Auditory hallucination

Auditory hallucinations can be described as the experience of hearing spontaneous imaginary noises that are either triggered at complete random or manifested in the place of noises that are subconsciously expected to happen. The most common examples of this usually hear clips of recorded sound such as imagined music, voices or an infinite variety of potentially sounds that are stored in one's memory.

The experience of this effect can be broken down into three distinct levels of intensity. These are described and documented below:

Partially defined embedded hallucinations - At this level, the sounds are partially defined in their clarity which means that they sound indistinct, muffled, and difficult to make out. They are also only heard as embedded within real sounds occurring within the external environment. For example, one may hear music or voices embedded within the sounds of the wind, cars, and rain.
Partially defined separate hallucinations - At this level, the sounds remain only partially defined, but become heard on a separate layer of their own instead of only manifesting themselves as embedded within other noises.
Fully defined separate hallucinations - At this level, the sounds become fully defined in their clarity, meaning that the content of the hallucinations can be recognized and heard perfectly as if they were occurring.

Psychoactive substances

Experience reports

Anecdotal reports which describe this effect within our experience index include:

Auditory hallucination

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Experience reports

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