Summary: | "This book originated in an examination, upon which I was recently engaged, of the "International Census of Waking Hallucinations in the Sane." While comparing for this purpose all the works accessible to me on hallucination and fallacious perception in general, I was struck by the fact that the writers, and especially the more modern writers, treat for the most part only of single aspects of the subject, such as fallacies of perception occurring under morbid conditions, or in dreams, throwing at most but a casual glance at related phenomena. The waking hallucinations of healthy persons are more or less completely ignored by them; and this neglect is natural enough, if we consider how meagre are all the accounts of such phenomena hitherto published"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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