Does anyone else think the TV is talking to them?

Unusual Beliefs
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I keep having this delusion where the characters on whatever I am watching are slyly sending me secret messages through the dialogue. Is this common?

One example I had is this. I was watching “The Goonies” and a mother said

“I don’t want Mike outside.”
The brother says “You should put him in a plastic ball.”
The mom says “That’s not funny. If he goes outside you’re in-“
The brother interrupts “■■■■, ma.”
The mom then says “I don’t like that language but that’s exactly where you’re going to be in.”

I thought that last line was a message to me saying if I ignore them they’ll hurt me.

Is this common?

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Oh yeah, very common delusion in these parts. It seems to clear up for most with meds. Meds and therapy is even better.

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Good! It just seems so realistic. I’m on clozapine and it seems to help a lot. It doesn’t clear up delusions, but makes me feel a lot better.

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I still have some positive symptoms. Delusional remnants and voices and noises. I know they’re not real even if they still “feel” real. It’s become so automatic now I just kind of shove them to the back of my head and keep on with my day. You’ll find you’ll get better at it with practice to the point where you’re not having to do it conciously.

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Reminds me of mid psychosis when the world is like the truman show. Everything that happened involved me. It’s very common I would think to have these delusions.

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Yes, I have this delusion myself when my meds aren’t working or I’m unmedicated. Try turning the TV off and listen to the radio. I find they don’t talk about me on the radio.

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Not the TV since I haven’t watched TV since 2018, but it happens when I run a fan. I get music with the fan.

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In a way the TV is talking to me but not directly they talk tell the story which is like a message to inform me of what’s going on in the show, like if I watch the news they’re talking to me to tell me the news but not a secret messages but when I was in psychosis I was reading in to messages that weren’t there and thought there was cameras in the tv

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Yes, happens all the time.

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Please don’t encourage delusions.

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i used to get music in my head after smoking pot all day. (i dont do this anymore)) i was sane then. i do get the fan noise thing now too.

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No, but i have seen subtitles that were directed to me, either paranoic or written in cuneiform and absolutely impossible to understand.

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I get loud voices in the shower…

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This thread is under “Unusual Beliefs”, so my preposition is valid here…

I have found that when I approach whatever gives me trouble(voices) with humility and request it (TV/Radio/Shower/etc.) to “spare me”/“be well disposed to me” the voices get reduced in their intensity…
just a minute or a few seconds of honest humility helps

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I have that problem. I also think that me watching football games can influence the outcome, for better or for worse.

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The more I interacted with my voices the worse they got.

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@crimby me too! I used to share season tickets for an NHL hockey team, and I would purposely avoid taking tickets for the games I thought it was integral that they win. Shaking my head at myself…

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It used to. Man that was no fun.

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