Can you please help me understand some terms

Hi,

I’m getting use to the word « voices » (it has been of some help to use it, I mean the word - I guess I’ve kind of succeed in intellectualizing the sit into something that can have a fcking sense).

What I’d like to know is the difference say between talking alone in a room as if someone was there, and actually imagining someone being there and talking with the fcking thing). Usually, when someone who suffers from Sz says he/she has visual hallucinations, does he/she sees kind of an image of the person (a “til”) or does he/she actually sees an actual person that ain’t there, or does he/she sees a person and think its something / someone else (I’m pretty sure this last one would be a “psychosis” of some sort - say, because the things the fcking thing says make the person who suffers of Sz thinks of someone / something else).

Anyhow, if you’d be kind enough to hint me such that I can better share those terms and vocabulary it would be really appreciated. As you might have guessed if you have read any of my previous posts, I have to admit most of those fcking things still remain fcking things for me yet.

Many thanks, and best regards

PS : I was thinking of a situation where I was walking in the street and a guy came up to me, talk to me for say 10-30 seconds (I try to be polite and kind of escape what was, according to what I thought, a complete stranger), and when I turned my back he called me by my first name (turned around, continue the chat I had just escape for day 10-20 more seconds) and went on my way without thinking too much about what had just happened. I was wondering if those kind of situations are called hallucination - not that it did happened to me that much, but they are such situations that I sometimes recalled as being weirder than simply weird.)

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I used to hear small, little voices occasionally-not very often-not often enough to be a problem as it is with other people on this site. What I call MY voice is what would be my thinking, my stream of consciousness if you will. There are also “literary voices”. (My father was a writer). I don’t think you get visual hallucinations accompanied by auditory ones much at all. I respond to noise in the environment with loud auditory hallucinations.

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Hey

So, voices usually are auditory hallucinations. There are two kinds of voices, auditory, meaning you hear them as if they come outside of your head, and thought like voices, like thoughts but different from intrusive thoughts.

Then there’s visual hallucinations, visions you see that are not really there.

I think your experience is a mix of both.

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