I recently picked up Hallucinations,
the latest book by Oliver Sacks, at the library. In the introduction (all I’ve read so far), he subtly echoes the language of William James when he talks about his wish to describe about “the great range, the varieties, of hallucinatory experience, an essential part of the human condition.” The headline of a recent interview with Sacks notes that he wants to destigmatize hallucinations. So this seems as good a time as any to write a little about my own experiences with hypnopompic hallucinations, which occur when you’re waking up and can be bizarrely intertwined with dreams.
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