Great post.. I thought you were just getting started with your last paragraph though... where you begin to open up about your own perception on the matter. :) I like that last paragraph.

I remember Terrence McKenna talking about the origin of the word hallucination denoting 'to wander in the mind', which I appreciated in its time. In searching, I came across this article, and some words from Oliver Sacks, which I felt worth sharing.

When the word “hallucination” first came into use, in the early sixteenth century, it denoted only “a wandering mind.” It was not until the 1830s that Jean-Étienne Esquirol, a French psychiatrist, gave the term its present meaning — prior to that, what we now call hallucinations were referred to simply as “apparitions.” Precise definitions of the word “hallucination” still vary considerably, considerably, chiefly because it is not always easy to discern where the boundary lies between hallucination, misperception, and illusion. But generally, hallucinations are defined as percepts arising in the absence of any external reality— seeing things or hearing things that are not there.

-Oliver Sacks
_{Source: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/09/oliver-sacks-hallucinations-ted/}