How can we “hear” auditory hallucinations?

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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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You various causes.
The first is when you hear a sound as normal, your brain then processes this sound. Now at times what you actually hear isn’t that great in terms of volume and quality, so your brain has to process it and guess what sound it is. So this part can be broken, typically it might be that you hear people chatting and you think they are talking about you.

Second might be when your internal voices and thoughts get disassociated from you, so it sounds like you are hearing voices.

Then you might have some kind of misfiring in your auditory system so it sounds like you are hearing something when there is no input. The.

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