He further postulates that the connections between culturally important animals and these hallucinations led to the invention of image-making, or the art of drawing.
Nigel Spivey, profesor klasične umetnosti in arheologije na Univerzi v Cambridgeu domneva v svoji seriji "How Art Made the World", da pike in predalčni vzorci prekrivajo podobe živali, ki so zelo podobne halucinacijam, ki jih povzroči pomanjkanje občutkov.