Charles Bonnet Syndrome Foundation (Australia)

"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."

Listen to an ABC radio feature on CBS under 'Support', then 'Podcasts'

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

A blurred experience of a room and people (eg. cataracts) but a clearly defined street scene circa 1920s seems to emerge from the side window. For reasons that still remain unclear, CBS imagery of scenes or characters from a bygone era are surprisingly common.