Hypnotic hallucinatory behavior

Abstract

Abstract Hypnotic Hallucinatory Behavior It would appear to be important to refer to experiences as hallucinatory only when the eyes of the percipient are open, in the case of visual hallucinations, or when he “hears” with the impression that the sound is of external origin rather than localized within (as an experience on the level of imagining) in the case of auditory hallucinations. In such hallucinatory occurrences, incidentally, the subject may in certain instances question the nature of his experience and evaluate it critically even though the stimulus retains its validity as an apparently externally centered event. Negative visual hallucinations involving avoidance reactions are apparently an order of experience different from negative hallucinations which do not involve such avoidance reactions. Although sensory end-organ functioning may be the same in both such occurrences, there are apparently as yet poorly understood differences in functioning on a neurophysiological and neuropsychological leve...