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- noun Plural form of
hallucination .
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So in hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, even though we've shown that there are subtle abnormalities of the hearing brain but not deafness as such, the evidence is that those base line abnormalities actually give rise to spontaneous eruptions within the dysfunctional hearing brain that then gives rise to this experience of hearing voices.
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Shamans were people who could see visions and go on journeys that we now label hallucinations and schizophrenia.
Dogwood Tales neil h 2005
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And you have to understand, in -- in Latin, the word hallucinations means wanderings.
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The effects of starvation and torture frequently resulted in hallucinations and extreme disorientation.
Tadios, Leonard M. 1990
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The effects of starvation and torture frequently resulted in hallucinations and extreme disorientation.
Walker, Orien J. Jr. 1990
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The effects of starvation and torture frequently resulted in hallucinations and extreme disorientation.
Calloway, Porter E. 1990
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The effects of starvation and torture frequently resulted in hallucinations and extreme disorientation.
Parks, Joe 1990
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The effects of starvation and torture frequently resulted in hallucinations and extreme disorientation.
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The effects of starvation and torture frequently resulted in hallucinations and extreme disorientation.
Davis, Thomas J. 1990
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The effects of starvation and torture frequently resulted in hallucinations and extreme disorientation.
Kushner, Floyd H. 1977
Telofy commented on the word hallucinations
Wow, what is this accent? Is that common in London?
January 23, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word hallucinations
It doesn't sound that odd...in fact, it's nicely refined.
January 23, 2010
Telofy commented on the word hallucinations
Among other things the Rs sound fudded (or bilabialized) to me, his realization of /ə/ at the end of words like “here” goes into the direction of ɐ and /æ/ seems a bit closer than I’d expect.
January 24, 2010
dontcry commented on the word hallucinations
He mentions at the end of the video that he, in addition to being nearly blind, has tinnitus. Maybe that explains his slight trouble with the letter "R"...
I thoroughly enjoyed the video, by the way. My grandmother experienced those hallucinations at the end of her life. She went blind from macular degeneration.
January 24, 2010
tankhughes commented on the word hallucinations
Including this as a potential word of the year in regards to creations by AI - particularly visual output by MidJourney. It's not realistic enough to be a deepfake, it's dreamlike, it's a hallucination. Also can apply to fake reference lists - hallucinated citations.
https://lookalikes.substack.com/p/today-i-asked-chatgpt-about-the-topic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)
May 26, 2023