Related phenomena come to mind: cf. "derealization", sometimes
experienced in depression, sometimes maybe in extreme anxiety,
sometimes in "temporal lobe" epilepsy (i.e. partial continuous
epilepsy). cf, also the (relatively rare) Capgras syndrome, in which
the patient agrees that family members LOOK exactly like family
members, but are really not (cf. that good old movie re "body
snatchers").
Apparently some dissociation between normally closely-associated neural
systems dealing with separate aspects of experience, i.e. visual
analysis and emotional associations, etc.
F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
New York Neuropsychology Group
In <3790408A.2ED6 at online.no> Tore Lund <tl001 at online.no> writes:
>>In the book "Complexity" by Roger Lewin (1993) there is some mention
of
>a visual disorder suffered by one of the interviewees (Chris Langton).
>After an accident with a hang-glider he felt he was not the person he
>used to be, and this was accompanied by an altered perception of
visual
>space, described as follows:
>> ...Chris felt he was living in the middle of a cube, the sides of
> which were cinema screens with pictures projected on them. "It's
> hard to describe," he told me. "It was as if I could see the
world,
> but somehow I wasn't in it, no emotional presence."
> (Beginning of chapter 8, page 151 in Phoenix ed.)
>>Has anyone heard of similar cases? Is there a name for this
condition?
>Has it been studied in detail? Seems to me that anomalies of this
sort
>could give us important clues to the nature of our stereoscopic
vision.
>--
>Tore Lund <tl001 at online.no>
>>
