52 Quotes About Hallucinations

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.

MISERABLERelease the toxic and infectious-Spreaders of misery,Souls destroying souls-And poisonous liars.Awaken from the hallucinations-And take back your heart.Reclaim your self-esteem-And leave the toxic be.

When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people feel illusive vibrating alerts and hear phantom phone rings, since absence of ringing generates scaring emptiness and destroys their self-esteem. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an" )

Listen, my dear, she said, this can't go on, you can't live in two worlds at once, in the world of reality and the world of dreams, that kind of thing leads to hallucinations, you're like a sleepwalker walking through a landscape with your arms outstretched, and everything you touch becomes part of your dream, even me, a fat old woman weighing one hundred seventy-five, I can feel myself dissolving into the air at the touch of your hand, as if I was becoming part of your dream too.

Hallucinations aren’t always out of the ordinary. How do we know we’re not hallucinating if everything seems plausible?

From uncoiled wings of the burning swanafter sea of blood was born out of green caterpillarthat skin sheared moon from cloud’s underbellyordered waves to abolish horoscopes on crabs’ breasts.On the evergreen epiglotis of lotus full to the brimthe pollen fiddling honey bee waved her double scarfsearched for drunk village of pride red beating crowdhumming songs sleeping side by side of worried distance ( From 'Selected Poems' 1961 - 2004

A clear distinction between normal visual imagination and actual hallucination: imagining a colored object did not activate V4 area while a colored hallucination did.

Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn't feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It's strange, the way the mind can change perception.

When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet whispered, the fireplace sighed, the little washing-stand ticked, and one guitar-string played occasionally in the chest of drawers.