On occasion, even though a patient is well aware that they have had their eye removed they can report experiencing a momentary glimpse of sight on their “blind” side\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is not totally uncommon and is akin to “phantom” pain experienced by amputees. Some experts believe that the brain reads the body\u2019s nerve endings like a road map and when there is disruption to this map (if an eye has been removed) the brain will on occasions try to “complete” this map but receives a “short-circuit” and the person can experience what seems like a flash of light or a passing shadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ophthalmologist Jonathan Trobe, M.D.<\/strong>, from the University of Michigan<\/strong>, explains it this way: “The brain is a mash-up of stored visual memories. When visual cells in the brain stop getting information from your eye, the cells compensate. If there\u2019s no data coming in, (occasionally) they ‘make up’ images”<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On occasion, even though a patient is well aware that they have had their eye removed they can report experiencing a momentary glimpse of sight on their blind side\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/glimpse.jpg",1520,714,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/glimpse.jpg",1520,714,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/glimpse.jpg",1520,714,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/glimpse-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/glimpse-300x141.jpg",300,141,true],"large":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/glimpse-1024x481.jpg",1024,481,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/glimpse.jpg",1520,714,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/glimpse.jpg",1520,714,false],"post_slider_thumbnail":["https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/glimpse.jpg",1520,714,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/author\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Uncategorised<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"On occasion, even though a patient is well aware that they have had their eye removed they can report experiencing a momentary glimpse of sight on their blind side…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/artificialeyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}