According to an Anglo-Dutch research team in the Hague, the Netherlands, a 52-year-old woman presented at a psychiatric clinic in 2011 plagued with something utterly bizarre – even to the experienced doctors.
For the entirety of her life she’d seen human faces metamorphose into the faces of dragons, with this same hallucination happening multiple times each day. ‘She could perceive and recognise actual faces, but after several minutes they turned black, grew long, pointy ears and a protruding snout, and displayed a reptiloid skin and huge eyes in bright yellow, green, blue, or red,’...
‘She saw similar dragon-like faces drifting towards her many times a day from the walls, electrical sockets, or the computer screen, in both the presence and absence of face-like patterns, and at night she saw many dragon-like faces in the dark.’
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/21/woman-had-rare-condition-that-meant-she-saw-human-faces-as-dragons-5207842/#ixzz3bGuhzrjC
See: Blom JD, Sommer IE, Koops S, Sacks OW. Prosopometamorphopsia and facial
hallucinations. Lancet. 2014 Nov 29;384
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