Scientists use black and white image to understand why we hallucinate

This black and white image may looks like a random pattern of blotches, but if you glance at the photo below, it’s likely you will start to make sense of it and see a similar image of a baby. In other words, they think hallucinations may be caused by a natural process used by the brain to make sense of the world and that most of us experience them at one point or another. Scientists think hallucinations may be caused by a natural process used by the brain to make sense of the world and that most of us experience them at one point or another. They examined how these people – along with a group of 16 healthy volunteers – were able to use predictions in order to make sense of ambiguous, incomplete black and white images, similar to the one of the baby. They predicted that since hallucinations may come from a greater tendency to superimpose one’s predictions on the world, people prone to seeing things would be better at identifying correct features in the abstract images.