Visual Impairments Lead to Hallucinations in Charles Bonnet Syndrome

Whoa. Just when you thought you had heard of all the strange disorders out there... Check out this post by the folks at Boing Boing about Charles Bonnet Syndrome, a disorder caused by visual impairment. This is NOT a psychological disorder per se, but you can easily see how it might be mistaken for one, given that sufferers report vivid visual hallucinations, often of things much smaller in size than they are in real life (e.g. "little people").