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 ...

A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows how flickering light can cause hallucinations in our brain: it produces ‘standing waves’ of brain activity. You’re sitting on the bus ...

Hallucinations are more common than we think, and they may be an underlying mechanism for how our brains experience the world. One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe ...