#illusions

[viejospellejos]

no te hagas ilusiones

[illustratus]

Astolfo in his turn is lured to Atlante's Palace of Illusions (Orlando Furioso) by Gustave Doré

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Religion is at its best when it makes us ask hard questions about ourselves. It is at its worst when it deludes us into thinking we have all the answers for everybody else." Archibald McLeish.

[that-vexaholic-cryptid]

[hektor-world]

I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday.

[schizopositivity]

I'd love it if more people understood the difference between hallucinations and illusions. So let me try to explain with examples. [TW: examples of auditory hallucinations and illusions described as you experiencing them]

1. Imagine you are home alone with your windows closed and it's silent. And then you hear unfamiliar voices talking about you, it sounds like they are coming from another room. You go to check but no one is there. Your brain created entire voices of people out of thin air. This is a hallucination. There is nothing but your brain creates something.

2. Now imagine you are in the same scenario but your windows are open but the curtains are closed. You hear your neighbors having a conversation, and you hear it as them talking about what you are doing in that moment. They couldn't possibly see what you are doing, so realistically they can't be talking about you, but your brain makes you change the words and hear it that way. This is an illusion. There is something but your brain changes the real thing into something unreal.

It's not always easy to know the difference when you are experiencing it. But if you do know which one it is (nothing there and something unreal appears or something there changes to something unreal) then I think it can be really helpful to label the symptom accurately.

For me it was helpful to gage the effectiveness of my medication. I noticed that I have more illusions than hallucinations, and for me that was a sign of improvement. It can also go the other way, to see if your psychosis is getting more severe.

[philosophybits]

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

[thirdity]

The original void is amorphous, sterile, homogeneous, symmetrical. It is perfect. No reality can emerge there. It is absolute illusion. This symmetry has to be broken if a law-governed materiality is to establish itself — an imperfection, in which real bodies emerge (but where can such an imperfection possibly come from? What sets off breakings of symmetry?). Of that imperfection, we — human beings — are the trace, since perfection is of the order of the inhuman. We are also, however, the heirs of the Void, of the Nothing, of that primal scene of absence, that perfectly indecipherable and enigmatic state of the Universe — a situation which will never be compensated for by the real and the hegemony of the real. We are the heirs both to symmetry and to breakings of symmetry, and our imperfection is as radical as the radical illusion of the Void can be.

Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime

[belamercado]

The illusions of childhood are necessary experiences: a child should not be denied a balloon just because an adult knows that sooner or later it will burst.

The Ladies' Home Journal, September 1948

[trinalwilliams]

"The universe whispers secrets, guiding us to the doorstep of our truest selves."

Tlw

[vhscorp]

Bien qu’ils ne soient souvent qu’illusions, nos rêves nous protègent du désespoir…

V. H. SCORP

[witchrealms]

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[whump-galaxy]

The Whumper using magic to make themselves look like the Whumpee’s friends, family members, or teammates when torturing them. Eventually the Whumpee refuses to believe anyone coming to save them is real. They can’t get the cruel voices of their own loved ones out of their own mind.

[graciedart]

tortle / school of illusions wizard / male

"Bog, Mystery, Glamour" 🎭

for @NirnrootNoises !

[rosegoldorigins]

Lego Monkie Kid Season 5

(Clone analysis)

You know what makes me sad? The fact clone MK sounds far happier than real MK in the past two episodes.

Wukong made MK from season 1. (Unburdened and happy) whereas season 5 MK sounds heavy in his voice (which btw amazing voice acting. I didn’t even notice how tired he sounded until the clone appeared on screen. I was like “Oh no our boy!!!! T^T Remember when he was happy? Yeah, haven’t heard him happy in a good minute" :(

[nintendonut1]

"Iron Maiden," a Super Mario RPG comic

In 2010, I illustrated my take on that particular Fear status spell.

Over 10 years later, I decided to redo it.

The original, for those who'd like to compare. Honestly, Younger Me was definitely cooking, making this particular Fear spell being the worst possible illusion you could have. I hope I made it a lot scarier this time!