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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