Woman who gouged out her own eyes while high on meth ‘loves sleep because her dreams are like she can see again’
Kaylee Muthart, 20, permanently blinded herself using just her hands when she thought God was calling on her to make a gruesome 'sacrifice'
A WOMAN who gouged out her own eyes while high on crystal meth has revealed she loves sleep because "it's like being able to see again".
Kaylee Muthart, 20, permanently blinded herself using just her hands, after she thought she heard God calling on her to make a gruesome “sacrifice”.
Kaylee, from South Carolina, was heard screaming outside the South Main Chapel and Mercy Centre on February 6 this year.
When parishioners ran out they found her holding her eyeballs in her hands and desperately tried to restrain her.
Now, following emergency surgery to clean her empty orbital sockets and undergoing treatment in hospital and a psychiatric facility, Kaylee says she "actually feels like a person".
She told : “My dreams are colorful, and it’s like being able to see again - I like sleeping a lot because it’s like I can see.”
She continued:"I feel like myself, and I don’t feel like I’m chasing something.
"It actually feels really nice.
"The way it worked out is the way God had it work out, that’s just the way it is… but I’d rather for it to have happened than to still be stuck in that world."
The young woman has also participated in mobility and orientation training that has helped her become more independent - but she admits "feeling moments of considerable sadness".
Kaylee said:"I’m a very optimistic person and I went in with an optimistic outlook - but at some points, you’re going to fall down.. That’s just life."
She said: "There’s definitely something inside of me that wants to say, ‘Well, what else can I do now that I’m blind?’
"But something just cries out deep inside of me, ‘Go for your goal. Do what you’ve always wanted to do. Show everybody that you can do it.’"
Previously, she explained to how she ripped out her eyeballs in the drug-addled haze.
She said: “I gripped each eyeball, twisted, and pulled until each eye popped out of the socket — it felt like a massive struggle, the hardest thing I ever had to do.”
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Worried worshippers then emerged from the church after hearing her screaming: “I want to see the light!”
She said the pastor later told her that by the time he reached her she was holding both her eyes in her hands.
Kaylee said: “I had squished them, although they were somehow still attached to my head.”
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