I have delusions and visions...
"Red Plenty" is a strong and eccentric book about a beautiful mass delusion, a filigreed vision of a place Mr. Spufford likes to call "Story Russia".
More controversially, he shows Smith as subject to a string of fanciful delusions, including a vision of his gun-waving father as he kills Herb Clutter.
Often the side effects were terrible - sickness, double vision, near-delusions.
The last pages of the novel trace Chick's severe confrontation with death: his coma and subsequent "visions, delusions, hallucinations"; his long and arduous recuperation in a Boston hospital; Rosamund's unshakable love and lifesaving devotion.
An artist, played by Erland Josephson, is isolated on an island, slowly buckling under the strain of half-remembered delusions and surreal visions -- it all coalesces into a dream fable of the creepiest kind.
In rare cases, delusions, hallucinations, and visions can occur (e.g. believing to hear the voice of God or an angel).
Jamie Lloyd's production, a joint venture between Headlong and the Curve, seems determined to be no exception, ramping up Wilde's text into a degenerate vision of dangerous sexual delusion.
For every cockle-warming group hug, there's Tambor, spewing bile and condescension; for every small child bursting winsomely into song, there he is again, a snout-nosed vision of pompous self-delusion.
Furthermore, sleep loss has been associated with a myriad of psychological and/or neurocognitive impairments such as memory loss, irritability, inattention, delusions, hallucinations, slurred speech, and blurred vision [ 22].
Maybe it's hard to tell a vision for America from a delusion of grandeur, at least until the debates and primaries get under way.
