by Oliver Sacks
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...
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"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 ...
Enjoyable, as Sacks always is, but more episodic than some, with modular chapters that don't really build on each other. Sacks here identifies and characterizes a variety of processes, ailments, damage, and poisons that can lead to different forms of hallucination (with a delusion or two thrown in f...
UPDATE - 10-Feb-13: There's an essay in the Feb. 21, 2013 issue of the NYRB by Sacks. The telling paragraph is this:There is...no mechanism in the mind or the brain for ensuring the truth...of our recollections. We have no direct access to historical truth, and what we feel or assert to be true...de...
As someone who used to suffer from panic attacks that included hallucinations, I'm very interested in reading this. I'll be happy when someone accurately depicts clinical depression in fiction, but I'm not holding my breath.
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