hallucination
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7.5
- noun
- /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/
:
alucinación
- The patient described his hallucinations as hearing voices that no one else could hear.
- experience hallucinations
- auditory hallucinations
- visual hallucinations
Another feature of of schizophrenia would be hallucinations being incoherent.
- Another feature of of schizophrenia would be hallucinations being incoherent.
- So most people have hallucinations in that state.
- It is like it was all just a hallucination of my own.
- The Old Testament is also full of hallucinations, visions.
- Was that a malaria hallucination or was it divine intervention?
- I, I have had experiences where I've, I've had hallucinations at night.
- Even though these people know that it's a hallucination, they're still terrifying experiences.
- They started to have hallucinations and delusions.
- But we were eating a lot, full visionary hallucinations and all that.
- And he thinks that they came through as mass hallucinations.
- But that do not produce hallucinations or massive changes in subjective experience.
- Are they all also seeing the ghost or are all the people a hallucination?
- He says like it's not that our perception is a just a controlled hallucination.
- They, they become psychotic hallucinations, etcetera.
- These dreams of a brave new world now seem like like distant fever hallucinations.
Examples
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It's not uncommon at some point for hallucinations to set in.
Fiction book (2000) -
Because people who are suffering from aural hallucinations hear voices in both ears.
Fiction book (1995) -
Like a brief hallucination that, after a few moments, I could hardly even remember.
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So most people have hallucinations in that state.
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Whatever this was, it was not like any auditory hallucination she had ever heard of.
Fiction book (1991) -
Even though these people know that it's a hallucination, they're still terrifying experiences.
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Many other hallucinations, including smells, sights, and sounds, also involve the same brain areas as real sensory experiences.
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You better lay off the junk food, kid, you're beginning to have sugar hallucinations.
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During his fever, he experienced vivid hallucinations of people that weren't there.
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After taking the medication, she reported several disturbing hallucinations that made her doubt her sanity.
Synonyms
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3.8
A clear image in the mind of something not present
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6.7
A ghost or spirit that people think they see
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8.9
A ghost that people see suddenly
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9.9
A thing that seems real but is only in the mind, like a ghost
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7.9
Hearing voices or sounds that are not there
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7.9
Seeing things that are not really there because the brain sends wrong signals
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9.9
A ghost-like figure that seems real but is not
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.9
Seeing things that are not really there because the brain sends wrong signals
- Jargon
An image made by a computer that looks real but is not based on real data
How Vivid
Surface Forms
Morphology
hallucination = hallucinate (transparent) = hallucin + ation
Regular noun formation from the verb 'hallucinate' using the productive suffix '-ation', so the relationship is clear to learners who know the verb.
Etymology
Hallucination comes from the Latin word hallucinari, which meant 'to wander in the mind'. So a hallucination is like your mind wandering into something you think you see or hear, even though it is not really there.