Where is the borderland between memory and hallucination?

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“The boundary between the real and the unreal had been let down in Foote's mind, and between the comings and goings of the cloud-shadows…

— james blish

“I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place…

— Terri Windling

“Of course it had been an hallucination. But when hallucinations start behaving like realities, with a score of coincidences to back them up, even…

— Fritz Leiber

I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my…

— Siri Hustvedt

People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is…

— Bertrand Russell

The Graff Hallucination is a sculptural masterpiece; a celebration of the miracle of coloured diamonds. For many years I have thought about creating a…

— Laurence Graff

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

— Jaggi Vasudev

The hairline difference between imagination and hallucination is that imagination finds always limitless reality, whereas hallucination binds itself within the limits of confusion, illusion…

— Anuj Somany

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your…

— Terence McKenna

“It’s not real. The image of his creepy ant-hands was nothing more than a standard, slightly silly hallucination.”

— Christa Faust

“Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as a hallucination.”

— Melody Moezzi

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

— Marc Maron

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

— Jonathan Zittrain

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

— Alan Watts