Abstract

Hallucinations refer to a wide range of subjective human experiences. As a consequence, hallucinations constitute fascinating phenomena for the dialogue between phenomenology and neuroscience. We propose a summary of the possible strategies of this dialogue encompassing neurophenomenology or front-loaded phenomenology. We question the issue of the continuity of hallucinatory experiences, at both the subjective and objective levels. We also question the possible links between hallucinations and self-disorders, and discuss how these connections may add value to the understanding of hallucinations at both levels of interest. As only a very limited amount of experimental work has specifically focused on hallucinations based on this dialogue between phenomenology and brain imaging, we conclude by describing potential starting points for future studies.