TheAppleCore
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Agreed! Have you read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat"? Another fascinating work of Sacks.
In response to the OP - I don't necessarily hear "phantom" music, in the hallucinatory sense, but when I'm jamming on synthesizers / composing music / fiddling with the piano, it's easy for me to conjure vivid and specific layers of melodies. I would equate it to a painter visualizing a work of art in a moment of inspiration. The painter (if he is not unusual) can conceptualize a visual work of art without actually seeing "phantom" art on his canvas.
Sometimes my inner soundtrack becomes significantly more life-like under the influence of cannabis. On psychedelics, I always seem to have blatant aural hallucinations, but more often than not they are not of a musical nature (unless you're a fan of John Cage
). One "closed-eye audial" (as appears to be the terminology around here) I almost invariably get on psyches is one that has the effect of two or three similarly, but not equally, pitched sine waves - first, a loud humming chorus of sine waves, then gradually as the difference in frequency leads to phase cancellation, silence, and then slowly - ...hummmmMMMMM the chorus fades into existence again...
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