Voices talking more when attention is paid to them?

Unusual Beliefs
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After I just think about mine being there, it immediately becomes insanely difficult to tune them out. It’s almost like they take cue to start talking as soon as I start paying attention to them being there. Does anyone else get this?

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Yes sounds familiar to me. Nowadays I barely hear voices. But I can sort of make them occur. By recalling what they would typically say, or by imagining what they would say, I sometimes start hearing voices again. I sometimes cannot quite distinguish between these three modes of thought. That is to say, I’m sometimes unsure whether I’m recalling, imagining, or having new hallucinations. This seems significant to me. It seems to me there is this dynamic of expectation, fear or even curiosity, turning into paying attention and actively trying to discern something, resulting in having more distinct hallucinations.

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Mine have faded mostly on a good day.

But I sometimes accidently bring them back when I poke around in my head and pay attention.

I liked having the ability to make them go away and make them come back. It helped me feel like I was in control.

Hard days don’t count.

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My psychoanalyst once said you have to be in a listening mode to hear them.

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I don’t have anything to pay attention to besides their faces. If I pay attention to their face & try to initate something, then some sort of encounter & conversation could occur.

However, most of us are all in “silent mode” now. We’re silently ascending and just learning to acquire wisdom through silence as opposed to empirically or socially (as we were doing before).

Without them, I experience extreme withdrawals & get quite lonely, but I’m always able to quickly bounce in and feel confident that I can endure such depressive feelings. I can’t get them to disappear, though, which is why I’m so inclined to believe they are real people.

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Well mine is just like a people I guess, they will talk when they wants to, of course when im alone or when anyone were sleeping. Since I have to talk in normal sound, they know it would embarass me, talking to nothing.