surreal
relating to false information that is produced by an artificial intelligence(= a computer system that has some of the qualities that the human brain has, such as the ability to produce language in a way that seems human):
One of the big problems with creative AIs is that it is all too easy for them to switch from accurate to hallucinatory.
If the system goes into a hallucinatory state, the advice is to reset the system.
Some indigenous peoples use hallucinatory drugs to achieve spiritual experiences.
There can be severe psychiatric complications including chronic paranoid hallucinatory psychoses.
My first hallucinatory experience had nothing to do with drugs.
I was haunted by the striking, hallucinatory imagery of her poems.
The music is woozy, almost hallucinatory.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dreaming
be hearing/imagining/seeing thingsidiom
be miles awayidiom
daydream
daydreamer
daydreaming
dream
dreamfully
dreamless
dreamlessly
dreamscape
fantasist
in a dreamidiom
mile
night terror
nightmare
oneiric
optical illusion
reverie
thing
Walter Mitty

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Strange, suspicious and unnatural
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Examples of hallucinatory

hallucinatory
Discharging lesions in medial and anterior temporal cortex cause recurring nightmares during sleep and unpleasant hallucinatory experiences during waking life.
The level of abstractness of learned prototypes may covary with the abstractness of imagery and hallucinatory content.
Why is it that antimuscarinic agents have hallucinatory properties when theory predicts the exact opposite?
Paranoid-hallucinatory symptoms and formal thought disorder in schizophrenia could then be conceptualized as impairments of generating reliable predictions in different subsystems of the self-model.
Moreover, patients with formal thought disorder and paranoid-hallucinatory syndrome were less sensitive than the patient control group.
Sensitivity for mismatches between self-generated movements and their visual consequences is lower in patients with paranoid-hallucinatory syndrome, compared to patients without these symptoms.
While hallucinatory experiences are ipso facto veridical, the converse is false.
The model of visual impairment and underconstrained perception lacks the ability to explain this complexity of hallucinatory events.
The imperceptible vibrations from the ship caused the liquor bottles on the shelves in the tax-free shop to rattle, and the effect was quite hallucinatory.
Agreement between self-report and clinical assessment of hallucinatory experiences should be studied further.
The aim of the current study was to determine whether there is a failure of self-monitoring in patients with paranoid-hallucinatory syndrome or formal thought disorder.
Finally, the detection rates of patients with formal thought disorder were lower than for patients with paranoid-hallucinatory syndrome, especially at the 1 : 1.6 level.
Core symptoms within the paranoid-hallucinatory syndrome are acoustic hallucinations and delusions of reference.
In the often helpful idiom of modality de re, this constitutes or entails the tenet that the property being non-hallucinatory is invariably accidental (non-essential) to experiences which have it.
The criterion of "hallucinatory quality" might be applied equally well to mentation in all sensory dimensions, and possibly also to emotion, pain, and other organic sensations.
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