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Auditory hallucination
Auditory hallucinations can be described as 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 these are usually experienced as clips of recorded sound, such as imagined music or voices, and an infinite variety of sounds that are stored within the memory banks of one's brain.
This effect can be broken down into 4 distinct levels:
- 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 strictly heard only embedded within genuine sounds produced by the external environment. For example, one may hear music in 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 within other noises.
- Fully defined, separate hallucinations - At this level, the sounds become fully defined in their clarity, meaning that the specific words being spoken or musical content of the hallucination can be recognized and heard perfectly.
Psychoactive substances
Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:
Experience reports
Anecdotal reports which describe this effect within our experience index include:
- Experience: 18 mg 2C-I - Visually intense and strong bodily sensations
- Experience:2 tabs DOB - My DOB Nightmare
- Experience:5g Mushrooms - Failed attempt at a Terence Mckenna style trip.
- Experience:700mg Diphenhydramine trip
- Experience:Dem Shadow People and Such (A Retrospective)
- Experience:Unknown Dose DOC (Insufflated) - Overdosing and Terifying Ego Death
- Experience:~150mg MDA(oral) - a case of mistaken identity
See also
- Subjective effects index
- Psychedelics - Subjective effects
- Dissociatives - Subjective effects
- Deliriants - Subjective effects