Auditory hallucinations, in my case have identified themselves as actual people, who exist in reality. By confused, I mean if our heads or minds, for lack of a better word, were like telephones, then one might understand what I mean by confused. Say you are on an real phone and someone identified who they are, then, naturally you would believe what you heard, and so it is with auditory hallucinations and so it is with diagnosis such as mine, schizophrenia. Let me add a distinction, you do not always believe what someone tells you on the phone, and so it is with auditory hallucinations.
yeah actually the first ones I ever got were of people I know yelling my name
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Before I was medicated I googled Seth MacFarlane and called his office so many times that they disconnected the phone number. I “heard” Seth speaking to me on more than one occasion and decided to respond. I don’t remember everything that I said but I know that I left more than one message.
Some of the voices that I hear are imitations of the voices that I hear normally. Like one was a woman that I had met saying how she had a crush on me. I thought I overheard this and I keep trying to get close to this woman while she kept backing away. I guess I was slightly psychotic because I slightly confused as I thought she would be really into me but wasn’t. It didn’t go farther than that because I wasn’t really into her or anything. I just was believing the hallucinations.
to stick to your analogy: I would think I was talking to real people through the telephone, no doubt about that, but I wouldn’t mistake talking through the telephone for talking to them in person…