At Chacruna: Are Psychedelic Hallucinations Actually Metaphorical Perceptions?

Martin Fortier, Ph.D (C)Psychiatrists usually define hallucination as a sensory experience that appears to be real, but is not produced by any actual object of the environment.¹ Key, in this definition, is the claim that hallucinations unfold independently of the real world: when one is hallucinating, one is making up objects that are not really there... continue reading.