Although Beth Muller Ryan Masseyy), the local singer-songwriter, has taken more than a sisterly interest in him, Tom is still in a perpetual fugue state, hallucinating his ex's presence at inconvenient moments (when he wakes up with Beth, for instance) and doing his best to avoid commitment.
House spent much of the episode in a drug-induced state, hallucinating various people who've meant something throughout his life.
It is consistent with this to say that I could be in the same intentional state when I am hallucinating the Queen, as when I am perceiving her.
'If I didn't have any of those medications, I would probably be institutionalized for the rest of my life,' said Deborah Ann Katz, a 36-year-old Medicare [disability] beneficiary.... 'I'd be hallucinating, hearing voices.'" So, the states were stepping in.
We often think of people in a state of delirium as agitated, noisy, hallucinating, and possibly belligerent.
I get extremely paranoid that I'm hallucinating everything and I conclude that my mental state is definitely deteriorating.
Joan Didion once wrote of the Mexican state of Durango, "The very name hallucinates". And so it seems with the country as a whole, a nation distorted in the public imagination for decades, reduced to a convenient caricature.
This factive mental state can only obtain when one is veridically perceiving the world, and it cannot obtain when one is hallucinating.
"You're hallucinating," she said.
You are not hallucinating.
