MOVE GET OUT OF THE WAY

And then the handsome young men disappeared.

You ever have hallucinations?

Just a trick of light.

You're having a bit of an acid thing.

Reaction's way down. Hm.

And it's that Tuesday evening back in 1982.

These excess currents are our dreams and delusions.

We're looking at that yellow box.

We've lived with them all our lives.

Are you seeing things yet?

She says she is seeing things.

Then, when you wake up, you'll never be bothered by them again.

She'd lived 95 years and she'd never had a hallucination before.

They don't seem to be under our control.

She had no control over them.

Well, I've more or less said what I wanted.

Does this feel like a hallucination?

Yeah. Yeah, he's beginning to lose his sense of time.

I'm stressed. I'm having a hallucination caused by stress.

I'm blind in one eye, and not terribly good in the other.

Do they look the same? No.

NARRATOR A chance meeting. A thousand ghosts are stirred.

Some shut down the self using meditation.

And she has a sense of humor.

She said, Who is this Charles Bonnet?

remember, you owe me. yeah. let's see if anything else does the trick.

She didn't mind the cartoons too much.

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Now with the original description in the 18th century,

His vision was pretty poor.

1 of high school seniors had try heroin, 12 hallucinogens, 12 tranquilizers, 17 cocaine, 26 stimulants, and over 50 of us had tried marijuana.

I guess it was just temporary insanity.

I know! The sign, the electricity. My brain synapse, it was destroyed.

In particular, the notion is that if you see things or hear things, you're going mad, but the psychotic hallucinations are quite different.

It might be that, hopefully, you really do have an insight or breakthrough.

She had no medical problems.

If the arm has been removed and you have a phantom, and you watch somebody else being touched, you feel it in your phantom.

But she was frightened.

So I'll show you what I mean.

So depending on where it looks, it flips between the two possibilities.

But the good news is that becoming aware of the optimism bias does not shatter the illusion.

And if they do mention them to their own doctors they may be misdiagnosed.

Think of the number of blind people.

Hypnotic illusions don't tear people apart.