hello there!
yesterday my 8 year old said to me "don't shout", but I was speaking at a normal volume. then he said the room was gigantic and he felt tiny. he was scared -who wouldn't be!-, so he asked me to put a video on as a distraction. last saturday early evening he had a low fever on and off until sunday morning. the following day he said he could hear loud noises "in his head" but couldn't describe them accurately. but he said they were scary, that they were the same noises he hears when he has nightmares. he had a basic neurological test by a er paedriatrician yesterday, everything was fine. of course I turned to the internet and apparently this sort of thing can be triggered by anxiety. I explained to him that throat -he had a sore throat with the fever- and ears are connected, so the loud noise was probably because he had been sick to his throat. to make matters worse, today he had quite a nose bleed -his first- at school. I guess my question is: how do you know if hallucinations have an emotional -anxiety- or a neurological/physical cause?