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{{quote|''Hallucinate''

''(I'm seeing shit on the wall...)''

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.

See also [[Pink Elephants]].

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== Entire Situation is a Hallucination ==

* 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.

* In ''[[A Beautiful Mind]]'', John Nash has quite a few hallucinations—including {{spoiler|his roommate/best friend, his niece, and even the intelligence assignment he had been working on.}}

* In ''[[Requiem for a Dream]]'', Ellen Burstyn's character experiences vivid hallucinations as a side effect of her amphetamine addiction.

* In ''The War Between Men and Women'', there's one scene where Jack Lemmon's character gets drunk and hallucinates.

* 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.

* In the ''[[Supernatural]]'' episode 'Hello Cruel World', Sam went around yelling at his hallucination of Satan for a whole day before he finally broke down - at which point he saw Dean taking him to a random office building. He was understandably freaked out when his image of Dean turned back into Lucifer and the building turned out to be a storage, and by the time the actual Dean came to get him, he was shooting at walls.

* In [[Twisted Metal|''Twisted Metal: Black'']], {{spoiler|The Preacher}} was having these in his Prologue. What he thought was {{spoiler|an exorcism}} was really {{spoiler|a baptism.}}

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', Herald Volazj, a [[Eldritch Abomination|Forgotten One]] in the Ahn'Kahet instance uses this as an attack, in combination with a [[Shapeshifter Guilt Trip]]- He puts a debuff on the party called "Insanity," which makes the player believe his party is trying to attack him.

* "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.]

* In one oddly dark ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch, [[Calvin and Hobbes]] kills his parents, believing Hobbes to have done it, and escapes to Mars... or rather, an insane asylum.

* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had Jimmy suffering from them during a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to ''[[I Am Legend]]''.

* In ''[[Dumbo]]'', the [[Pink Elephants]] sequence.

== Single Character is a Hallucination ==

* 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.

* 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 ''[[Go]]'', one stoned character thinks a cat is talking to him.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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]].

* 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}}

* 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]].