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.

Children are especially vulnerable, possibly due to the mechanical properties of their thoracic skeleton.

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How could this have gone by like lightning?

Perhaps we will continue to close our eyes.

Duration depends on the etiology of the vision loss.

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Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not and make their loins continually to shake.

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Turn your eyes again and again . Your gaze turns back dazed and tired .

Then lift your gaze again , your gaze will return towards you , unsuccessful and weak .

Then return thy gaze again , and again , and thy gaze comes back to thee dazzled , aweary .

Then repeat thy look twice over , and thy look will return Unto thee dim and It will have become wearied out .

Then look again and yet again , your sight will return to you in a state of humiliation and worn out .

Then look again , and again , and your sight will return to you dazzled and exhausted .

Then turn your vision again , and then again in the end your vision will come back to you , worn out and frustrated .

Then look again and yet again , thy sight will return unto thee weakened and made dim .

Look again , once more . Your look will return to you humbled and weary .

Then return your gaze once more and yet again , your gaze comes back to you dazzled , and tired .

Then return your vision twice again . Your vision will return to you humbled while it is fatigued .

Look twice ( and keep on looking ) , your eyes will only become dull and tired .

Then turn back the eye again and again your look shall come back to you confused while it is fatigued .

Then look again and again . Your gaze will come back to you confused and exhausted .

Again turn thy vision a second time ( thy ) vision will come back to thee dull and discomfited , in a state worn out .

Today's great powers have relied on similar methods, also heavy with rhetoric, against puny opponents, but with far less convincing results.

There was speculation that she would have lost her vision even if she had been able to recover.

Of those 100 countries, more than 50 received direct assistance and the others received indirect assistance through sub regional and regional activities.

It is on this question that the entire development aid complex is based.

He also requested and received food aid to avoid famine.

Securing external financial assistance may be necessary.

It also provides essential reference and research assistance to the staff of the Secretariat.

We are hampered by a lack of access to financial and technical assistance, a lack of human and infrastructural capacity and, unfortunately, a lack of attention and coordination.

Now it is time to re examine the ODA system.

We get grants from organizations that have no presence in Armenia.

In 2004, we provided bilateral humanitarian aid to Morocco and Mali.

Australia has extensive mutual legal assistance and information exchange mechanisms in place to provide significant assistance to another country in regard to criminal, civil and administrative investigations and proceedings relating to the financing of terrorism.

To achieve this, Afghanistan needs more development assistance.

Donor aid did start to rise sharply as a result of all of these efforts.

ODA has, at best, a patchy record.