Top 100 Quotes About Hallucinations
#1. It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here"
that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.
John Wyndham
#2. Fall in love with you? How could I fall in love with you when I loved you with every breath, every heartbeat, every lash of the fucking whip? When you invaded my dreams, my hallucinations. I can't stop loving you, bella. I've tried. God help me, I've tried.
Skye Warren
#3. Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you ... Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.
Alan Moore
#4. My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
Brandon Sanderson
#5. Over time, the real remained in the photo while the hallucinations faded away. I discovered what sorts of things my mind liked to make up.
Francesca Zappia
#6. Not to mention, we're using you for bait. (Syn)
Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian)
What? I wasn't supposed to tell her that? (Syn)
I'm bait? (Kiara)
No, you're not bait. Ignore the alcoholic whose view of reality is distorted by his brain-damaged hallucinations. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection.
Lee Strobel
#8. It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!
Erica Jong
#9. All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
Chauncey Wright
#10. The most dangerous truth a Confessor knows is that the rules of society are just consensual hallucinations. Choosing to wake up from the dream means choosing to end your life.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#11. Close analysis of 'miracles' have never led to any proof for a supernatural explanation, and, in fact, many have proven to be cheap magic tricks, hallucinations or primitive misunderstandings of natural phenomena.
Armin Navabi
#13. The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.
Jack Paar
#14. I was starting to wonder if repetitive exposure to nightly hallucinations resulting in earth-shattering climaxes could have any long-term side effects.
Darynda Jones
#15. What if you had such severe schizophrenia that your life was just one hallucination after another? And what if people kept trying to drag you back out of those hallucinations, to prove that you weren't living in reality and that reality was nothing more than a psych hospital? Would you go?
Jonathan Harnisch
#16. Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
Allen Ginsberg
#17. Schizophrenia: A psychotic disorderncharacterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations. See also: Nightmare.
Holly Schindler
#18. Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.
Michel Foucault
#19. Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.
Siri Hustvedt
#20. The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive ... in hallucinations and dreams.
Jeremy Narby
#21. I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.
Terence McKenna
#22. About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
Oliver Sacks
#24. A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.
Romain Rolland
#25. I'd gotten used to hallucinations - but who can get used to the doubt that one of those dreadful visions is real?
John Berryman
#26. Live in a cosmic ocean, singing sweet hallucinations, dreams of many worlds, all flowing into one ... inner / outer mirrored love.
Jay Woodman
#27. With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?
John Astin
#29. Judging from her wide eyes, I guessed the answer was, No, and does hallucinations run in the family?
Rick Riordan
#30. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.
Arthur Koestler
#31. It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H.L. Mencken
#32. I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're ... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.
Aubrey McClendon
#33. MISERABLE
Release the toxic and infectious-
Spreaders of misery,
Souls destroying souls-
And poisonous liars.
Awaken from the hallucinations-
And take back your heart.
Reclaim your self-esteem-
And leave the toxic be.
Giorge Leedy
#34. There are only hallucinations, or perceptions, and that there are neither nights nor days ... and that life is continuous; yet that one would never be aware of its continuity, nor even that life exists without these pendulum movements; and life is primarily verified by the beating of the heart
Alfred Jarry
#35. Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.
Gaspar Noe
#36. With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
Oliver Sacks
#37. My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
Yayoi Kusama
#38. The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#40. Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
Yayoi Kusama
#41. Day deceives, but at night no one is safe from hallucinations.
Elizabeth Smart
#42. Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired. Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No." "I thought-" "On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling spells can result in hallucinations of the most bizarre sort." "Oh," Will said. "How peculiar.
Cassandra Clare
#43. The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles. I shall say no more about this: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times the richest, let's be as miserly as the sea.
Arthur Rimbaud
#44. Whatever their neurological and molecular antecedents, hallucinations feel real. They are sought out in many cultures and considered a sign of spiritual enlightenment.
Carl Sagan
#45. I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
Oliver Sacks
#46. The afterlife is mostly a dream state where you confront the good and evil within you. The text repeatedly explains that the images the deceased sees and the sounds one hears are hallucinations created by one's own thoughts.
Paul Lowe
#47. Dr. Erland's expression had gone dark. He reached forward and pinched Cinder hard above her elbow. "Ow, hey!" "Hmph. For a moment I thought you must be another one of my hallucinations, as surely your plan couldn't be that stupid.
Marissa Meyer
#48. Hallucinations may be a neglected low door in the wall to a scientific understanding of the sacred.
Carl Sagan
#49. Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.
Oliver Sacks
#50. In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.
Oliver Sacks
#51. Sometimes she was seized with hallucinations and thought she was buried in some vault together with a lot of puppet-like corpses which nodded their heads and moved their legs and arms when you pulled the strings.
Emile Zola
#53. While we can certainly be mistaken at times about what is real, there is indeed a reality to know. Mistakes actually prove the point. We would not know there were such things as hallucinations or illusions if we did not have reality with which to compare them.
Douglas Beaumont
#54. I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.
Brian Wilson
#55. [D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.
Roger Ebert
#56. There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
H.L. Mencken
#57. Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time
Lynne Ewing
#58. Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were preceded by a period of isolation in the mountains.
Dick Swaab
#59. Your hallucination...
Yes?
Your hallucination has hallucinations.
Yes.
Brandon Sanderson
#60. Considering what he'd been through in the last five days, rote hallucinations would've been a welcome return to sanity.
Blake Crouch
#62. Tony faked mental illness. That's when you have hallucinations and delusions. Mental illness comes and goes. It can get better with medication. Tony is a psychopath. That doesn't come and go. It is how the person is." Faking
Jon Ronson
#63. Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.
Dan Barker
#64. Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
Aleister Crowley
#65. Maniacal suicide. - This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.
Emile Durkheim
#66. I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating,
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#67. When traditional figures - devils, witches, or hags - are no longer believed in, new ones - aliens, visitations from "a previous life" - take their place. Hallucinations,
Oliver Sacks
#68. There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other things I see in the world around me.
Ryan McGinness
#69. Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.
Shawn Amos
#70. I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.
Todd Rundgren
#71. When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.
Jim Woodring
#72. That's one way to get rid of hallucinations...send them out for groceries.
Maury Chaykin
#73. I like poisons, the slowest
and drinks, the stronges
and coffee, the bitterest
and the craziest hallucinations.
You can even throw me off a cliff, I'll say:
So what? I love to fly
Bruna Lombardi
#74. He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.
Cory Doctorow
#75. They said I would be accompanied by visual hallucinations but everything I have seen is real.
Kristina Born
#76. It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'
Rob Sheffield
#77. That little green drink inspired hallucination is right!
Rocko
#78. He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name.
His name was Jimmy.
Teresa Lo
#79. The supposed reality of misfiring synapses, chemical imbalances, frontal lobe anomalies and the like - did not sway her desire for escape into an alternate universe - where she could discover fascinating things about her inner world - or where she could hide from the real world.
Kelly Proudfoot
#80. Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.
Thomas Harris
#81. Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.
Laura Furman
#82. It must be because I've got a permanent job for the first time in my life,he thought. That's why I can't help hearing all sorts of things.
Tarjei Vesaas
#83. All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.
Terence McKenna
#84. Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know?
It's almost like a hallucination
Iggy Pop
#85. A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.
Will Rogers
#86. The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.
Alan Watts
#87. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
Alan Watts
#88. There is a curious law of art ... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.
Northrop Frye
#89. Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#90. Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn't feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It's strange, the way the mind can change perception.
Brandon Sanderson
#91. Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly.
Richard P. Feynman
#93. Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.
Joni Mitchell
#94. Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.
Amit Goswami
#95. I woke up with a heart attack just out of my field of vision and with my dick in my hand, saying, I love you I love you I love you over and over ... And that my dear sweet love of my life, is how things were without you and I'd done everything I could to keep you from knowing that
Craig Clevenger
#96. The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry.
Ernest Cline
#97. Having a vision for what you want is not enough ... Vision without execution is hallucination
Thomas A. Edison
#98. Well that's the nicest thing a beer induced hallucination has ever said to me.
Rocko
#99. I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.
Craig Ferguson
#100. Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
Frederick Lenz
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