What Shapes the Content of Charles Bonnet Hallucinations?
Psychology Today | 08.07.2026 07:06
People whose sight loss is the result of damage to incoming sensory pathways to the brain may develop the visual hallucinations of Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS). The primary feature of CBS is complex visual hallucinations: fully formed animate or inanimate objects that are unrelated to serious psychiatric disorders (Altieri & Battaglini, 2026; Pang, 2016). In fact, people with CBS typically show full or partial “insight into the unreality of their hallucinations.”
