Illusions: A Psychological Study

This volume offers a sweeping, scientific tour of the ways our minds deceive us, beginning with the familiar tricks of the senses and widening to the more subtle errors that shape everyday experience. The author lays out a clear taxonomy of illusion—distinguishing passive effects rooted in the body from active misinterpretations driven by expectation—and connects each to the underlying physiological and psychological conditions that produce them.

Listeners will travel through detailed examinations of visual and non‑visual perception, discover how dreams function as a special kind of illusion, and see the thin line that separates ordinary misperception from hallucinatory states. The writing stays firmly grounded in careful observation while gently nudging toward the philosophical questions such errors raise, making the study both intellectually rigorous and surprisingly relevant to daily life.