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A hallucination, in the broadest sense of the word, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. The latter definition distinguishes hallucinations from the related phenomena of dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness; illusion, which involves distorted or misinterpreted real perception; imagery, which does not mimic real perception and is under voluntary control; and pseudohallucination, which does not mimic real perception, but is not under voluntary control. Hallucinations also differ from "delusional perceptions", in which a correctly sensed and interpreted stimulus (i.e. a real perception) is given some additional (and typically bizarre) significance.
Hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality — visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, proprioceptive, equilibrioceptive, nociceptive, thermoceptive and chronoceptive.
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American philosopher, psychonaut, researcher, teacher, lecturer and writer on many subjects, such as human consciousness, language, psychedelic drugs, the evolution of civilizations, the origin and end of the universe, alchemy, and extraterrestrial beings.
Terence McKenna grew up in Paonia, Colorado. He was introduced to geology through his uncle and developed a hobby of solitary fossil hunting in the arroyos near his home. From this he developed a deep artistic and scientific appreciation of nature.
At age 16, McKenna moved to Los Altos, California to live with family friends for a year. He finished high school in Lancaster, CA. In 1963, McKenna was introduced to the literary world of psychedelics through The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley and certain issues of The Village Voice that talked about psychedelics.
McKenna claimed that one of his early psychedelic experiences with morning glory seeds showed him "that there was something there worth pursuing." In an audio interview Terence Mckenna claims to have started smoking cannabis regularly during the summer following his 17th birthday.
Light in the sky
Clouds passing by
Top of my window
The sun isn't shy
Gets in my eyes
Must be a rainbow
There's a color and you got surprised
It's a deep shade of you in disguise
Rainbow
Every morning
Sometimes at night
Circle of light
Shines on my pillow
Near where I sleep
Colors just creep
And dance through my window
There's a color and you got surprised
It's a deep shade of you in disguise
Rainbow
Every morning
Giving me hallucinations
Try to cut my circulation
Feeds my brain information
Gives my body new gyrations
Holds up to my expectations
I need those elevations
I'm covered in persperation
Light in the sky
Clouds passing by
Top of my window
The sun isn't shy
Gets in my eyes
Must be a rainbow
There's a color and you got surprised
It's a deep shade of you in disguise
Rainbow
Every morning
Rainbow
Every morning
Rainbow