CBS Defined

A vision-impaired
person of sound mind experiences
phantom images (visions) in
their visual field.

 
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"No-one told me I may end up seeing things that aren't really there."

"How can that butterfly be so vivid when I can't even see my daughter's face?"

"I'm legally blind so why am I seeing animals in stunning detail?"

"I didn’t know what was happening to me. Was this the start of dementia?"

"This weird figure appears almost daily but I know it is not real."

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"The squares start at the floorboards and rise like blue lanterns."

Wall of Blue Squares

 

Diabetic retinopathy - depicted by white cloud - obscures large parts of the visual field. A block of light blue squares (CBS images) are nonetheless visible.

 

Purple Flowers

Brickwork Effect

Honeycomb

Cobweb

Unicorn in Bus

Wall of Blue Squares

Romans

Flamboyant Figures

Bygone Era

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