Hallucinations

by Oliver Sacks

(Music calls upon many more areas of the brain than any other activity—one reason why music therapy is useful for such a wide variety of conditions.)

(Cataplexy, indeed, can scarcely be hidden. I spoke to one man, by chance a friend of the comedian Robin Williams’s, who said that whenever he met Robin, he would lie down on the ground preemptively; otherwise, he was sure to fall down in a fit of laughter-induced cataplexy.)