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An auditory hallucination, or paracusia, [1] is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus. While experiencing an auditory hallucination, the affected person hears a sound or sounds that did not come from the natural environment. A common form of auditory hallucination involves hearing one or more voices ...
Musical hallucinations. Musical hallucinations (also known as auditory hallucinations, auditory Charles Bonnet Syndrome, and Oliver Sacks' syndrome [1]) describes a neurological disorder in which the patient will hallucinate songs, tunes, instruments and melodies. The source of these hallucinations are not correlated with psychotic illness. [2]
Auditory illusions are illusions of real sound or outside stimulus. [1] These false perceptions are the equivalent of an optical illusion : the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus , or sounds that should not be possible given the circumstance on how they were created.
Auditory hallucinations (also known as paracusia) [17] are the perception of sound without outside stimulus. Auditory hallucinations can be divided into elementary and complex, along with verbal and nonverbal. These hallucinations are the most common type of hallucination, with auditory verbal hallucinations being more common than nonverbal.
Pareidolia (/ ˌpærɪˈdoʊliə, ˌpɛər -/; [1] also US: / ˌpɛəraɪ -/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia. Common examples include perceived images of ...
The Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) is the name used by organizations and individuals advocating the "hearing voices approach", [1] an alternative way of understanding the experience of those people who "hear voices". In the medical professional literature, ‘voices’ are most often referred to as auditory verbal hallucinations.
Earworm. An earworm or brainworm, [1] also described as sticky music or stuck song syndrome, [2] is a catchy or memorable piece of music or saying that continuously occupies a person's mind even after it is no longer being played or spoken about. [3][4] Involuntary Musical Imagery (INMI) is most common after earworms, [5][6][7][8][9] but INMI ...
Hyperphantasia is the condition of having extremely vivid mental imagery. [1] It is the opposite condition to aphantasia, where mental visual imagery is not present. [2][3] The experience of hyperphantasia is more common than aphantasia [4][5] and has been described as being "as vivid as real seeing". [4] Hyperphantasia constitutes all five ...