« This finding challenges the belief that voices in the head are always auditory, and may prove important in future studies into what occurs in the brain when people hear voices, the researchers said.
The authors also reported that their study confirms that both people with and without mental illness hear voices. »
cf, full post here : https://www.mentalhelp.net/news/study-highlights-complexity-of-hearing-voices-171288/
I think I hear something but it is behind my thoughts that are in my voice and quieter, an echo so to speak . it is names and sentences that cause a visual ( in my head) image. I think this is the worst, more than the fact that others answer me out loud to what I am thinking.
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I think I’ve heard the full gamut of the voices phenomena from at the start the occasional mention of my name from a pleasant female voice to this same voice (as if spoken from beside me) warning me that a certain suspiciously acting girl who was hitting on me at work “had a gun in her purse”. I’ve heard whispers as if outside my head, vicious and doomsaying voices. I’ve heard people merely say as clear as day “Hello?!?” when there was nobody there. I’ve lived months on end with a “thought like voice” speaking rapid fire unending, contradicting and distugsting commentary leaving me an hour of sleep if that a night. I’ve lived long periods of time with no voices, if asked I would have told you I’d never heard a voice in my life as I’m a bit, though recovered, dissociative. Voices…I often wish I’d awaken from a coma and all this would have been the product of a bizarre dream like experience.
I think I died at some point, people started acting out the thoughts in my head and adding to them making my life seem like a big play setup just for me. I have the thought that some of us have receivers and some have transmitters. Or its God offering me the biggest act of all.I don’t know
I used to hear voices in my early onset. I heard someone clearly tell me “I can calm her down” and I don’t remember, but I think I turned to look at where the voice was coming from. I also heard other people’s voices that I was in the hospital with. Luckily I don’t hear voices anymore. I had mostly visual hallucinations.
I try to organize the **** happening while understanding that I need to humblefy myself here and there vis-à-vis the **** that are building in my head, and sometimes translate in reality in a way or another (sometimes it seems so obvious that something I manage in my inner life comes to life in reality, with, of course, different settings, differents face, differents names also). Its almost if I feel that large part of my life is circling around me, and I get just enough pathetic about it that I miss it when its been sometime that I can’t recognize the said circle (say, every ten years, yah know, you need to lost your job, right?, say, every 2.5 years your gf really need to kick you out of her life, etc.) Do not be jeaulous: those examples are for the sake of example, as you might have guessed, I do not have a life what-so- over. Just trying to share my ways of dealing with things, and managing them.
Yes, thank you! I talk with many entities that may not be considered real by other people but their voices are not auditory, they are telepathic, as in they speak to me with thoughts. It’s difficult to explain. I knew the regular people can hear voices too though. Read Oliver sack’s book Hallucinations, it’s a wonderful read on the topic of the non-mentally ill hallucinating! (Not with drugs lol)
it is doubtful that something could actually exist if it wasn’t first imagine (people and objects are seen through lenses, that attribute values to those things, even when they are obviously natural thing, such as trees and rivers, things ordered by the cosmos as opposed to the nomos (intagible link between man). If that is true, not only is really large pans of reality is after all some sort of hallucinations, but we’re living in a world built by / for mentally hallucinating people. Think about a 10 dollars bill, and wonder why the piece of paper itself worths the double of a 5 dollars bill, for instance.
It’s interesting to think about. I was always curious as to how hallucinations worked. Your brain just detects stimuli that isn’t there? It’s bizarre.
Honnestly, I have no-clue about how hallucinations are made or built. My personnal feeling towards it, is that either you’ve seen that before or as a form of sarcasm you tell yourself that this is something you haven’t expect, didn’t see coming, hence the brain would kind of complete the missing links in between what you’re seeing and what was expected / what could have expected. As you have notice by now, I am no expert - just thinking out loud.
Also read something somewhere about what would be life if you couldn’t tell yourself “okay, now its time to go to bed., or time to eat” stuff like that. Internal dialogue (whether through or not imageries of persona that could or not just translate the mood, the idea, the thoughts) seem quite natural.
The voice that can read
The voice that yells the f word when I’m out of something
The positive voice
The negative voice
The deep diabolical voice
The musician
And the songs that plays in my head can indeed be all in my head.
Normally they are created out of boredom in my case
Edit: the voice that gives out fake lottery numbers
I think this is very important, because my explanation that the entities that talk to me are inside of my mind and not outside voices, convinced a therapist that I had DID and that my voices were “alters” and I went through an extremely confusing and frustrating 6 months thanks to that. The entire “therapeutic” process was a huge freakin mess because she kept encouraging me to explore the “personalities” of these random psychotic experiences, and my mind has noooo problem coming up with complex crackpot theories based on random crap.
The voices should sometimes busy themselves telling us « snap out of it; »hum, thinking about it, although if it was the case, it wouldn’t make a topic for prose. Best, 
Yes. I agree. They Chafee change when I’m falling asleep. They are clear and loud. Normally it’s just a quick 3 word saying
I would try your personalities whenever one would let me - the problem I have is when personalities are trying to manage their way to me. Hard for my own crackpot-theory-making-head to not think someone is trying my shoes (and from there, ignoring that « it » could be any type of entities, but someone precise. Plus looking from abroad (not that I’m a moralist of any kind, rest assure), some of those personnalities seem to me like real sick-**ck’s one, ones that oooooNooo i wish not explore or even try to understand - let alone let my own crackpot-theory-making-head decide that, hey, after all, its a part of you, yah know, thought you would want to know. Best,
In DID, the person’s personality is fractured into pieces with amnesiac barriers. So each personality fragment or “alter” serves a function, holds memories, etc. The entities in my head are all random and malicious and do not serve any function. So trying to explore them as personalities just made me worse, it’s like trying to find a secret code in the newspaper where there is none. It was very bad for me and spurred on my psychosis. But the whole ordeal originated from the therapist’s belief that voices in psychosis are only experienced outside of the head and never internally.
I admit using such « alter » to hold memories (or some track of the things I have to, an hybrid form of imaginary girlfriend and i-pod… Entities that are malicious or have no purpose in my life (seemingly trying to explain me who the ***k i am, I call them name… and sometimes find myself in the middle of a delusion (i have no clue if i’m using the good word) where it seems possible for me to wonder why the *k someone or something had to awaken me to say the fking thing is stupid and deserve not to think a split-second that it could move their lips toward me. Its like suddenly been thrown in a zoo (i know, i know, you guys are probably calling that Canada, but hey) with another spectator and quick-chatting with him or her about a topic (or entity) that shouldn’t be no matter what, no matter the definition of the reality one wish to employ.
It’s so hard to explain. It’s like creative adaptation. I have not had auditory hallucinations at all since starting Vistaril and even before that. Vistaril has been helping a lot for certain things; as an anti-histamine.
For the sake of using the same words as everyone, i try to use « voices, » when i can - but in my experiences, entities or things that « shouldn’t be, » have either a name (first and often last name, a generic status (eg. « the client, » « a journalist, » « a girlfriend, etc. » Whom I consider being « media » (ie. object that are use to make immediate things that are not). So it can gets really easy for me to hate someone sometimes). Sometimes, when i feel something is trying to suck-me into something, I call the fu**ing thing a « sickness. » Lately I’ve tried to rationnalize such things by calling the thing sz-subject, with certain success - I really think this community is great (ie. this forum and the people whom interact with each other on this platform),