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Definition of hallucination:

  • (noun) illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder
  • (noun) a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "
  • (noun) an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode;

Sentence Examples:

You know, messieurs, I am not a woman given to hallucinations.

When he saw her approaching he always had a moment of hallucination.

Her glance pierced it, and it faded to a hallucination.

Now and then I had acute hallucinations of a woman with an arrow of gold in her hair.

The wretch who has committed it was in reality overcome by hallucination.

I understood perfectly the sort of hallucination into which I had fallen.

And the hallucination still lasts as inexplicable in its persistence as in its duration.

What hallucination could you have been laboring under?

One of these hallucinations is particularly striking.

The moment the maid got up the hallucination disappeared.

No doubt, for a series of hallucinations, anything will do in the way of explanation.

This appears to be a real cause of hallucination or, at least, of illusion.

Now, how does this theory of false memory bear on coincidental hallucinations?

Your husband's hallucinations are not worth considering.

One obvious reply is that there is no ghost at all, only a hallucination.

Neither does he tell us whether the lady was in the habit of seeing hallucinations.

She used to try to send him hallucinations.

Various sources of Hallucination, external and internal.

Our ignorance of causes of Solitary Hallucinations.

This young lady, in bed, saw a light, then a hallucination which called itself her mother.

Was there any coincidence between the hallucination and facts at the time unknown to you?

Meanwhile, we still do not know what causes these solitary hallucinations of the sane.

In search of a cause, he turns to hallucinations.

And then his hallucination returned to him.

One awful evening of fever and hallucination I had been sitting by her for a long time.

Or rather, for completeness and splendor of hallucination there was no comparison.

Ignorance of truth led him to place himself under the mysterious power of hallucination.

I may be going mad and have hallucinations.

It was partly hallucination, at any rate.

"Is this the message, or is it only the ugly hallucination of my nerves?"

That the thing had driven him headlong was real, and not some troublesome hallucination.

The whole thing was a hallucination.

I was the subject of a vivid and interesting hallucination.

That was all a hallucination of my foolish brain.

One party or the other must be walking under some terrible hallucination.

All at once, however, Claude fancied he was the victim of some hallucination.

Barrett was disposed to attribute to hallucination and "thought-transference."

He now saw that this had been a hallucination, for he was chilled through and through.

My imaginary preference for you was a brief hallucination.

"What is this hallucination that you have got hold of?"

That is to say, there are such things as hallucinations.

He was not under the hallucination that he was suddenly falling in love with this girl.

Anybody can see that he is laboring under a hallucination, and fancies himself Daniel.

The idea of 'fitness' is a total hallucination.

You are, evidently, ill, and laboring under some queer hallucination.

Her mind was not strong, and it was thought to be a hallucination, this second child.

Apart from that, Christine, I think I am subject to hallucinations ...

Was he the prey of some strange hallucination?

Rudimentary hallucinations may have either a peripheral or a central origin.

The most common form of motor hallucination is probably the vocal.

Such illusions come nearest to hallucinations in the region of memory.

Definite and complete hallucinations of this sort do not in normal circumstances arise.

It is plain that in these cases illusion approaches to hallucination.

The summer was almost over when I began to suffer from a strange hallucination.

I fear you are under the effect of some nervous hallucination.

This attitude is particularly favorable to hallucinations.

I'll tell you what it is: it is what they call a hallucination.

There are possible hallucinations of every sense.

It's not wise to pay attention to hallucinations.

It started with an uneasiness which differed from his previous fever-bred hallucinations.

He had tactile, auditory and visual hallucinations of a religious and sexual coloring.

Delusions or hallucinations could not be elicited as having existed at that time.

No delusions or hallucinations could be elicited.

Of all the dreams, of all the hallucinations, this is the wildest!

You have always been under a match-making hallucination on that point.

Time will wear away the hallucination, if you women only hold your tongues.

Nat's admiration of the power of the human voice was not all a youthful hallucination.

Mohammed was the subject of illusions, hallucinations, and delusions.

Can it be a matter of suggestion, of collective hallucination?

You heard his story; his hallucinations were those of an insane person.

That suggests that we do trigger the hallucinations ourselves.

It is this kind of hallucination, inserted and fitted into a real frame, that we perceive.

There could be no more complete hallucination.

Surely this was pure hallucination... but no!

He has not been well for several days, and he is somewhat troubled with hallucinations.

And so precious was the hallucination, that I wanted it to persist yet a little while.

At night, in my sleep, I was a prey to the strangest hallucinations.

And it happened, I don't know how, I don't know why, in a sort of hallucination.

I am sure this minister was the victim of some kind of hallucination.

Cornelia took herself in hand, and shook herself out of her hallucination.

It is easier to imagine these gentlemen suffering a collective hallucination.

This test involves creating an auditory hallucination.

He thought he must be the subject of some hallucination.

Nothing could convince him that he had been the victim of a nervous hallucination.

The coincidence would have to be explained as well as the hallucination, in that case.

I knew I had not been tricked by any hallucination.

For his part, the realm of hallucination was boundless.

The simplest trifle stung them into frenzies of inconsistency and hallucination.

Some foods stimulate sexual drive, others induce states of hallucination.

They often have hallucinations and while asleep have attacks resembling night terrors.

I was in the grip of anguished hallucinations.

A morbid sleep, full of hallucinations, seized my whole being.

His intellect was as powerful as in his best days, and freer than ever of hallucinations.

All see alike: so that the matter is removed out of the sphere of 'hallucinations.'

In his last years his mind weakened, and he became the victim of wild hallucinations.

He is over seventy years of age and may be laboring under a hallucination.

Then first the idea crossed my mind that I might be the victim of hallucinations.

I have had no more hallucinations since that time; the voice has never come again.

One of these things must be a fact, the other a fantastic hallucination.

It leads to hallucinations of sight and hearing.