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Have you ever had auditory pareidolia on the trail? (lemmy.world)
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I was hiking in a wilderness area...a very remote trail without a lot of action, and at one point I heard voices...I swore I heard human voices.

It was up in the mountains, too, so there wasn't much to make noise like that.

Obviously, I know it's my brain hearing trees groaning in the wind and quickly shortcutting to, "must be a human voice!" But it was just eerie.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Too much caffeine.

And it's not really pareidolia what your describing. Just auditory hallucinations.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/caffeine-linked-to-hallucinations-51161154/

Pareidolia refers to the tendency to see faces in things. Not recognising humans, as such, or imagining things.