The link didn't work, but I suspect I am familiar with the content. I've experienced hallucinations for my entire life and had many, many discussions with professionals on the subject. Just discussions punctuated with lots of helpless shrugs. The mystery is not ready for prime time titillations. Theories abound but the realities of ^it^ remain highly sensitive and individualized.

I wouldn't know about the media talks on the subject. I barely even know who Ted Talks or Doctor Phil are.

https://www.webmd.com/brain/ss/slideshow-conditions-that-cause-hallucinations?ecd=wnl_wmh_032521&ctr=wnl-wmh-032521&mb=s1Xrjr9NLLQytC2mKHCZ3eHnVev1imbCQmC3J97nyCs%3D_leadtitlelink

I don't rely on webmd, nor do any respectable medical professionals. Why? It's designed to get you to click on it, so they make money from you seeing ads.

Causes vary, and may range from vitamin deficiency to brain tumor to stress. Our brains are a final frontier, and wee're lost in space, so to speak.

My psych doc does discuss this stuff, but onky because I ask a lot of questions.,

Leo good to know. Thanks

Oh, yeah, rose, I've had hallucinations, and not just visual ones like they show in movies. Auditory ones, too. Combat PTSD from living 6 years in a war zone overseas as a kid meant that my mind was desperate to get out of there. Since we couldn't evacuate physically, my brain just decided to evacuate mentally. Instead of staying spooked with it as I was initially, I leaned into it as part of imagination and got a BA, then and MA, then a PhD in literature teaching fiction novels in Spanish "magical realism." In other words, I made it work for me and pay the bills.

It didn't go so well in my personal life. My brain being that way didn't show up when dating, but when somebody moved in together with me it became impossible to hide that I live in an overlap between fiction and fact most of the time. I'm used to it, but my partners never did get used to it. To stop it took too much Seroquel for my kidneys and they got permanently damaged, so now I live alone with my magic realism. It doesn't get dangerous for me, it's just weird. I didn't realize for a long time how ordinary other people's lives are when I've got this hallucinating brain. Now I'm starting to think that, just speaking for me, an ordinary brain would be really boring for me after a while, though I'll never know. I just go toward the arts and find imagination helps me live with it and even enjoy it.

One thing: when people offer me LSD or other hallucinogen drugs, I laugh at them. I say why would I take anything that made me trippy when my brain is trippy every day all on its own?

Thanks Muji you are very strong.

I mainly experience olfactory and auditory hallucinations. My doctor thought I might have a brain tumor when I told him I smell smoke regularly when no one else did. I had an MRI and it was not a tumor. It was years before I connected the dots to PTSD.

Thank God that you didn't have a brain tumor. I did when I waa 30 years old