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	Hallucination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus.
		Hypnagogic hallucinations can occur as one is falling asleep and hypnopompic hallucinations occur when one waking up.
		Auditory hallucinations (particularly of one or more talking voices) are particularly associated with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, and hold special significance in diagnosing these conditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hallucination (576 words)

	Hypnagogic hallucinations
		The prevalence of hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations in the general population was not known before the Sleep-EVAL study.
		Hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations were much more common than expected, with a prevalence that far exceeds that which can be explained by the association with narcolepsy.
		The presence of hypnopompic hallucinations may be a better indicator of narcolepsy than hypnagogic hallucinations in subjects reporting excessive daytime sleepiness.
	www.sleepeval.com /hypnagogic_hallucinations.htm (418 words)

	Hypnagogic Hallucinations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hallucination, by definition, is false or distorted sensory experiences that appear to be real perceptions.
		A Hypnagogic Hallucination occurs when the dreaming mind intertwines with the waking mind.
		And although it is called an "Hallucination", it is not at all dangerous or a symptom of a dangerous disorder.
	expage.com /page/hypna (502 words)

	Hypnagogic hallucination
		Hypnagogic hallucination is episodes of seeing and hearing things as one is falling asleep.
		The visual hallucinations usually consist of simple forms – colored circles or parts of objects – that are constant or changing in size.
		Hypnagogic hallucinations are dreams that intrude on wakefulness, which can cause visual, auditory, or touchable sensations.
	neurology.health-cares.net /hypnagogic-hallucination.php (395 words)

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		For him hallucinations and delusions were subsequent to the loosening of mental associations, and were without influence on the outcome of the disorder, which was, even in his new formulation, severe and generally bad.
		Hallucination should be differentiated from illusion, in which a stimulus actually present, is intepreted in the wrong way: for example a pile of rags in the dark can be mistaken for a person.
		When the hallucination has a clear organic basis (the action of a drug, the initial phase of migraine or of a temporal epileptic crisis) it is common for the individual to be aware of the hallucinatory character of his or her perceptions.
	www.the-bright-side.org /site/thebrightside/content.php?type=1§ion_id=884&id=1084 (5798 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - hallucination
		When an imagined and a real perception are simultaneous, the imagined perception may be confused with or even mistaken for the true perception.
		Haloperidol, drug used to treat the hallucinations that accompany certain mental illnesses such as schizophrenia.
		Delirium, condition common in many illnesses in which the sufferer is temporarily disoriented and incoherent and may have hallucinations and...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=hallucination&pg=1&grp=art (301 words)

	Hypnagogia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hypnagogia (also spelled hypnogogia) and hypnopompia are the names of experiences a person can go through when falling asleep in the case of hypnagogia, or waking up, in the case of hypnopompia.
		When in a hypnagogic or hypnopompic state a person can have lifelike auditory, visual, or tactile hallucinations (known as hypnagogic hallucinations), perhaps even accompanied by full body paralysis.
		The individual is aware that these are hallucinations; the frightening part, in many cases, is the inability to react to them, even being unable to make a sound.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hypnagogic_hallucination (443 words)

	Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, Inc
		It occurs to a sane person (note that the hallucinations of psychotic persons are mainly auditory, though not all auditory hallucinations indicate psychosis) (21).
		Unlike hallucinations, apparitions are said to never indicate psychopathology, and they convey veridical data - true, verifiable data that could only be obtained from an external source.
		Narcolepsy is sudden onset of sleep during the daytime, producing paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations.
	www.aiprinc.org /apparitions.asp (2003 words)

	Sleep Paralysis: page 2
		A hallucination is an experience of perception in the absence of an appropriate stimulus, but which has the impact of a conventional perception and is not under the control of the experient.
		A hallucination proper may be said to have occurred if the sensation seems quite authentic even if the experient judges the experience to be, for some reason, suspect.
		In both REM dreams and SP hallucinations a general atonia is maintained during REM by marked and sustained hyperpolarization of the motoneurons (Chase and Morales, 1989).
	watarts.uwaterloo.ca /~acheyne/S_P2.html (2413 words)

	hallucination -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hallucinations are in many ways similar to dreams: they derive their content from perceptions known to memory, though these can be greatly transformed.
		A hallucination is distinguished from an illusion, which is a misinterpretation of an actual stimulus.
		A frequently occurring hypnagogic hallucination is the sensation of loss of support or balance, perhaps accompanied by a fragmentary dream”; of falling, followed immediately by a jerking reflex recovery movement (the...
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9366494 (700 words)

	Hypnagogia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Its technical name is the hypnagogic state and, along with dreaming, it is one of the most fascinating altered states of consciousness we can experience without the use of drugs.
		Moskvitin came to believe that the hypnagogic patterns he was observing were the actual ‘material’ out of which the conscious mind ‘builds’ its representation of the external world.
		During hypnagogic states, the usually dominant neocortex – the evolutionarily recent and specifically ‘human’ part of the brain –; is inhibited, and much older structures take over.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/163_hypnagogia.shtml (3160 words)

	Patient Stories - Pat's Story
		Hypnagogic Hallucinations are vivid experiences that occur at the beginning or end of a sleep period.
		Hypnagogic hallucinations are sometimes quite terrifying and may be even more so if accompanied by sleep paralysis.
		Hypnagogic means "leading to sleep." My most dramatic hypnagogic hallucination occurred when I was staying in the home of friends while they were out-of-town.
	www.talkaboutsleep.com /third_tier/patient_stories_narcolepsy_pat.htm (1672 words)

	Search Results for hallucination - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Common hypnagogic hallucinations may be visual (e.g., scenes from the previous few hours appear) or auditory (e.g., one seems to hear his name called).
		Many other examples of hallucinations related to decrease or impairment of sensory input are known in clinical medicine.
		The mystic achieves hallucinations by gaining control of his own dissociative mechanisms; perhaps this is a form of self-hypnosis.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=hallucination&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (449 words)

	olfactory hallucinations
		A hallucination is a sensory perception(ie voice/noise, vision, tactile, smell/olfaction or taste) in the absence of an external stimuli/source.
		Auditory then visual hallucinations are the most common type of hallucination found in psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression with psychotic features).
		Hypnagogic hallucination is a sensory perception in the absence of a stimuli that occurs upon awakening from sleep such as hearing a noise.
	www.medhelp.org /forums/mentalhealth/messages/30538.html (344 words)

	Once Upon A Dreamer: Sleep
		When in a hypnagogic state a person can have lifelike auditory, visual, or tactile hallucinations (known as hypnagogic hallucinations), perhaps even accompanied by full body paralysis.
		During hypnagogic the individual is aware that these are hallucinations; the frightening part, in many cases, is the inability to react or make a sound because REM paralysis has kicked in.
		Since hypnagogic means that you retain your consciousness while sleeping, it is more often coined as "waking dream", even though at this stage you are not dreaming yet.
	sushi-delight.blogspot.com /2005/10/sleep.html (2340 words)

	Narcolepsy. (Page 1)
		Hypnagogic Hallucinations are intense vivid experiences which occur at the beginning or the end of a sleep period.
		Typically hypnagogic hallucinations usually involve the bedroom or areas near to where the person is sleeping and where the person believes they detect an invader who is about to harm them.
		Both sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations are occasionally seen in normal people without any related illness.
	members.aol.com /MercStG/NarcoPage1.html (4338 words)

	Sleep Disorders - Narcolepsy
		Inability to speak usually occurs as part of the paralysis, and occasionally there are hallucinations which accompany the paralysis.
		If occurring in conjunction with a frightening hypnagogic hallucination, it can add to the terror of the experience.
		Typically hypnagogic hallucinations usually involve the bedroom or areas near to where the person is sleeping and where the person believes they detect and invader who is about to harm them.
	www.denversleep.com /narcolepsy.html (2448 words)

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		In the hypnagogic state, random voices may sound seemingly from no where, visual apparitions may materialize, origin-less thoughts could possess the mind which some have told they agreed with.
		There is adequate evidence to suggest that the alchemists of the Middle Ages made use of a form of hypnagogia during their lengthy preparations and distillations.
		Oliver Fox, a theosophical writer in the early 20th century, used the hypnagogic hallucination of a doorway as a starting point for his astral traveling.
	www.excommunicate.net /hypnogogia.html (1415 words)

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		The disease is prevalent to all age groups of both sex and is found to have a strong genetic factor.
		Narcolepsy is a chronic, incurable central nervous system disorder characterized by excessive and overwhelming daytime sleepiness, frequent sleep attacks, cataplexy, and abnormal REM (rapid eye movement, a sleeping state in which dreaming occurs) latency.
		Unfortunately, there are wide variations in the development, severity, and order of appearance of cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations in individuals.
	sulcus.berkeley.edu /mcb/165_001/papers/manuscripts/_267.html (2263 words)

	Hypnagogic hallucinations (from hallucination) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A frequently occurring hypnagogic hallucination is the sensation of loss of support or balance, perhaps accompanied by a fragmentary dream”; of falling, followed immediately by a jerking reflex recovery movement (the myoclonic…
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		The Nun Study, led by neurologist David Snowdon of the University of Kentucky, began in 1986 and has focused on 678 American members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a Roman Catholic religious congregation.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-46691 (803 words)

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		A similar phenomenon that is closely related to sleep paralysis is called a hypnagogic hallucination.
		During the attack of sleep paralysis, the hypnagogic hallucination will involve imagining of someone entering one’s premises and either ransacking the house or simply running around.
		In fact, the person having the sleep paralysis will, through the hallucination, more than likely see the intruder entering the room and, with total disregard of being observed, this intruder will appear to go about doing whatever he or she came to do.
	www.umsl.edu /~mgriffin/psy302/Hampton/Parasomniapg2.htm (1667 words)

	Hypnogogia - TheBestLinks.com - Hypnagogic hallucination, Epilepsy, France, Lucid dreaming, ...
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		When in a hypnogogic state a person can have lifelike auditory, visual, or tactile hallucinations (known as hypnogogic hallucinations), perhaps even accompanied by full body paralysis.
		The invididual is aware that these are hallucinations; the frightening part, in many cases, is the inability to react to them, even being unable make a sound.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Hypnagogic_hallucination.html (309 words)

	Excessive Daytime Sleeping
		Hypnagogic Hallucinations usually occur at the onset of sleep.
		When having these "attacks" the sufferer can think that they are awake, as they can see their surroundings, then the Hallucinations take place.
		Other sufferers have had pleasurable experiences during a Hypnagogic Hallucination, they sense a presence with them while they are dreaming, this can have a calming and a safe effect, almost like a guardian angel.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /annee.allan/Page3.htm (781 words)

	HALLUCI::ARTIST
		Banging out a soundtrack of underground party music that jumps from hard house and breaks to slamming disco-tech, and twisted techno, to drum and bass rinse-outs, the dreadlocked Monk punishes the crossfader as he works one record against another in a style that owes more to hip hop than to conventional club DJ'ing.
		As one of the Founders of Rabbit in the Moon, Pimp Juice and Hallucination Records, Monk is a corner stone of the Southeastern U.S. Scene and has established himself as a devoted player in the Electronic Music Industry worldwide.
		Monk is best known for his early work and collaboration with Confucius in the collective "Rabbit In The Moon" and as the opening dj to the RITM live show for over a decade ('92-2002).
	www.hallucination.com /content.php?artistID=monk (1335 words)

	Anybody know what this was?
		Sounds like a pretty intense hypnagogic hallucination to me. Or hypnopompic to be more precise, because it happened when you woke up.
		I'm sure it wasn't a dream, like I said in the original post I ran to my mother and told her about it and she disregarded it as a dream, so I stayed in that state of mind, reminding myself of the experience until a few hours passed to make sure it wasn't a dream.
		While dreaming, the brain use serotonin, and this may explain why lack of sleep could cause hallucinations; it may be serotonin "build up" in the brain.
	www.ld4all.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=75461 (1386 words)

	The Sudden Curve: The Colossus of New York
		When I was about 19 I found out what my sister and I had that night were called "hypnagogic hallucinations." They tend to happen as people fall asleep.
		The most famous hypnagogic hallucination is that of the German chemist Friedrich Kekule, who in 1890, saw, while falling asleep, a snake-like chain of atoms spinning in front of him.
		The last time I had a major hypnagogic hallucination was when I was 21.
	tonova.typepad.com /thesuddencurve/2005/03/the_colossus_of.html (2008 words)

	Hypnagogic Hallucinations--interested?!?
		The first time I remember having any sort of hypnagogic hallucination was when I was about eight years old.
		As in all of my hallucinations, I seemed to wake up right as I was falling asleep in a sort of "in between world." I am completely paralyzed, except for my eyes, and the whole world looks like a grainy fl-and-white movie.
		I was in a college psychobiology class, reading about sleep disorders in my textbook, when I stumbled across the term "hypnagogic hallucination" with a definition: "a rare disorder wherein the sufferer will lie awake, paralyzed, while REM sleeping." Elated, I realized that a college course had actually taught me something!
	www.sleepnet.com /narco12/messages/218.html (1488 words)

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