Hallucinating the void

[image error]Rhode Island Medical News recently published an April fools article where the author joked about negative hallucinations, where someone didn't see things that were really there, seemingly unaware that such hallucinations are in fact possible.

The article, which you can read online as a pdf, has various humorous references to jumping traffics lights or ignoring family members. But when I'm talking about the genuine version I don't mean lapses of attention, blind spots, inattentional blindness