Word Finder - hallucination

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A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.

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The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.

It was not unlike any night's nocturnal hallucination.

The group hallucination is one of the worst sequences.

In fact, she felt angry, and she wanted to see the galley to confirm this all wasn't an elaborate hallucination.

This wouldn't be true with a purely psychological phenomenon like a hallucination.

Sensory Automatism is the term given by students of psychical research to a centrally initiated hallucination.

To use William Gibson's famous phrase, a MUD is a paradigmatic instance of the " consensual hallucination " of cyberspace.

Skeptics of levitation have come up with several theories as to its cause including hallucination, hypnosis, or fraud.

Trichotillomania is not the underlying cause of hair pulling if there is a medical reason for the hair loss or if another co-existing psychiatric disorder such as hallucination provokes the hair pulling.

The actress remained with GH (portraying a hallucination) through May of 2008.

What turned him around was a religious vision, or a drug-induced hallucination, or perhaps a combination of the two.

I indulged in no vain illusion; I believed in no miracle; I was quite sensible of the sort of hallucination into which I had fallen; I neither sought to intensify it nor to escape from it.

On the strength of this body of evidence Sabatier rejects all theories of fraud or hallucination, whatever may be the explanation of the phenomena.

To the first belong what may be called the physical phenomena (q.v.) of spiritualism - those, namely, which, if correctly observed and due neither to conscious or unconscious trickery nor to hallucination or illusion on the part of the observers, exhibit a force acting in the physical world hitherto unknown to science.

Hypnogogic hallucination-A vivid, dream-like hallucination, such as the sensation of falling, that occurs at the onset of sleep.

Severe side effects include seizures, delirium, and hallucination, but are rare and are nearly always limited to people who have kidney problems, seizure disorders, or psychiatric disorders.

Among proposed normal explanations of these phenomena that of hallucination (q.v.), including illusion as to what is seen almost amounting to hallucination, deserves careful consideration.

Prof. Josiah Royce has suggested for this supposed form of hallucination the term "pseudo-presentiment."

She'd dared to hope again that everything was a hallucination brought on by too much alcohol, until Toby burst in chasing a cat she didn't remember owning.

If we take it strictly to mean the belief in ghosts or spirits having the " vaporous materiality " proper to the objects of dream or hallucination, it is certain that the agency of such phantasms is not the sole cause to which all mystic happenings are referred (though ghosts and spirits are everywhere believed in, and appear to be endowed with greater predominance as religious synthesis advances amongst primitive peoples).

From an evidential point of view the apparition is the most valuable class of death-warning, inasmuch as recognition is more difficult in the case of an auditory hallucination, even where it takes the form of spoken words; moreover, auditory hallucinations coinciding with deaths may be mere knocks, ringing of bells, &c.; tactile hallucinations are still more difficult of recognition; and the hallucinations of smell which are sometimes found as death-warnings rarely have anything to associate them specially with the dead person.

His moral character was undoubtedly weak in other ways than this, but it is fair to remember that but for his astounding Confessions the more disgusting parts of it would not have been known, and that these Confessions were written, if not under hallucination, at any rate in circumstances entitling the self-condemned criminal to the benefit of considerable doubt.

The persistent belief on the part of the narrators in the genuineness of their previsions indicates that in some cases there may be a hallucination of memory, analogous to the well known feeling of "false recognition."