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Hallucination:

1 a : perception of objects with no reality usually arising from disorder of the nervous system or in response to drugs (as LSD)
b : the object so perceived.
OR
A profound distortion in a person's perception of reality, typically accompanied by a powerful sense of reality. An hallucination may be a sensory experience in which a person can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel something that is not there.

The types of hallucinations include:

1 An auditory hallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of hearing. Called also paracusia and paracusis.

2 A gustatory hallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of taste.

3 A hypnagogic hallucination is a vivid dreamlike hallucination at the onset of sleep.

4 Hypnopompic hallucination is a vivid dreamlike hallucination on awakening.

5 Kinesthetic hallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of bodily movement.

6 Lilliputian hallucination is an hallucination in which things, people, or animals seem smaller than they would be in reality.

7 Olfactory hallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of smell.

8 Somatic hallucination is an hallucination involving the perception of a physical experience occurring with the body.

9 Tactile hallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of touch.

10 Visual hallucination is an hallucination involving the sense of sight.

(I GUESS SOME OF THE TYPES OF HALLUCINATION written above CLEARS OPTION b OF QUESTION,THAT SENSORY ORGANS ARE INVOLVED TOO)in halluciantion sensory organs are involved so option b cant be the answer.

In some cases, however, hallucinations, may be normal. For example, having a hallucination of hearing the voice of or briefly seeing a loved one who has recently died can be a part of the grieving process.

WE CAN STRAIGHT AWAY RULE OUT OPTION A......COZ HALUCINATIONS ARE INVOLUNTRY..WE CANT CREATE THEM.... SO OTION A CANT BE OUR ANSWER

As for option 4 there cant be hallucinations without any kind of stimulus..there has to has something to stimulate the hallucinations...so option D cant be our answer

so now only option remain is C.....lets see bout it...

OPTION: C --- it is as vivid as that in true sense perception.

There is certainly a very striking resemblance between normal sensations and hallucinations, but there is also a most essential distinction.
Sensation does not stand for any arbitrary or abnormal phenomenon. It does not merely represent a subjective affection of the sensorium abstracted from its appropriate stimulus or cause. Abstracting from its cause it is, of course, subjective, but in all normal psychology and in most scientific parlance it intends to obtain its accurate definition and so distinction from false experiences by its implication of an external and determinate stimulus.

A sensation in ordinary psychology and philosophy stands for a subjective experience determinately related to its appropriate stimulus, as color to light, sound to aural vibration, touch to hardness, etc. The perception or judgment associated with it can be tested in various ways, and some other quality than the one perceived at first will usually be discovered.

It is not so with hallucinations. It is true that "only there happens to be no object there, that is the whole difference," but this difference is very great, and is not to be suppressed by an "only." The hallucination may be exactly like the sensation in its subjection nature, but it is quite different in its causal relations, and that fact constitutes a difference of considerable magnitude. An important factor in definition of it is that its cause or stimulus is usually not determinately related to its occurrence, as is a normal sensation. The usual stimulus is what may be called a secondary stimulus, which means that it is not coordinated with a cause like that of normal sensation.

I THINK THIS PARA WILL HELP IN DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN HALLUCINATONS AND NORMAL SENSATIONS.....SO I THINK ANS SHOULD BE OPTION c....

Some hallucinations arise in the sense affected by the stimulus and others arise in a sense not affected by the stimulus. Thus the stimulus may be in the ear and the hallucination may be a visual phenomenon. This secondary stimulus may be either peripheral or central, that is, it may be either in some part of the bodily tissue or in some part of the nervous system. In addition to this it may be either organic or functional, that is, it may be some physical pressure or lesion, or it may be functional disturbance of some kind

Hallucinations can also be produced by hypnotic suggestion. The peculiarity of this fact is that they occur with perfectly healthy subjects. It is perhaps admitted by all experimenters who understand psychology that hallucination is the normal form of suggested matters. The manner of the subject indicates this, and his whole conduct toward what is suggested. The best evidence, however, of sensory effects like hallucinations will be found in those states in which the subject remembers what he had been told that he will see, hear, or feel.

An interesting phenomenon in connection with hypnotic suggestion is what the psychologist calls negative hallucinations. Such as I have described are called positive hallucinations, and mean that an object which does not really exist can be made to appear to exist. But in a negative hallucination an object which does actually exist before sense-perception can be made to disappear at suggestion. I may be looking at a tree, and if told that I cannot see it I will not see it, and as long as the suggestion operates I cannot be made to see it.

YES DEFINITLY THE ANS IS OPTION c

drjaysh · Credits: 769 My Scrapbook

its sensory organs not involved..which is wrong option in the question.the definition of hallucination is perception of any object which isnt real with special senses.so hallucinations can be visual. e g a person can see something which doesnt exist. like wise hallucinations can be auditory and gustatory.i hope u guys would agreee with my opinion

srinidhi · Credits: 110 My Scrapbook

2.. there are all sorts of sensory hallucinations na!

svbyzma · Credits: 990 My Scrapbook

I feel the correct answer is 2.
The hallucinations are not under any sort of voluntary control and would, of course, appear as real or life-like or vivid as the image formed as a result of a true stimulus. Here, the image (of whichever kind, audio or visual or perceptual) is formed in the mind due to some internal derangement and does not involve the sensory organs or the pathway from the sensory organs to the brain.

Shahrukh.

shravani · Credits: 6427 My Scrapbook

OPTION 2 IS MORE APPROPRIATE .....

drjaiprakash · Credits: 214 My Scrapbook

well, my dear friends,..... u all have cleared MBBS ...n my request to u is just go to Psychiatry ward....see a pt of schizophrenia(with predominant positve symptoms) n u will learn that hallucinations r just like normal sensation.......a pt is unable to differentiate hallucination frm normal sensation.........n if u dont have tht much time then believe me...i have seen a hell lot of patints .....answer shd be 2.

jabby · Credits: 3703 My Scrapbook

option3

stefan661 · Credits: 113 My Scrapbook

I´m a new member and are not allowed to add my freeweb homepage yet, but you can easily find it at google: "My experience of functional auditory hallucinations and the need to understand."

"....When you hear functional auditory hallucinations you attend a real non verbal sound that substitutes and act as the pitch of your inner voice..."

Stefan Andersson

jabby · Credits: 3703 My Scrapbook

option sensory organs are not involved.

jabby · Credits: 3703 My Scrapbook

option sensory organs are not involved.

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