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. 2021 Nov 10;18(22):11799. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182211799

Table 1.

Characteristics of musical hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and obsessions [30].

Musical Hallucinations Musical Pseudohallucinations Musical Obsessions

  • Corporeal, complete, sensory-rich;

  • Projected in external space;

  • Independent of the subject’s will;

  • No insight that the auditory sensation is subjective and unreal;

  • No compulsion;

  • No resistance.

  • Imaginary;

  • Projected in internal space;

  • Independent of the subject’s will;

  • Have insight that the auditory sensation is subjective and unreal;

  • No compulsion;

  • No resistance.

  • Figurative, subjective space;

  • Heard in the past;

  • No voluntary control;

  • Associated compulsion possible;

  • Insight;

  • Resistance.