BenandGracie 8 points 1y ago
Try searching the sub. This question has come up before I am sure.
Why are sighted people so obsessed with what happens when a blind person takes drugs?
quanin 7 points 1y ago
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/aqyat5/blind_people_of_reddit_what_was_your_experience/
2. Tell your girlfriend she needs a hobby.
PungentMushrooms 2 points 1y ago
Like others have said, this question comes up all the time and I don't understand the fascination you sighted people have of this topic. Pretty sure most people who are familiar with psychedelics would agree that the visual hallucinations aren't the most noteworthy or impactful aspect of the experience.
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That being said, I've only done mushrooms a few times and never tried acid so maybe it's different. I did shrooms when I was very low vision, not totally blind but even at that, it was still a very profound experience even without having crazy visual hallucinations. Only thing visual I noticed was things were brighter and had much higher color saturation but that's nothing crazy. I'm almost certain that if I did shrooms again now that I'm pretty much totally blind, I'd still have an impactful trip.
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It's actually fairly common for blind and low vision people to hallucinate flashing and waving lights. It's a natural reaction from the brain when visual stimuli stops being transmitted. There's actually a condition called Charles Bonnet syndrome that causes people going through vision loss to have surprisingly vivid hallucinations in the non-functional portions of their vision. It's kind of scary because there have been times where seniors going through vision loss had this condition and when they describe the symptoms, family and doctors diagnose them with some form of dementia instead of realizing that it's a vidual condition caused by vision loss
SpicyBeefwater 2 points 1y ago
There are many articles about this online, including this one, which includes a first-hand anecdote: https://www.livescience.com/62343-psychedelics-lsd-effects-blind-people.html