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."

Despite a blur in one's central vision, text appears to be visible on the wall. Often when words or musical notes appear as a phantom image, what is initially thought to be legible and meaningful turns out to be characteristically incomplete or nonsensical.