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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF AND ALFRED A. KNOPF CANADA Copyright © 2012 by Oliver Sacks, M.D. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. www.aaknopf.com www.randomhouse.ca Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Knopf Canada and colophon are trademarks. Owing to limits of space, permissions acknowledgments may be found following. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sacks, Oliver W. Hallucinations / Oliver Sacks. — 1st American ed. p.; cm. Includes bibliographical references. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Hallucinations. 2. Perceptual Disorders. WM 204] 616.89–dc23 2012002877 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Sacks, Oliver W. Hallucinations / Oliver Sacks. eISBN: 978-0-307-95725-2 1. Hallucinations and illusions. 2. Perceptual disorders. I. Title. RC553.H3S23 2012 616.89 C2012-902091-5 www.oliversacks.com Cover design by Hailey Wojcik v3.1
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Page 6 and 7: Introduction W hen the word “hall
Page 8 and 9: I will say very little in this book
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Page 12 and 13: circle in each corner.… The handk
Page 14 and 15: While most people with CBS are awar
Page 16 and 17: strange visual phenomena had starte
Page 18 and 19: W hile the hallucinations of CBS ar
Page 20 and 21: colleagues shows that the brain doe
Page 22 and 23: normal. But if there is an ongoing
Page 24 and 25: was not until she was eighty-three
Page 26 and 27: me when my eyes are shut. I “see
Page 28 and 29: 11 subjects, and isolated gures or
Page 30 and 31: even attempting to learn Braille. (
Page 32 and 33: no memory of what transpired inside
Page 34 and 35: gas, smoke, or rancid food; they ma
Page 36 and 37: me that she would occasionally have
Page 38 and 39: 4 Hearing Things I n 1973 the journ
Page 40 and 41: “Hallucinations in the sane” we
Page 42 and 43: admonishing myself (“You fool! Wh
Page 44 and 45: phenomena. W hile voices carry mean
Page 46 and 47: many visual hallucinations.) Often
Page 48 and 49: auditory deprivation or deafness. I
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appeared if he had real visitors or
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Parkinson’s, she started to have
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When I saw her in 2011, I asked her
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hallucinations as well. But even in
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of such intoxicants becomes institu
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divine beauty and signicance. He co
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experiences are ever the same for t
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parkinsonism. For about a century,
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noise of its engine had abruptly cu
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Capgras syndrome.) Augusta said tha
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worked; by describing what was goin
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disingenuous clutter of names spoke
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7 Patterns: Visual Migraines I have
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Wonderland’s strange alterations
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mysterious.… There is a peculiar
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8 The “Sacred” Disease E pileps
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“complicated migraine.” When sh
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B oth Jen and Valerie were initiall
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exactly how long this part of the a
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She often experiences déjà vu but
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also saw a much more radical, surgi
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created in the person of Dostoevsky
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disposition to religion or metaphys
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When asked if there was anything wr
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E llen O. was a young woman who cam
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took this as just another visual mi
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Aunt Dot was not a nurse, like her
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oom by providing a uent and condent
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10 Delirious A s a medical student
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I would “see” a smooth surface,
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I was about eleven, in bed with a h
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when I got over the fever and retur
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even though the person is not schiz
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11 On the Threshold of Sleep I n 19
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of near-sleep hallucinations, makin
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or even sentences. One of Mavromati
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occur frequently in some, as is the
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dreams, and can easily dismiss thes
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her magisterial The World of the Im
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same hallucinations as I did!” Wh
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M any people with narcolepsy have a
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which can go with extreme excitemen
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This presents a cognitive problem a
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any way, the nighttime Baltimore li
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camps. Similarly, the smell of burn
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A deeply superstitious and delusion
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your mind’s eye the story told by
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part of my childhood. And yet “im
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from much earlier in life. Such pat
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My friend Sarah B. had an OBE in th
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people prone to sleep paralysis). A
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disappeared when she closed her eye
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T he theme of the double, the doppe
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every movement. This unknown man ne
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Mitchell devoted the nal chapter of
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almost as well as the original leg.
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it could be unlearned. Could one, b
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physiological changes in the brain
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appeared, the alien feeling in the
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was able to “move” her phantom
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Bibliography Abell, Truman. 1845. R
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hallucinations. Journal of Consciou
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ffytche, D. H., R. J. Howard, M. J.
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Kraepelin, Emil. 1904. Lectures on
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Otten, Erna. 1992. Phantom limbs [l
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Taylor, David C., and Susan M. Mars
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The New York Times: Excerpts from
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