Hallucinate
verb
To see or hear things that are not really there.
After taking the drug, he started to hallucinate visions of strange creatures
Often appears as...
- start to hallucinate
- hallucinate visions
verb
To think or believe something that is not true.
She was hallucinating that she was a famous movie star
Often appears as...
- hallucinate that
- hallucinate about
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Disapproving
Academic
verb
To see or hear things that are not really there.
After taking the drug, he started to hallucinate visions of strange creatures
Often appears as...
- start to hallucinate
- hallucinate visions
verb
To think or believe something that is not true.
She was hallucinating that she was a famous movie star
Often appears as...
- hallucinate that
- hallucinate about
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Hallucinate Psychologically
Often related to drug use or mental health conditions, indicating altered perception.
Patients with schizophrenia may hallucinate voices speaking to them.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Experience
Hallucination involves senses like sight and hearing, but not touch or taste.
If you hallucinate smells, it's likely something only you can sense.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Phenomenon
Hallucination is usually a short-term experience, not a long-lasting condition.
The desert heat caused travelers to hallucinate an oasis.
Pro Tip 1/3Hallucinate Psychologically
Often related to drug use or mental health conditions, indicating altered perception.
Patients with schizophrenia may hallucinate voices speaking to them.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Experience
Hallucination involves senses like sight and hearing, but not touch or taste.
If you hallucinate smells, it's likely something only you can sense.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Phenomenon
Hallucination is usually a short-term experience, not a long-lasting condition.
The desert heat caused travelers to hallucinate an oasis.
Pro Tip 1/3Hallucinate Psychologically
Often related to drug use or mental health conditions, indicating altered perception.
Patients with schizophrenia may hallucinate voices speaking to them.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Experience
Hallucination involves senses like sight and hearing, but not touch or taste.
If you hallucinate smells, it's likely something only you can sense.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Phenomenon
Hallucination is usually a short-term experience, not a long-lasting condition.
The desert heat caused travelers to hallucinate an oasis.
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Can a divided America...
or each moral community is a matrix, a consensual hallucination. And so if you're within the blue matrix, everything's completely compelling that the other side -- they're troglodytes, they're racists, they're the worst people in the world, and you have all the facts to back that up. But somebody in the next house from yours is living in a different moral matrix.
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Your brain hallucinates...
Now, think about this for a minute. If hallucination is a kind of uncontrolled perception, then perception right here and right now is also a kind of hallucination, but a controlled hallucination in which the brain's predictions are being reined in by sensory information from the world.
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How much of what you see...
but because she knew this entourage was an extremely detailed hallucination. Her cognitive function was excellent, and she had not taken any medications that might cause hallucinations. Strangest of all, had a real-life crowd of circus performers burst into her room,
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Lesley Hazleton: The...
At best, he thought, it had to have been a hallucination -- a trick of the eye or the ear, perhaps, or his own mind working against him. At worst, possession -- that he'd been seized by an evil jinn, a spirit out to deceive him, even to crush the life out of him.
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Art in the age of...
that is assisted by artificial intelligence. Using architectural spaces as canvases, I collaborate with machines to make buildings dream and hallucinate. You may be wondering, what does all this mean? So let me please take you into my work and my world.
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How I held my breath for...
That one was way more difficult than I had expected. The one after that, I stood on top of a hundred-foot pillar for 36 hours. I began to hallucinate so hard that the buildings that were behind me started to look like big animal heads.
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What hallucination...
various things he was seeing. The first thing he said was he saw a handkerchief in midair. It was a large blue handkerchief with four orange circles. And he knew it was a hallucination. You don't have handkerchiefs in midair.
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Alan Kay: A powerful...
if they actually followed it to its ultimate conclusion. So if the world is not as it seems and we see things as we are, then what we call reality is a kind of hallucination happening inside here. It's a waking dream,
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Submarine Rescues...
From the life raft after more than three hours of fear and struggle, the 20-year-old pilot believes he has started to hallucinate as he sees what he describes as an apparition.
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Anil Seth: How your...
But in normal perception, the control is just as important as the hallucination. Our perceptual experiences are not arbitrary. The mind doesn't make up reality.
Video examples
Can a divided America...
or each moral community is a matrix, a consensual hallucination. And so if you're within the blue matrix, everything's completely compelling that the other side -- they're troglodytes, they're racists, they're the worst people in the world, and you have all the facts to back that up. But somebody in the next house from yours is living in a different moral matrix.
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
Now, think about this for a minute. If hallucination is a kind of uncontrolled perception, then perception right here and right now is also a kind of hallucination, but a controlled hallucination in which the brain's predictions are being reined in by sensory information from the world.
Video examples
How much of what you see...
but because she knew this entourage was an extremely detailed hallucination. Her cognitive function was excellent, and she had not taken any medications that might cause hallucinations. Strangest of all, had a real-life crowd of circus performers burst into her room,
Video examples
Lesley Hazleton: The...
At best, he thought, it had to have been a hallucination -- a trick of the eye or the ear, perhaps, or his own mind working against him. At worst, possession -- that he'd been seized by an evil jinn, a spirit out to deceive him, even to crush the life out of him.
Video examples
Art in the age of...
that is assisted by artificial intelligence. Using architectural spaces as canvases, I collaborate with machines to make buildings dream and hallucinate. You may be wondering, what does all this mean? So let me please take you into my work and my world.
Video examples
How I held my breath for...
That one was way more difficult than I had expected. The one after that, I stood on top of a hundred-foot pillar for 36 hours. I began to hallucinate so hard that the buildings that were behind me started to look like big animal heads.
Video examples
What hallucination...
various things he was seeing. The first thing he said was he saw a handkerchief in midair. It was a large blue handkerchief with four orange circles. And he knew it was a hallucination. You don't have handkerchiefs in midair.
Video examples
Alan Kay: A powerful...
if they actually followed it to its ultimate conclusion. So if the world is not as it seems and we see things as we are, then what we call reality is a kind of hallucination happening inside here. It's a waking dream,
Video examples
Submarine Rescues...
From the life raft after more than three hours of fear and struggle, the 20-year-old pilot believes he has started to hallucinate as he sees what he describes as an apparition.
Video examples
Anil Seth: How your...
But in normal perception, the control is just as important as the hallucination. Our perceptual experiences are not arbitrary. The mind doesn't make up reality.
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Quote examples
Olly Alexander
English Musician
I always had really, really bad nightmares, like night terrors or whatever they're called. I used to wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to move... I'd hallucinate and have really scary visions and dreams, so I wouldn't want to sleep.
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Oneohtrix Point Never
American Musician
I definitely strive towards something I think of as a hallucination of music. That's always been the OPN vibe. I think of it as mostly a felt thing, and a koan of feeling that is shared between me and OPN fans. We know what it is when it gets there.
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Floyd Skloot
American Poet
Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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Jonathan Zittrain
American Educator
The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.
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James Tate
American Poet
When you don't sleep, you start to hallucinate, and that's not good.
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Marc Maron
American Entertainer
I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.
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Mark V. Hurd
American Businessman
Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.
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Naval Ravikant
Businessman
Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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Scott Adams
American Cartoonist
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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Olly Alexander
English Musician
I always had really, really bad nightmares, like night terrors or whatever they're called. I used to wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to move... I'd hallucinate and have really scary visions and dreams, so I wouldn't want to sleep.
Quote examples
Oneohtrix Point Never
American Musician
I definitely strive towards something I think of as a hallucination of music. That's always been the OPN vibe. I think of it as mostly a felt thing, and a koan of feeling that is shared between me and OPN fans. We know what it is when it gets there.
Quote examples
Floyd Skloot
American Poet
Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
Quote examples
Jonathan Zittrain
American Educator
The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.
Quote examples
James Tate
American Poet
When you don't sleep, you start to hallucinate, and that's not good.
Quote examples
Marc Maron
American Entertainer
I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.
Quote examples
Mark V. Hurd
American Businessman
Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.
Quote examples
Naval Ravikant
Businessman
Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
Quote examples
Scott Adams
American Cartoonist
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
Quote examples
George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Example 1 of 10
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