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Hallucination

Hallucination
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Overview

perception in the presence of no external stimuli found, but characteristic of true perception

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  1. The transformation of an idea into an hallucination is not the only deviation of the dream from a waking thought which perhaps corresponds to it. From these pictures the dream forms a situation, it presents something in the present, it dramatises an idea, as Spitta[64] (p.

    Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

    Names Hallucination several times; states what Hallucination is.

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  2. Or the hallucination may lead him to anticipate consequences which in fact flow only from the possession of great wealth. Then the hallucination is a disturbance of the normal course of events; the occurrence is wrongly _used_ with reference to eventualities.

    John Dewey, Creative Intelligence

    Names Hallucination several times; states what Hallucination is.

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  3. The most curious proofs of the existence of such an undifferentiated sense of reality as this are found in experiences of hallucination. It often happens that an hallucination is imperfectly developed: the person affected will feel a “presence” in the room, definitely localized, facing in one particular way, real in the most emphatic sense of the word, often coming suddenly, and as suddenly gone; and yet neither…

    William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

    States what Hallucination is; names Hallucination twice.

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Place in the tradition

Part of Direct and indirect realism.

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