#49 in Popular science
Hallucinations
- 352
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #7
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Our view
“Hallucinations” is a humane, wide-ranging tour of perceptions that arise inside the mind with nothing outside to cause them. Oliver Sacks draws on his patients and on his own experience, migraines included, and moves from sensory deprivation and drugs to sleep disorders and strange visual doublings. Each case becomes a way into how the brain builds what we perceive, which suits readers who come for the people as much as the neuroscience.
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About the book
Hallucinations is a 2012 book written by the neurologist Oliver Sacks. In Hallucinations, Sacks recounts stories of hallucinations and other mind-altering episodes of both his patients and himself and uses them in an attempt to elucidate certain features and structures of the brain including his own migraine headaches.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 81 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 36% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Popular science average of 8.3. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.3 | 13 | 16% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 68 | 84% |
Frequently asked
How long is Hallucinations?
It has 352 pages — longer than 54% of the ranked books in Popular science.
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