Glauc Talk: How Does Vision Loss Turn Into Visual Hallucinations?

Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens · Dec 9, 2025 · 42m

This week, Kristin and I dive into aphantasia, anendophasia, and why apparently my wife’s brain works more like a slideshow than a podcast. I’m learning things about her that I wish I didn’t know, and she’s learning that most people don’t think in GIFs. We also talk about what happens when meditation goes wrong, how brains get rewired after trauma, and why sometimes “turning your brain off” might actually mean “floating into the void.”

Then we flip open the med student bible for a crash course in aphasia, before spiraling into phantom limb pain and Charles Bonnet syndrome.

Takeaways:

Aphasia…