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In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a hallucination or artificial hallucination (also called bullshitting, [1][2] confabulation[3] or delusion[4]) is a response generated by AI that contains false or misleading information presented as fact. [5][6][7] This term draws a loose analogy with human psychology, where hallucination typically ...
Hallucination is defined as visual perception without external stimulation. It must be distinguished whether the individual is able to recognize that the perception is not real, also called pseudo-hallucination, or that the individual endorses it as real, also called delusion. It is only delusion that has serious psychiatric implications.
Antipsychotic, AAP. A hallucination is a perception in the absence of an external stimulus that has the compelling sense of reality. [4] Hallucination is a combination of two conscious states of brain: wakefulness and REM sleep. [5] They are distinguishable from several related phenomena, such as dreaming (REM sleep), which does not involve ...
Delusional disorder, traditionally synonymous with paranoia, is a mental illness in which a person has delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations, thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect. [6][7] Delusions are a specific symptom of psychosis. Delusions can be bizarre or non-bizarre in content; [7 ...
Fregoli delusion. The Fregoli delusion (or Fregoli syndrome) is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. [1] The syndrome may be related to a brain lesion [2][3] and is often of a paranoid nature, with the delusional person believing ...
The term illusion refers to a specific form of sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination, which is a distortion in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation. For example, hearing voices regardless of the environment would be a hallucination, whereas hearing voices in the sound of running water (or ...
An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is a phenomenon in which a person perceives the world as if from a location outside their physical body. An OBE is a form of autoscopy (literally "seeing self"), although this term is more commonly used to refer to the pathological condition of seeing a second self, or doppelgänger.
Ideas of reference and delusions of reference describe the phenomenon of an individual experiencing innocuous events or mere coincidences [1] and believing they have strong personal significance. [2] It is "the notion that everything one perceives in the world relates to one's own destiny", usually in a negative and hostile manner.