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Science 21 September 1962:
Vol. 137. no. 3534, pp. 992 - 993
DOI: 10.1126/science.137.3534.992
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Hallucinations in Sensory Deprivation—Method or Madness?

Eugene Ziskind 1 and Theodore Augsburg 1

1 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Ten-minute observations of visual fields in binocularly patched subjects, and self-observation for dreams yielded visual imagery similar to sensory deprivation hallucinations. The latter probably arise from fragments of normal imagery whose origins are unrecognized because of reduced awareness.


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