Illusion
Illusion (latine language - fallacy, delusion) - perverted perception of the really existing object. Illusions can appear even at psychically-healthy people.
Kinds of illusions:
- physical - related to the world's current physics law (for example, optical illusion: a spoon half dipped in the water is perceived as being broken);
- physiological - connected with the peculiarities of the peripheral and central analyzes-links (sense organs) of the human (f.e. - if we take with both hands two different by weight objects, and then put them down and take other two objects of the same weight, then the hand which earlier held the lighter object will perceive it to be heavier);
- verbal - appears in the result of a perverted perceiving of the surrounding people's discussion;
affective - appears as a consequence of a good/bad mood, or because of the fear effect;
- organic (metamorphopsical) - appears because of the perverted visual perception of shape, size, colour, space orientation;
- recognition illusion - feeling that somebody is near you. It is considered to be hallucinations and delirium;
- pareidolia illusions - a special kind of illusion. It consists in the fact that when looking at a certain complex pattern (carpet) you can see different unexisting pictures in your mind.
See examples of illusion here:
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