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Example sentences for "hallucinations"

Lexicographically close words:
hallows; halls; hallucinated; hallucinating; hallucination; hallucinatory; hallucinogens; hallux; hallway; hallways
  1. It is true that here again, where it is in most cases a question of apparitions to relations or friends, we may be told that we are in the presence of telepathic incidents or of hallucinations of the memory.

  2. It brings a crowd of barren presentiments and conjures up veridical hallucinations that are wholly alien and idle.

  3. Whether it be a case of the living, the dying, or the dead, we are familiar with the usual form which these hallucinations take.

  4. At length the firmness of her character and the force of her hallucinations won the day.

  5. As for visual phantasms, these Thyraeus regards as hallucinations produced by spirits on the human senses, not as external objective entities.

  6. Meanwhile, we still do not know what causes these solitary hallucinations of the sane.

  7. The reason of the hallucinations is that appearances present themselves, not only when the object of sense is itself in motion, but also when the sense is stirred, as it would be by the presence of the object' (De Insomn.

  8. The hallucinations of Briggs, which were fortunate enough, it is said, to get into a court of justice, singularly resemble those of M.

  9. Many civilised persons feel the same difficulty with regard to hallucinations beheld by them when in bed, asleep or awake they know not, on the dim border of existence.

  10. They start their hallucinations from the external terminus, the unhealthy organ of sense; from the morbid central terminus; or from some dilapidated cerebral station along the line.

  11. Second sight is only a Scotch name which covers many cases called telepathy and clairvoyance by psychical students, and casual or morbid hallucinations by other people.

  12. Hallucinations begotten by natural causes are 'telepathically' transferred, with variations, to strangers at a distance.

  13. In the case of crystal-gazing, however, we can scarcely push scepticism so far as to deny that the facts exist, that hallucinations are actually provoked.

  14. But to think of it as a tragically moribund organism is merely to proceed upon the old hallucinations of race-consciousness.

  15. It is probable that many, perhaps all, subjects are vaguely aware, as we sometimes are in dreams, that the delusions and hallucinations they experience are of an unreal nature.

  16. The study of hallucinations has in this way been for psychologists the key to their comprehension of normal sensation, that of illusions has been the key to the right comprehension of perception.

  17. Hallucinations are quite likely in your condition,” the doctor opined, “though it would be better to verify them .

  18. The commonest manifestations of insanity are undue depression, apathy, excitement, instability, obsessions, hallucinations and delusions.

  19. Recent studies of the psychology of the insane show that most of their hallucinations and delusions are closely related to some previous mental experience they had before becoming insane.

  20. Many of these hallucinations are termed "veridical", or truth-telling, because they coincide with real events occurring to another person.

  21. The present chapter has to do with nuns; who are more prone to visions, and are occasionally subject to those passionate hallucinations which are prompted by the circumstance that the Christian God was incarnate in the likeness of a man.

  22. The following admission in regard to visual and auditory hallucinations is here worth noting as coming from so thorough an exponent of materialistic psychology as M.

  23. It is quite conceivable that even outside space hallucinations may be possible.

  24. The covering of the body, the covering of matter, had been torn from me, and the hallucinations of companionship and security.

  25. But the sufficient answer to that is that the things also of our actual world are hallucinations in their degree, and certainly have no full objective existence.

  26. It is difficult to imagine hallucinations or deceit maintained under such circumstances.

  27. Hallucinations of all the senses are not rare, but illusions of sight, smell and feeling are the commonest, and most important.

  28. At all times the complex hallucinations of visionaries have occupied a peculiar place in scientific criticism.

  29. The patient carries out in her waking state everything, otherwise unknown to her, from the field of the unconscious that she has experienced during hallucinations in the second stage.

  30. Her illness consisted in delusions and hallucinations which increased rapidly, and soon became so absurd that no one could understand her wishes and complaints.

  31. The complex hallucinations do not belong to the waking state, but prefer as a rule a partial waking state.

  32. The visual hallucinations are especially visions of animals, pictures of corpses, phantastic processions in which dead persons, devils and ghosts swarm.

  33. That hallucinations appear in this way has been also observed in other visionaries.

  34. As the intuitive ideas of normal men do not spring from logical combinations of the conscious mind, so the hallucinations and delusions of the insane arise, not out of conscious but out of unconscious processes.

  35. In time she obtained such an influence upon her followers that three of her brothers and sisters likewise began to have hallucinations of a similar kind.

  36. These hallucinations are "precursors or signs of mighty spiritual power.

  37. A somewhat similar view must be taken about our patient's hallucinations; at least, the external conditions which gave rise to the appearance of the hallucinations seem to strengthen our supposition.

  38. The hypnopompic hallucinations described by Myers arise in the same way.

  39. Hallucinations show very plainly how a part of the unconscious content can force itself across the threshold of the conscious.

  40. The appearance of hallucinations occurred in a quite classical way in Flournoy's Helen Smith.

  41. Of the causes of her physical ailments, her mental tortures, her hallucinations which filled her heart and brains with a passionate desire to die, she knew nothing.

  42. Delusions are closely allied to hallucinations and generally accompany the latter.

  43. The poet, with no psychological scruples, wastes no time over troubling himself to divide hallucinations into truths or untruths.

  44. From this source may be explained, the numerous delusions of modern prophecies, which circumstantially relate the gossipings of angels, and record the hallucinations of feverish repose.

  45. Much, however, was due to the hallucinations of solitary and ascetic life, and much more to deliberate imposture.

  46. Thanks to one or two successes which have fallen to my share, I have taken courage, and my depression, which used often to drive me to hallucinations and insanity, has almost lost its power over me.

  47. The most alarming symptoms of the illness were his hallucinations and a constant feeling of dread.

  48. Hallucinations ceased for a few months, but Mrs. Clare had difficulty in keeping outside interference at bay.

  49. His hallucinations do not appear to have diminished, although they changed.

  50. Then it was that I felt myself under the dominion of a sort of hallucination, one of those hallucinations which must have troubled tile mind of Arthur Pym.

  51. In order to explain these inexplicable things, were we not obliged to acknowledge that we had come into the region of those wonders which I attributed to the hallucinations of Arthur Pym?


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