{"quotes":[{"text":"Note for a moment do I take you for a truth that is real,' Ivan exclaimed in what even amounted to fury. 'You are a falsehood, you are my illness, you are a ghost. Only I do not know how to destroy you, and perceive that for a certain time I must suffer you. You are a hallucination I am having. You are the embodiment of myself, but only of one side of me ... Of my thoughts and emotions, though only those that are most loathsome and stupid. In that regard you might even be of interest to me, if only I had time to throw away on you ...","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["a-karamazov","delirium","dream","hallucination"],"id":31996,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his own creation He began to dictate notes for a new novel, 'fragments of the book he imagines himself to be writing.' As if he were now writing a novel of which his own altered consciousness was the dramatic center, he dictated a vision of himself as Napoleon and his own family as the Imperial Bonapartes....William and Alice he grasped with his regent hand, addressing his 'dear and most esteemed brother and sister.' To them, to whom he had granted countries, he now gave the responsibility of supervising the detailed plans he had created for 'the decoration of certain apartments, here of the Louvre and Tuileries, which you will find addressed in detail to artists and workment who take them in hand.' He was himself the 'imperial e.","author":"Fred Kaplan","tags":["art","creativity","death","delirium","hallucination","imagination","language","novel-writing","novelists","sentence-structure","syntax","writing"],"id":51070,"author_id":"Fred+Kaplan"},{"text":"A night in space can last a long time … or maybe it never ends.","author":"Henry V. O'Neil","tags":["adventure","hallucination","military-science-fiction","science-fiction"],"id":74468,"author_id":"Henry+V.+O%27Neil"},{"text":"Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["delusion","fantasy-romance","hallucination","illusion","reality","sanity"],"id":75041,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"From a medical standpoint, the third and the most probable explanation is that Jesus was indeed dead, and what his disciples experienced were mere hallucinations evoked by the grief over the loss of their beloved teacher. It is clinically known as “Post-Bereavement Hallucinations Experiences” or PBHE.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["belief","bereavement","brainy","christ","christianity","church","consciousness","grieving","hallucination","jesus","jesus-christ","jesus-myth","medical-profession","medical-research","mind","myth","mythology","perception-of-reality","reality","religious-beliefs","resurrection","resurrection-of-christ","resurrection-of-jesus","science-of-mind","truth","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":85953,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["deception","delusion","devil-as-an-angel-of-light","eyes-can-fool","hallucination","incorrect-reasoning","judging","misapprehension","misconceptions","mistake","misunderstanding","people-s-perceptions"],"id":98104,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way:What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they all disagreed with what they saw, even people who largely agreed with each other? Even with this best possible analogy to subjective religious experiences we would still have a reason to think the lack of oxygen caused them all to hallucinate.","author":"John W. Loftus","tags":["anecdotal-evidence","atheism","hallucination","occam-s-razor","reason","religious-experience","subjective-experience","subjective-religious-experience"],"id":133695,"author_id":"John+W.+Loftus"},{"text":"A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["hallucination","imagination","plants"],"id":174474,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened up to reveal two brawlers being separated and pulled away from their fight. What I saw next gave me a fright: in the farther distance, beyond the listless crowd, the body of a lynched man dangling from a tree. The body was slender, dressed from head to toe in black, reflecting no light. It soon resolved itself, however, into a less ominous thing: dark canvas sheeting on a construction scaffold, twirling in the wind.","author":"Teju Cole","tags":["hallucination","history","lynching","new-york-city"],"id":196890,"author_id":"Teju+Cole"},{"text":"Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["arrogance","braggart","foolhardy","hallucination","holier-than-thou","illusion","misplaced-pride","paradoxical-judgement","pride"],"id":208444,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}