Auditory Hallucination (Noun)
Meaning
Illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- Researchers studied the phenomenon of auditory hallucination experienced by some individuals who reported hearing alien-like whispers in their ears when no one was around.
- After falling into a deep sleep, Sarah woke up to an eerie auditory hallucination of knocking sounds that seemed to come from nowhere.
- An experimental psychologist examined auditory hallucinations involving low-pitched whirring or buzzing that occurred when her subjects were under sensory deprivation.
- In an interview with a patient who was experiencing frequent auditory hallucinations, a psychiatrist asked her to describe the hissing sounds that only she could hear.
- Auditory hallucinations of prolonged piercing tones sometimes disturb isolated researchers at remote outposts, resulting in disrupted work.