You may see colors, patterns, and shapes when you shut your eyes due to activity between neurons in the brain and your vision. Some health conditions also cause closed-eye hallucinations. Share on ...

Hypnagogic hallucinations are visions or sounds that happen as you fall asleep. The idea of having hallucinations can be upsetting. Hallucinations are usually associated with serious mental conditions ...

Hallucinations are unreal sensory experiences, such as hearing or seeing something that is not there. Any of our five senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch) can be involved. Most often, when we ...

Hallucinations are sensory experiences that seem real but aren’t, often arising from health conditions or substance use, while delusions are firm beliefs in false ideas despite contrary evidence.

Hallucinations can be a sign of a mental health illness, but they do not always mean a person is unwell. Hallucinations are, in fact, relatively common. One 2015 study from Europe found that 7.3 ...

This is a guest post by George Wallis, one of my PhD students. We recently attended a seminar in which Oliver Sacks discussed his recent book ‘Hallucinations'. In this post George discusses the ways ...