When it comes to functional blindness and the suggested split between consciousness and perception, I feel that it means that there is a significant difference between hypnotic blindness and visual conversion disorder. I feel this way because visual conversion disorder is defined in the article as, “diagnosed when either a loss or an alteration in visual functioning occurs in a way that suggests, but cannot be explained by, a physical disorder, appears to be influenced …showed first 75 words of 672 total…

…showed last 75 words of 672 total…claiming that they are blind and merely were subconsciously able to respond to the visual stimuli. This is also how they both relate to subliminal perception. I was actually surprised as to how interesting I found the article to be. Though it was difficult to understand at times, overall I thought it was incredibly interesting. It is simply amazing how much of an influence the mind can have on the physical functioning of the body.