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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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Burton testified that on the day of the incidents, he had been smoking crack, had not slept for several days, was hallucinating, and believed that helicopters were following him.
We have seen residents who are actively hallucinating, do not know their own names, and are visibly dehydrated with no assessment for dementia, no documentation of the presence or absence of a mental disorder, and no mention to the family of the resident's behavior.
Her horror results not only from the frightening specter of men without faces but from her awareness that she is hallucinating.
 
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