Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane,… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“REM sleep ushers you into a preposterous theater wherein you are treated to a bizarre, highly associative carnival of autobiographical themes.” — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
It's true, I did say I wanted girlfriends," I capitulated hesitantly, "but couldn't we start with something smaller and less terrifying? Like… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Of course it had been an hallucination. But when hallucinations start behaving like realities, with a score of coincidences to back them… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“From unintentional hallucinations of large language models to deliberate disinformation campaigns, the very foundation of truth is under attack, with facts as… — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“And at this point, self-stimulation of various sorts began: mental games, counting, fantasies, and, sooner or later, visual hallucinations—usually a “march” of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The afterlife is mostly a dream state where you confront the good and evil within you. The text repeatedly explains that the… — Paul Lowe Copy Share Image
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe. — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“If you stay awake long enough, you have dreams whether you're sleeping or not, hallucinations. It's where we really live, and when… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
To make things just that much more interesting, the changes can't be captured on camera, so anyone who doesn't see them firsthand… — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
“Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she was seized with hallucinations and thought she was buried in some vault together with a lot of puppet-like corpses which… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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