sensorial hallucination — Also known as psychic hallucination. The term sensorial hallucination is indebted to the Latin noun sensorium, which means seat of the senses, or brain. It was used in 1846 by the French dream researcher Maurice Macario to denote a… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
ganglionic hallucination — The term ganglionic hallucination is indebted to the Greek noun gagglion (i.e. ganglion), which refers to a collection of nerve cells acting as a centre of neurotransmission. It was introduced by the 19th century French dream researcher… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
sthenic hallucination — The term sthenic hallucination is indebted to the Greek noun sthenos, which means force. It was coined in or shortly before 1846 by the French dream researcher Maurice Macario to denote a hallucination that results from a heightened… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
centrifugal theory of hallucinatory activity — The centrifugal theory is an explanatory model of hallucinatory activity which is traditionally attributed to the German physiologist and zoologist Johannes Peter Müller (1801 1858). The centrifugal theory suggests that subcortical and/or… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
VISION — «Toute la conduite de notre vie dépend de nos sens, entre lesquels celui de la vue étant le plus universel et le plus noble. Il n’y a point de doute que les inventions qui servent à augmenter sa puissance ne soient des plus utiles qui puissent… … Encyclopédie Universelle
sensed presence — Also known as sense of presence, feeling ofa presence (FOP), idea of a presence, hallucination of presence, false proximate awareness, false bodily awareness, intruder hallucination, somaesthetic phantom double, somaesthetic doppelgänger,… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
monition — The term monition comes from the Latin noun monitio, which means advice or warning. It was introduced in or shortly before 1922 by the French physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate Charles Robert Richet (1850 1935) to replace various older… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
Direct and indirect realism — Direct realism argues we perceive the world directly For representationalism in the arts, see Realism (visual arts). The question of direct or naïve realism, as opposed to indirect or representational realism, arises in the philosophy of… … Wikipedia
mysticism — /mis teuh siz euhm/, n. 1. the beliefs, ideas, or mode of thought of mystics. 2. a doctrine of an immediate spiritual intuition of truths believed to transcend ordinary understanding, or of a direct, intimate union of the soul with God through… … Universalium
sens — 1. sens [ sɑ̃s ] n. m. • 1080; lat. sensus, de sentire → sentir I ♦ 1 ♦ Faculté d éprouver les impressions que font les objets matériels (⇒ sensation); physiol. Système récepteur unitaire d une modalité spécifique de sensations (correspondant, en … Encyclopédie Universelle
