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Quotes About Hallucination

Your hallucination... Yes? Your hallucination has hallucinations. Yes.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You keep walking through the middle of J.C.," I said. "It's very disturbing for him; he hates being reminded he's a hallucination." "I'm not a hallucination," J.C. snapped. "I have state-of-the-art stealthing equipment.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention—spoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. His eyes darkened—it was close; and, instinctively turning, in the hallucination, to avoid it, he flung himself, on his face, on the tomb.
~ Henry James
He saw the Jungle of his life and saw the lurking Beast; then, while he looked, perceived it, as by a stir of the air, rise, huge and hideous, for the leap that was to settle him. His eyes darkened--it was close; and, instinctively turning, in his hallucination, to avoid it, he flung himself, face down, on the tomb.
~ Henry James
He saw the Jungle of his life and saw the lurking Beast; then, while he looked, perceived it, as by a stir of the air, rise, huge and hideous, for the leap that was to settle him. His eyes darkened—it was close; and, instinctively turning, in his hallucination, to avoid it, he flung himself, on his face, on the tomb.
~ Henry James
The bright languid people on the corners threw laughter at them now, a shout or two, and it seemed as if the whole great submarine python stirred to quicker currents. Ricky felt a ripple of hallucination and saw here, for just a moment, a vast inked mural, the ink not dry, themselves and all around them still half-liquid entities billowing in an aqueous universe …
~ Michael Shea
Unreality was swirling all around her like the delirious miasmas
~ Michel Faber
He was too frightened to speak. This was no hallucination. This was what happened to the universe when you were no longer able to hold it together. Atoms in clusters, rays of light, forming ephemeral shapes before moving on. His greatest fear, as he dissolved into the dark, was that he would never see other humans the same way again.
~ Michel Faber
Kocur i teraz siÄ™ wtrÄ…ciÅ': -Za to ja wyglÄ…dam jak najprawdziwsza halucynacja. ProszÄ™ zwróci? uwagÄ™ na mój profil w Å›wietle ksi??yca. - WlazÅ' w sÅ'up ksi??ycowego Å›wiatÅ'a i chciaÅ' coÅ› jeszcze doda?, ale poproszono go, ?eby siÄ™ zamknÄ…Å', wiÄ™c odparÅ': - Dobrze, dobrze, mogÄ™ milcze?! BÄ™dÄ™ milczÄ…cÄ… halucynacjÄ…. - I zamilkÅ'.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Zupe?nie jasne – potwierdzi? kot, zapominaj?c, ?e mia? by? milcz?c? halucynacj?.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
~ Carl Sagan
The Yale anthropologist Weston La Barre goes far as to argue that `a surprisingly good case could be made that much of culture is hallucination` and that `the whole intent and function of ritual appears to be... a group wish to hallucinate reality`.
~ Carl Sagan
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
~ Terence McKenna
A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.
~ Terence McKenna
In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.* *This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people.
~ Terry Pratchett
all freedom is limited, artificial, and therefore illusory, a shared hallucination at best. No sane mortal is truly free, because true freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes.
~ Terry Pratchett
I couldn't decide what had been more disturbing—my bizarre hallucination or the hostile crone.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Of course it had been an hallucination. But when hallucinations start behaving like realities, with a score of coincidences to back them up, even a scientist has to face the possibility that he may have to treat them like realities. And when hallucinations begin to threaten you and yours in a direct physical way— No, more than that. When you must keep faith with someone you love.
~ Fritz Leiber
Music on the radio is a shared fever dream, a collective hallucination, a secret amongst millions and a whisper in the whole country's ear.
~ Bruce Springsteen
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive.... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
OF COURSE THIS ONE: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive....
~ Hunter S. Thompson
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
~ James Wolcott