What is "hallucinate"

Usage examples of "hallucinate".

Anyone sharp-eyed enough to have caught sight of the occupants of the Mercedes that evening as it sped through the centre of Fettlesham in the direction of Fettlesham Royal Infirmary would have thought they were hallucinating: an ageing German admiral with a handlebar moustache was at the wheel of the car, a heavily bemedalled SS officer was in the passenger seat, and an overweight nun with crimson lips and sky-blue eye-shadow was sitting in the back gesticulating.

Let us both live forever, in sickness and health, feebleminded, doddering, toothless, liver-spotted, dim-sighted, hallucinating.

The only support for my intel- lect was my deep-seated certainty that one of the effects of the psychotropic smoking mixture was to induce me to hallucinate the size of the gnat.

The blue radiance from the overhead streetlights barely penetrated the gloom, serving more to make the hallucinated night a tangible sensation upon the skin.

Beneath her feet, she perceived bare metal rather than the rough surface of hallucinated asphalt and stone.

He watched Ben for a while, wondering if he had hallucinated, wondering if it was safe to move with Bird asleep, because he was beginning to feel an acute need of going down to the head, and he was scared to do anything that Ben might conceivably object to.

Once she was gone, I found myself wondering if she had really been there, or if I had hallucinated the presence of a shade, a ghost of teachers past.

When I am hallucinating, there is more bufotenine, more mauve, in my urine than when I don't.

And though I cannot be positive that I'm not hallucinating, there seem to be midgets dressed in green and red elf suits and felt hats walking around with trays of appetizers.

Maria leaned back against the wall, arms folded, trying to cast aside the feeling that the whole conversation was as insubstantial as anything Durham had hallucinated in the Blacktown psychiatric ward.

She might have dreamed the three priests, or hallucinated them, but she wasn't hallucinating the deerguts or the claw-marks on the alder.

They seemed to glow in his hand, mauve and yellow, like the abdomens of some strange species of insect “Am I hallucinating?

She had used it only once, that last day, when Earl had begun to hallucinate from a combination of delirium tremens and just plain lunacy.

And she had no reason to think she was hallucinating, unless the unknown radiation given off by the ankh had induced it.

I have a friend who hallucinates on penicillin, and another who talks to God whenever she's given something with caffeine in it.