Lilliputian Hallucinations

Abstract

Raoul Leroy was the first alienist to take a scientific interest in diminutive hallucinations which he labelled “Lilliputian” (1909) and they can best be described in his own words (1922).“It is the vision of small people, men and women of minute and slightly variable height; either above or accompanied by small animals or small objects all relatively proportionate in size…. These hallucinations are mobile, coloured, generally multiple … All this little world, clothed generally in bright colours, walks, runs, plays and works in relief and perspective.”