Illusory perception

Usage examples of hallucination.

Since being brought in he had gone over the scene again and again, and was slowly convincing himself that it had been a hallucination.

Everything that happened can be explained in terms of autosuggestion and collective hallucination.

When the grayness touched the face and the backs of the hands, the creature became a feverish night wanderer, subject to strange hallucinations and delusions and desires.

The hallucination of Barbas disappears and Phoebe sees Paige lying there unconscious.

A film of reflected street-lighting shimmered over the whole scene, closing the eyes of modern Cairenes to the wonder of the stars but at the same time creating the hallucination of a fairyland illuminated in greens and reds and blues and sulphurous yellows.

The possibility that serotonin in excess produces schizophrenia is greatly weakened, nevertheless, by the fact that a compound very closely related to lysergic acid diethylamide interferes with serotonin oxidation even more and yet produces no hallucinations.

A less zealous, optimistic and dogged individual than he would not have even supposed that, so years after the Hearts had emigrated east from Vegas, that city of all American cities phantasmagoric and insubstantial as a delirium hallucination, there could be any trace, any vestigial memory of them.

These sounds and scents had neither the dreamlike insubstantiality nor the hyperrealistic intensity that she might have expected of hallucinations, but were of a vividness precisely matched to the elements of the night that she knew to be real: neither more nor less resonant than the grumble and swish of passing traffic, neither more nor less sweet-smelling than the traffic fumes were odorous.

It is probably more usual for it to take place in the so-called hypnoidal state in which one is awaiting sleep, and it is closely associated with those hypnagogic images which have some of the sensory solidity of hallucinations.

Then, the split second change, bliss striking and cold snapping, leaving the exposed victim giddy and warm with hypothermic madness, chasing hallucinations.

The Lissajous pulsations became hallucinations in the sex organs of the computer.

Canadian neurophysiologist Wilder Penfield that electrical stimulation of certain regions of the brain elicits full-blown hallucinations.

Was this cult the foundation for Orphism and were the trances and hallucinations induced by drugs the mechanism whereby the Greeks conceived the idea of the soul and, associated with it, reincarnation?

Dust from the spinout swirled outside the windows of the rocking car, but she could see well enough to know that it had been a hallucination.

The Vital is a world full of lustre and colour and hallucination which try to ape the Supramental movements.