Transplanting a Seattleite

However, I've been thinking I should probably give him another try. M. has read a lot of his stuff, and M. has actually quite good taste in non-fiction, so perhaps Sacks set off some idiosyncratic thing in me that I have since recovered from.

Sacks is right about the stigma of hallucinations, however, the diagnostic community has progressed so far into sanity that there appears to be strong collective understanding that hallucinations are not inherently pathological, and I think that auditory hallucinations with no other problems are no longer enough to trigger a schizophrenia or delusional disorder diagnosis.

Which is good, because I have had all kinds of hallucinations over the years and I'd sure hate to be locked up over them, when they are innocuous, transient, and I've got a whole bag of tricks for identifying them as Not Actually There. [<-- My little effort to normalize the phenomena. Also, true.]