Sentence examples for hallucinations from inspiring English sources

We're both too tired to talk, unless barking involuntary responses to auditory hallucinations brought about by prolonged exhaustion counts as talking, which it probably doesn't.

On the surface, these could just as easily be a child's whimsy, but genuine hallucinations have a very different flavour.

Renaud Jardri has seen many children with hallucinations in his clinical practice and also researches the area as part of his role as a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Lille University school of medicine.

But when such conditions occur, the hallucinations can be both striking and terrifying.

But as it was recognised that hallucinations can be reliably identified in children, science has begun to look at why these illusory experiences are many times more common during our early years.

The criteria, he says, for judging whether a child needs professional support are whether the hallucinations are "frequent, complex, distressing and cause impairment".

At least five detainees experienced disturbing hallucinations during prolonged sleep deprivation and, in at least two of those cases, the CIA nonetheless continued the sleep deprivation".

If the hallucinations are upsetting or persistent, however, it may be time to ask for a professional assessment.

For Jardri, hallucinations that are associated with positive emotions and don't interfere with the child's friendships and family life are usually benign.

Then there are imaginary friends that are not hallucinations but vivid fantasies, which have been the subject of much adult hand-wringing over the years.

Childhood has long been championed as a time for make-believe, but recent research has found that another form of unreality – hallucinations – is more common in children than we previously imagined.