Hallucination:A profound distortionina person's perception of reality, typically accompanied by a powerfulsenseof reality. An hallucination may be asensoryexperience in which a person can see, hear,smell,味道, or feel something that is not there.
The types of hallucinations include:
- An auditory hallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of hearing. Called also paracusia and paracusis.
- A gustatory hallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of taste.
- Ahypnagogic hallucinationis a vivid dreamlike hallucination at theonsetof sleep.
- Hypnopompic hallucinationis a vivid dreamlike hallucination on awakening.
- Kinesthetic hallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of bodily movement.
- Lilliputian hallucinationis an hallucination in which things, people, or animals seem smaller than they would be in reality.
- Olfactoryhallucination is an hallucination involving thesense of smell.
- Somatichallucination is an hallucination involving the perception of a physical experience occurring with the body.
- Tactilehallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of touch.
- Visual hallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of sight.
