Talk:Visual release hallucinations

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 27 May 2020 and 6 July 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Imr254. Peer reviewers: Lisa Diez.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 12:30, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Removal of Perineum Tingling
I'm removing the reference to perineum tingling for two reasons. The first is that there is no citation and I can't find anything on the web that describes this. The second reason is that Charles Bonnet Syndrome is by definition a visual disorder. It may be true that a tingling sensation in the perineum is an ocassional coincident disorder, but unless it were an extremely common coincident disorder, its mention doesn't belong on this page. If it is a common coincident disorder, then whoever puts it back, include a citation, and describe it as what it is. Only say it is a symptom of CBS if you have a reputable source that claims that. 99.49.134.59 (talk) 23:56, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

I have Charles Bonnet syndrome
Hello, my name is George Clapski. I live in Minneapolis and I am 86 years old. I am very rich. I own a farm near St. Cloud. I have Charles Bonnet syndrome. It is a very weird condition. Sometimes I will wake up and I will see a large group of people standing out on the street across from my house throwing beer bottles at my house and coming at me with pitchforks and flaming torches. Sometimes my cat will start changing colours right before my eyes.

Love, George Clapski


 * I'm sorry to hear, and hopefully you are getting the necessary help. But you being very rich should make it easier to find a responsible physician to attend to your problem. JFW | T@lk  03:43, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

17% ... um, I find that a little hard to swallow. 211.31.41.198 (talk) 12:45, 6 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Your "that can't be right"-sensor is accurate. The statistic is ~17% of older (>65 years) adults who have significant vision loss (well beyond the need for glasses, we're talking legally blind).  Adults with that kind of vision loss represent a very small proportion of the population, and the incidence of CBS is only 17% among those adults.  I'm going to guess that it's probably closer to 0.1% - 1% of all adults.98.227.182.26 (talk) 21:18, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

What relevance does your location, housing, or level of wealth play in this? Just confused ... Also, the color changing cat doesn't sound at all like CBS. I would get that checked out. [Unsigned reader]

Well, that would match "non-reporting is thought to be as a result of sufferers being afraid to discuss the symptoms out of fear that they will be labelled insane" in the article. But I'm here to dispute that assertion!

My mother has approximately CBS as described in the article: E.g., women, apparently normal-sized, standing beside her, doing nothing. A rug laid out in front of her, composed of squares with a different design in the middle of each--quite pretty and pleasurable to look at, she says.

But the reason SHE hasn't "reported" the phenomenon to her doctor is that she is entirely aware that the hallucinations are unreal and therefore not to be worried about.

She DID get very exercised about a green veil over everything when it first occurred, but since both her eye-doctor and her GP reassured her, she has occasionally mentioned it w/o significant worry. GeorgeTSLC (talk) 15:51, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

I continue to remove the reference to Blind. Charles Bonnet syndrome can be a condition of some people who are in the process of losing their sight. User: Next Degeneration — Preceding undated comment added 18:52, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Editing: Characteristics
I feel the contribution that User:Cypridophobia could have been more well thought out. Their sentence placement in the paragraph was from left field, making it awkward for the reader. Ndrysdale2 (talk) 21:38, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

User:Cypridophobia, I feel like this article needs to focus on what CBS is, what the orgin of it is, causes, sypmtomes, types of things you can expect, and treatment. I found this website that might be useful. CBS I also added information to the bottom of the characteristics section. --HDurr47 (talk) 16:28, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 March 2015
The article on Charles Bonnet Syndrome fails to mention that a small percentage of the population are born with this condition, and often see these visual disturbances when their eyes are closed, especially at night when trying to sleep.

63.234.9.242 (talk) 19:38, 16 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 19:46, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Bibliography for Potential Sources
I found some sources that could provide more information for this article. Here is my link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Imr254/Visual_release_hallucinations/Bibliography?preload=Template%3ADashboard.wikiedu.org_bibliography — Preceding unsigned comment added by Imr254 (talk • contribs) 01:30, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Name of article should be changed back to Charles Bonnet Syndrome
The title of this article was originally Charles Bonnet Syndrome. It was changed to Visual release hallucinations at 08:01, 26 August 2014 by Brodmann17 with this justification: "In conjunction with renaming in medical literature". Brodmann17 provided no citation for that.

I checked Google's ngram viewer. It had zero instances of "Visual release hallucinations".

I checked Google Scholar. It has a total of 70 hits for "Visual release hallucinations" (3 for "Visual release hallucination"). Almost every one said something like "Charles Bonnet Syndrome, also known as visual release hallucinations". Google Scholar has a total of 3,670 hits for "Charles Bonnet Syndrome". These data suggest to me that Charles Bonnet Syndrome is much better known than visual release hallucinations, and hence is to be preferred as the title of the article.

I read some of the scientific literature to establish the origin of "Visual release hallucinations". It seems it is a hypothesis about the origin of the hallucinations. Charles Bonnet Syndrome, on the other hand, is a simple description, and hence is to be preferred. Robert P. O&#39;Shea (talk) 13:08, 19 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Another argument for returning the name of the article to Charles Bonnet Syndrome is that this or its abbreciation is used in much of the article.

Robert P. O&#39;Shea (talk) 13:14, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
This article is the subject of an educational assignment at St. Charles Community College supported by WikiProject Psychology and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the 2011 Q3 term. Further details are available on the course page.

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