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    Hallucinations In this outline, I will be researching different kind of hallucinations and how they can sometimes lead to other disorders or problems in seemingly normal human minds. 1.) I am going to be researching hallucinations through several sources including: On the distinction between involuntary musical imagery, musical hallucinosis, and musical hallucination 2.) Are hallucinations related to betrayal trauma exposure? A three-study exploration. 3.) Complex Hallucinations and Panic Attacks

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    that occur when we are in sleep. But during hallucinations, we are perfectly awake. It is a kind of illusion that has been created which forces the brain to believe something even if it hasn’t happened at all. Hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile etc. People who are suffering from Hallucination see,smell,perceive,hear,feel some things which don’t even exist. This paper is focussed on Auditory Hallucinations. History : Before people started gaining interest

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    I find myself lying in bed, drifting ever so closely to sleep. My body slowly numbs into a more rested state. Abruptly, I am awakened by an incredible force that is pinning my entire body down at once. It is overwhelmingly strong. My limbs wildly try to fight back only to find themselves powerless to this unseen...something...what it is I am unsure. I am physically unable to move a muscle. I try to scream. The noise won't come. I try to scream louder. Still nothing. The more I try to push it off

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    The clinical definition of a hallucination is; a perception of something (as a visual image or sound) with no external cause usually arising from a disorder of the nervous system (as in delirium tremens or in functional psychosis without known neurological disease) or in response to drugs (dictionary, merriam). A hallucination may be a sensory experience in which a person can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel something that is not there. Hallucinations can be triggered by many different factors;

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    Auditory hallucination is still regarded as a definitive symptom of psychosis. As schizophrenic sound is sourceless and the patient is not able to pinpoint where the source emanate from, within or without. For Foucault schizophrenic voices function in an impossible space, signifying the way in which the subject’s spatiotemporal world is restructured in deep mental illness (Erb 55). Foucault observed “[Schizophrenics] hear voices in mythical space . . . in which, axes of reference are fluid and

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    The Causes and Impacts of Hallucinations After undergoing a hallucination, the experience can change the rest of a person’s life. Many different things including stress, drugs, obsession, lack of sleep, a rough childhood, devotion to God, etc. can cause hallucinations. Throughout history, many people have experienced hallucinations in reality and literature. Hallucinations can affect someone positively or negatively. During the Romantic era, many poets used opium believing that it produced creativity

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    our support the most. I never imagined how much hallucinations can make difference in person’s life. The main thing I learned is that communication technique plays an important role while dealing with hallucinating patient. I always used to think that it will be very hard to control and have conversation with hallucinating client. However, this video has taught me how to communicate in calm and effective manners. The four stages of hallucinations are: Comforting stage, condemning stage, controlling

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    My main hallucinations were looking at something disappear, watch something move and the most common and the hardest to explain; any blank surface I looked at a clear type orb would come out of it, it was constantly twirling in and out of itself, moving closer and closer

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    Informative Speech Outline Topic : Hallucinations General Purpose : To inform Specific Purpose : To inform my audience about the types , causes and the treatment of hallucinations. Thesis : Everyone should know the information of hallucinations because the true facts about hallucinations like the type, causes and treatment of hallucination is important in human’s daily life. I.Introduction A. Attention Getter What are you thinking when someone that

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    The influence of Dreams, Visions and Hallucinations in Macbeth and other Literary Texts “The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.” ---- Edgar Allan Poe Uncanny encounters with visions and hallucinations blur the presumed constraints of time and space. The ‘phantasms’ or sensory impressions

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