This is a guest post by George Wallis, one of my PhD students. We recently attended a seminar in which Oliver Sacks discussed his recent book ‘Hallucinations'. In this post George discusses the ways ...
A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows how flickering light can cause hallucinations in our brain: it produces "standing waves" of brain activity. The work is published in ...
Turns out not everyone experiences the same sights.
In Oliver Sacks' book The Mind's Eye, the neurologist included an interesting footnote in a chapter about losing vision in one eye because of cancer that said: "In the '60s, during a period of ...
Medically reviewed by Arno Kroner, DAOM Key Takeaways Sleep deprivation can start causing hallucinations after just 24 hours ...