pseudo-hallucinationn.
/ˌs(j)uːdəʊhəˌl(j)uːsᵻˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌsudoʊhəˌlusnˈeɪʃn/ Psychology.
An experience or phenomenon resembling or imitating a hallucination, esp. an isolated, brief, and vivid sensory experience, commonly auditory or visual, occurring in the absence of any external stimulus and recognized by the subject as illusory.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > aberrant sensory perception > [noun]
hallucination1646
illusion1774
pseudo-hallucination1888
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [noun] > occurring when conscious
pseudo-hallucination1888
1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 312 The author rejects the theory of centrally initiated and centrifugally projected hallucinations or pseudo-hallucinations.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xix. 116 From ordinary images of memory and fancy, pseudo-hallucinations differ in being much more vivid, minute, detailed..abrupt and spontaneous, in the sense that all feeling of our own activity in producing them is lacking.
1902 A. R. Diefendorf tr. E. Kraepelin Clin. Psychiatry 7 This group of hallucinations, which has been variously designated as psychic hallucinations.., pseudohallucinations (Hagen), and apprehension hallucinations,..involves several or all of the sensory fields, and..stands in close relation to the other contents of consciousness.
1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. p. xvii A pseudo-hallucination is a quasi-percept not sufficiently externalised to rank as a ‘full blown’ hallucination.
1968 P. McKellar Exper. & Behaviour iv. 120 What is sometimes called ‘pseudo-hallucination’..involves a projected perceptual~like image, but one in which the person concerned recognizes the subjective nature of the occurrence.
1986 Science 15 Aug. 774/3 Although pseudohallucinations were reported, true hallucinations did not seem to occur.
2005 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 13 June b3 If you have a pseudo-hallucination, you see it, but you know it's not real—and that scares the heck out of people.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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