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Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction 1. Silent Multitudes: Charles Bonnet Syndrome 2. The Prisoner’s Cinema: Sensory Deprivation 3. A Few Nanograms of Wine: Hallucinatory Smells 4. Hearing Things 5. The Illusions of Parkinsonism 6. Altered States 7. Patterns: Visual Migraines 8. The “Sacred” Disease 9. Bisected: Hallucinations in the Half-Field 10. Delirious 11. On the Threshold of Sleep 12. Narcolepsy and Night Hags 13. The Haunted Mind 14. Doppelgängers: Hallucinating Oneself 15. Phantoms, Shadows, and Sensory Ghosts Acknowledgments Bibliography Permissions Acknowledgments A Note About the Author Other Books by This Author
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pattern of damage in parts of the b
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of persecution, and occasionally th
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6 Altered States H umans share much
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By the 1890s, Westerners were also
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sky spangled with eyes of ame, diss
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of stereo vision—or even stereo h
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So one Sunday morning, I counted ou
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was utterly transported. I had take
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But it was not. It was getting ligh
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excitements even further that I tur
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named Anhalonium lewinii in his hon
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scintillating scotoma itself, which
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years this was the unvarying aura,
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for services, I was more interested
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But Hughlings Jackson (sometimes ca
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Then she lost consciousness. She ca
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after the actual attack. Laura has
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The patient was an intelligent man,
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might then go on to experience “a
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uriously, though Peneld described s
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hallucinations of psychosis, even t
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3. David Ferrier, a contemporary of
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9 Bisected: Hallucinations in the H
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they come? Surely it was not normal
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W hile Marlene experienced protract
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colour was wrong.” He always real
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two people with temporal lobe epile
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left could not cope with a normal d
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fever. His letter to Darwin proposi
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The innkeeper had some delusions, t
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emarkable sight, a “pageant of li
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I replied that I would not dream of
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these hallucinations that some of h
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In Speak, Memory, Nabokov provided
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suggested. Neuroscientists now tend
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hypnopompic images: The most typica
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colleagues (Gurney et al.) publishe
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12 Narcolepsy and Night Hags S omet
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hallucinated or perhaps dreamt it,
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were woken during REM sleep, they w
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13 The Haunted Mind I n Charles Bon
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grandfather walked in and I was so
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delusional states that can go with
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away in a separate, subterranean ch
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hallucinatory, almost delusional wo
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Sarah had many such experiences; so
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sometimes the first and last halluc
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14 Doppelgängers: Hallucinating On
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into gloves with sensors that would
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a man leaning casually against the
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over and beating him. His only inte
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position and movement of one’s li
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15 Phantoms, Shadows, and Sensory G
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hantom limbs are hallucinations ins
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“amputated” from the neck down
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on the surface of a virtual table).
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surroundings, hyperalert. It is wel
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eligious sphere … [and] my friend
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Acknowledgments I am most grateful,
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2006. Induction of an illusory shad
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Devinsky, Orrin, and George Lai. 20
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childhood sexual abuse. Australian
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McKellar, Peter, and Lorna Simpson.
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and Motor Skills 70: 1227-32. Schne
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Permissions Acknowledgments Gratefu
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A Note About the Author Oliver Sack
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