How can you answer that? It’s in the nature of a hallucination
that it appears unequivocally real, so for all you know the psychiatrist
himself might be a hallucination, and what he’s saying might be words your mind
has put into his unreal mouth. How can you know what’s a hallucination and what
isn’t? Come to that, your whole life might be one long hallucination. There are
those who claim it is.
So if the psychiatrist says 'that strange experience you had
was certainly a hallucination', how can you trust him? You can’t even trust him
if he says 'in my opinion you’re completely sane.' It might just be that you’re
creating a phantasm in order to hear what you want to hear.
That’s why I tend towards circumspection in all things, even
when it comes to the question of whether there is any such thing as a
hallucination.
* * *
Incidentally, I didn’t find any loopholes in tonight’s
episode of X Files because I hadn’t a
clue what was going on. And now I’m listening to the LSO playing Nimrod (in Japan.)
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