Hallucinations /
This book is an investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness. Have you ever seen something that was not really there? Heard someone call...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Silent multitudes: Charles Bonnet Syndrome
- The prisoner's cinema: sensory deprivation
- A few nanograms of wine: hallucinatory smells
- Hearing things
- The illusions of Parkinsonism
- Altered states
- Patterns: visual migraines
- The "sacred" disease
- Bisected: hallucinations in the half-field
- Delirious
- On the threshold of sleep
- Narcolepsy and night hags
- The haunted mind
- Doppelgangers: hallucinating oneself
- Phantoms, shadows, and sensory ghosts.