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A term introduced in or shortly before 1951 by the American neurologist Caro W. Lippman (1886–1954) to denote a shaking sensation or shock movement which suggests that the bed – or the entire room – is shaking violently. This *kinaesthetic hallucination tends to occur during the period of relaxation prior to sleep onset, to last for half a minute or more, and to fade away gradually. Because of its association with migraine, the earthquake may be considered an *aural phenomenon. Lippman himself classifies it as a *space-motion hallucination.
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Blom, J.D. (2010). E. In: A Dictionary of Hallucinations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1223-7_5
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