Hallucinations /
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Hallucinations / Oliver Sacks. - xiv, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-307) and index.
Silent multitudes : Charles Bonnet syndrome -- The prisoners cinema : sensory deprivation -- A few nanograms of wine : hallucinatory smells -- Hearing things -- The illusions of Parkinsonism -- Altered states -- Patterns : visual migraine -- The sacred disease : epileptic auras -- 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.
Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication - even, for many people, by falling sleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swirls and blind spots and zigzags of a visual migraine, hallucination takes many forms. At a higher level, hallucinations associated with the altered states of consciousness that may come with sensory deprivation or certain brain disorders can lead to religious epiphanies or conversions. Drawing on a wealth of clinical examples from his own patients as well as historical and literary descriptions, Oliver Sacks investigates the fundamental differences and similarities of these many sorts of hallucinations, what they say about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.
9781447208259 1447208250 9781447224518 1447224515 9781447208266 1447208269
2012002877 (WlAbNL)991096743402419
GBB270687 bnb GBB315694 bnb
101576742 DNLM 016280521 Uk 016127112 Uk
Hallucinations and illusions.
Hallucinations and illusions--Social aspects.
Cognition disorders.
Perceptual disorders.
RC553.H3 / S33 2012
616.89
WM 204
Hallucinations / Oliver Sacks. - xiv, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-307) and index.
Silent multitudes : Charles Bonnet syndrome -- The prisoners cinema : sensory deprivation -- A few nanograms of wine : hallucinatory smells -- Hearing things -- The illusions of Parkinsonism -- Altered states -- Patterns : visual migraine -- The sacred disease : epileptic auras -- 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.
Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication - even, for many people, by falling sleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swirls and blind spots and zigzags of a visual migraine, hallucination takes many forms. At a higher level, hallucinations associated with the altered states of consciousness that may come with sensory deprivation or certain brain disorders can lead to religious epiphanies or conversions. Drawing on a wealth of clinical examples from his own patients as well as historical and literary descriptions, Oliver Sacks investigates the fundamental differences and similarities of these many sorts of hallucinations, what they say about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.
9781447208259 1447208250 9781447224518 1447224515 9781447208266 1447208269
2012002877 (WlAbNL)991096743402419
GBB270687 bnb GBB315694 bnb
101576742 DNLM 016280521 Uk 016127112 Uk
Hallucinations and illusions.
Hallucinations and illusions--Social aspects.
Cognition disorders.
Perceptual disorders.
RC553.H3 / S33 2012
616.89
WM 204