10 Fascinating Facts About Hallucinations

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Magicians create hallucinations. They use the physical limitations of the human body's visual senses to perform feats of magic. They are called illusions but are, in effect, hallucinations. It seems that something is real when it is not. A card passes from one person to another without contact. The magician's helper is sawed in half and then returns whole unharmed. People believe it and puzzle over it because their minds tell them that it looks real. The method used to perform the illusion is not in people's minds and, therefore, they can relate to what is happening only based on their own experience. The magician uses this fact and people's visual limitations to create the illusion. This an entertaining form of hallucination.