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drpaladin

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I believe I'm beginning to hallucinate. The Word of the Day has appeared five hours early.

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Bill W

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I thought I was hallucinating, since @Myr posted this just after midnight, rather than around 5:00, like he usually does.  😁  It means I can go sleep early tonight.  :gikkle:

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Bill W

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Hallucinate,  the root word in "hallucination" comes from Latin hallucinat- ‘gone astray in thought', derived from the Latin verb alucinari,  which means "to wander in the mind," "to dream," or "to be deceived".  That comes from Greek alussein ‘ be uneasy or distraught’.  

The verb "hallucinate" was first recorded in English between 1595 and 1605.  The earliest documented use of the verb is from 1604 in the writing of Robert Cawdrey, a Church of England clergyman. 

The word "hallucination" itself was introduced into English in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne, a physician and author. It also derives from the Latin hallūcinātiō, meaning "a wandering of the mind". 

Examples of the word hallucinate and hallunination in a sentence: 
"He looked up at the ceiling and began to hallucinate." 
"Various illnesses can often cause patients to hallucinate," the doctor explained. 
"Sleep deprivation really kicked in, and I started to actually hallucinate!" 
"People with mental illness might sense themselves going mad and hallucinate about spiders." "
"He has been having hallucinations due to the medication." 
"He couldn't tell if what he was seeing was real or it it was a hallucination." 

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Paladin

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I sleep, I dream, I hallucinate, a dancing rabbit transforms before me, into something else. Is that figure in my altered mind @Myr still manipulating my hallucinogenic thoughts about rarely used words. It fades. I hallucinate no more. I awake. Is this really better? What was it I used to help me sleep?

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Bill W

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1 hour ago, Paladin said:

I sleep, I dream, I hallucinate, a dancing rabbit transforms before me, into something else. Is that figure in my altered mind @Myr still manipulating my hallucinogenic thoughts about unusually used words. It fades. I hallucinate no more. I awake. Is this really better? What was it I used to help me sleep?

I don't know what you're smoking, but can I have some? 

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wildone

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One of the only times I can remember hallucinating was when I was in the hospital after my accident and the were weaning me off the morphine drip and started me on oral percocet. That is until I looked up at the TV set that was off, hanging from the ceiling and I saw Garfield coming out of it, bearing his teeth, claws to the ready, coming to attack me like as if I was a lasagna.

I'm sure the nurses must have a log of most hilarious stories from drugged up patients :P 

Oh, they stop giving me percocet. 

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drpaladin

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39 minutes ago, wildone said:

One of the only times I can remember hallucinating was when I was in the hospital after my accident and the were weaning me off the morphine drip and started me on oral percocet. That is until I looked up at the TV set that was off, hanging from the ceiling and I saw Garfield coming out of it, bearing his teeth, claws to the ready, coming to attack me like as if I was a lasagna.

I'm sure the nurses must have a log of most hilarious stories from drugged up patients :P 

Oh, they stop giving me percocet. 

I've only hallucinated once. I had been awake for three days straight and was reading a book. Suddenly, all the print liquified into a shimmering pool and then flowed off the pages into the floor, leaving the pages blank. I'm extremely stubborn. I thought to myself, my mind is telling me you need to sleep, but I'm not going to listen. I closed the book, looked around the room for awhile, then opened the book. Still blank. I tried this a number of times until I said the hell with this and went to bed. I slept 18 hours, the longest I've ever slept.

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