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Keynes, John Maynard - And the dancing wallpaper
Identifier
001548
Type of Spiritual Experience
Number of hallucinations: 1
Background
The hallucination was a bit more complex than the quote appears to show, however, the general idea is that the wallpaper took on a life of its own
A description of the experience
From Oliver Sacks – Hallucinations quoting from Dr Melchior
By the time we were back in Paris, I was feeling extremely unwell and took to my bed two days later.
High fever followed. . . .
I lay in my suite in the Majestic, nearly delirious, and the image of the raised pattern on the art nouveau wall-paper so preyed on my sensibilities in the dark that it was a relief to switch on the light and, by perceiving the reality, to be relieved for a moment from the yet more hideous pressure of its imagined outlines.