illusions

• [35] And I venture to think that, if we examine the evidence in the case of D. D. Home, we find very few cases which could have been illusions--the vast majority of them seem to have been "pure hallucinations"--if they were psychological processes (as opposed to physical) at all. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• She was clearly a woman uncommon enough to live without illusions--which, of course, does not mean that she was reasonable. —  Chance A Tale in Two Parts
• The function of poetry and the arts is to remind us that the greenroom is the greyest of illusions, and the reality is the drama presented before us, all its paint and tinsel, masks and pageantry, made one in art. —  Creative Unity
• What had become of all his loves and his illusions, his disappointments and his disgusts, and the implacable reaction after pleasure? —  The Child of Pleasure
• In a similar way the psychical examination tests the hallucinations and illusions, the variations and defects of memory and attention, of judgment and reasoning, of orientation and self-consciousness, of emotions and volitions, of intellectual capacities and organized actions. —  Psychotherapy

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