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hallucination
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hallucination

Perception of something that does not exist. It may be visual but may also arise from any of the other senses. Unlike an illusion, a hallucination has no basis in reality. It may occur in psychosis, in organic brain disease (especially temporal lobe epilepsy), or be due to drugs.



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I have some advice for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg regarding his comment that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa would be a perfect candidate in 2008 for president: Lay off the tequila; too much can make one hallucinate.
In Zarin, 2005, a twenty-minute film adapted from a novella written by Shahrnoush Parsipour, an Iranian, Neshat reveals glimpses of a woman who, forced into prostitution at an early age, loses her sanity and hallucinates all men as faceless monsters.
Mark DeAvecca is a first year student at Windsor Prep but isn't feeling well; his hands shake, he hallucinates and has memory loss.
 
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