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Is re-experiencing a memory a hallucination?

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  • 11-07-2009 3:42am
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    Zangetsu
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    Hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space.

    So are memories hallucinations? If a memory IS a hallucination, did it really happen?

    AH's opinion, may be funny, may be serious... Only time will tell...


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    Snowie
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    Some people pay for that kind of thing.....


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    waitinforatrain
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    Zangetsu wrote: »
    ...and located in external objective space.

    So are memories hallucinations? If a memory IS a hallucination, did it really happen?

    Not by your definition duhh.


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    Insect Overlord
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    This really reminds me of this one time when I had déja vu...


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    Senna
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    Zangetsu wrote: »
    If a memory IS a hallucination, did it really happen?

    I have a memory of me getting beaten stupid as a child, it was a hallucination that i got up and warped a hurley around my brothers head. Now maybe it's all a hullucination and i'm a only child?? I'll go ask my brother, he'll know.


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    Super-Rush
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    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. ...oh wait.... what??


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    In All Fairness
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    Did I pay you for them strawberries?


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    Overheal
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    strange you mention it. I woke up this morning with the vivid memory of quitting gamestop after working for them for one day. I didnt give them notice or anything, just never showed up for work again.

    Ive never even applied to one. but it took me a few hours to reach the conclusion that it was just a dream.


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    Mr. Incognito
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    Hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space.

    Defined by who? the internet? a quick google search? You?

    If something is located in external objective space it is not a hallucination.

    If some thing is percieved in external objective?? subjective space it might well be.

    This is just semantics. Realisticlly I don't exist.


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    In All Fairness
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    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Defined by who? the internet? a quick google search? You?

    If something is located in external objective space it is not a hallucination.

    If some thing is percieved in external objective?? subjective space it might well be.

    This is just semantics. Realisticlly I don't exist.

    So I did pay you? Thanks be to God for that.


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