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Author: Klaus Podoll, Markus Dahlem, Sofia Greene	22. May 2008
Edited by: Klaus Podoll, Markus Dahlem, Sofia Greene

mel07green's dreams

"I have had two dreams recently where I was aware of my blind spots. They were actually more exaggerated than they are in real life."

(mel07green [subject #382], Email to Klaus Podoll, May 22, 2008)

"No, not lucid dreams. Can't remember the details of the first, except that I was aware of my eye problem during the dream. In the second, I was helping a young woman who had a serious scotoma in her left eye to adjust to her problem. I was telling her I also had the scotomas and offering her advise about dealing with it, because she was very depressed. In the dream, I was doing a lot of reassuring, pointing out to her all the things that she could STILL see, the things she could STILL do, etc. VERY unlike me (in regards to giving that kind of advise to myself). Yes, I saw the scotoma through my (the dreamer's) view. Oh, and I could also visualize the pattern of the other woman's scotomas - one was particularly large and took up the upper left quadrant of her left eye, so she was more adversely affected than me. That's all I remember."

(mel07green [subject #382], Email to Klaus Podoll, May 22, 2008)

"No, I did not wake up on those two occasions."

(mel07green [subject #382], Email to Klaus Podoll, May 22, 2008)

Mel07green's (subject's #382) second dream, where she visualized both herself and another young woman as having scotomas (with the other woman being much more affected than herself), can be interpreted as an "adaptation" to the persistent loss of vision reminiscent of the projective types of anosognosia ("transitivism") reported in some amputees's nocturnal dreams where these may see themselves surrounded by amputees (Brugger, 2008).

mel07green [subject #382], Dream image of eye doctor's ophthalmoscopic view into my eye with cartoon-like 'germs' with faces and lots of legs dancing about and making faces at me, 2008. © 2008 mel07green

I had a dream the other night where I was at the eye doctor

"I had a dream the other night where I was at the eye doctor and he had me sit in the chair and look into this machine and told me to hold on, we were going for a ride. We then zoomed forward and I actually entered my own eyeball, still in the chair. As we went further in I could see all these cartoon-like 'germs' with faces and lots of legs dancing about and making faces at me. It was terrifying and I woke up with my heart pounding. The day after I developed another one of my annoying scotomas."

(mel07green [subject #382], Yuku forum Visual snow or static -General discussions - my dream about eyes, May 22, 2008)

"The scotoma appeared the evening after the dream and yes, I still have it..."

(mel07green [subject #382], Yuku forum Visual snow or static -General discussions - my dream about eyes, May 22, 2008)

"I got the scotoma the evening after the dream and, yes, I still have it (two days). I don't know if this is relevant, but I live at altitude (7000 feet) in southern California. We had a heatwave for a week, then the weather changed, and it snowed. That's when I got my spot."

(mel07green [subject #382], Email to Klaus Podoll, May 22, 2008)

"Yes, there were three of four of them as I rode into my eyeball on the ophthalmologist's chair, lol. They were almost the same size as me and very menacing."

(mel07green [subject #382], Yuku forum Visual snow or static -General discussions - my dream about eyes, May 22, 2008)

"The scotomata don't bear any resemblance in shape to the 'germ monsters', which I think just represent my fear about whatever scary thing is going on with my eyes."

(mel07green [subject #382], Email to Klaus Podoll, May 22, 2008)

"In all of the my dreams but the ones I mentioned, my eyesight is normal. Those three dreams happened in quick succession in the past week."

(mel07green [subject #382], Email to Klaus Podoll, May 22, 2008)

References

Brugger P. The phantom limb in dreams. Conscious Cogn. 2008 Feb 28. [Epub ahead of print]

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