Hallucinations in children involve false perceptions of reality, such as hearing voices or seeing images that aren’t real. While they may seem concerning, most are temporary and resolve on their own.

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 ...

Neuroscientists have devised a way to alter our social perception and monitor specific types of hallucinations, both in healthy individuals and patients with Parkinson's disease. The test, which is ...

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 ...

Immersive virtual reality experiences can reproduce visual hallucination effects, miming those induced by the use of psychedelic substances. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

AI chatbots from tech companies such as OpenAI and Google have been getting so-called reasoning upgrades over the past months – ideally to make them better at giving us answers we can trust, but ...

I have experienced hallucinations several times in my life. When my kids were babies, I would hear crying in the night even when they weren’t. Just the other night while lying in bed, I saw a huge ...

Immersive virtual reality experiences can reproduce visual hallucination effects, miming those induced by the use of psychedelic substances. This is the result of an experimental study published in ...