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Letter: Warning: this letter may cause hallucinations

Published 4 January 2017

From Graham Waddingham, Colchester, Essex, UK

Helen Thomson reports that “tactile hallucinations are less common than their auditory or visual cousins” (5 November 2016, p 28). I beg to differ. I would suggest that I could induce one in many readers right now, just by asking them to ponder: are you feeling itchy?

Issue no. 3107 published 7 January 2017

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