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Hallucination

noun

Illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder.

A mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea. Synonym: delusion. "His dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"

An object perceived during a hallucinatory episode.

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"Hallucination" Quotes from Famous Books

... hastened to explain that Davidson was in a kind of somnambulistic trance. Boyce was interested at once. We both did all we could to rouse the fellow out of his extraordinary state. He answered our questions, and asked us some of his own, but his attention seemed distracted by his hallucination about a beach and a ship. He kept interpolating observations concerning some boat and the davits and sails filling with the wind. It made one feel queer, in the dusky laboratory, to hear him ...

— The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... all the reports of the Polish National Government—all its obvious facts, its printed documents, its acts everywhere known and seen, its seizures of papers and documents—and to portray it as a fraud, a myth, a dream of the imagination, a wild hallucination of a disordered brain, it suggests to us the thought that the tardy and present truths here given us of Poland may perhaps have the same origin as that famous description in one of the St. Petersburg papers, of 'the at last truly discovered leader of the Polish insurrection,' ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... Townsend is crazy. He is over seventy years of age and may be laboring under a hallucination. His story does appear incredible; there are elements of romance stranger than any I ever read about. Had the money been deposited with him for a few months, or even years, it would have been different, but a deposit to cover twenty ...

— Two Wonderful Detectives - Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill • Harlan Page Halsey

... this hallucination that you have got hold of?" said Du Meresq. "What did you tell, or fancy ...

— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

... was my recollection of that phrase, from a work on sorcery, which now set every nerve tingling. Closely I peered into the masking shadow, telling myself that I was the victim of a subjective hallucination. If this was indeed the case or if what I saw was actual, I must leave each who reads to determine for himself; and the episodes which follow and which I must presently relate ...

— The Green Eyes of Bast • Sax Rohmer

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