Recently, I’ve been starting to get more hypnopompic hallucinations. I was always confused how people couldn’t differentiate between hallucinations, there must be something that throws them off?
I was waking up the other day on the couch and noticed by sibling beside the couch with their head against the wall and side-eyeing me and talking. It freaked me the heck out and it was not until later that I realized I was hallucinating. The shading, the composition, the weight, the voice in relation to how close they were to me – it was all very realistic, nothing seemed off.
How does the brain make hallucinations so real and understand how to make hallucinations interact with the 3D environment? What exactly are hallucinations?
Like, I don’t understand why I’m not able to see through (or what’s on the other side of) the hallucination because technically, nothing is there.
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Hallucinations are basically overfitting. Your brain is always looking for patterns. Under certain conditions, it starts finding patterns in noise.
Go in a closet and turn off all the lights. Put a towel under the door so it is completely black. Wait about 15 minutes. You will start seeing shit (anyone would).
Given psychological states like mania, intoxication, sleep, etc., this effect can be noticed in a weird and wonderful and sometimes scary and alarming variety of ways.
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