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Internal Monologue During Trips

Mugz

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Was having a discussion with a friend earlier about the internal monologues that occur during tripping on various substances.

I was saying to her that my internal monologue during trips is often in the voice of other people, most noticeably TV characters from shows I had been watching a lot of around the same time of the trip. Also have had other peoples voices, such as friends play a part in my internal monologues.

She said that her internal monologues were always in her own voice. We were both quite fascinated by that fact and were wondering which one of us were having the normal tripping experience (that is a generalised statement as you can't really classify any tripping experience as normal, but you know what I mean) and who was the weirder one. Or if both are as common as each other.

I often hear my own voice too during the internal monologues that accompany my trips at points, but most often hear voices of others.

The main one that springs to mind is Michael Shanks' character Daniel Jackson from SG-1 8( and that one was always in his condescending tone. I blame that on binging my way through all 10 seasons of SG-1 with my ex in an incredibly short amount of time though.

So can anyone else share their experiences of the internal monologues that occur during your trips? Do you hear your own voice only or voices of others ever?


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Yeah, I now what you are talking about. I have internal monologues aswell, but it´s always in my own voice. And usually it doesn´t start before I have tripped for several days, like at festivals and such.

At that point I always start obsessing about some topic, and keep discussing it with my self. Sometimes repeating the same things to my self again and again, even though I very well know it all before....

it can get kind of annoying actually.
 
Fagott said:
Yeah, I now what you are talking about. I have internal monologues aswell, but it´s always in my own voice. And usually it doesn´t start before I have tripped for several days, like at festivals and such.

At that point I always start obsessing about some topic, and keep discussing it with my self. Sometimes repeating the same things to my self again and again, even though I very well know it all before....

it can get kind of annoying actually.
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I have had terrible reactions to RC's that have caused week long episodes as you described, not a fun experience and definitely one i am lucky to have come out of unharmed.

However its very common for me to have internal monologues and obsessing about topics anyway since i am Autistic and Obsessive compulsive.

Unlike the drug induced monologues ones that occur from my disabilities are usually constructive.

Drug induced monologues become a different story obsessing on strange and often silly topics, repeating songs in my head over and over again without being able to stop, its all quite silly and can be quite scary combined with a paradoxical feeling of normalcy, i would assume that this is why episodes are common in neurological profiles similar to mine.

Unfortunately the majority of people in my position lack the coping skills, understanding or simply function to deal with such Strong and unearthly, trippy emotions.

But a lesson is learned, I must not stray into RC's.

My psychedelics are now restricted to mushrooms and nitrous oxide.
 
Hmmm, I have a constant internal monologue going on *all the time*. It's just deeper feeling when I've tripped.

This voice does change all the time though, it's never the same characteristic and it depends on what the situation is. Movie quotes come in and out all the time, lyrics....this would most likely explain the jumble of shit that comes out of my mouth at random times.

Actually, I'd say that when I've tripped, the voice has remained one voice, instead of jumping all over.
 
RevDrucifer said:
Hmmm, I have a constant internal monologue going on *all the time*. It's just deeper feeling when I've tripped.

This voice does change all the time though, it's never the same characteristic and it depends on what the situation is. Movie quotes come in and out all the time, lyrics....this would most likely explain the jumble of shit that comes out of my mouth at random times.

Actually, I'd say that when I've tripped, the voice has remained one voice, instead of jumping all over.
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Similar to me except its the polar opposite when im tripping.

The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. =D
 
I also get monologue-y during trips. I think it's because I become trapped in my own headspace, and have trouble articulating all the thoughts that are popping into my head. So I just kind of talk it out with myself, and when I do speak out loud it's in short, fragmented sentences. But in my mind, I can speak eloquent paragraphs!
This even happens to me when I'm really high. I withdraw into myself, but still listen to the people I'm with. I want to answer them/comment on what they're saying, and I have a running dialogue in my head that is doing just that. But the thoughts never really reach my lips.
 
Ah. As far as I can remember it's my own voice. Except for when I watch too much Doctor Who, and then it's what I guess would be how I would sound with a spot-on British accent. I wouldn't put it past myself for it to occasionally be another voice entirely, though.

EDIT: Also, I just stumbled across this and found it appropriate
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RevDrucifer said:
Hmmm, I have a constant internal monologue going on *all the time*. It's just deeper feeling when I've tripped.
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I'm the same way as this. My 'monologues' take on different characteristics and personalities when influenced by various substances - I've noticed with DXM in particular, they always question each other and explore the various possibilities of an issue, trying to find the conclusion that makes the most sense, at least for the time being. Sometimes they reach an ultimate conclusion together and when that happens I feel really giddy, with an overwhelming sense of enlightenment and can easily move forward with no regrets.

Bear in mind that I have not been diagnosed with any mental condition other than Inattentive-type ADD at age nine. Some may consider that a person perceiving multiple 'voices' has a mental disorder, and that some substances can trigger latent mental conditions such as schizophrenia, but it's only a disorder if it's interfering with your life and the lives of others in a negative way.
 
Usually if i have internal monologues on psychedelics, they are my own voice. I have heard other people's voices a few times on psychedelics, (one time that stands out is on salvia divinorum, when I heard someone talking with a faked mexican accent. that was wierd).
 
I do have these monologues, but every single time it is my own voice. I would freak the fuck out if I started hearing anyone else in my own head - I would think I had schizophrenia!
 
JBrandon said:
I do have these monologues, but every single time it is my own voice. I would freak the fuck out if I started hearing anyone else in my own head - I would think I had schizophrenia!
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Schizofrenia is characterized by voices in your head that you have no control over. Just because your changing your internal voice doesn't mean that you have schizofrenia

Read that spice guy thing for example

You ever see TV shows where a character will have the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other? Or where a character will go to do something bad and an image of their father saying "Don't do it" or something will pop up in their head?

THe thing about these substances is that they make you realize that you are your enviroment in a way, when you're daydreaming about things, daydreaming about people talking to each other and shit, it is YOU that is doing the daydreaming, you have voices going on in your head. That doesn't neccessarily make you schizofrenic.
 
Mine have always been in my own voice, as far as I remember. I'll be dosing tomorrow night though so I will report back!
 
Mugz said:
^is it in your own voice? that is the main thing I am interested in finding out, whether I am the weird one for not having it always in my own voice.
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I usually have an inner monologue going on, and it's not always in my voice. Certain thoughts/thought patterns are more likely to be in certain voices (usually of some fictional character or another whose personality is in line with those thoughts). Pretty much the same when tripping, though that's more likely to just be in my own voice.
 
I've most always got an internal monologue/dialogue going on inside my head, when I'm not tripping. I don't know whose voice it is, it doesn't really have a voice as such, just a characteristic of the way it expresses itself. I've only heard voices once when I was tripping. It was on mushrooms and it wasn't in my voice, it was someone I was completely unfamiliar with. It was unpleasant and it freaked me out. That was the only time though. It doesn't happen really when tripping. I'm so caught up in the trip, and I think that because psychedelics help me let go and just live in the moment it just dissolves.
 
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