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 ...

Visual hallucinations from wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) happen when your brain attempts to compensate for missing visual information caused by macula damage, creating images that ...

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 ...

Sometimes our brains do funny things. Take this study, for example, in which scientists blindfolded 13 people for 96 hours (four days) and had them record everything they “saw”. Ten participants had ...