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Psychology in Popular Media

Psychology in Popular Media

Psychological Construct - Hallucination

Psychological construct refers to the activity or pattern of different activities that cannot be observed but in reality they occur or exist. Out of many psychological constructs, hallucination has been selected. Hallucination is the state of mind in which perception is created while there is absence of stimulus. A person in the state of hallucination is not in unconscious state rather he is in conscious state without any effect of external stimuli on his perceptions. Hallucination is a psychological model in which a person starts projecting things which are not natural or which are not possible at that particular time. There is maximum possibility that the person who is hallucinating missed the originality of an event and start project it on his own imaginations. Some people compare it with dreaming. Dreaming is a state in which the person is not aware of his surrounding and he is not awake. Dreaming also does not affect the real sense of perception. Whereas hallucination is actually affecting the real perception of a person. The medium through which hallucinations can be transmitted can be auditory, visual, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, tactile, etc. Disturbance is also a type of hallucination. A person in the state of hallucination can hear the things not present, can see things which are not actually present and can create any situation according to his perception.

Mediums of Hallucinations

State of hallucinations can be initiated by any medium of communication. It can be audio, visual, initiated by sense of feeling and touch or smell. In the same way it can show its effects on any of the sense. A person can be able to retrieve a smell that he or she has gone through previously and it can be connected to any situation. In the same way, seeing the things that were seen in different scenario, or never seen. For example a person can see another person who is not present there, the image of such a person is formed when he has heard a lot about him or have read a lot about him. This is also due to chemical imbalance in brain. In the same way hearing can also be affected. Hearing things that was never present or heard by the person who is in the state of hallucination.

Pink Floyd's - the Wall & Hallucination

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