Ergebnis für "Hallucinations" in Literatur & Belletristik

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Dr Oliver Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organisation and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all, a vital part of the human condition.

The line between reality and illusion becomes more and more blurred as Adam Andrews is carried away into a fantasy world of his own making. In this horrific tales of self-deception and murder, Thomas Weston traces the downward spiral of a man descending into total insanity.

Stella Maris is the story of a mathematician, twenty years old, admitted to the hospital with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag and one request: She does not want to talk about her brother.

As a limousine does a drive-by shooting, was this literal “shotgun wedding” real… for everyone? Or was a celebrity stalker outsmarted by her bodyguard? It’s another ‘street fight on a chessboard’ as Major Shields hires courtroom war king Miles Turner. It’s a staring contest into a ‘mirror with hallucinations.’ Was the victim, Mr. Wright, really right about a secret love affair? Was the bodyguard really shooting his ‘competition?’ Do reflections change in the only homeless eye-witness? And will this mirror reveal even more as The Jury Whisperer employs her most dangerous legal strategy?

In Hallucination in Hong Kong by Rohan Quine, sliding from joy to nightmare and back, a plane flight frames a journey into Jaymi’s and Angel’s polarised identities and perceptions, where past and present merge in an obsessive fantasy of love, death, horror, and apocalyptic beauty.

The Bank of California's sovereign competence, encompassing the West, depended on the personal attainments of William Ralston, her principal officer and capitalist. His delirious liabilities unsettled the advancement of the bank.