Facebook memory about Charles Bonnet Syndrome

This Facebook memory is from 6 January 2019.

“This came up in my memories today from four years ago and when I’m sitting opposite you across a table that is about 25 inches wide so when we sit with our chairs tucked in our faces are about three feet apart this is how I see your face (first picture of a blank face) and the fourth picture is why I cannot keep looking at you when we chat as my Charles Bonnet Syndrome kicks in to give you a face.

Charles Bonnet

(pronounced Bonnay)

Syndrome (what I call my Charlie Hat

Moments) are hallucinations where my brain fills in what my eyes cannot see anymore. My children joke about how old I am and that I had a pet dinosaur but before I learnt to control and dismiss my CBS my new world was populated with velociraptors as people who were standing still would merge into the background blur so when they moved my brain defaulted to the scene in the Jurassic Park movie where the velociraptor emerges suddenly from the foliage. CBS is not always scary/ disturbing as sometimes it is amusing (watching a Westie turn into two chihuahuas and realising that it’s the person’s trainers as they pass.

#HowlSee “

I get far fewer Charlie Hat moments now and often analyse them as they’re happening to try to work out what’s really there.

I find myself missing the days when my heart would leap with terror, or my brain would boggle with incredulity 10+ times a day… but not enough that l want to go back now it’s less than 10 times a month.

Over Christmas I had 2 interesting Charlie Hat moments.

1. As Andy drove from the station to Tesco to his house all the vehicle lights, turned into space invaders as they have several (lots) of L.E.D lights in each light. (22/12/2023)

2. On our Christmas Eve walk to see the Christmas lights. The signage lights on one of the shops (Todays equivalent of Nisa) formed themselves into a giant Santa head.

(On our Christmas Day walk to see the lights the top 2 lights were off only the vertical tall green light indicating the cash machine was on).

Until next time.