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Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of s satirical (1726) or its protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver.
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gulliverian hallucination — Also known as brobdingnagian hallucination. Both terms denote a *macroptic hallucination depicting one or more disproportionally large human figures, either in isolation or embedded in an environment of regular proportions. The gulliverian… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
lilliputian hallucination — A term used to denote a hallucination featuring miniature individuals, animals, objects, or fantasy figures. The notion of lilliputian hallucination constitutes the logical and conceptual counterpart of the gulliverian hallucination. Both… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
brobdingnagian hallucination — Also known in the literature in the (misspelled) variants brobdignagian hallucination and brodnigagian hallucination. The term brobdingna gian hallucination is indebted to Brobdingnag,the name of a fictitious country inhabited by huge people,… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
Silverlock — infobox Book | name = Silverlock image caption = First edition cover author = John Myers Myers cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Fantasy novel publisher = E. P. Dutton release date = 1949 media type =… … Wikipedia
Kazohinia — infobox Book | name = Kazohinia title orig = hu:Gulliver utazása Kazohiniában, eo:Vojaĝo al Kazohinio translator = Inez Kemenes image caption = Cover of Kazohinia author = Sándor Szathmári illustrator = cover artist = Mária Hódosi country =… … Wikipedia
Dennis Hird — James Dennis Hird (28 January 1850 13 July 1920) was a British clergyman, educator and author. Hird was born in Ashby, Lincolnshire (now part of Scunthorpe) to Robert and Fanny Dennis Hird née Kendall.[1][2][3] He was the second of five sons,… … Wikipedia
amanita reverie — A term used to denote a hallucinatory state attributed to intoxication with the mushroom Amanita muscaria. A. muscaria is known under many other names, including A. formosa, A. mex icana, A. muscaria, Agaricus muscarius, fly mushroom, fly… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
macroptic hallucination — The term macroptic hallucination is indebted to the Greek words makros (large) and opsis (seeing). It refers to a visual hallucination in which the object or scene in question is perceived as disproportionally large in comparison with the… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
migraine aura — The term migraine comes from the Old English megrim, which is in turn indebted to the Greek noun hèmikranion (meaning half the skull). The introduction of the term hèmikranion is attributed to the classical physician Galen of Pergamum, born as … Dictionary of Hallucinations
peduncular hallucination — Also known as peduncular hallucinosis, pedunculopontine hallucinosis, Lhermitte s hallucinosis, Lhermitte syndrome, *brainstem hallucination, and mesencephalic hallucinosis. The eponyms Lhermitte s hallucinosis and Lhermitte syndrome refer to… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
