Effects - Taking LSD being blind

[Baked.]

There was a thread in the news section here a few days ago about an experiment about natural hallucinations. Apperantly, if SWIY puts himself in a completely dark and silent room for about 10 minutes, hallucinations can begin for most people. Apparently they're pretty intense patterns and such. SWIM guesses that's what a blind person would have and it would probably get really intense.

Off topic but interesting: How do deaf people think? When SWIY thinks about something, he uses words. But blind people have no pronunciation except for the special cases, so how do they think? Pictures, smells, feelings?

[Budha]

SWIM believes imagination plays a large role. Just because a person is blind doesn't necessarily mean they can't visualize. This a a very interesting question and one that SWIM has even considered in the past.

[SirD420]

Hes still gonna be blown away, I mean fuck maybe he'll be seeing shit, maybe.

[rawbeer]

Just like us, blind people have an internal, mental 'picture' of the world around them, a spatial-temporal map of their surroundings, it's just based less on vision. I don't mean this to be an insulting comparison but it's like how a dog 'sees' its world more with scent than anything else.
It's interesting how much vision is stressed in most people's assessments of hallucinogens, when it's just a small part of it. I've met quite a few people who seem to use hallucinogens to enhance watching movies (SWIM can no longer stand to watch TV while tripping - it just feels gross). Traditionally hallucinogens have been taken by and large in very dark places, at night, to minimize visual stimuli, to give the mind more room to imagine. I think in fact a blind person may be better able to focus on the less distracting aspects of the trip and really 'feel' it as opposed to just seeing it. (It has been said of hallucinogens that the visuals are really just distractions - Huxley said so I believe, as have many ayahuasqueros, and Dale Pendell, who suggested it comes from the prominence of visual entertainment in our culture.)
I guess I've failed to make a coherent point but until a tripping blind person joins this thread we're all just speculating - this is just so fun to speculate on.