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* In ''Rob Zombie's {{Halloween}} II'', Michael Myers has hallucinations about his [[WomanInWhite mother]] (and a selection of other random things, including pumpkin-headed aristocrats and white unicorns.)

* In the series finale for AvatarTheLastAirbender, Azula halluncinates her that her mother is talking to her, while giving herself an [[ImportantHaircut insane haircut]].

Of course, one attribute of having these is a difficulty to distuingish between real and imagined, leaving plenty of room for OrWasItADream twists. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness And if you can't even distinguish between the real and the imagined world anymore, well...]]

If you can't believe the thing your looking at, ask your friend [[DidYouSeeThatToo if he can see it too]].

** And lesser extent there is the Vault full of hallugenetic 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.

* In ''{{Farscape}}'', Harvey is a NotSoImaginaryFriend implanted in Crichton's mind by Scorpius. Even after the device causing the hallucination is removed, Harvey sticks around, much to John's consternation.

* 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 [[SchoolForScheming the Academy]]. In ''{{Serenity}}'', she has several hallucinations relating to Miranda.

->''Hallucinate''
->''(I'm seeing shit on the wall...)''
->''Why won't you go away?''
-->-- ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl1nxM3VEbg Dark Lotus - "Hallucinate"]]''

->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!
-->--'''[[MushroomSamba "Pink Elephants On Parade"]]''', ''{{Dumbo}}''

Bob has been undergoing SanitySlippage and begins hallucinating. Depending on the show, these may result in a TomatoSurprise at the end, revealing that someone he's been talking to was DeadAllAlong, or that the person he killed was an innocent bystander or an ally.

In a game with a SanityMeter, this is one of the signs (sometimes, the only one) that it's getting pretty low. The hallucinations may also somehow injure the character in-game, even though ''[[YourMindMakesItReal they're not actually there.]]'' They may also just result in a CameraScrew, InterfaceScrew, or ImpairmentShot.

If Bob is undergoing a MushroomSamba, the hallucinations will usually not be shown on-screen, making it look like he's afraid of trees and talking to rocks.

If the hallucination takes the form of a person talking with one of the characters, it has a very high chance of [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] itself by saying "I'm just a hallucination," or something along those lines.

* In ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', [[spoiler: The first arc]] has (that 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 FreakOut) and Rena's hallucination about the [[spoiler:maggots in her blood]] are other prominent examples.

* In [[TwistedMetal ''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 ''WorldOfWarcraft'', Herald Volazj, a [[EldritchAbomination Forgotten One]] in the Ahn'Kahet instance uses this as an attack, in combination with a ShapeshifterGuiltTrip- He puts a debuff on the party called "Insanity," which makes the player believe his party is trying to attack him.

* 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 NightmareFuel 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.

* In one oddly dark ''RobotChicken'' sketch, [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] 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 WholePlotReference to ''IAmLegend''.

* In ''AfroSamurai'', [[spoiler: Ninja Ninja]] turns out to be either this or [[spoiler: an ImaginaryFriend]] depending on how the viewer looks at it.

* In ''Rob Zombie's {{Halloween}} II'', Michael Myers has hallucinations about his [[WomanInWhite mother]] (and a selection of other random things, including pumpkin-headed aristocrats and white unicorns.)

* In a couple of episodes of ''{{Scrubs}}'', [[spoiler: dead or dying friends of]] the characters are hallucinations.

** Sorta. Mostly. Watching in retrospect, it seems the Dave in the flashbacks was a hallucination, while the Dave on the island is an apparition of the Smoke Monster, attempting to get Hurley to kill himself.

* In ''{{Dexter}}'', Harry Morgan has progressed from a {{flashback}} 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.

* In ''{{Farscape}}'', Harvey is a NotSoImaginaryFriend implanted in Crichton's mind by Scorpius. Even after the device causing the hallucination is removed, Harvey sticks around, much to John's consternation.
* [[GreysAnatomy Izzie Stevens]] hallucinates the ghost of Denny Duquette due to her [[spoiler: brain tumor]].
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Of course, one attribute of having these is a difficulty to distuingish between real and imagined, leaving plenty of room for OrWasItADream twists. [[InTheMouthOfMadness And if you can't even distinguish between the real and the imagined world anymore, well...]]

Of course, one attribute of having these is a difficulty to distuingish between real and imagined, leaving plenty of room for OrWasItADream twists. And if you can't even distuingish between the real and the imagined world anymore, well...

* In ''Rob Zombie's {{Halloween}} II'', Michael Myers has hallucinations about his [[WomanInWhite mother]]...and some rather random things, including pumpkin-headed aristocrats and white unicorns.

* In ''Rob Zombie's {{Halloween}} II'', Michael Myers has hallucinations about his [[WomanInWhite mother]].

* 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.

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* In ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', [[spoiler: The first arc]] has (that 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 FreakOut) and Rena's hallucination about the [[spoiler:maggots in her blood]] are other prominent examples.

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* In ''AfroSamurai'', [[spoiler: Ninja Ninja]] turns out to be either this or [[spoiler: an ImaginaryFriend]] depending on how the viewer looks at it.

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* In UminekoNoNakuKoroNi's fifth arc, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Natsuhi]] has deluded herself into believing that she is having conversations with [[spoiler:Kinzo]], Beatrice, and her furniture in spite of (and even in defiance of) the fact that the former [[spoiler:is dead]].

-->''Hallucinate''
-->''(I'm seeing shit on the wall...)''
-->''Why won't you go away?''
-->-''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl1nxM3VEbg Dark Lotus - "Hallucinate"]]''

If Bob is dying or near death, this may be the cause of his DyingDream.

Of course, one attribute of having these is a difficulty to distuingish between real and imagined, leaving plenty of room for OrWasItADream twists. And if you can't even distuingish between the real and the imagined world anymore, [[{{coPtitlev2ypgugs}} well]]...

** House also had a patient who hallucinated her dead mother. In the end, the team manages to diagnose her by asking her to "speak with her mother", through which she remembers symptopms her mother had before dying and the team is able to identify the disease they're both carrying.