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Visions For All

People who report vivid religious experiences may hold clues to nonpsychotic hallucinations

Meeting the Almighty takes hallucinatory talent and training. And Hannah, a member of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, has got it down.

~~ Per-Eric Berglund/The Image Bank/Getty Images

HEARING VOICES A recent study looked at what characteristics of auditory hallucinations were shared and which differed among healthy participants and psychotic patients. Members of both groups hallucinated at least once a month. Scientists are not yet sure whether hallucinations in the two groups should be treated as the same phenomenon. ~~ K. Daalman et al/J Clin Psychiatry 2011

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