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Hallucination   /həlˌusənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Hallucination

noun
1.
Illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder.
2.
A mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea.  Synonym: delusion.  "His dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"
3.
An object perceived during a hallucinatory episode.



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auditory hallucination
pseudohallucination
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"Hallucination" Quotes from Famous Books



... me up here. More to think about. But don't worry about me, doctor. I know this is the end. If I can't convince you, then all the world must think it hallucination. ...
— The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays • Olive Tilford Dargan and Frederick Peterson
... unaccountably so, I slowly descended to the street. The scene I had witnessed seemed to mark the defeat and annihilation of the forces of a kindred people, rather than the routing by our green warriors of a horde of similar, though unfriendly, creatures. I could not fathom the seeming hallucination, nor could I free myself from it; but somewhere in the innermost recesses of my soul I felt a strange yearning toward these unknown foemen, and a mighty hope surged through me that the fleet would return and demand a reckoning from the green warriors ...
— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... quashed, even if it was begun. He must have been under an hallucination that he was a stern parent, cutting me ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... a pass. He did not know his man, however, who was Raoul Yvard; and who had come this way from Bastia, in the hope of escaping any further collision with his formidable foe. He had seen the frigate's lofty sails above the rock as soon as it was light; and, being under no hallucination on the subject of her existence, he knew her at a glance. His first order was to haul everything as flat as possible; and his great desire was to get from under the lee of the mountains of Elba into this very pass, ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... and stared. Merely that. He was subtle enough to shift the persecution from the province of the physical to the realm of the psychological. It was like being haunted. Even when I did not see him, I began to THINK that I saw him. He deliberately planted that hallucination in my mind. It is a wonder that I ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis


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