DR. OLIVER SACKS: It's a pleasure being here again ... then things would come out. And the visual hallucinations of the blind in fact were described right back in the 18th century by a naturalist ...

In Oliver Sacks' book The ... must be what the hand of God is like.' " Sacks tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he has always been fascinated with hallucinations — from reading about Pip's ...

Earlier this fall, I visited Oliver Sacks in his Manhattan apartment ... Originally, I was writing a book about various visual problems, including my own, and hallucinations.

Oliver Sacks’s latest book, “Hallucinations,” explores peculiar ... to occupy the whole visual field, but also to get, to retreat from me and to get larger all the while until it was like ...

In his newest book, “Hallucinations,” Oliver Sacks manages to make something ... the delirium of fever, the unusual visual symptoms that can precede migraines, the odd occurrences that for ...

Oliver Sacks is a practicing ... many of them—with hearing and visual impairments, but quite clear mentally. I’ve been struck by their tendency to have hallucinations as the sense of ...

Oliver Sacks is out to remove some of the stigma ... For example, blind people have visual hallucinations and deaf people hallucinate sounds and music. "The brain has to keep active, it has ...

Migraines are actually the subject of Sacks' 1970 literary debut, Migraine. “It’s something I’m still visited by fairly often,” he says. “Usually I only have visual hallucinations ...

Oliver Sacks is probably best known as the ... We know relatively much more about visual hallucinations. But the non-schizophrenic voices heard are often commonplace. I mean I gave a personal ...

In his latest book Hallucinations, neurologist Oliver Sacks collects stories of individuals who can see, hear and smell things that aren't really there--such as strange voices, ...