![]() Friend: Are you coming to dinner? Cueball: Yeah, but first I'm gonna go comatose for a few hours, hallucinate vividly, and then maybe suffer amnesia about the whole experience. ![]() Auditory hallucinations have many possible causes. In some cases, they’re temporary and harmless, while in others, they may be a sign of a more serious mental health or neurological condition. Transcript Sometimes it seems bizarre to me that we take dreaming in stride. Auditory hallucinations happen when you hear voices or noises that don’t exist in reality. This is even more fascinating to Randall. The title text is about lucid dreaming, where the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. Which it indeed is, but that is why Randall has the caption above the guys: Sometimes it seems bizarre to me that we take dreaming in stride. Hallucinations and dreams are both so close to sleep, but in his book, Hallucinations, the late renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks, attempts to differentiate them: Hallucination is a unique and special category of consciousness and mental life, distinct from imagination and dreams, writes Sacks. enjoyable like a pleasant dream, or frightening like a nightmare. The character on the left takes this as though the experience is normal. Charles Bonnet syndrome refers to the visual hallucinations caused by the brains. suffer amnesia about the whole experience = forget the dream.Other causes include: Irritation in the visual cortex, the part of your brain that helps you see. go comatose for a few hours = sleep for a few hours A rare type of seizure called 'occipital' may cause you to see brightly colored spots or shapes.Randall is using the comic to make a point about how we think dreaming is so normal, but if we actually realize what's happening, dreaming is very strange: The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. However, the description is technically correct. Title text: And the possibility of lucid dreaming just makes it that much more fascinating.Ĭueball on the right is talking to his (Cueball-like) friend about dreaming but using words and phrases to make dreaming sound much more dramatic than we usually think that it is.
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