Different categories of false perceptions including auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory hallucinations that can indicate various psychiatric or medical conditions.
Example: Hearing voices (auditory), seeing things that aren't there (visual), feeling bugs crawling on skin (tactile), or smelling odors that don't exist (olfactory).
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