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{{quote|''Hallucinate''
''(I'm seeing shit on the wall...)''
''Why won't you go away?''
|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}Fl1nxM3VEbg Dark Lotus - "Hallucinate"]''}}
{{quote|''I am not the type to faint
''When things are odd or things are quaint
''But seeing things you know that ain't
''Can certainly give you an awful fright!''
|'''[[Mushroom Samba|"Pink Elephants On Parade"]]''', ''[[Dumbo]]''}}
Bob has been undergoing [[Sanity Slippage]] and begins hallucinating. Depending on the show, these may result in a [[Tomato Surprise]] at the end, revealing that someone he's been talking to was [[Dead All Along]], or that the person he killed was an innocent bystander or an ally.
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If you can't believe the thing you're looking at, ask your friend [[Did You See That Too|if he can see it too]].
If against all odds the hallucination has good advice, insights into your problems, or can see around corners that you're nowhere near, that's a [[Helpful Hallucination]].
See also [[Pink Elephants]].
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{{examples}}
== Entire Situation is a Hallucination ==
=== Anime
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', {{spoiler|The first arc}} has the arc's main character hallucinating due to {{spoiler|his paranoia}}. Unfortunately for... everyone involved, it ends violently, as it nearly always does in that show.
** That's not the only case, either. Shmion's freak-out at the end of the fifth arc (although that entire arc is one giant [[Freak-Out]]) and Rena's hallucination about the {{spoiler|maggots in her blood}} are other prominent examples.
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* In ''The War Between Men and Women'', there's one scene where Jack Lemmon's character gets drunk and hallucinates.
=== Live
* The ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Objects In Space" has an instance where River hallucinates the sound of a crashing ocean wave, followed by seeing leaves scattered around the cargo bay and mistaking a pistol for a branch on the ground. Other episodes have her hallucinating and having flashbacks to her time at [[School for Scheming|the Academy]]. In ''[[Serenity]]'', she has several hallucinations relating to Miranda.
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': The last episode of season 2 and some events from the last few episodes of season 5.
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* In the first ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'' game, after being drugged by the villains, Max hallucinates about being a video game character.
* ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' has this as pretty much its entire soul and fiber. Characters are capable of hallucinating even with a small sanity loss.
* One of the ''[[Fallout 3]]''{{'}}s expansion pack adds a questline, where you must go into a swamp and meditate in front of the cult´s sacred tree to gain entrance. Once you get to the tree, it sprays some kind of pollen what stuns you and when you turn and start walking away from the swamp, you'll be sent to a 'nice' little trip to horror lane where - for example - ghouls appear out of nowhere, you'll find your mom´s skeleton next to birthday decorations and you'll find the corpses of familiar characters floating in the swamp.
** And lesser extent there is the Vault full of hallucinogenic gas, where you find terminals with ''notes to yourself written by you'', 'friendly' characters appear out of nowhere and you are forced to kill them as enemies and more miscellaneous facts.
* "Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway" has plenty of this. The player, as Baker, sees hallucinations of three killed comrades, three German soldiers and a young boy whom he failed to protect. Additionally, there is an instance when a stretcher toppled itself for no apparent reason which could also have been a hallucination. Mostly, this is done in cutscenes but does occur at a few specific points during gameplay. "Well doesn't this look familiar?"
===
* Jin of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' eventually starts suffering from hallucinations. She is aware that she is hallucinating, but can't tell hallucination from reality, so she resorts to [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/good-point/ poking people to make sure they are real.]
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== Single Character is a Hallucination ==
=== Anime
* In ''[[Afro Samurai]]'', {{spoiler|Ninja Ninja}} turns out to be either this or {{spoiler|an [[Imaginary Friend]]}} depending on how the viewer looks at it.
=== Film -- Live Action ===
* In ''[[Fight Club]]'', {{spoiler|Tyler Durden}} isn't real.
* Played with in ''[[Sin City]]''. {{spoiler|Jack Rafferty}} existed and was dead but Dwight hallucinated an entire conversation with him. Unlike most of the examples here, Dwight knew he was hallucinating due to stress.
* In ''Rob Zombie's [[Halloween (film)|Halloween]] II'', Michael Myers has hallucinations about his [[Woman in White|mother]] (and a selection of other random things, including pumpkin-headed aristocrats and white unicorns.)
* In ''[[Harry Potter
* In ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'' and the Spanish movie it was based on, ''Open Your Eyes'', {{spoiler|the protagonist keeps seeing the woman he's with as having the face of the woman who died in a car crash.}}
* In ''Jacob's Ladder'', the protagonist is a Vietnam vet beset by visions of demons. {{spoiler|The movie later suggests that he's really dead and in limbo, or on the verge of death, having never survived Vietnam.}}
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* In ''[[The Pale King]]'', some IRS examiners who strain themselves to remain focused and alert in the face of extreme boredom are visited by phantoms that embody [[Flanderization|extreme stereotypes]] of the [[You Are What You Hate|repressed aspects]] [[Shadow Archetype|of their personalities]]. Macho guys see [[Drag Queen|drag queens]], [[Neat Freak|neat freaks]] see filthy people, etc.
=== Live
* In a couple of episodes of ''[[Scrubs]]'', {{spoiler|dead or dying friends of}} the characters are hallucinations.
* The title character in the ''[[Lost]]'' episode "Dave" is Hurley's hallucination.
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* In an episode of ''[[The Inside]]'', Rebecca, injured and dazed from a plane crash, is helped through the woods by what she thinks is the little girl whose family she's trying to save, but who turns out to be a hallucination of herself as a child.
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. House hallucinated Amber for a while, which turned out to be very entertaining.
* [[Battlestar Galactica
* In ''[[Dexter]]'', Harry Morgan has progressed from a [[Flash Back]] character into a hallucinatory [[Spirit Advisor]] for Dexter. Given the state of Dexter's mind, it's not clear whether he is literally seeing Harry, or if he's merely the avatar for an imagined conversation between the two.
** Dexter would appear to be a psychopath/have an antisocial personality disorder. Nowhere is he shown to be actively psychotic.
* In ''[[Farscape]]'', Harvey is a [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend]] implanted in Crichton's mind by Scorpius. Even after the device causing the hallucination is removed, Harvey sticks around, much to John's consternation.
* ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'': |Izzie Stevens]] hallucinates the ghost of Denny Duquette due to her {{spoiler|brain tumor.}}
* In ''[[Monk]]'', Monk sometimes talks to a hallucination of his dead wife, and one time when he's trapped on a submarine, he has imaginary conversations with his psychiatrist.
* In season 7 of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', the wall Death puts in Sam's mind breaks down. That, of course, leads to him seeing Lucifer follow him around, throwing around suggestive remarks and trying to convince Sam that he's still in the cage with him. Didn't take too long for it to shift into the first type.
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* In ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'', Maria is James' hallucination. [[Mind Screw|Maybe]].
* No way around the spoiler here - {{spoiler|Viktor Reznov}} in [[Call of Duty|Call of Duty: Black Ops]].
* In the "Valley of the Mad" scenario in ''[[Rise of Legends]]'', [[The Hero|Giacomo]] starts going loopy and the rest of the army has to defend him until he gets over his madness. Among other things he is attacked by hallucinatory chicken monsters during the scenario.
* The ''[[Dead Space (series)|Dead Space]]'' series has a [http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Hallucinations lots of hallucinations] but the most prominent one? {{spoiler|Nicole}}.
=== Western Animation ===
* In the series finale for ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Azula hallucinates her that her mother is talking to her, while giving herself an [[Important Haircut|insane haircut]].
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