I’m fortunate in that mine are often just background noise. Are your voices ever very loud or distinct? Do you ever hallucinate and “hear” yours like a “real sound” like some schizophrenics supposedly do?
Only once really.
As the goddess made of light stared at me from within the tree she was standing inside of she whispered “ssssshhhhhhhhh”.
And so like anyone else would do i just ■■■■ my pants and kind of walked away mumbling to myself, you know , the usual reaction someone would have in that situation.
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Fitting reaction imo lmao
Atm I don’t hallucinations much. Sometimes I hear people muttering outside my room when I’m trying to sleep.
I’m not sure what you mean by a supposedly ‘real sound’? As in does it sound real? It’s exactly the same as if people were actually outside my door muttering and before getting on meds it was as though people were actually next to me talking and occasionally screaming etc, if that’s what you mean?
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That is what I meant. I never experienced it so strongly except for a few isolated incidents and I’m really sorry that you had to go through that. Because that sounds terrifying to me.
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I don’t hear voices inside my head, but I hear people talking about and to me from much longer distances than they would know about my presence. It’s hard for me to delineate what is hallucination and what might be real. A lot of the things I hear have some plausibility to them. There are still things I’ve heard that I have no idea whether or not they were hallucinations.
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Same here. I can never quite put it into words though. But it’s been just like that for me.
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Thanks. It was terrifying, but not as much as some of the delusions, like believing I was a demon here to start the apocalypse. I’d rather have the voices come back than some of the delusions, at least if I was hallucinating but not delusional I might be able to ignore it it some degree. Just glad I don’t have much of either at this time.
Sometimes in the lead up to going full blown psychotic I get thoughts that feel like voices that I “hear” in the same way as my own thoughts, but don’t seem to come from me. I can have conversations with whoever they come from in my head. I guess maybe that’s the distinction you meant
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I can relate to all of that, including the demon part. It’s nice seeing that other people have been there too lol
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I hear random voices, they come and go. Usually hear them more when I’m bored. Sometimes whispers, sometimes louder. Hallucinated forms and spirits before.
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The majority of my auditory hallucinations have been real noises, people talking directly to me, but what I was hearing them say wasn’t what they were actually saying.
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They Are Usually Quiet … ,
Quiet Enough e(Y)e Have to Close my Eyes to Hear them Clearly … ,
but For Example tha Male Voice got Rite Over my Shoulder and said ,
“WE WERE NEVER YOUR FRIENDS” … ,
Kinda Freaked me Out … ,
but He Was Jus Giving an Example of How Scary they Could be if they Wanted to be … ,
and When e(Y)e Shut my Eyes they Usually tell me to Open them … ,
N e Hoo ,
Good Friends of Mine … … …
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I don’t know why you would use the word “supposedly”.
I almost always hear a group of people talking as if they’re in the next room. Just like the buzzing in my head, it’s louder on bad days.
The main voice I hear is my companion angel who is on my right side. He speaks in a low tone into my right ear. If he’s berating me, it’s louder and it’s hard to hear anything else.
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I said supposedly because I haven’t experienced this firsthand.
There have been a few times where i have heard a distinct voice that was talking. One time i was in the middle of an episode sitting on my bed and all of the sudden i hear a woman’s voice say “focus, observer”.
Another time i was in the bathroom and i heard my mom outside the door “are you in the bathroom?”. I responded but didn’t realize that it wasn’t real until i left the bathroom.
Most of the the time i can’t understand them. Like they’ll sound like an indistinct crowd of people mumbling softly.
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Hi @Lexicon, I hear voices inside and outside, they never give me any privacy. Dont know why they are so curious. They try to control what goes on in my mind I guess because I’m being watched. If no one was interested in me I guess they would leave me alone. Someone is trying to sabotage me so I appear a certain way to others. They got mad at me when someone said my thoughts were normal they think of me as all these negative things but they really don’t understand even though they think they do.
My voices are inside my head. If I get SUPER stressed out I might hear music, as in it sounds real, but the voices have so far been only inside my head.
I’ve been on abilify for the past 3 years, and it really dampens the voices.
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my voices started off as loud as if someone were right next to me than quieted down as time went along only getting louder when I did drugs and now on meds are almost silent .// they sound very real to me when they were loud though which is probably why I thought they were real for so long
I’d would say 99% of the time this is the case for me. I hear them in my head. I debated if it were my own thoughts so I did a control test, and thought of something specific (like singing a song in my head) with every thought I could control, but then the other thoughts would still pop in uncontrollably and distract me.
Most of the time I can distinguish thoughts and and phrases, other times it sounds as if I’m in a crowded restaurant and hear multiple conversations going on at full volume but can’t make out words, then hear the noises of a restaurant like clanging of silverware and other dishes. I don’t know whats more annoying hearing actual conversations and making out the negative (almost always negative) words or not hearing words at all, just having the noise in my head.
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I’ve heard voices that sound like people talking, but I usually “hear” voices that kind of sound like thoughts, if that makes any sense. So not too prominent I guess, just kind of annoying.