Do you see ghost OR hear voices?

Have you ever seen something that isn’t really there, or heard a sound without knowing who is speaking? These things feel so real that their effect stays in your brain for many days. Have you ever wondered why this happens and what it's called?

Hallucination is a sense of feeling, seeing, smelling or hearing something that isn't real, or doesn't even exist.

Hallucination can happen due to some altered chemical changes or disorders of brain.

Hallucination has various causes including mental illness as the Major ones.

Let's see what are those causes:

1. Schizophrenia: more than 70% of patients suffering from schizophrenia tend to hallucinate about voices, touch or smell which isn't real.
2. Parkinson's disease: People who are suffering from Parkinson are most likely to suffer from hallucinations.
3. Alzheimer's disease: Patients suffering from advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease can have hallucinations sometimes.
4. Brain tumor: Brain tumor cause different forms of hallucinations such as visual, smell or sounds on the basis of location of tumor in the brain.
5. Epilepsy: people who have epilepsy, can also hallucinate on the basis of the type of seizures they get.

source:https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/feelings-and-symptoms/hallucinations-hearing-voices/

             https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702442/