What causes auditory hallucinations in the brain? For example, when you are sleep deprived, it is possible to hear things very clearly as if they were real. For example, voices of people talking, which some people with schizophrenia experience commonly in their daily lives. But of course there is no input from the ears. So what exactly is happening and how is that possible?
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There’s a theory that hallucinations especially in conditions that involve psychosis are actually signals in the brain being misinterpreted by other parts of the brain.
I’m told there’s actually a therapy based around learning to communicate with those hallucinations and understanding what your subconscious is trying to communicate (which part of the theory is that the subconscious is communicating with itself but the signals are being interpreted as something that’s real such as auditory signals or visual signals). Instead of being afraid of it or fighting it, the therapy encourages people to understand the message and work with it (not necessarily to agree with it but to make a decision once they understand the meaning behind it).
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