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Debate Score:29
Arguments:34
Total Votes:29
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Can you hallucinate blindness?

Yes

Side Score: 18
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No

Side Score: 11
3 points

The brain is a powerful thing. It can cause pain that shouldn't be there. But, it can also turn off stuff that shouldn't be shut off.

Side: Yes
2 points

You mean hallucinate that you can't see? Of course why not. You can hallucinate that you can see things that aren't there, just fill the thing that's already there, with darkness and boom pseudo blindness.

Side: Yes
Paradox44(736) Disputed
3 points

What? I don't see how this makes sense. Hallucinations are positive symptoms, meaning they add to the participates current stimulus accumulation.

You mentioned that someone who hallucinates can see something that isn't truly there, but that's adding to the current visual stimuli. Hallucinations are also made up of things we think, see, hear, and encounter. I would imagine that going blind isn't something many hallucinating persons encounter.

Side: No
2 points

What? I don't see how this makes sense. Hallucinations are positive symptoms, meaning they add to the participates current stimulus accumulation.

Then couldn't hallucinations add total darkness/blackness to your vision; making you blind? :D

Side: Yes
1 point

Some people have hallucinated entire events. Some people have hallucinated going to a party, getting drunk and having fun, when in reality they just sayed at home by themselves.

Side: Yes
DrawFour(2662) Disputed
1 point

Honestly, how does hallucinating darkness not sound plausible to you? Darkness is a thing. Close your eyes, what you see (as a person who's never been blind) is the image of darkness.

Side: Yes
1 point

I feel you on this one. Going blind could be the brain shutting down instead of problems with the eyes, but yeah, in that case it wouldn't be a hallucination. Good point.

Side: No

Hallucination is defined as a case wherein a person sees things that aren't there. It is possible for a blind person to hallucinate and feel things that aren't real but for a person to suddenly lose vision, that seems more like a case of visual problems.

Side: No