tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post8888339660873525385..comments2024-03-22T00:30:09.536-07:00Comments on The Neurocritic: Götterdämmerung HalluzinationThe Neurocritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-27772890120336657672009-06-14T06:22:01.911-07:002009-06-14T06:22:01.911-07:00Right - of course the line between hallucinations ...Right - of course the line between hallucinations and imagery is blurred though. <br /><br />I've always wondered what would happen to someone who was brought up in a culture that denied the existence of, say, the imagery you experience when you're falling off to sleep. <br /><br />We write it all off as "just imagery", something normal and entirely "in our heads", but might they not experience it as a hallucination?Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-5273677996617510182009-06-11T12:53:47.844-07:002009-06-11T12:53:47.844-07:00These phenomena can perhaps account for the variab...These phenomena can perhaps account for the variable estimates. The Schakenraad et al. paper says:<br /><br /><i>"The prevalence of 27% presented by Hermesh et al. (2004) is very high. Probably, inclusion of imagery has inflated the prevalence in the latter study, as the questionnaire that was used did not distinguish between musical hallucinations and obsessive musical imagery."</i>The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-75209267620558290522009-06-11T11:55:55.004-07:002009-06-11T11:55:55.004-07:00I quite often hear music when falling off to sleep...I quite often hear music when falling off to sleep - sometimes music I've heard, sometimes "new" music (as far as I can tell)... Paul McCartney famously woke up with the tune to Yesterday in his head and wrote it down. the ability to have musical "hallucinations" seems very common, although most people don't have them while wide awake.Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.com