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• What he claims to have seen is probably discountable as a hallucination.From the entry discountable
• Seeing somebody standing behind you is a visual extracampine hallucination experience.From the entry extracampine
• AI hallucination and AI drift are two key challenges of large language models (LLMs).2025 May, Hamidreza Namazi, Mohammad Mahdi Radfar, “Philosophy of medicine meets AI hallucination and AI drift: moving toward a more…. From the entry AI drift
• The hallucinations in question are exaggerated forms of 'brainworms' – music stuck in the head.2016, Lawrence Kramer, “Caliban's Ear: A Short History of Ambient Music”, in Anahid Kassabian, Elena Boschi, Marta García Quiñones…. From the entry brainworm
• Since nightfall he's bracing himself for the hallucinations he knows are soon to come.2011, Nicole Pickens, Fictitious Tales for the Children of God, page 40. From the entry ghost bullet
• Oneiroid state is described as narrowing of consciousness together with multiple scenic hallucinations.a. 2005, Krishan Vij, Textbook of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, page 406. From the entry oneiroid
• Sound effects are often enlisted to externalize a characters' inner thoughts, nightmares, hallucinations, dreams, or wishes.2005, Jennifer Van Sijll, “Sound Effects”, in Cinematic Storytelling, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry metadiegetic
• There is a neurological condition, Charles Bonnet Syndrome, causing Thurberesque hallucinations.2002, Delene Bost, The Possession of Mr. Rouse, page 111. From the entry Thurberesque
• These thoughts appear like a mirage, a hallucination, a symptom of the schizophrenia of expeditioning.1998, Greg Child, Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas, page 185. From the entry expedition
• Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is characterized by visual hallucinations and bizarre perceptual distortions.1998 August, Yung-Ting Kuo, Nan-Chang Chiu, Ein-Yiao Shen, Che-Sheng Ho, Ming-CheWu, “Cerebral perfusion in children with Alice in…. From the entry Alice in Wonderland syndrome
• His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 28. From the entry autoscopic
• They variously produce hallucinations, depression, apathy, or senseless elation, lasting from 12 to 24 hours.1963, Quarterly Review of Military Literature (volume 43, issue 6, page 47). From the entry psychogas
• Bufotenin is capable of producing server hallucinations of a psycho-erotic nature.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 51. From the entry bufotenin
• I felt light-headed; grotesque hallucinations materialised before me with startling vividness.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 118. From the entry vividness
• He found a group of patients showing no hallucinations, but being depressed, grandiose, maniacal, or fabricatory.1919, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics. From the entry fabricatory
• Unpicturable beings are realized, and realized with an intensity almost like that of an hallucination.1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London…. From the entry ontological
• Though not particularly good in combat, doxies can turn invisible, kill with a kiss, and cause hallucinations if touched.2023 December 12, Claire Wilkins, Courting the Prince of Moonlit Shadows, eGlobal Creative Publishing Inc., →ISBN. From the entry doxy
• Twitter has been flooded with examples of "jailbreaking" ChatGPT — that is, tricking it into hallucinations or misalignment.2022 December 16, Farhad Manjoo, “ChatGPT Has a Devastating Sense of Humor”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry jailbreak
• Viewed from this perspective, the behaviour of the digital giants looks rather different from the roseate hallucinations of Wired magazine.2019 January 20, John Naughton, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian. From the entry roseate
• Patients with IPD also present a variety of nonmotor symptoms such as sleep disorders, hyposmia, depression, constipation, hallucinations and dementia.2015 July 16, “Sleep Disorders in Parkinsonian and Nonparkinsonian LRRK2 Mutation Carriers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry nonmotor
• This is what we mean by wish-fulfilling hallucination.2011, Dermot Gilvary, Darren J. N. Middleton, Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene. From the entry wish-fulfilling
• Behavioral features include apathy, reclusivity, anhedonia, depression, delusions, and hallucinations.2010, Michael B. First, Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders. From the entry reclusivity
• This is an acute psychiatric disorder that causes confusion, hallucinations, agitation, and the feeling that death is inevitably coming soon.2007, Serita Stevens, Anne Bannon, HowDunit — The Book of Poisons, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry nutmeg psychosis
• The postmodern Xanadus that support this hallucination in the desert offer a particularly attractive paradise of the popular.2003, Jim Bell, Stephen Brown, David Carson, Marketing Apocalypse: Eschatology, Escapology and the Illusion of the End.. From the entry Xanadu
• Like a twisted Alice sucked down the rabbit hole, Sandy describes her imprisonment as a series of fairy-tale-like hallucinations.1997 November 30, Catherine Texier, “Kind of Surreal All Over”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry fairy-tale-like
• In addition, phantosmias or, in essence, olfactory hallucinations have been described in association with seizure activity, psychiatric illness, and Alzheimer's Disease.1997, Allen M. Seiden, Taste and Smell Disorders, page 5. From the entry phantosmia
• Direct evidence on psychotic behavior is the presence of either delusions or hallucinations (without insight into their pathological nature).1995, José A. Valciukas, Forensic Neuropsychology, page 277. From the entry psychotic
• Such hypnagogic hallucinations are images that are hypervivid.1989, Anthony Burry, Henry Kellerman, Psychopathology and Differential Diagnosis: A Primer, Columbia University Press, page 295. From the entry hypervivid
• He reconsidered his belief that there was no delirium, wondering if the feeling were not itself a form of hallucination.1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling. From the entry buoyant
• Briefly, the characteristic symptoms that appear in peyotl intoxication are visual hallucinations and delusions, associated with "horror chambers".1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 155. From the entry horror chamber
• For his part, the realm of hallucination was boundless.1905, Hamlin Garland, The Tyranny of the Dark, Harper & Brothers, page 358. From the entry overhasty
• Hallucinations of the insane involve loss of insight while in 'visions' insight is maintained while the sensory phenomena remain just as vivid and 'truthsome'.2000, Andrew Hodgkiss, From Lesion to Metaphor. From the entry truthsome
• One of her most persistent hallucinations was a small brightly patterned snake moving across the floor in the periphery of her vision.1986, Rod Jones, Julia Paradise. From the entry zoopsia
• There may be dizziness, clumsiness and ataxia; dysarthria, nystagmus, mental disturbances, nervousness, tremor, lallation, confusion, peculiar behavior, weakness of judgment, emotional instability and hallucinations.1962, Ashton L. Welsh, Side Effects of Anti-Obesity Drugs, Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, Part 3, p. 173. From the entry lallation
• Ocular auræ may consist of double vision, sudden blindness, flashes of light, vivid “stars,” or actual hallucinations of sight—faces, figures, or scenes.1922, Arthur Albert Stevens, The Practice of Medicine, W. B. Saunders Company, page 1027. From the entry auræ
• That the Beatles had not yet found out remained a hallucination with Brian, despite grins exchanged behind his back, and despite John Lennon's occasional brutal puncturings of the masquerade.2011, Philip Norman, Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation. From the entry puncturing

Meaning of hallucination

1. noun A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.
2. noun The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
3. noun A confident but incorrect response given by an artificial intelligence; a confabulation.

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How do you use hallucination in a sentence?

Hallucination is used as a noun. For example: “What he claims to have seen is probably discountable as a hallucination.”

What is a short sentence with hallucination?

“A.I. researchers call this generation of untruths “hallucination.””

What does hallucination mean?

Hallucination means a sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.