Name: How much of what you see...
Uploaded: 2025-11-08
Description: But it’s clear that hallucinatory experiences are much more closely tied to ordinary perception than we once thought. And by studying hallucinations, we stand to learn a great deal about how our brains construct the world we see, hear, smell,

Alexander Chee

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.

American Writer

Susannah Cahalan

The true story of how my husband, Stephen, and I exchanged our first 'I love you's' - chronicled in my 2012 memoir 'Brain on Fire' - occurred deep in a hallucinatory psychotic episode outside a crowded Maplewood, NJ, restaurant.

American Journalist

James Wolcott

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

American Critic

Michael Shellenberger

The idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion.

American Author

Barbet Schroeder

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

French Director

Daniel Day-Lewis

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

British Actor

Used for experiences induced by substance use, highlighting their unreality.

Drug Influence

Applied when discussing symptoms of certain mental health conditions.

Mental Health

Although often linked with illness, it can describe any unreal experience, sometimes in creative work.

Not Always Negative

Refers to when an individual's perception significantly deviates from the shared reality.

Subjective Reality

Can be used in academic or artistic contexts where unique, but possibly misleading, interpretations occur.

Interpretive Twist

Use sensitively when describing someone's experience to avoid implying falsehood without intent.

Cautious Usage

 But it’s clear that hallucinatory experiences are much more closely tied to ordinary perception than we once thought. And by studying hallucinations, we stand to learn a great deal about how our brains construct the world we see, hear, smell,

How much of what you see...

 another 12, 24 hours in the saltwater ..." -- the whole thing -- I just thought, in my hallucinatory moment, that I heard the word "tracheotomy." Bonnie said to the doctor, "I'm not worried about her not breathing.

Hallucinatory

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