Hallucinations was just not up to snuff for Oliver Sacks— actually, it made me question just how much I would like Sacks' work were I to read it today, having been exposed to a breadth of narrative science writing in the years since I first read his essays. Sacks presents hallucinations (forms of ...
bookshelves: summer-2014, history, nonfiction, published-2012, sciences, psychology Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brain Pickings Read from July 13 to 23, 2014 Read more of this article from Brain Pickings "While our delusions may keep us sane, hallucinations — defined as perceptions that arise ind...
"An hallucination is a strictly sensational form of consciousness, as good and true a sensation as if there were a real object there. The object happens to be not there, that is all." - Wiliam James People hallucinate for a lot of different reasons, and neurologist Oliver Sacks explores a number ...
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