hallucinating
present participle ofhallucinate
hallucinate
verb[I]
uk/həˈluː.sɪ.neɪt/us/həˈluː.sə.neɪt/toseemtosee,hear,feel, orsmellsomething that does notexist, usually because you areillor have taken adrug:
Mentaldisorders,druguse, andhypnosiscan allcausepeopleto hallucinate.
Dreaming
- be hearing/imagining/seeing thingsidiom
- be miles awayidiom
- daydream
- daydreamer
- daydreaming
- dream
- dreamless
- dreamscape
- fantasist
- fantasize
- hallucinate
- imagination
- in a dreamidiom
- mile
- nightmare
- oneiric
- optical illusion
- phantasmagorical
- redream
- reverie
Examplesofhallucinating
hallucinating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
He likens seeing an after-image tohallucinatingan elephant.
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He had visual hallucinations of being home and became scared when he realized he washallucinating.
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Second, feedback can improve the quality of the visual input without running the danger ofhallucinating.
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What adamantly is for thehallucinatingpatient, does not appear to the observer.
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Someone who ishallucinatingan object may experience that object as real.
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That is, interactive bias models run the risk ofhallucinating.
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Evidence was found for an increased role of auditory imagery over perception in information processing for thehallucinatingpatient, as compared to the control patients.
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Hallucinatingpatients were much more likely to misperceive target speech as spurious words and phrases compared to nonhallucinating patients and normal controls.
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Evans et al. (2000) used only auditory measures and failed to find differences between 12hallucinatingand 7 nonhallucinating patients.
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With the addition of these two simple words, then, the character has made a rather drastic conversion fromhallucinatingto being painfully aware of her unfortunate circumstances.
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If the stimulation due to the object did not change in that way, then you would not be seeing the object - you might, for example, behallucinatingit.
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As has been mentioned, those who arehallucinatingor who are high on solvents are likely to commit offences.
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We should be in the business of getting a better future starting from here, rather thanhallucinatingin the world of political virtual reality.
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This is a textbook case of an otherwise sane manhallucinatinga whole economic recovery—just as three years ago he hallucinated an economic miracle.
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A single teardrop causes another avalanche, that traps him inside, where he freezes to death whilehallucinatinga happy reunion with his parents.
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