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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach. First published in 1977, the story questions the reader's view of reality, proposing that what we call reality is merely an illusion we create for learning and enjoyment. Illusions was the author's follow-up to 1970's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
The first Illusions book was published in 1977 and was an international best-seller, telling the story of a pilot who encounters a messiah who has absconded from the "job" of being a messiah. The sequel is in author Bach's own voice, as his "imaginary" literary characters help him in his recovery from his real-life plane crash in August 2012. [1]
Illusions is a 1982 film written and directed by Julie Dash. [1] The short film depicts the life of an African American woman passing as a white woman working in the film industry during the 1940s. It calls attention to the lack of African Americans in the film industry during that era.
Hallucinations is a 2012 book written by the neurologist Oliver Sacks. In Hallucinations, Sacks recounts stories of hallucinations and other mind-altering episodes of both his patients and himself and uses them in an attempt to elucidate certain features and structures of the brain [1] including his own migraine headaches. [2]
The term aesthetic illusion is primarily, though not consistently, used in the academic fields of literature and the visual arts. Other terms used in these fields to describe the same or a similar phenomenon include absorption (Nell 1988 [3]), make-believe, recentering (Ryan 1991 [4]) and immersion (e.g. Ryan 2015 [5]).
Hallucinations may command a person to do something potentially dangerous when combined with delusions. [ 19 ] So-called "minor hallucinations", such as extracampine hallucinations, or false perceptions of people or movement occurring outside of one's visual field, frequently occur in neurocognitive disorders, such as Parkinson's disease.
The book was published in three volumes: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". [2] A second edition appeared in 1852, reorganizing the three volumes into two and adding numerous engravings. [3] Mackay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style.
Auditory hallucinations have two essential components: audibility and alienation. [7] This differentiates it from thought insertion. While auditory hallucination does share the experience of alienation (patients cannot recognize that the thoughts they are having are self-generated), thought insertion lacks the audibility component (experiencing the thoughts as occurring outside of their mind ...