From Smithsonian Magazine's Smart News:
Hallucinatory illnesses come in many forms. Some hear voices in their heads, others see small people, threatening insects or bold colors that don’t exist. Still others, it turns out, hallucinate in musical notes. Neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks describes the phenomenon in a new paper published in the journal Brain.The piece at the top is just one of John Stump's creations.
More than a quarter of patients who suffer from hallucinations manifest those visions as “text hallucinations,” Sacks writes. This could include seeing lines of print, letters, numbers, musical notes or other notations. Musical notes seems to be the rarest form of this type of hallucination.
Sacks, however, specializes somewhat in musical hallucinations....MORE
