So last night, I couldn’t get to sleep because a male and female voice were arguing very loudly right outside my bedroom door. I was really upset, but then I remembered an article I read about how people with sz in eastern countries tend to view their voices as old friends instead of attackers. So I tried to will myself to think of them as friends, and then something crazy happened. The voices stopped arguing, and the male voice turned into my friend’s voice. The voices started talking about video games, and I could get to sleep. I have no Idea how I did that, or if I can repeat the experiment. Has anyone else been able to do something like this?
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Not me. I just recieve the messages. I can’t change them. Well, I have not tried. Maybe I should.
I would love to know how to do this. How did you go about willing them to change??
Instead of trying to control your voices using willpower, why not try medication? Meds have proven results.
Meds help indeed, but I think cj9556 means changing the voices in general before or after medication.
Mine are rare. I never had the constant. Little spurts here and there with breaks of several months to years between. Mine have mostly been entity types with teachings & messages, being positive in nature.
I was able to interact with them, ask questions, and with a negative mocking one it took a lot of effort but I stood up to it with its wit and speed and changed many of it’s ideas.
So yes, it is entirely possible to change, influence, or work with them, at least in my experience.
Some of dealing with the negative was a s simple as…“yeah yeah, that’s so old…you must be so bored and lonely…blah blah blah blah” and i would sometimes just say 'blah blah blah" every time it went on and on, successfully drowning it out and causing it to change subjects and even be nice. I even got it to confess a few things to me that under normal circumstances it wouldn’t have without my heavy interrogation.
Thing is it takes a lot of energy to do this, so must be done swiftly and powerfully…I wouldn’t want to deal with that on a daily basis over time.
I rely on 2 Corinthians 10:5 for such battles of the mind:
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ
Another translation states “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God…”
this certainly applies since those negative mocking voices are going against our very nature, bringing disharmony, and thus trying to exalt itself against the knowledge of God.
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Uh…one of my three voices is my 17 year old self, who was healthy and preparing for ROTC. He’s still in my head even though he is dead. He approves of hard work, good ethics, honesty, ect. I didn’t change my hallucinations, I just learned to live with them. Im not symptom free.
Medication helps. My other hallucinations are far from benevolent.
I take medication. This is for breakthrough symptoms during stressful times. I ■■■■■■■ love my Geodon.
I just told myself that if other people can view their hallucinations as friendly, I can too. I just kept repeating it to myself over and over in my head until it worked. I have a lot of practice with meditation too though, so maybe that has helped me get a stronger mind. I have always been able to turn the volume of the voices up or down (but not off) if I focus calmly and move my hand like I’m turning a dial.
yeah i can change them quite easily . but i dont like to i just let them be neutral when they are around otherwise they will get really loud
i think because I have a different view on what my voices are (coming from me my own brain) i cant reason with them very well.
example if I said to the voices: you guys must be bored. they would say : were bored? yeah were bored because duh your bored and were you. and id argue “no im not bored I’m fine” then theyd either say ‘‘well then were fine’’ or ''no your not your bored cuz we know you so well cuz we are you!"
the endless cycle lol
I can’t do that.
I know them. They know me. They know that i know them. And i know that they know that i know them.
They made it real you know, even physically hurting me at times. It didn’t need to be real but thats what they did. I could have been like the others but they didn’t want that.
Listen man, even you guys can mimick eachother, and you can mimick eachother well. Think what more they can do. They can do anything that you can do and then some and then some and then some.
erm…i haven’t actually tried…i spend so much time either calling them all the ■■■■■ under the sun or getting stroppy with them as they are stroppy with me or trying to ignore them which works for a little while. maybe i should try? thing is, i don’t want to engage them any more than i already do tbh.
sometimes they can be nice but it never lasts…i actually kind of enjoy a good ruck but it’s a bit mad arguing with yourselves really even if it’s just in your head, which mine is…think i’m going to do some voices work with my nurse next time she comes…let’s see if we can inflict a little damage 
I did it again! There was a really loud Japanese game show while I was trying to sleep, but I concentrated, and it turned into the black guy from the Allstate commercials with the soothing voice. He lulled me to sleep.
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The voices(soul) are inside your souls mind. They are attached to you in kind of the same manner as you are connected to your body. They see your thoughts it’s as simple as that “thoughts about thoughts”. you can change their direction a thousand times a day if you want as your mind moves from one subject to another. I have hundreds of different groups that move through me everyday. They all start out the same way saying the same thing then the next group comes forward and they say the same thing “we need to become yourself and himself together” We discuss their problems and then they move into me and can see and feel and start to think, then the next group moves in. I have five distinct lines that move through me the first can only see written words the second start to understand and think like becoming awake. The third is the main talkers and the ones that are able to understand but not yet see this world, the forth can see and starts to use their minds and think and then the fifth is fully integrated as themselves only. They are then moved within another part of my mind and allowed to find themselves this place I hardly ever get to become something there. This constant movement occurs about every five or so minuets as the next group move in. This has been non stop for almost 6 months 24/7 and yet I am never annoyed with them. They are like children all learning themselves again and this seems to keep me going. I also get some really out of this world experiences.
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Yes. With my sleep paralysis I was able to manipulate the auditory hallucinations I experienced based on how I felt about them.
For example, by relaxing I turned a scary wheezing breath into a whistling breeze, angry machinery whirring into a light beeping, etc. The trick with hallucinations is to remain calm and think good thoughts when they happen.
The more scared you become the scarier they’ll get…
Maybe thats progress man.
my inner voice (or spirit as i call it) is my friend and my guide, helps me do things like make decisions and things, its how i know what to say and think,
it comes from the same place that everything else comes from, its positive and controlled, when i am not taking my med i think it could very easily get out of control as it has done before but i’ve always managed to catch it before it spirals and turns nasty although theres been a couple of scares.
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Yes, this is how I see it, but to me it is not a voice because I do not actually hear it anymore. I’ve managed to overcome the loudness of reality by practicing quietness and clearing my mind.
The more and more I listen the more often the voice is proven accurate. It is an unconscious aspect of my soul, and directs me in the matters of survival and safety.
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I have internal voices, but they tend to fluctuate on their own. It’s usually a male whispering, but I can feel it change into Siri or a british guy.