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Quotes About Hallucinations

Rorschach's dissertation, which he finished in 1912, set out to define the physiological pathways that make empathy in Vischer's sense possible. "On 'Reflex Hallucinations' and Related Phenomena" may be a brain-numbing title in English, but the subject was nothing less than the connection between what we see and how we feel. Reflexhalluzination was a technical psychiatric
~ Unknown
Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time
~ Lynne Ewing
I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.
~ Todd Rundgren
Shitij Kapur, a psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and professor at King's College London, distinguishes for us the difference between hallucinations and delusions: "Hallucinations reflect a direct experience of the aberrant salience of internal representations," whereas delusions (false beliefs) are the result of "a cognitive effort by the patient to make sense of these aberrantly salient experiences.
~ Michael S. Gazzaniga
All the worst and worst in a person is all this mistrust in the fog of fear, which gives rise to hallucinations of skepticism.
~ Unknown
Along with "mon hysterie" I cultivated a "rotten, ripe maturity." You understand what I mean: like Rimbaud, I practiced having hallucinations.
~ Nathanael West
While a weapon that could induce such powerful hallucinations would undoubtedly be of great military value, the theory fails for a number of reasons, including the global nature of the phenomenon, and the fact that the subject is now so high-profile that the abductors
~ Unknown
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.
~ Oliver Sacks
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
~ Oliver Sacks
The afterlife is mostly a dream state where you confront the good and evil within you. The text repeatedly explains that the images the deceased sees and the sounds one hears are hallucinations created by one's own thoughts.
~ Paul Lowe