermit manifests because this women semi-obsesses about him being unimportant?
Well I think these "hallucinations" have some reality to them. Perhaps by some process of the mind, they "guessed" that they were going to see the number 23 on which days. Perhaps in their everyday life, they see this number a lot, then they get their minds to focus on it involuntarily. Maybe this relates to hallucinations whereas hallucinations is a stronger rendering of the minds faculties to this process. There are many monotonous things that people ignore in an average day.
Can't anarchic mean 'lacking order or control'? I wouldn't have thought there was a problem with his use of the word. I think he's a good speaker and I found what he had to say very engaging and thought-provoking. Seems a pity a dismiss all of what he has to say because of one word.
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when you conflate the term for 'lack of despotic government' with a word for 'lacking order or control', then you implicitly assume that government is necessarily tied to order. That is a very dangerous view. The death toll for that mysticism is definitely among the highest if not the highest in all of human history.
For that reason, and because people are less likely to take note of that, that's why I gave him a poor rating..
@HerzogsShoe You're right, but the original definition of Anarchy is "1a : absence of government"(Merrriam-Webster), but a common propaganda definition, still in Webster's, is "1b : a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority", anarchic meaning like anarchy, i.e. lacking order. This is propaganda because it's against the state's interests to have people believe "1c : a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government"
sorry man but what does a libratarian know about anaarchy a movement defined by movements like that of Bakunin or in modern mass cutural movements who resent the government having the right to rule them all the libratarians care about is the right to tax
Libertarians are a very mixed bag. Personally, I read Bakunin (among many other things). Libertarian individualism, and all the philosophical premises of libertarian thought sync rather well with leftist anarchist views..
unless of course they get dogmatic, and spout prejudice against the term capitalism and conflating it with corporatism...
i think he was just using anarchic in terms of visions seemingly lacking governance by the brain, lacking coherence. anarchic, all-over-the-map visions.
I hallucinate often that I am a 28 year old man who goes to work everyday and comes home afterwards...sometimes I even go to the gym on certain days and they get really weird sometimes when I hallucinate that I go to dinner for Tappas with my Fiance on occasion. These are my usual hallucinations....but occasionally I see other things...like the beach and ocean this past summer for about 4 days over a long weekend. I hope to hallucinate about Paris next Summer but we'll see if I can afford it.
we still i think know very little about hallucinations, we know almost nothing about our own consciousness... I see vivid hallucinations, on psychedelic drugs... entopic patterns and everything.. Dr. Rick Strausmans studies using DMT are particularly interesting...
YES! I'm not the only one who reads rick strausman's studies! DMT is amazingly mind-opening and very thought-provoking as to its natural occurence with life and death
don't ever listen to people on youtube comments that think they know anything about hallucinations.. since just exactly what a hallucination is currently unknown in science... there are some competing ideas.. but very little actual science on the issue or consensus dreams are a kind of hallucination and in theoretical physics the idea of multiple realities and parallel universes are perfectly accepted. not that these are places one could go of course but its interesting what we count as "real"
What if they are not hallucinations but glimpses into parallel universes (which are real according to current thinking in physics). Perhaps the visual cortex neurons are so hypersensitive they are reacting to stimulus from overlapping dimensions.
First of all we have instruments far more sensitive than the eye and if such a thing was going on we would have detected it long ago.
Secondly parallel universes are not 'real' according to 'current thinking in physics.' Thirdly even if there were parallel dimensions the likelyhood that the laws of physics would be comparable and therefore lead to coherent images in this universe are infinitesimal. Fourthly overlapping dimensions and parallel universes are two different things.
If this is true it is most likely a form of psychosis (sometimes triggered by drug use). Consult a doctor immediately.
In some way the hallucinations will be related to deep seated beliefs, and will be related to some extent to what you are thinking about. The most important driving force for both your thoughts and 'hallucinations' is your mood and emotional state.
A good mood will result in markedly different thoughts and hallucinations to a low mood.
Dr. Sacks is perhaps one of the most intelligent persons of our century. I read his book "the man who mistook his wife for a hat" and was extremely impressed.
To take off from where the speaker left off, i.e. how these hallucinations tell us about the correspondence between structure and function in the brain, watch V. S. Ramachandran's TED Talk. It will leave you stunned.
I worry about the very real danger of getting stuck under some stairs and having to wait for an enemy to come along and kill me so that I can spawn at the last checkpoint. Also, I don't like to get to close to fences because I might get stuck in some clipping corner and ejected through the ground. Falling forever looking up at the world seems pretty messed up.
I've been caring for a man describing these same symptoms, but I guess it would be useless to inform his nuerolegist. Seeing as how theres neither a cure nor a treatment. He'll be satisfied enough to discover he's not crazy.
why on earth would you want to stop having hallucinations??!!!!
They are great. i have had some really excellent ones. Once i had an audio hallucination while i was in the toilet. I heard a sports commentator commentating on what i was doing. i didn't want to leave the bathroom because it was so funny. But i did and when i returned a few minutes later there was no commentator :(
Interesting to know but sounds quite frightening or weird to actually experience them! Not very common knowledge but could be a common phenomenon. Thus those who had gone through them might be reluctant to share ...
It sounds a lot like the auditory & visual hallucinations older people get who have been bed bound for a long time. It seems to have something to do with sensory deprivation & the brain somehow compensating for the loss. Sort of the way people with brain damage confabulate memories to fill in the gaps of what they can't remember. It seems that the brain needs what the brain needs & is always striving for homeostasis. I love Sacks & his ability to explain the complex & make it appear simple.
I have exactly the opposite sort of hallucination. I see things that nobody else sees and I can ask them about them and they say there is nothing there, but when I reach forward and touch them they become real and then they are seen by everyone to pop into existence with much consternation, amazement and how did you do that. It seems to happen most while shopping at thrift stores or old, shabby boutiques where temporal tracking is loosely coupled to physical reality.
Wow, at the end there he took the idea to the place I'd perked up at 14:00 for. I was wondering if the area which reacts to cartoons reacts to drawn figures of animals and people in general. Since anthropomorphism of animals and objects is common both in cartoons (comics and animation) and in many shamanistic traditions... it could be a similar area of the brain being stimulated by such images. Since I know not all people react to animated entertainment, I wonder how that relates.
It's simply called DMT.. We all produce it EVERY night. Some may produce it at will when in trance from i.e meditation. Good to see this has become more and more clear for people. This is GREAT! Hopefully we can unban the of DMT as in other tryptamines. Abt sad that he does not even mention DMT in all this, maybe he don't know. Some call this experience "your higher self" He need to read Rick Strassman - The spirit molecule. Thanks for this talk TED! Peace
Because touch involves four different sets of nerves, the skin senses are considered four separate senses: 5. heat 6. cold 7. pressure 8. pain 9. motion (kinesthetic sense)
Sometimes my room would become an utterly mesmeric, vast landscape (a desert?) in which I had the feeling I was a small as an ant. It was quite an unpleasant feeling.
Other times there were patterns which were quite unsettling. I can only really describe them as rough and spiky textures in pale colours.
I also saw cartoons - related to the ones I watched as a child. I would often see characters walking across my room in a silent procession or acting out some scene.
I have had very similar feelings as a kid, while having fever. My room seemed to be so big it would take years to reach the other corner and every task involving moving to other part of the room just seemed impossibly troublesome. very unpleadant feeling indeed.
And your description of patterns reminds me of how some surfaces felt when touching. again weird and unpleasant.
Haven't had those feelings after childhood :( alltho unpleasant they could be fun to analyze as an adult.
had the exact same feelings as physicologsphy describes :D but all sounds seemed simply angry and agressive, i suspect it was panic attacks... often i caused them myself by listening to my breathing :D
wow that is exactly what I had as a kid, and yes usually during fevers.
It is so hard to explain, but what you said sounds about right, i'd have to go from one corner of I dunno my room/the earth/the universe and as soon as I finally go to the other side I realised I actually had to be back on the other side, only it was now twice as far away as it was previously.
I had the same sort of fever induced hallucination but it was like I had to endure infinite massiveness and infinite smallness at the same time... it was horrible... like I/the room/the universe was shrinking and expanding... collapsing and exploding... euuuurggh!
Oh..... gosh please don't remind me about that feeling. It was terrible. the "infinite massiveness and infinite smallness at the same time" thing was so hard to endure. glad that it was gone since i was 12. when it happened i could feel or more appropriately see a massive rock rolling down on me then suddenly i see a small little tiny needle spinning vertically..... tell you guys that feeling really sucks big time.
So Charles Bonnets grandfather had cataract surgery in the 1750s!! I am surprised to hear that this was done at such an early date, but wonder how many died of infection or complications. The truth is always stranger than fiction!
All of these comments are boring. Zzz.
shepherdsdog01 2 days ago
really informative and interesting
prchecker 4 days ago
This is a great video
TheKcsmithy 5 days ago
i highly respect this man, only if there were more like him in the world.
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The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
lightandbeautiful 2 weeks ago
@lightandbeautiful umm what is wrong with you?
kankurou1010 1 week ago
dam, i mistook him for a hat.
sprocket2cog 3 weeks ago
I love TED talks.
Task5003 1 month ago
Respect.
rjunky0999 1 month ago 2
I wish Oliver Sacks was my grandpa... my grandpa sucks
Geebsee 1 month ago
What do u know.. a doctor who knows what hes talking about..
ThefighterJAT 1 month ago in playlist drugs
I have read some of his books. In Musicophilia he mentions what he did in the 60's and he mentions taking psychedelic drugs as well. Think about that! For those considering taking drugs that can teach us about the mind, you should :)
Pianofy 1 month ago
His books are great!
StacksNyc80 2 months ago
I am not so quick to write these off as seemingly meaninglessness noise or static in the non seeing eye...
I have no sight impairment and I can see all these things by just closing my eyes and using my imagination.
Add some psychedelics to my mind... and all bets are off... I am in a completey other world... Full of vibrant colors and shapes and tapestries and limitless forms of art and sounds... I have never seen anything that even comes close the same beauty in the "real" world.
batfly 3 months ago
I can close my eyes and see entire landscapes and fly around them... I can see a market scene with people walking about buying and selling things....
so what is that?
batfly 3 months ago
@batfly Depends if you control the images or if they control themselves. I can imagine stuff but i decide what happens next.
BrownCookieBoy 3 months ago
@batfly It's the market people selling buying things syndrome
Nikomuz 2 months ago
Without wading through all 246 preceding comments to see if this has been asked before - does anyone know if this affects those who have been blind from birth (and have never, therefore, seen "real" people? Does one have to have a visual "memory" to get these hallucinations? Does it only affect those who have had normal vision and who then become impaired, eg via macular degeneration?
My Dad has Charles Bonnet syndrome, diagnosed by his neurologist several years ago. He is almost 98
OriginalNightStalker 3 months ago
@OriginalNightStalker I wondered the same thing. I bet you can find the research somewhere--maybe you can search Oliver Sacks and find his research and etc.
Alexandra12345670 2 months ago
what an amzing man oliver is, would love to be his pupil! also hes so cutee!
hatakeRandomHero 3 months ago
31 people brains hurt
venicebum1 4 months ago in playlist Dr. Oliver Sacks
31 people obviously didn't watch the video.
4outdoor 4 months ago
I really like the way they have him (or he has himself) sitting in this talk, as opposed to other ted talks. You can also tell that he is so engaged in what he is saying when he is leaning forward towards the crowd. He must have the luckiest grandkids... haha
Faldiddy 4 months ago
super good info, but...i have temporal lobe seizures and I've never been transported to the past, damnit! :/
khepri 4 months ago
I just want to take oliver sacks home and give him tea and cake....
xxtiaan 5 months ago 17
But....Kermit is a puppet...not a cartoon.
Jammed9000 5 months ago
I do wonder if this is the cause of the visual hallucinations many people have - specifically the tiny dots that many people seem to have.
necronomikron 6 months ago
NOOO!!!! This means I have a Justin Bieber cell!!!
Usernamenottaken2k 7 months ago 15
@Usernamenottaken2k I think everyone has that.
raydredX 5 months ago
@Usernamenottaken2k My God, I look up a sophisticated neurology talk and I STILL have to read people bitching about Justin Bieber!? Unbelievable.
IseeRightThrough2you 2 weeks ago
I like the way he replaces his "r" with "w".
haemishripper 7 months ago
@haemishripper i used to do that
ImStupidInTheLove 7 months ago
Anarchic is correctly used in this context
jsymons1985 8 months ago
What's with the 28 thumbs down to Oliver Sacks?
Oliver Sacks books are brilliant. I don't get how on earth a person could thumbs down this beautiful speech by Oliver Sacks on the subject of hallucination.
ogrish84 8 months ago 2
@ogrish84 what I don't get though is, why you should care :) ....Sacks' true greatness will be recognized long after his death...let the dumb look after themselves.. :)
gopz83 7 months ago
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gigel2006 5 months ago
Excellent speaker, very interesting, and with a very engaging topic.
And he knows how to use 'anarchic' in a sentence, unlike certain people who commented on this video.
Encryptsan 8 months ago
I wonder sometimes if the people experiencing these Hallucinations are sort of looking at life in a different dimension. Maybe there are hanker-chiefs floating around us all the time? We just can't see them? Or ... maybe I'm still tripping from that LSD I took 5 hrs ago... blah
wallymeldrum 8 months ago
understanding ourselves I believe is something which is almost impossible, atleast not completely. it is hard to believe we are compromised of just neurons and electrical impulses.
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Rechenzo 8 months ago
Very interesting, but TED talks always seem too short to get into significant depth.
thetwentyfourth 9 months ago
Wow, I never knew I'd watch the entire thing but that was amazing.
Cesariono 10 months ago
I thought I was completely alone in experiencing this phenomenon! Everyone I've mentioned it to, including the good people at the commission for the blind, behaved as though I'd sprouted another head. To whom can this be reported so more reliable numbers can be obtained?
BoundsOfJoy 10 months ago
id shit bricks
frozenstrawbs 10 months ago
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Gregmills007 10 months ago
nota 10 :)
ionikgoose1 10 months ago
@Tribune99 I love this man.. I watched Awakenings and read 2 of his books.. I'd love to read musicophilia or The island of the colorblind!! He's so inspirational and he looks kind and caring as well <3
SourSweetSoul2 11 months ago
The old lady wasn't having a hallucination. She was time traveling. It happens to a lot of people in their nineties, and most of them see Saudi Arabia, because of the staggered time zone issue.
instereovideos 11 months ago
He is like the modern Freud!
He even looks like him.
Doricc 1 year ago
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nineblackkasabian 1 year ago
Am i the only one who gets freaked out when he starts talking about the deformed faces?
FutileFreak 1 year ago
Interesting stuff. I'm legally blind and my vision progressively worsens. I haven't yet experienced any hallucinations but I wonder if I may, later on in life? Might be kinda cool, since the TV probably won't do me much good at that point. :)
MegaCrasher2000 1 year ago
Has anyone read his new book?
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As a specie's our first communication come from the faces of our caregivers. Meaning we actively engage our senses (physical), and firing synapses to figure out just what the hell that big, weird person is doing! Then life is a journey on which there are many markers, or what I call "event horizons" which are defining in the makeup and development of the human being. Which mind process and dwells until "reconcile" or "deforms". see next post
iBelieve0and1 1 year ago
As a specie's our first communication come from the faces of our caregivers. Meaning we actively engage our senses (physical), and firing synapses to figure out just what the hell that big, weird person is doing! Then life is a journey on which there are many markers, or what I call "event horizons" which are defining in the makeup and development of the human being. Which mind process and dwells until "reconcile" or "deforms". see next post
iBelieve0and1 1 year ago
@iBelieve0and1
Cartoons are a great visual representation of a "different perspective" Or really it's prolly just that cartoons are the way kids are exposed to the all mighty T.V.!! Plus animation is different than what they have been exposed to thus far in their short lives, or a "event horizon" that sticks with them.
iBelieve0and1 1 year ago
@iBelieve0and1 Maybe the simple colours of a cartoon are easier to process for a child's brain, which is developing. I don't know.
What do you mean by "event horizon"?
John27346 1 year ago
I have hallucinations...schizoaffective disorder... i see a person, feel,smell,hear and taste all that stuff...... The guy that I see will walk up behind me and grab my shoulder and then run about 20 ft away and then stare at me then walk away......
84katiekat 1 year ago
Awesome! The brain is so funny sometimes.
098anne 1 year ago
Bravo!
vivascargill 1 year ago
When I was a young kid I was sitting down tying up my shoes, I looked up and there was a green man with white hair wearing a white robe. He was completely solid, feet on the floor staring at me. He just stood there less than 6 feet away. He disappeared right in front of my eyes He attacks me all the time. This is no hallucination. If I do kill myself it is just to get away from him and all the people who laugh at me and won't help (doctors included). He is completely real and we aren't going
yvettefoto 1 year ago
Dr. Oliver Sacks is a fascinating man.
NicolaRedwooddforest 1 year ago
All i need is tedtalks and that sweet sweet herb to keep me entertained for hours.
CantWeedThis 1 year ago 3
I wonder why, under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, we see the particular things we do. Or, never mind the drugs--just the hallucinations that some people have accompanying dementia, for example. What, in the brain, creates the particular hallucinations any of us has? This is like our dreaming...where do the ideas and stories come from???
nannygoatj 1 year ago
@nannygoatj could dimethyltriptamine play a role?
NikeshalovesCasey 9 months ago 2
Who downvotes these? Some kind of cunt? Christ.
linksysrouted 1 year ago
@linksysrouted
Some people have a hard time taking in information that actually has to be processed by the brain. You can usually spot these people by phrases like "huh wtf is they talkin about? This is stupid *thumbs down*"
CantWeedThis 1 year ago
They have some good lectures on TED but, they also have a lot of NWO poverty pimps on to spout their bullshit as well. Beware of TED!
green4us2sm0ke 1 year ago
@green4us2sm0ke
Excuse me pal but i dont believe tedtalks has ever talked about NWO. Prove it with a link or you crazy mkkay
CantWeedThis 1 year ago
Read his books; they're marvellous.
smeejit 1 year ago
He has a very intelligent accent I like it.
EclecticSceptic 1 year ago
if saint paul hadn`t have the hallucination of jesus ...there were no christian church today.
toumai1470 1 year ago
You're right whendirtgetsinmyeye. He's wearing cool trainers at 16.50 too.
He's also an open water swimmer. Whilst doing this he does a lot of his thinking and this makes him want to write.
Lizbethbike 1 year ago
Sacks is the man.
jrussell772 1 year ago
Unlocking the awesome power of the brain is a worthy aim for science. Subconscious exploration still hold a lot of secrets.
mechanoiddolly 1 year ago 4
What a delightful and eloquent man.
whendirtgetsinmyeye 2 years ago 118
@whendirtgetsinmyeye AGREED. He speaks so well!
DraggonRuler 1 year ago
@whendirtgetsinmyeye omg he seems so nice i wish he was my grandfather!
loosekarrott 7 months ago
The world is in your heads!
2010FuckUTube 2 years ago 3
that Fiji water musta done some miles before it got drunk at TED
muzzleray 2 years ago 3
hes so cool, I wish he was my grandad
xxtiaan 2 years ago 6
very interesting for a geezer, 5 stars
PopeColbert 2 years ago
your tool sar so very limited to explain many of these things.
alfteck 2 years ago
very interesting!
journeymanjim 2 years ago
666 ratings!!! this is the devils work. whohhahahaha
Setivo 2 years ago
Sacks is very lucid in his exposition.
theprophet20 2 years ago 4
13:50 "There is a part of the brain which is especially activated when one sees cartoons. It is activated when one draws cartoons, when one watches cartoons, and when one hallucinates them."
Could someone elaborate on which part is activated, what the lasting effects of this may be, and if there are similar occupations or observations which trigger the same region as cartoons? ...is this a good thing? --I like drawing cartoons...what's going on with my brain when I draw them? : )))
oceanbluesky 2 years ago
you focus...
letsgetjiggyniggy 2 years ago
how do you know this? I wrote to him asking...specifically about drawing cartoons...has he elaborated upon this explicitly elsewhere? thanks
oceanbluesky 2 years ago
im very sorry but i was being a smart ass, i made that comment before i watched this, sorry..
letsgetjiggyniggy 2 years ago 5
sorry friend, i don't know if i'm misunderstand what you are saying or the other way around haha (most likely my fault). but to clearify on my side, i wasn't talking of the number 23 being an actual hallucination. i was saying that some people say that it appears on street signs, bill boards, t.v. etc. and those people think it means something. but infact they are noticing it everywhere because they THINK it means something. i was wondering if hallucinations manifest for this lady because...
blugreenblu 2 years ago
she's constantly thinking about Kermit, regardless of whether or not he has some sort significance. the women is constantly thinking of him so could that be why he manifests in her hallucinations so often?
blugreenblu 2 years ago
i'm sure this gentleman has already thought of this, but in the instance that the women who hallucinated Kermit, she says that he has no particular barring on her, he has no weight so she didn't understand why he keeps comming back. Is it possible that he keeps appearing BECAUSE she saw him once and thought about him, and he appeared again and it snowballed after that? much like one can hear a word one day but that same word seems to pop up again and again because they are conscious of it.
blugreenblu 2 years ago
in the same way some people seem to have the number 23 confess to them in their day to day life or a un/lucky number of any sort. Is it possible that Kermit manifests because this women semi-obsesses about him being unimportant?
blugreenblu 2 years ago
Well I think these "hallucinations" have some reality to them. Perhaps by some process of the mind, they "guessed" that they were going to see the number 23 on which days. Perhaps in their everyday life, they see this number a lot, then they get their minds to focus on it involuntarily. Maybe this relates to hallucinations whereas hallucinations is a stronger rendering of the minds faculties to this process. There are many monotonous things that people ignore in an average day.
VagabonNinja 2 years ago
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Semi-decent speech until he mis-used the term 'anarchic' at 15:40.
2 stars
He should know better, because TED has abnormally high numbers of libertarians.
FreiheitKampfer 2 years ago
Can't anarchic mean 'lacking order or control'? I wouldn't have thought there was a problem with his use of the word. I think he's a good speaker and I found what he had to say very engaging and thought-provoking. Seems a pity a dismiss all of what he has to say because of one word.
HerzogsShoe 2 years ago 26
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when you conflate the term for 'lack of despotic government' with a word for 'lacking order or control', then you implicitly assume that government is necessarily tied to order. That is a very dangerous view. The death toll for that mysticism is definitely among the highest if not the highest in all of human history.
For that reason, and because people are less likely to take note of that, that's why I gave him a poor rating..
FreiheitKampfer 2 years ago
@HerzogsShoe You're right, but the original definition of Anarchy is "1a : absence of government"(Merrriam-Webster), but a common propaganda definition, still in Webster's, is "1b : a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority", anarchic meaning like anarchy, i.e. lacking order. This is propaganda because it's against the state's interests to have people believe "1c : a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government"
IAmTheUnknownPunk 1 year ago
@HerzogsShoe
So whats your problem? That definition fits perfectly in the context of what he was describing.
ajnode 1 year ago
@ajnode No problem, I was replying to previous comment. Like a year previous.
HerzogsShoe 1 year ago
@HerzogsShoe were you defending his use or bringing this up as an issue of your own?
hillner1a 11 months ago
@HerzogsShoe
I think the reason why he used the word is that the one with the syndrome has no control over the hallucinations.
Suelue1315 6 months ago
sorry man but what does a libratarian know about anaarchy a movement defined by movements like that of Bakunin or in modern mass cutural movements who resent the government having the right to rule them all the libratarians care about is the right to tax
selurbrainonebay 2 years ago
Libertarians are a very mixed bag. Personally, I read Bakunin (among many other things). Libertarian individualism, and all the philosophical premises of libertarian thought sync rather well with leftist anarchist views..
unless of course they get dogmatic, and spout prejudice against the term capitalism and conflating it with corporatism...
FreiheitKampfer 2 years ago
i think he was just using anarchic in terms of visions seemingly lacking governance by the brain, lacking coherence. anarchic, all-over-the-map visions.
blugreenblu 2 years ago 2
Yes, and if someone is sinister, they're being left handed...
Semi-decent tirade until you misunderstood how words evolve.
iceheart920 2 years ago 2
tirade? i understand how words evolve. you're reading too much into his.
blugreenblu 2 years ago
good advert for FIJI water there
HappyFlick 2 years ago 2
he's always been such a wise, compassionate man
gnikhilg 2 years ago
I hallucinate often that I am a 28 year old man who goes to work everyday and comes home afterwards...sometimes I even go to the gym on certain days and they get really weird sometimes when I hallucinate that I go to dinner for Tappas with my Fiance on occasion. These are my usual hallucinations....but occasionally I see other things...like the beach and ocean this past summer for about 4 days over a long weekend. I hope to hallucinate about Paris next Summer but we'll see if I can afford it.
PositiveLastAction 2 years ago
we still i think know very little about hallucinations, we know almost nothing about our own consciousness... I see vivid hallucinations, on psychedelic drugs... entopic patterns and everything.. Dr. Rick Strausmans studies using DMT are particularly interesting...
check out DMT the Spirit Molecule
phoboskitty 2 years ago 2
YES! I'm not the only one who reads rick strausman's studies! DMT is amazingly mind-opening and very thought-provoking as to its natural occurence with life and death
CIgnoramus 2 years ago
don't ever listen to people on youtube comments that think they know anything about hallucinations.. since just exactly what a hallucination is currently unknown in science... there are some competing ideas.. but very little actual science on the issue or consensus dreams are a kind of hallucination and in theoretical physics the idea of multiple realities and parallel universes are perfectly accepted. not that these are places one could go of course but its interesting what we count as "real"
phoboskitty 2 years ago
Sometimes when I read while I'm kind of tired I hear music, and it's music I've never heard before!
GuppyPal 2 years ago
I used to do that when I was a teenager and it's kind of spooky because now all the songs I heard when I was younger are actually being released...
Or maybe I'm just reconstructing that memory, either way it's very interesting!
Petchhyy 2 years ago
This is one of the most interesting TED talks!
jeremyhartwood 2 years ago 2
What if they are not hallucinations but glimpses into parallel universes (which are real according to current thinking in physics). Perhaps the visual cortex neurons are so hypersensitive they are reacting to stimulus from overlapping dimensions.
rinpoche1 2 years ago
No
First of all we have instruments far more sensitive than the eye and if such a thing was going on we would have detected it long ago.
Secondly parallel universes are not 'real' according to 'current thinking in physics.' Thirdly even if there were parallel dimensions the likelyhood that the laws of physics would be comparable and therefore lead to coherent images in this universe are infinitesimal. Fourthly overlapping dimensions and parallel universes are two different things.
anoutsideobserver 2 years ago
prepare to meet kermit the frog on the 11th dimension
metsesell 2 years ago
I'm 21 and I hallucinate all the time.
I think you need to do drugs at some point to set them off, to make you more aware of them.
I like how they in no way relate to what I'm thinking about.
Cakerolled 2 years ago
If this is true it is most likely a form of psychosis (sometimes triggered by drug use). Consult a doctor immediately.
In some way the hallucinations will be related to deep seated beliefs, and will be related to some extent to what you are thinking about. The most important driving force for both your thoughts and 'hallucinations' is your mood and emotional state.
A good mood will result in markedly different thoughts and hallucinations to a low mood.
anoutsideobserver 2 years ago
church...
mjacobson73 2 years ago
"It's a silent dream
It chooses the weather
of your soul stream"
SpiralOut11235 2 years ago
alguien puede ponerle subtitulos a estos videos??
gcaro88 2 years ago
Dr. Sacks is perhaps one of the most intelligent persons of our century. I read his book "the man who mistook his wife for a hat" and was extremely impressed.
sergiolopezOU 2 years ago 2
To take off from where the speaker left off, i.e. how these hallucinations tell us about the correspondence between structure and function in the brain, watch V. S. Ramachandran's TED Talk. It will leave you stunned.
geodesicks 2 years ago 2
As a game developer, I'm worried I might start seeing non-existent polygon edges sometime in the relatively distant future.
That, or game monsters (in which case I'd probably kill myself in a way that doesn't invoke hallucinations).
int3rl0per 2 years ago
I worry about the very real danger of getting stuck under some stairs and having to wait for an enemy to come along and kill me so that I can spawn at the last checkpoint. Also, I don't like to get to close to fences because I might get stuck in some clipping corner and ejected through the ground. Falling forever looking up at the world seems pretty messed up.
netiaz 2 years ago 4
I've been caring for a man describing these same symptoms, but I guess it would be useless to inform his nuerolegist. Seeing as how theres neither a cure nor a treatment. He'll be satisfied enough to discover he's not crazy.
tyreejordanis 2 years ago
why on earth would you want to stop having hallucinations??!!!!
They are great. i have had some really excellent ones. Once i had an audio hallucination while i was in the toilet. I heard a sports commentator commentating on what i was doing. i didn't want to leave the bathroom because it was so funny. But i did and when i returned a few minutes later there was no commentator :(
RectulThreat 2 years ago 3
lucky dog.....
tdubasdfg 2 years ago
Fascinating stuff, theatre of the mind.
theonetruebrian 2 years ago
Acoustic Neuroma...Has anyone had 1 or more operations to remove a large one? Have you experienced any of these symptoms?
earlytosleep 2 years ago
Fascinating stuff.
ArtificialCleverenAI 2 years ago 2
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Err this is just opening the 3rd eye chakra. It's an ability anyone can develop if they persist
noneother 2 years ago
O-Ke-Doke
Northwichita 2 years ago 2
Interesting to know but sounds quite frightening or weird to actually experience them! Not very common knowledge but could be a common phenomenon. Thus those who had gone through them might be reluctant to share ...
myofficetv 2 years ago
Another great TED. 5 stars
Hipster420 2 years ago
It sounds a lot like the auditory & visual hallucinations older people get who have been bed bound for a long time. It seems to have something to do with sensory deprivation & the brain somehow compensating for the loss. Sort of the way people with brain damage confabulate memories to fill in the gaps of what they can't remember. It seems that the brain needs what the brain needs & is always striving for homeostasis. I love Sacks & his ability to explain the complex & make it appear simple.
mmedefarge 2 years ago 5
shame on the medical profession for keeping this overlooked
lvecsey 2 years ago
Those hallucinations sound freaking horrifying.
BodybuildingMike 2 years ago 2
wow great talk. very interesting
Kendalloo 2 years ago
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SacredCowStreetTeam 2 years ago
i dont see what you are
INUYASHAFANxD 2 years ago
The title is an incomplete sentence...
Kargoneth 2 years ago 7
no it's
invisiblebears 2 years ago 4
what are you talking
omghai2u 2 years ago 3
So all of this comes down to one word : Dreaming
do the math...
AmunExorbis 2 years ago
I have exactly the opposite sort of hallucination. I see things that nobody else sees and I can ask them about them and they say there is nothing there, but when I reach forward and touch them they become real and then they are seen by everyone to pop into existence with much consternation, amazement and how did you do that. It seems to happen most while shopping at thrift stores or old, shabby boutiques where temporal tracking is loosely coupled to physical reality.
themanyone 2 years ago
haha sure you do
omghai2u 2 years ago
You're probably a schitzo.
CHVNX 2 years ago
Nah, I just see thru the haze that old people get when they mass hallucinate things out of existence...
themanyone 2 years ago
Wow, at the end there he took the idea to the place I'd perked up at 14:00 for. I was wondering if the area which reacts to cartoons reacts to drawn figures of animals and people in general. Since anthropomorphism of animals and objects is common both in cartoons (comics and animation) and in many shamanistic traditions... it could be a similar area of the brain being stimulated by such images. Since I know not all people react to animated entertainment, I wonder how that relates.
midare 2 years ago
OMG IT'S SIGMUND FREUD!!!
CHumga 2 years ago
cohnkrad 2 years ago 2
Fiji water? Arggggg.
Hamandchees3 2 years ago
wonder how much FIJI water paid TED
egoistorms 2 years ago
enough
JustinHSabaj 2 years ago
Cataract surgery back in the 1800's????
limpnail 2 years ago
I was thinking the same thing. I had no idea.
gotilk 2 years ago
How many senses do we have?
It's not just the traditional five.
1. sight (visual sense)
2. hearing (auditory sense)
3. smell (olfactory sense)
4. taste (gustatory sense)
5-8. touch: The skin senses
Because touch involves four different sets of nerves, the skin senses are considered four separate senses: 5. heat 6. cold 7. pressure 8. pain 9. motion (kinesthetic sense)
10. balance (vestibular sense)
fuckgodfuckyou 2 years ago 5
11. proprioception
Arudoloff 2 years ago
Why did i get thumbed down for saying we have more than 5 senses?!!?
Are people stupid or something?
Equilibriception is a sense, pain is a sense, heat is a sense, etc etc etc... So thats more than 5 already.
I get thumbed down for talking science. Nice.
fuckgodfuckyou 2 years ago 7
Nice name.
EliteDoomer 2 years ago
Its a useful phrase if you live in Texas...
I use it alot.
fuckgodfuckyou 2 years ago
LoL I imagine.
EliteDoomer 2 years ago
Oh, I should explain...
Sometimes my room would become an utterly mesmeric, vast landscape (a desert?) in which I had the feeling I was a small as an ant. It was quite an unpleasant feeling.
Other times there were patterns which were quite unsettling. I can only really describe them as rough and spiky textures in pale colours.
I also saw cartoons - related to the ones I watched as a child. I would often see characters walking across my room in a silent procession or acting out some scene.
MrDarkbloom 2 years ago
I have had very similar feelings as a kid, while having fever. My room seemed to be so big it would take years to reach the other corner and every task involving moving to other part of the room just seemed impossibly troublesome. very unpleadant feeling indeed.
And your description of patterns reminds me of how some surfaces felt when touching. again weird and unpleasant.
Haven't had those feelings after childhood :( alltho unpleasant they could be fun to analyze as an adult.
physicologsphy 2 years ago
had the exact same feelings as physicologsphy describes :D but all sounds seemed simply angry and agressive, i suspect it was panic attacks... often i caused them myself by listening to my breathing :D
Mygo666 2 years ago
wow that is exactly what I had as a kid, and yes usually during fevers.
It is so hard to explain, but what you said sounds about right, i'd have to go from one corner of I dunno my room/the earth/the universe and as soon as I finally go to the other side I realised I actually had to be back on the other side, only it was now twice as far away as it was previously.
repeat endlessly.
jonotick 2 years ago
I had the same sort of fever induced hallucination but it was like I had to endure infinite massiveness and infinite smallness at the same time... it was horrible... like I/the room/the universe was shrinking and expanding... collapsing and exploding... euuuurggh!
Bedeekin 2 years ago
Oh..... gosh please don't remind me about that feeling. It was terrible. the "infinite massiveness and infinite smallness at the same time" thing was so hard to endure. glad that it was gone since i was 12. when it happened i could feel or more appropriately see a massive rock rolling down on me then suddenly i see a small little tiny needle spinning vertically..... tell you guys that feeling really sucks big time.
blowwold 2 years ago
When people recount the images they see... it sends a shiver up my spine (in a good way). There's something mysterious and captivating about it all.
I used to hallucinate when I was a child and had a fever. I've asked many people if they experienced the same and so far, no one has.
Can anybody directly relate to my experience??
MrDarkbloom 2 years ago
So Charles Bonnets grandfather had cataract surgery in the 1750s!! I am surprised to hear that this was done at such an early date, but wonder how many died of infection or complications. The truth is always stranger than fiction!
slessorpr 2 years ago
No ideas really. Just long boring story and some information, which can be sumed up -
Sensory depravation often causes hallucinations.
esaman 2 years ago