Talk:Psychosomatic Illusion/@comment-31908363-20181206221019/@comment-24053170-20181206223951

To give you an idea of how this could work, imagine being surrounded by flames.

Normally your reaction would be feeling hot or possibly getting burned (depending on how close the fire is to you). Now you would very likely be burned by the flames after being around them for a long enough time.

But what if the flames were merely an illusion? If you didn't know the flames weren't real you would in fact be burned by them because your mind would believe that its supposed to happen.

Thats an example of Psychosomatic Illusion at work, the mind believes it happened because of the realistic nature of the fire so it translates that it into actual physical effects.