New to the forum and just wanted to gauge what everyone thinks the voices are. What is the subconscious? The voices obviously speak in context. So many possibilities. Nothing proven…
What does everyone think???
I think this illness brings out the overactiveness of our imaginations and subconcious… On what is the subconscious well, what is human? what is color? what is thought?
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I’ve always pictured our brains sort of being like nuclear reactors. Instead of plutonium, we’re powered by imagination. Except in our case we have a core breach and imagination leaks out into everything, contaminating reality. The meds act like control rods and can damp the reaction somewhat.
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But basically:
No, I have various thoughts few of which jive well with modern psychiatry.
“What is human?”
I think that’s the question I meant to ask.
Personally, I don’t feel like voices are an overactive imagination. Mine feel completely independent, or separate, of my own consciousness.
I feel like they’re a second consciousness.
I like to think about it. Inter dimensional beings? Time travelers (is that the same thing?)? E.T.s? Souls of the Dead?
I dont like to rule anything out.
Just wanted to see what others are thinking
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I don’t believe in any of that crap, there has to be another explanation.
Sometimes I feel like I’m being harvested by beings from another dimension, kind of like the Matrix movies.
I’m sure I’m not the first to think that.
Also dont like to think about it too seriously because I feel like the voices will lead me along.
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Do you think the voices are you? Or do you think that you’re paired with the voices?
I think there’s too much we don’t know about the brain and that we know nothing about thought or perception. I dont make assumptions.
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My opinion based on my voice experience is the following:
Like attracts like. Personally my voices are not negative, thank god. My voices appeal to my more curious nature. You could perceive it as a pairing. I have checked my voices once when they have attempted to be overly critical and they gave an explanation to why they felt that way. My mind seems to challenge itself and my voices conversations center around it. Like Minnii said so much we don’t know about the brain and it is hard to explain to 96% percent of the population.
Well… The safest thing is to not delve into it… You’ll just run into walls of delusions that will never cure the uncertainty until you commit to one unprovable theory… Which is the essence of insanity.
It is just irrational noise… Perhaps the result of subconscious confusion or some such ■■■■.
You can listen and try to work with them… In my experience deep-seated beliefs really set the form and content of their characters.
But the phenomenon widely varies from person to person.
Have fun with your new found friends in there… And never commit to any kind of madness. Keep your mind open and you’ll learn to weather the storm and maybe even take control.
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I enjoy thinking about it. It is one of the unknowns for the western world. I ground myself in something concrete and go back to musings later. Never give up on attempting to understand the unknowns or we won’t advance socially or in technology. We do know that thoughts make pathways in the brain that influence perception. This can be found in brain scans. Example, language changes how you describe, navigate and experience the world. So I think it is a start for the western world. Baby steps. Not keen on waiting for the majority to tell me what is final inregards to my experience or disregard it without me first knowing myself as a person. This is applied to voices or people in general.
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Well it’s not quite unknown… there are neuroscientists out there who are likely fascinated with hallucinations in general… unfortunately they’d probably speak about our heads…
all we get is crap like “chemical imbalance” and “auditory loop”…
it is fascinating though…
as long as you have some solid non delusion ground to return too… it’s pretty safe to play around…
I’ve found that there is a layer of “the world is sick and not me” to be true… social dispositions that some of us are sensitive too… can only be resolved by solving the external problem… but that’s a case to case thing.
Your voices are your thoughts.
I believe they are coming from other dimensions
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They are fragments of the mind speaking out of turn due to epiginetics
Love that analogy. Can I use it (I hope you haven’t copyrighted it yet 
)?
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Man when they build that machine to hear externally what I am hearing then I will sign up and they can get a better understanding. I still feel like we are using a updated type of brain phrenology to determine people. I laugh at chemical imbalance only models. Example synthesia shares signals from different regions if the brain. They now have a chemical compound to stop it from happening anti psychotic don’t work. Poor people. Human diversity in perception is important to many many subjects.
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ah that’s not going to happen man… you’d basically have to read each neuron and now how the software in the brain interprets each firing…
it’d probably take months to years of mapping…
the best you can do is accurately describe them in text when possible…
this whole forum could be a gold mine for research later on…
divulge divulge divulge… it at least helps to vent
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