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One of the youths told his doctor he was “holding a religious conversation with the sun.”
Another said he had gazed at the sun “to produce unusual visual displays.”
The students, all males, suffered damage to the retina, the sensory membrane which receives the image formed by the lens.
In the same way that a piece of paper will burn when bright light is beamed through a magnifying glass, a pinhead-size hole was burned into the retina of each eye of the students as sunlight passed through the lens.
What this has left the students with is not total blindness but a blind spot in the center of their vision.
As a result, the victims have lost their reading vision completely and forever, the ophthalmological spokesman said.
“For example, if you wanted to read,” he said, “you might see all of the corners of the page and most of the print — except you wouldn’t be able to see that one word you were looking at.
“If you were to look at a traffic stoplight, you might see the pole and trees and cars — but you wouldn’t see the stoplight itself.
“That little black hole always moves directly where you want to see,” he said.
Solar burns of the retina, the spokesman said, are not uncommon, particularly among children watching eclipses of the sun. But he knew of no previous cases which resulted from someone being under the influence of LSD.
In the cases here, the victims admitted they were users of LSD. See less
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