““Did you experience hallucinations or illusions?”
“What’s the difference?”
“An illusion is a misreading of actual sensory data, while a hallucination is seeing something that isn’t there.””

Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 7, “Who Is the Black Beast?” (p. 109)

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