Hallucinations, by Oliver Sacks

[rachelmanija]

A book on hallucinations which are not caused by schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. (It also doesn’t deal much with culturally normal hallucinations, which is too bad.) Hallucinations - sensory perceptions which occur during waking and are not based on consensus reality - are surprisingly common, and include many experiences which

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[lady_ganesh]

I had 'proper' hallucinations exactly once, when I was having a (very) bad reaction to medication. Interestingly, the hallucinations, rather than the extreme hyperactivity, were what sent my parents in a panic back to the doctor.

I've had auras for years; they used to come with more detailed hallucinations and now they just look kind of like an oil slick in my field of vision. I'm not sure if my young imagination/memory made the hallucinations more detailed or they were really like that.