What a remarkable discovery!. I encountered schizophrenics daily throughout my career. I found it fascinating that many schizophrenics had the exact same hallucinations as other schizophrenics they have never met. I theorized (jokingly) that their hallucinations were reality, and the rest of us just lack the ability to see/hear it.

This study "makes it make sense" , because it supports the idea that hallucinations are not just dreams or fantasies manufactured by the imagination, rather, they may have an physiological basis, a processing malfunction or improper filtering of real stimuli.

The implications for this is HUGE, in terms of helping these folks.