Re: around the world, thousands of people may experience them

 > > How a Rare Disorder Makes People See Monsters
 > > ....
 > > prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO
 > > ....
 > > One of the first visual depictions of PMO dates to 1965, when an
 > > artist, who had a tumor removed from the left side of his brain,
saw
 > > distortions on the right half of people's faces. TNP, as the
patient
 > > was called in the case report, drew a smiling nurse in a white
cap; a
 > > pink vortex swirled where the nurse's right eye should have been.
When
 > > TNP looked at a doctor's face, he reported that "the eye
became a
 > > ghastly staring hole, cheekbone a cavity; he had teeth on the
upper
 > > lip, often had two ears" on the right side.
 > > ....
 > > ....
 > > Distorted perceptions are not the same as hallucinations, Blom
told
 > > me. If you saw an elephant appear in your home office, you would
be
 > > hallucinating. But, if you looked up and perceived an elephant in
an
 > > elephantine cloud, that's more like a distortion. "There's a
 > > cloud--it's actually there," he said. He views his PMO
patients as
 > > very different from psychiatric patients with schizophrenia, who
hear
 > > voices or see things that don't exist. People with PMO aren't
helped
 > > by antipsychotics; they know that what they're seeing isn't
right.
 > > Blom suggested that PMO could fall under the umbrella of Alice in
 > > Wonderland syndrome, a collection of neurological symptoms that
can be
 > > provoked by migraines, epilepsy, viral infections, or tumors, and
 > > which distort a person's perception of their own body and the
world
 > > around them.
 > >
 > >
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-rare-disorder-makes-people-see-monsters
 > >
 > > with schizophrenia, who hear voices or see things that don't
exist.
 > >
 > JAB wrote:
 >
 >
 > Don't exist applies to the observer's viewpoint, not the patient.
 > Their experiences can't be explained by today's scientists.  I
would
 > not say those "things that don't exist."  That's
speculation.

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