U ovom su članku razrađene sljedeće ideje i teze: (1) halucinator može pretraživati vlastite halucinacije, što često i čini, iz čega slijedi da halucinacija, premda po naravi nefizička, ipak jest objekt, pretraživan (ili barem pretraživ), (2) premda povlašten, halucinatorov pristup halucinaciji nije neutralan, nego selektivan, (3) premda kompetentan očevidac vlastite halucinacije, halucinator može u mnogom pogledu biti inkompetentan izvjestitelj o njezinu sadržaju, (4) izvještaj o halucinaciji (koliko god da je ona sama po svojoj naravi privatna) moguć je zato što su javne kategorije pod koje ona biva u izvještaju podvedena, (5) izvještaji o halucinacijama mogu biti ciljani ili spontani, (6) glavna je svrha spontanih izvještaja o halucinaciji da izvijeste o situacijskom značenju halucinacije i o njezinu doživljaju, a ne o njezinu pojavnom sadržaju, (7) naše razumijevanje spontanih izvještaja o halucinacijama omogućeno je, u prvom redu, kognitivnom empatijom, a ne imaginacijom. In this paper, the following ideas and theses are elaborated: (1) hallucinations can be, and often are, scanned by the hallucinator, from which it follows that, although nonphysical by their nature, hallucinations nevertheless are objects being scanned (or at least being scannable). (2) Though privileged, the hallucinator’s access to his or her own hallucination is not neutral, but selective. (3) While being a competent ‘perceiver’ of his or her own hallucination, the hallucinator may in many respects be an incompetent reporter on its content. (4) What makes a report on a hallucination possible (despite the fact that the very hallucination is, by its nature, private) is the public nature of the categories under which it is subsumed within the report. (5) Reports on hallucinations may be directed or free. (6) The main object of free reports on hallucinations is to convey the situational meaning of the hallucination and the lived experience of it, rather than its phenomenal content. (7) It is primarily cognitive empathy (rather than imagination) that makes our understanding of free reports on hallucinations possible.