A Rational Explanation of Hallucinations

A rational explanation of hallucinations is largely based on one's mental history. If a patient presents with a neurosis or psychosis, this could be legitimate grounds for hallucinations. So would a disease such as schizophrenia. This disease usually presents itself during the mid to late twenties. Manic/depressive disorder or bipolar disorder could cause hallucinations in certain situations.

If a person presents with a current or latent use of PCP or LSD, they could also experience hallucinations. Years after using the drugs. Also, if you take enough mind-altering drugs at a pharm party or somewhere else, you are subject to hallucinations...and death.

There are people who see "things" or hallucinate, that I believe are perfectly lucid. They just have a gift or curse of seeing things before they happen. They are psychic, and they are real. Years ago, and even today, they would be dubbed as lunatics or some other word alluding to a mental problem. When, in fact, they are as sane as, or more so than most people. The "I see dead people", is not entirely untrue.

So, we have mental problems causing hallucinations; drugs; and psychics. This is as rational as I can get on this particular situation

However, rationality does not have anything to do with it. Come on; be honest...have you ever seen anything that wasn't really there. Perhaps when you were in a spooky mood or you caught a glance at someone familiar at a bar, and on the second take, they weren't there.

We don't know that there are only six senses or three dimensions. We just accept it as that. Scientists say a dog sees in two dimensions. Can you imagine that? That third dimension is there and we know it, but the dog doesn't.

When the government, CIA or whatever conducted the remote viewing experiments, were those people hallucinating? No. They were seeing things that most of us can't see and they could even tell what was going on in the area. They could draw you a map. Perhaps that could be called a productive hallucination.

Hallucinations don't even have to be visual. I have heard whispers in my ear when I was in certain locations I considered haunted, and I'm not psychotic, neurotic nor schizophrenic. But I heard talking...I couldn't make it out. I couldn't understand the words, but I heard talking. I also heard walking up the stairs when nothing was there.

It just boils down to the fact that we don't know everything. There are things or people or spirits or whatever that communicates somehow with normal people. And that's just it. That is a rational explanation, period.