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How come i smell, hear, and see things that are not there?

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Dr. Gebrehana Zebro (formerly Woldegiorgis) answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Called hallucination: Hallucination could arise from varieties of conditions . To mention some : any psychotic illness , temporal lobe epilepsy, lewy body dementia , drugs like lsd, pcp and others , brain tumors , dementias etc.

Dr Altman and 2 doctors agreed

Answered 9/29/2016

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