Hallucinations

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Beginning Research

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• happen to normal people
• hallucinatory visual world
• mind altering experiences
• psychedelic 1970s
• a wandering mind
• apparitions
• hallucinations, misperceptions, illusions
• hallucinations mimic perception (projections into external world)
• conjured out of thin air
• imaging the brain… monitoring electrical and metabolic activities while person hallucinates
• rise to art, folklore, religion
• “organic” psychoses” —, delirium, epilepsy, drug use, medical conditions
• opened eyes — seeing — pg 4
• Charles Bonnet Syndrome
• sensationalism — pg 5
• entire visual scenes
• man becoming multiple identical versions of self — pg 18
• hand passing through something solid — pg 21
• visions of patterns (think psychedelic) — pg 21 — tiles
• repetition and multiplication — pg 22
• people dressed the same
• cartoon-like
• phosphenes — blobs or clouds of brightness or color
• text hallucinations — pg 23 — become unreadable
• unlike imagination // like perceptions, so it feels real
• seeing patterning all over things **
• unusual vividness, bright colors, considerable detail — pg 37
• sensory deprivation tanks cause hallucinations
• brilliance and colors — pg 39
• “resplendent peacock feathers and buildings” — pg 39
• hallucinatory smells — pg 45
• distortions
• “amalgram of smells” — and colors — pg 50
• madness or serenity
• “inanimate objects will speak” — pg 56 (sounds very Chip Kidd) — examples: lemonade, glass of milk, the furniture
• musical hallucinations
• illusions, delusions
• “he saw ‘letters, like teletype’ on my lips” — pg 77
• cat in house — pg 77
• “out of context” — the sign a hallucination is not real
• the brain, neurology (think medical drawings like current color)
• patients
• pic coming to life — pg 87
• “altered states” and mystagogic powers of intoxicants — pg 91
• transformed body
• visions of stars and colors — pg 99- heavens dissolving into overpowering array of colors
• room changing sizes — warping — pg 99
• patterns
• like synesthesia
• leaving body and hovering — pg 107
• light in tunnel
• experience of color is heightened **
• distended or compressed time
• looking at hand and seeing change — 106 ** (how people know that they are hallucinating)
• ^the hand becomes cosmic, stretching across the universe
• “true indigo” seen during hallucination **** — pg 110
• hallucinations are “a realm outside of time” — pg 112
• coffee turning green and purple — pg 116
• wave passing through brain — pg 123
• black and white zig zags — pg 125
• auras from migraines — pg 127
• things multiplying
• “human obsession with patterns” — pg 131
• kitchen floor tilesvisual neurons — pg 132
• hallucinations are hugely related to vision
• “a vision’ role in religion — pg 166
• “afterimage”
• trick carnival mirror to evoke feeling of hallucination on cover?
• delirium
• dreams with extremely brilliant colors — pg 191
• hallucinatory voices and delusions
• quote on pg 199*****
• “kaleidoscopic change of pattern and forms” pg 204
• cut glass — pg 202
• sleep as cause — hypnagogic visions
• mist — pg 205
• sensory
• “most fantastical and surreal experiences are in our dreams”
• things coming to life
• “out of body experience” — pg 225
• “compulsive returns to a past experience — pg 229
• a “private theater” in brain — pg 242
• magical, spiritual,
• staring at ceiling — pg 252***
• ^became swarming pixels which would become patterns, waves, grids, paisley patterns *****
• floating, levitation, leaving body, flying through space — pg 255