non-sensory hallucination — A term used by the British paranormal researcher Edmund Gurney (1847 1888) as an umbrella term for normal acts of the imagination or memory, such as remembered * images, * daydreams, and mental pictures, which all lack an actual perceptual… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
hallucination of the senses — see sensory hallucination … Dictionary of Hallucinations
Hallucination — For other uses, see Hallucination (disambiguation). Hallucination Classification and external resources My eyes at the moment of the apparitions by August Natterer … Wikipedia
hallucination — hallucinational, hallucinative /heuh looh seuh nay tiv, neuh tiv/, adj. /heuh looh seuh nay sheuhn/, n. 1. a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to… … Universalium
hallucination — Formerly known as hallucinatio, allucinatio, alucinatio, * alusia, * fallacia, * idolum, and *phantasma. Hallucination can be defined as a percept, experienced by a waking individual, in the absence of an appropriate stimulus from the… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
sensory delusion — A term used to denote the erroneous conviction that one is experiencing a hallucination, while the verbal report expressing the experience is testimony of a non perceptual experience such as a thought or a memory. The term sensory delusion is… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
sensory overload — a condition in which an individual receives an excessive or intolerable amount of sensory stimuli; the effects of sensory overload are similar to those of sensory deprivation, including confusion and hallucination … Medical dictionary
hallucination in braille — The expression hallucination in Braille refers to the configurations of raised dots invented by the Frenchman Louis Braille (1809 1852) as a medium of communication for individuals with poor vision or *blindness. The notion of hallucination in … Dictionary of Hallucinations
hallucination — noun /həˌluːsəˈneɪʃən/ a) A sensory perception of something that does not exist, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion. , Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common… … Wiktionary
hallucination — The apparent, often strong subjective perception of an object or event when no such stimulus or situation is present; may be visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, or … Medical dictionary
