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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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Of course, I need not tell you that this was what you will call an hallucination and I call an apparition.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
It was the young man who persists in some strange hallucination as to a certain Mademoiselle Violet.
The Malefactor by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
In a moment the entire family was at the place, but nothing was heard, and the voice was believed to be an hallucination caused by the mother's great anxiety and her disordered nerves.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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