hallucinating
- adjective
- /həˈluːsɪneɪtɪŋ/
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alucinante
- Or has the hallucinating explorer been down there—as he steadfastly claims—for three days and nights?
Now, some people actually experience waking up being fully paralyzed and hallucinating.
- Now, some people actually experience waking up being fully paralyzed and hallucinating.
Examples
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And then I thought, well, I got to go to a place where I'm almost hallucinating, right?
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That's when the the most profound psychosis with all of the hallucinating would be going on.
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I was, I was just hallucinating like crazy.
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And the cat appears to be hallucinating, acting out his dream, so to speak.
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And then I thought, well, I got to go to a place where I'm almost hallucinating, right?
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But it's a it's a hallucinating just like mushrooms, but it's different.
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Well, he's you know, he's hallucinating, he's gone into.
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After several hours without sleep, she began to feel hallucinating and couldn't distinguish between reality and her imagination.
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The patient was hallucinating, claiming to see animals that were not in the room.
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During the fever, he was hallucinating, often speaking to people who weren't there.
Synonyms
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To see or hear things that are not there
To see or hear things that are not real, often because of drugs
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Surface Forms
Morphology
hallucinating = hallucinate (transparent) = hallucinate + ing
The adjective is the regular present-participial form of the verb 'hallucinate' and its experiential meaning is directly derived from the verb.
Etymology
Hallucinating comes from the old Latin verb hallucinari, which meant 'to wander in the mind'. So when someone is hallucinating their mind 'wanders' and they see or hear things that are not really there.