“There are also hallucinations as well, and hallucinations are completely different. They don’t seem to be of our creation. They don’t seem to be under our control. They seem to come from the outside, and to mimic perception. So I am going to be talking about hallucinations and a particular sort of visual hallucination.”
“I said, Is this like a dream? And she said, No, it’s not like a dream. It’s like a movie. She said, It’s got color. It’s got motion. But it’s completely silent, like a silent movie. And she said it’s a rather boring movie.”
“I went in to see her. It was evident straightaway that she was perfectly sane and lucid and of good intelligence, but she’d been very startled and very bewildered, because she’d been seeing things. Perfectly sane. She had no medical problems. She wasn’t on any medications which could produce hallucinations.”
“Finally, I think they are infinitely interesting and valuable, for giving one some insight as to how the brain works. People, come on.”
“Thinking of these hallucinations, how, as he put it, the theater of the mind could be generated by the machinery of the brain.”
