I sometimes think I hear my alarm when I don’t, or feel a phone buzz in my pocket when it’s not there.

I sometimes think I hear my alarm when I don’t, or feel a phone buzz in my pocket when it’s not there.

Apparently hallucinations like this are relatively common. It’s only when the brain’s fact-checking process breaks down that they become psychosis.

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Is This the Real Thing? How the Brain Separates Fantasy From Reality http://suhub.co/2xygEgd

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  1. Laura Gibbs Avatar

    This will be fun to share with students: thank you!

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