My voices are usually bothersome when I’m awake, since they’re interrupting what I do, but during that period of semi-consciousness when I’m half-asleep they say some darned interesting things.
This morning, I overheard once voice talking to others, saying that I wasn’t a very popular person, but that neither were they, but that they have parties once in a while. Then one opined that I wasn’t very emotional, and I responded that I have emotional problems. Also, one opined that she watched some of my highlights and it lit her face up.
It humanized them, at a time when I was believing them to be mean spirited and that I wanted to mute them completely. Now I wouldn’t mind those late-night convos but still my mind has to be muted in the daytime. It’s too much pressure trying to seek the approval of people watching while I do my things, I just want to forget about them in the day.
There’s the other angle of them being mere figments of my imagination, but listening to them is like listening to actual people saying things that seem unpredictable, so I’m not entirely convinced of that.