Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks

March 2023

This is volume #25 in the Essays Project that CT and I are doing. It is the last volume of Sacks we have not yet read; we will also read Insomniac City by Bill Hayes, his partner in his final years, just for completeness. Then it is back to essays by other authors.

C1: Silent Multitudes: Charles Bonnet Syndrome

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C2: The Prisoner’s Cinema: Sensory Deprivation

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C3: A Few Nanograms of Wine: Hallucinatory Smells

C4: Hearing Things

C5: The Illusions of Parkinsonism

C6: Altered States

C7: Patterns: Visual Migraines

C8: The “Sacred” Disease

C9: Bisected: Hallucinations in the Half-Field

C10: Delirious

C11: On the Threshold of Sleep

C12: Narcolepsy and Night Hags

C13: The Haunted Mind

C14: Doppelgängers: Hallucinating Oneself

C15: Phantoms, Shadows, and Sensory Ghosts


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