hallucination
101scenic hallucination — Also known as panoramic hallucination. The term scenic hallucination is indebted to the Greek noun sk en e, which means stage, scene, spectacle. It is unknown by whom the term was introduced. It appears in a 1930 paper on the psy chotropic… …
102verbal auditory hallucination — (VAH) Also known as auditory verbal hallucination, voice hallucination, phoneme, hallucinated speech, and voices . All five terms are used to denote a subclass of the group of *auditory hallucinations, the content of which is verbal in nature …
103autoscopic hallucination — Also referred to as external autoscopic hallucination, specular hallucination, mirror hallucination, deuteroscopic hallucination, and visual phantom double. The expression autoscopic hallucination can be traced to the Greek words autos (self)… …
104brobdingnagian hallucination — Also known in the literature in the (misspelled) variants brobdignagian hallucination and brodnigagian hallucination. The term brobdingna gian hallucination is indebted to Brobdingnag,the name of a fictitious country inhabited by huge people,… …
105formed hallucination — Also known as formed visual hallucination, formed vision, organized hallucination, and morphopsia. All five terms are used to denote a visual hallucination depicting a distinctive shape, pattern, object, or scene. Thus the category of formed… …
106geometric hallucination — Also known as geometrical hallucination, geometric visual hallucination, and optogeometric illusion. All four terms can be traced to the Greek noun geometria, which means land surveying. They are used to denote a * formed visual hallucination… …
107psychogenic hallucination — The term psychogenic hallucination is indebted to the medical Latin term * psychosis, which in turn comes from the Greek noun psuchosis (the giving of life, the process of animating). It translates loosely as a hallucination created by the… …
108quasi-hallucination — A term that tends to be used quite loosely to denote a percept that is reminiscent of a * hallucination proper, but lacks one or more of the latter s formal characteristics. The term quasi hallucination is often used interchangeably with terms …
109sensorial hallucination — Also known as psychic hallucination. The term sensorial hallucination is indebted to the Latin noun sensorium, which means seat of the senses, or brain. It was used in 1846 by the French dream researcher Maurice Macario to denote a… …
110somaesthetic hallucination — Also written as somesthetic hallucination. Both terms are indebted to the Greek words soma (body), and aisthanesthai (to notice, to perceive). They are used to denote a hallucination which is experienced in any or several of the somatosensory… …
