Visual problems were foreshadowed for a woman who both felt and saw “incandescent worms of all colors” crawling over her eyelids.
She developed retinitis (inflammed retina) two days later, accompanied by pain and flashes of light.
Cited in Our Dreaming Mind, Robert Van de Castle; page 492, from The Physiological Diagnostic Dream, E. Mitchell, New York Medical Journal; 118 (1923): 417
Diagnostic Dreams: Incandescent Worms
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