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Oliver Sacks - Musical notes
Identifier
001546
Type of Spiritual Experience
Number of hallucinations: 1
Background
A description of the experience
Oliver Sacks – Hallucinations
As a child, I ran high fevers when sick. With each spell, I would hallucinate. This was an optical hallucination involving musical notes and stanzas. I did not hear music. When the fever was high, I would see notes and clef lines, scrambled and out of order. The notes were angry and I felt unease. The lines and notes were out of control and at times in a ball. For hours, I would try to mentally smooth them out and put them in harmony or order. This same hallucination has plagued me as an adult when feverish.