Is it normal that I get auditory hallucinations mostly when there is some form of noise? When I walk outside and theres cars and such I hear voices but when it’s silent I rarely get any hallucinations. I got very recently diagnosed with sz. Sorry if breaks rules or wrong section of the forums
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I get this too, I’d sometime hear mumbling voices when there’s a fan running. Or train stopping over the sound of the sea. But if there’s silence I don’t hear external voices only ones inside my head.
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Welcome to the forum, @Right.
My hallucinations happen at anytime,
So I’m not sure how to answer your question.
Welcome again!!
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Welcome to the forum 
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Thats how my sza started out and drs assumed it was “quasi” psychosis, but over the years it progressed to hearing voices at any time.
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Welcome to the forum @Right
I get it with running water. I can hear my daughters screaming for me when they’re not, also whispers during the day. On my bad days I use Bose noise cancelling ear buds which work great. Blocks the whole world out. I never answer the phone or the doorbell. Not my problem. Or not one I want to deal with.
I used to get voices during other noises as well - often large crowds of people talking, but sometimes right to me, but for some reason it’s stopped about a month ago!! I am a happy camper!
This happened to me once not long after I started medication. It was when the white noise machine was on. It hasn’t happened again. It was freaky. It was the only time I heard a voice which appeared to be in the room with me.
@firemonkey has the actual name for this phenomenon, I can’t remember it.
Edit: it’s something like functional hallucination
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Thanks @firemonkey
Thanks for comments.
I was wondering if my hallucinations are fake since they need that background noise to take place but I’m glad it has a name.
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i get this too. there’s a big fan outside my parents house where i smoke and you can hear things in it. the air conditioner. once when i was just staying here there was the sound of evil children chanting and i visualized a world with mayan temples and evil children standing around then i felt clear as day a claw grab my back. physical type stuff. the other night i was in a dream and hands were grabbing me. i thought i was being liften onto a gurney and taken to the hospital.
sorry most of this doesn’t have anything to do with the original post!
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There is an air conditioner and it makes noise outside the hospital where I’m at and the noise makes me hear whispers and whistling
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I hear sharp/distinct voices in the shower…to rid of the voices, I talk to the “act of shower + the shower head + water + shower itself” and humbly implore that all be peaceful. Sometimes I apologize for anything that I may have done disrespectful to the “whole of taking a shower”…infusing vitality into the act of shower and treating it as a “total” and not as a “means”, rather, “as an end in itself”…this giving “life” to “taking a shower” seems to get rid of the voices.
@cognition , you really need to stop with the God and prayer stuff. In the last 5 minutes I have had one flag on you for such and noticed another comment I had to flag myself. Religion is against the rules here.
got it. TY. I apologize
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I’m not currently having voices, but last night “the music” came back hard with no background noise. Bummer.