Sometimes I think someone has called my name and they never said anything.
Sometimes I’ve even heard what seemed like someone shout right next to my face, but that mostly happens when I’m close to falling asleep!
I hope that makes a bit of sense!
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First off… most of the things you perceive in life are a bit artificial. For example: You think you can see colors in the periphery besides your focus. Actually that’s biologically impossible since the receptors that perceive your periphery are mostly only seeing black and white, more accurate the brightness. So your brain fills in the gaps by experience or memory. I think that is what is happening to you. You are in a situation and hear or see something. Now you expected a specific reaction because you are subconsciously used to it. For example: Maybe you know the situation where you have to ask someone several times what they said, although they clearly stated it and it should be easy to understand. But maybe your thoughts were in a completely different direction and the words spoken didn’t meet your expectation. Now your brain needs time to adjust. If it’s not that, you are having hallucinations but it think that’s unlikely from what you said. Additionally there are interesting experiments where test subjects are conditioned to a specific sound while doing a specific task. Now the sound is gone while they do the task and can still sometimes hear the sound. Of course it differs depending on how susceptible a person is to these kinda manipulations.
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