Sentence examples for the hallucination from inspiring English sources

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the hallucination

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A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.

  • Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. - W. A. Hammond

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There the hallucination begins.

The hallucination broke.

"I like the hallucination it creates.

The hallucination had threatened to kill her: "At other times the hallucination is encouraging [REDACTED] to kill herself".

"The paintings represent the hallucination of happiness and the hallucination of fear and loneliness in this life as well as the hallucination of happiness in the next life," Mr. Zhang said.

"One has to fall almost into a hypnosis, the hallucination one has created," he said.

He had been up writing, trying to make sense of the hallucination he had about the girl in the chair.

What if he dispensed with the anchor of the everyday and just went for the extremity, the hallucination?

The hallucination is convincingly real, produced by the same neural pathways as actual perception, and yet no one else seems to see it.

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The watercolor "Xquenda" ("The Protector") (circa 1968), with its overtly child-like renderings, calls to mind the hallucination-based art of the mentally ill.

At the other end of the spectrum was Edie Falco's portrait of Bananas, the hallucination-prone, apartment-bound wife in this season's Broadway revival of John Guare's "House of Blue Leaves".

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