hallucinations
Seeing nonexistent things
Hallucinations are sensory experiences of things that aren't there—seeing, hearing, or feeling something with no external cause.
They occur in psychosis, drug use, sleep deprivation, and certain neurological conditions: The fever gave him hallucinations.
In artificial intelligence, hallucinations are confident assertions of false information: The chatbot's hallucinations included citations to nonexistent papers.
Ability to see
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
- afterimageLingering visual impression
- specterGhostly threatening presence
phantom · figment · pareidolia · visual · auditory · tactile · olfactory · gustatory
Severe reality detachment
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- deliriumAcute mental disorientation
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
- antipsychoticDrug treating psychosis
neuroleptic · dopamine · serotonin · persecutory · disorganized · thought disorder · medication · treatment
Planned travel somewhere
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
- LSDPsychedelic hallucinogen
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
- ayahuascaPsychoactive Amazonian plant brew
DMT · mescaline · flashback · intoxication · withdrawal · delirium tremens · drug-induced · overdose
Bizarrely dreamlike and shifting
- surrealDreamlike and strange
- dreamlikeHazy and fantastical
- kafkaesqueNightmarishly illogical and bureaucratic
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
bizarre · uncanny · otherworldly · ethereal · fantastical · fevered · nightmarish · visionary
Invented memories believed true
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- misinformationFalse data spread unintentionally
- inventedCreated something new
- factual errorIncorrect assertion of fact
nonsensical · generated · GPT · chatbot · language model · grounding · fact-check · guardrails
vision
Ability to see
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
- afterimageLingering visual impression
specter · phantom · figment · pareidolia · visual · auditory · tactile · olfactory · gustatory · distortion
psychosis
Severe reality detachment
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- deliriumAcute mental disorientation
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
antipsychotic · neuroleptic · dopamine · serotonin · persecutory · disorganized · thought disorder · medication · treatment · diagnosis
trip
Planned travel somewhere
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
- LSDPsychedelic hallucinogen
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
ayahuasca · DMT · mescaline · flashback · intoxication · withdrawal · delirium tremens · drug-induced · overdose · comedown
phantasmagoric
Bizarrely dreamlike and shifting
- surrealDreamlike and strange
- dreamlikeHazy and fantastical
- kafkaesqueNightmarishly illogical and bureaucratic
grotesque · bizarre · uncanny · otherworldly · ethereal · fantastical · fevered · nightmarish · visionary · delirious
confabulation
Invented memories believed true
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- misinformationFalse data spread unintentionally
- inventedCreated something new
factual error · nonsensical · generated · GPT · chatbot · language model · grounding · fact-check · guardrails · training data
- Alcoholismalcoholism, alcoholic, alcohol abuse, alcohol addiction, alcohol dependence
- Psychiatric Symptomsdelusions, paranoia, psychosis, flat affect, catatonia
- visionsvisions, apparition, dream, dreams, apparitions
- LSDacid, blotter, tabs, trip, microdot
- psychosispsychosis, delusions, schizophrenia, paranoia, paranoid schizophrenia
- mental healthpsychiatry, psychotherapy, mental illness, psychiatrist, therapist
hallucinationsrealities
Things that exist
reality · facts · truths · evidence · actualities
hallucinationslucidity
Clearness of mind
clarity · clear-headedness · sobriety · sanity · sound mind
- visual hallucinationsSeeing nonexistent things
- auditory hallucinationsPerceived sounds without stimulus
- sleep hallucinationsVisions at consciousness threshold