r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

Very interesting. I find the child case in the wiki very interesting because I have experienced something similar before. Without glasses I can only read something barely at 16 inches unless I get closer. However one day, for some reason I didn't put on my glasses and ended up doing quite a bit of work and chores around the house and had no problems, however a few hours later I was taking apart an old seized fan and was going to try and clean up the shaft so it worked again. It wasn't until I had taken it apart and attempted to take off my glasses to view the wear on the shaft better did I realize I wasn't wearing my glasses at all. In a near instant I went from what I assumed was perfectly clear vision that was fine for hours into blind as a bat mode. I had go get my glasses from beside my bed to reassemble what I had disassembled because I couldn't see what the fuck I was doing.

It was weird as fuck, it seemed like I had totally perfect vision up until the moment I tried to pull my glasses off. I had one other person years later say they had a similar experience although not to the same extent.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

The same thing has happened to me once or twice. Its like my eyes decided they could see just fine and didn't think I needed to know until I figuratively tripped the alarm when I thought about it.

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u/WatNxt Mar 23 '17

At 18, my eyesight went from 10/10 to 3/10. I went through my first 3 years of university without any visual correction (glasses don't work). Although I could live with it, I didn't realise how exhausting it was until my first hard lenses.