Oliver Sacks: What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome — when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

About the Author

Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks is a neurologist and author. In addition to his work on music, Tourette’s syndrome, and Parkinson’s disease, he has written such best-selling case histories as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, An Anthropologist on Mars, and his memoir of his early work, Awakenings.