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Hallucinations and illusions

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• Phantasmata: or, Illusions and Fanaticisms of Protean Forms, Productive of Great Evils (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1857), by Richard Robert Madden (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Being Stoned: A Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication, by Charles T. Tart (HTML at druglibrary.org)
• Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions: or, An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; London: G. and W. B. Whitaker, 1824), by Samuel Hibbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Blind Owl, by Sadeq Hedayat, trans. by Iraj Bashiri (HTML at angelfire.com)

• Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications (1922), by Matthew Luckiesh (illustrated HTML with commentary at visualillusion.net)

• La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)
• Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti
  • Part 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Delusion and Mass-Delusion (New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs, 1949), by Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, by Charles Mackay
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (second edition, 1852), by Charles Mackay (HTML at econlib.org)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (2-volume edition, 1852), by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)

• Henry IV, by Luigi Pirandello, trans. by Edward Storer (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (c1963), by Joseph Murphy (PDF at law-of-attraction-haven.com)
• The Mind at Mischief: Tricks and Deceptions of the Subconscious and How to Cope With Them (1929), by William S. Sadler, contrib. by Robert H. Gault and Meyer Solomon (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Unconscious: The Fundamentals of Human Personality, Normal and Abnormal (second edition; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Morton Prince (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1916), by C. G. Jung, trans. by Beatrice M. Hinkle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Unconscious Memory (London: A. C. Fifield, 1910), by Samuel Butler, contrib. by Marcus Hartog (Gutenberg text)
• Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious (New York: Moffat, Yard and company, 1916), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recollections of a Fallen Sky: Velikovsky and Cultural Amnesia: Papers Presented at the University of Lethbridge, May 9 and 10, 1974, ed. by Earl R. Milton (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem (2006), ed. by Harvey R. Colten and Bruce M. Altevogt (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• Psychography: A Treatise on One of the Objective Forms of Psychic or Spiritual Phenomena, by Stainton Moses (PDF at meilach.com)
• The Gospel of Philip the Deacon (complete edition, 1932 (Smith died in 1949)), by Frederick Bligh Bond and Hester Travers Smith (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Do You Dream, by Tony Crisp (HTML at dreamhawk.com)
• Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (New York: James A. McCann Co., 1920), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by M. D. Eder, contrib. by André Tridon (Gutenberg text)
• Dreams: What They Are and How They Are Caused (fourth edition, 1918), by C. W. Leadbeater (HTML at anandgholap.net)
• The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1918), by Katherine Taylor Craig
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Inner Light: Your Fantasies and Dreams, by Scott Hughes (HTML at ideapyramid.com)
• What's In a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams, by Gustavus Hindman Miller (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Emanuel Swedeborg's Journal of Dreams and Spiritual Experiences in the Yearr Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four (Bryn Athyn, PA: Academy Book Room, 1918), by Emanuel Swedenborg, trans. by C. Th. Odhner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted: or, What's In a Dream, by Gustavus Hindman Miller (Gutenberg text)

• The Night Side of Nature: or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1848), by Catherine Crowe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1905), by Winsor McCay (page images at HathiTrust)

• A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), by James Joyce, ed. by David Hayman (page images at Wisconsin)
• Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story, by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)
• Dreams, by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)
• Finnegans Wake (1939; second edition 1950), by James Joyce (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Hill of Dreams, by Arthur Machen (Gutenberg text)
• Peter Ibbetson, by George Du Maurier (Gutenberg text)
• The Dream, by Émile Zola, trans. by Eliza E. Chase (Gutenberg text)
• Gradiva: Ein Pompejanisches Phantasiestück (in German; Dresden and Leipzig: C. Reissner, 1903), by Wilhelm Jensen (Gutenberg text)
• Delusion and Dream: An Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of "Gradiva", a Novel by Wilhelm Jensen, Which is Here Translated (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1922), by Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Jensen, trans. by Helen M. Downey, contrib. by G. Stanley Hall
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Skin Deep: A Mind/Body Program for Healthy Skin (revised and expanded edition, 1992), by Ted A. Grossbart and Carl Sherman (PDF at grossbart.com)
• Self-Suggestion and the New Huna Theory of Mesmerism and Hypnosis (ca. 1958), by Max Freedom Long (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Psychology of Suggestion: A Research into the Subconscious Nature of Man and Society (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899), by Boris Sidis, contrib. by William James (PDF at djm.cc)

• Instantaneous Personal Magnetism: Combining an Absolutely New Method with the Best Established Teachings of the Past (14th edition enlarged; Manchester, UK: Psychology Pub. Co., 1935), by Edmund Shaftesbury (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Histoire Critique du Magnétisme Animal (2 volumes in French; Paris: Mame, 1813), by J. P. F. Deleuze (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire Critique du Magnétisme Animal (second edition; 2 volumes in French; Paris: Belin-Leprieur, 1819), by J. P. F. Deleuze
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Practical Instruction in Animal Magnetism (revised edition; New York: S. R. Wells and Co., 1879), by J. P. F. Deleuze, trans. by Thomas C. Hartshorn (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Self-Suggestion and the New Huna Theory of Mesmerism and Hypnosis (ca. 1958), by Max Freedom Long (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Basics of Sleep Behavior, by Sleep Research Society (frame-dependent HTML at sleephomepages.org)
• Sleep and Sleeplessness (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by H. Addington Bruce (multiple formats at archive.org)

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