negative hallucination, n.Definitions

Negative hallucination (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the art of not seeing people who are standing right in front of you.

A Negative hallucination (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the failure, also called systematic anaesthesia, to perceive a particular person or thing though the senses work, as when a medium in trance saw everyone in the room except Jung until he spoke.

Negative hallucination (n.) let ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠me read the same page repeatedly and pass over the very sentence each time — the failure to find it was a symptom designed to lead me astray.