All of us probably hallucinate to some degree or other. Some people hardly ever have these kind of anomalous experiences. Other people at the other extreme might be somebody who's going through a psychotic breakdown. But there's also all points in between. And there's an area where people might have quite a lot of these experiences. They might hear voices, they might see things that other people don't see and so on but not actually be worried about it. And maybe even think it's a gift.
Why do so many people think they can see and hear ghosts, and what does that say about our conscious experience of the world? This episode originally ran on October 27, 2021.
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