内容摘要 我们的头脑捉弄我们的次数远远要超过你所想象的。 年老的女人静静地在病床上等待着从外地来拜访她的绅士。她催促她的亲戚离开,因为女人知道他们不可能看见他,她想要他单独的陪伴。一个男人经过面包店会听到屋里传出的歌声,便觉得非常孤独。他认为这首歌是每次他经过这里专门为他而放的。 人人都会有幻觉:沉睡者、偏头痛患者、瘾君子及老年人…… 在本书中,萨克斯医生带着他的优雅、好奇与同情,将一个个他的病人以及他自己心神变幻的经历编织在一起,由此我们可以看到一个色彩斑斓、充满奇幻的心智世界。 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? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. In some conditions, hallucinations can lead to religious epiphanies or even the feeling of leaving one's own body. Humans have always sought such life-changing visions, and for thousands of years have used hallucinogenic compounds to achieve them. In Hallucinations, with his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr Oliver Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization 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.
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