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

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