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Seeing things

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Giancarlo Gori
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A hallucination is by definition seeing something that is not there. It is a perception without stimuli present to create it.  Is it, however, still a hallucination if you know it is not real? My first reaction is that now it is a daydream.  This makes me say, no wait, not right either. A daydream is something you create on your own, intentionally. The stimulus is your desire to ‘see’ something. And, you don’t really ‘see’ it. Just imagine it.

So, when you are seeing something, without the stimulus and not because you want too and you know it is not really there? What’s that called?

Vision brings to much spiritualism, religiosity with it. I wasn’t naked in a sweat lodge or hanging from metal hooks in my flesh. No hunger, no heat, no rhythm.

I’m just asking is all.

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  1. Becky Avatar
    Becky

    Hallucination. What did you hallucinate? Vision might be the right word if what you hallucinated had meaning to you, rather than just a random thing.

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  2. Amica H. Jean Avatar
    Amica H. Jean

    A daydream is a self-induced, seeing that which you want to see, when you want to see it and to the exclusion of all else, leaving you still in control.

    A hallucination is an externally-induced, seeing that which you weren’t sure you wanted to see at all, not even when you wanted to seeit and to the exclusion of all else, leaving you at the mercy of whatever is was that induced the hallucination.

    A vision is an externally-induced, seeing that which you weren’t sure you wanted to see at all, especially not when you expected to see it, sometimes to the exclusion of all else, leaving you at the mercy of your own belief in your mental health.

    I think what you are looking for is “a memory”.

    Glad to see you’re back. When will you talk about Africa? Most interested in whatever photos you may have taken of the wildlife (both bi-pedal and quadri-pedal).

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    1. Anthony Avatar
      Anthony

      By your definitions, this would have been a vision. Definitely not a memory.

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