hallucination
Seeing things unreally
A hallucination is a perception of something that isn't there—seeing, hearing, or feeling things that have no external source.
Hallucinations can result from mental illness, fever, drugs, or sensory deprivation: The patient reported auditory hallucinations.
In artificial intelligence, a hallucination is when a system generates false information presented as fact: The chatbot's hallucination cited a study that doesn't exist.
Severe reality detachment
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- deliriumAcute mental disorientation
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
dementia · schizoaffective · bipolar · manic · psychiatric · antipsychotic · neurological · disorder
Of or concerning sight
- auditoryOf or relating to hearing
- tactileOf the touching sense
- olfactoryOf the sense detecting odors
- gustatoryOf the sense of taste
apparition · phantom · specter · ghost · voice-hearing · distortion · perception · misperception
Ability to see
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- specterGhostly threatening presence
wraith · eidolon · figment · chimera · fantasy · Macbeth · dagger · ghost
Psychedelic hallucinogen
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
- mescalinePsychoactive cactus alkaloid
- DMTPowerful naturally occurring hallucinogen
- ayahuascaPsychoactive Amazonian plant brew
peyote · shrooms · acid · trip · psychoactive · synesthesia · visuals · tracers
Hazy and fantastical
- bizarreStrikingly unconventional
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- kafkaesqueNightmarishly illogical and bureaucratic
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
surrealism · Dali · Magritte · absurd · fantastic · otherworldly · unreal · distorted
Acute mental disorientation
- fever-dreamHallucination from illness
- illnessState of poor health
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- hyperthermiaDangerously elevated body temperature
confusion · disorientation · bedside · sickbed · sweating · chills · malaria · typhoid
Invented memories believed true
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- inventionNew device or method
- chatbotConversational AI program
- GPTPre-trained text generator
generated · plausible · misinformation · error · ungrounded · spurious · made-up · nonsense
psychosis
Severe reality detachment
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- deliriumAcute mental disorientation
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
paranoia · dementia · schizoaffective · bipolar · manic · psychiatric · antipsychotic · neurological · disorder · psychopathology
visual
Of or concerning sight
gustatory · apparition · phantom · specter · ghost · voice-hearing · distortion · perception · misperception · illusion
vision
Ability to see
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
specter · wraith · eidolon · figment · chimera · fantasy · Macbeth · dagger · ghost · supernatural
LSD
Psychedelic hallucinogen
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
- mescalinePsychoactive cactus alkaloid
- DMTPowerful naturally occurring hallucinogen
ayahuasca · peyote · shrooms · acid · trip · psychoactive · synesthesia · visuals · tracers · fractals
dreamlike
Hazy and fantastical
- bizarreStrikingly unconventional
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- kafkaesqueNightmarishly illogical and bureaucratic
grotesque · surrealism · Dali · Magritte · absurd · fantastic · otherworldly · unreal · distorted · metamorphosis
delirium
Acute mental disorientation
- fever-dreamHallucination from illness
- illnessState of poor health
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
hyperthermia · confusion · disorientation · bedside · sickbed · sweating · chills · malaria · typhoid · sepsis
confabulation
Invented memories believed true
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- inventionNew device or method
- chatbotConversational AI program
GPT · generated · plausible · misinformation · error · ungrounded · spurious · made-up · nonsense · confident
- substance abuseaddiction, abuse, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, substance use
- altered statestrance, altered states, altered perception, consciousness expansion, derealization
- brain symptomsamnesia, aphasia, agnosia, apraxia, confusion
- fan theoriessimulation theory, multiverse theory, secret identity, hidden villain, brainwashing
- perception errorsmisperception, illusion, optical illusion, visual distortion, blind spot
- PsychedeliaLSD, acid, psychedelic posters, tie-dye, trippy
hallucinationreality
What actually exists
perception · truth · fact · actuality · verity
hallucinationtruth
Accordance with reality
fact · verity · accuracy · accurateness · factual knowledge
hallucinationlucidity
Clearness of mind
clarity · sobriety · clear-headedness · sanity · groundedness
- visual hallucinationsSeeing nonexistent things
- auditory hallucinationsPerceived sounds without stimulus
- sleep hallucinationsVisions at consciousness threshold