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your brain improvising reality when the script runs out, and committing fully to the bit
means A perception of something that isn't actually there — a sight, sound, smell, or sensation generated by the mind without any external source.
from From Latin 'hallucinari' (also spelled 'alucinari'), meaning to wander in the mind, to talk idly or dream — itself possibly borrowed from a Greek root tied to wandering or being distraught. It entered English in the early 17th century, first meaning a wandering or rambling of the mind, and only later narrowing to the specific sense of seeing what isn't there. So the word's deepest image is mental wandering: a mind that has drifted off the map of the real.
- shared types
- Charles Bonnet syndrome makes the blind see vivid images
- sound version
- musical ear syndrome plays phantom songs on loop
- normal trigger
- sleep deprivation alone can induce them within days
- sensory void
- total silence makes most people start hearing things
- hypnagogic
- falling-asleep visions are hallucinations everyone has nightly
mandela effect — mass false memory that nelson mandela died in prison in the 1980s, but he was released in 1990 and died in 2013
berenstein bears spelling — millions remember the children's books spelled 'berenstein' but they were always 'berenstain' since 1962
charles bonnet syndrome — blind or visually impaired people experience vivid visual hallucinations, documented in thousands of patients