单词 | hallucination |
释义 | hallucination (once / 2156 pages) n If you see your teacher morph into a dancing elephant, chances are you’re having a hallucination, or an illusory perception. In other words, it sounds like you are seeing things! A person experiencing a hallucination perceives things that aren’t really there. A hallucination can involve any of the senses — including sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste — and often results from a mental disorder or a chemical source, such as a drug. WORD FAMILYhallucination: hallucinations+/hallucinate: hallucinated, hallucinates, hallucinating, hallucination, hallucinatory/hallucinatory: hallucinatorily USAGE EXAMPLESSome speculate that it represents temporal-lobe epilepsy, others schizophrenia; auditory hallucinations are common in both conditions. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Once symptoms occur—first depression and hallucinations, and eventually dementia and loss of motor control—patients survive about a year. Science Magazine(Dec 21, 2016) Users often experience rapid heartbeat, high blood pressure, anxiety and hallucinations, he said. Seattle Times(Dec 17, 2016) 1n illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder Hypo|Hyper acousma, auditory hallucination illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds pseudohallucinationan image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal visual hallucinationillusory visual perception chromatismhallucinatory perception of colored lights pink elephantsany visual hallucination arising from heavy drinking zoopsiavisual hallucination of animals; sometimes occurring in delirium tremens delusion, psychotic belief (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary 2n an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination Hyper object the focus of cognitions or feelings 3n a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination Syn|Hypo|Hyper delusion disorientation, freak out a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug) misconception an incorrect conception |
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