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
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
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
I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
“You dervishes are as crazy as rats in a pantry. Especially you wandering types. All day long you fast and pray and… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs 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
“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
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
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
We didn't want to do that. It would have been a beautiful moment in the movie but it would have brought the… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Not to mention, we’re using you for bait. (Syn) Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian) What? I wasn’t supposed to tell her that?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Regard this fleeting world like this: Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast-moving stream, like morning dewdrops… — Gautama Buddha 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
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
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
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
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
“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
Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of… — Maxwell Bodenheim Copy Share Image
Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" --… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“I believe there's nothing in hallucinations that has anything to do with anything external to the internal psychological state of the person… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Maladict had hallucinations, but Wazzer had a certainty you could bend steel around. It was the opposite of a hallucination, somehow. It… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image