The image has become the silent toxin of our modern age. An endless stream of visual stimuli, illusions, and simulacra generates a neurological overload known as cognitive hyperrealism. This phenomenon leads to chronic stress, recurring insomnia, anxiety exacerbated by constant social comparison, and psychosomatic disorders worsened by excessive visualization.
The VESM defines this modern affliction as the Accepted Hallucination Syndrome (AHS). Voluntary blindness thus emerges not as a loss, but as a true liberation: a return to direct and genuine sensory perception.