Sorry, I over exaggurated my point. In the past I have heard voices that are comforting and make me feel good. I don't want to believe I need medical advice or some doctor to tell me what they think is 'wrong', because only I really know why.
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Hearing Voices?
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rickolasnice
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There are alot of people that have spent their whole lives studying the psyche, the brain, etc, etc, and they all have a pretty good idea of what the voices are - manifestations of ones mind.
Drugs don't put you on some other level of mystical consciousness.. they alter the way your brain is working.. I've heard voices, quite alot, but it's always been after an amphetamine / MDMA binge.. they've always been manifestation of my own mind.
Drugs don't put you on some other level of mystical consciousness.. they alter the way your brain is working.. I've heard voices, quite alot, but it's always been after an amphetamine / MDMA binge.. they've always been manifestation of my own mind.
swilow
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Well- presumably an experience of "mystical consciousness" is an alteration of the way the brain works, so your point is moot.
rickolasnice
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I meant mytical consciousness as in relating to the soul or some other realm / dimension..
Eyes On the Roll
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schizophrenia is a very real and serious illness
artic
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I used to always hear children's voices when I got really high on cannabis. This faded over time. It was most often children singing, and when I do still hear it that's what I hear, but I would also sometimes hear laughter and voices, but never very distinctly. I could never understand what was being said. At first it weirded me out, but I got used to it eventually and now sometimes I kinda miss it.
As far as hearing voices when sober, just the voice of my ego in my head. That guy never shuts the fuck up.
As far as hearing voices when sober, just the voice of my ego in my head. That guy never shuts the fuck up.
Methadone84
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i see things in my perpheral vision
Pythagoras
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^^
Like What? Serious question.
Like What? Serious question.
purple_cloud
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This is how I've been told what I have had can be defined by mental health professionals. I hear a weird like, usually higher pitched sound at all times and it won't go away, whether I go lock myself in my car, in my room, go somewhere, whatever, it won't stop. It's usually followed by some sort of mental breakdown or semi-psychotic episode, but the noise is distinct and clearly, while this isn't hearing voices, when it happens sober it sorta signals that something might be off. I hear white noise a lot and that's normal, I don't count my own voice in my head since everyone has that, it's just this one specific sound that is a signal for a nasty next several days (it's happened twice now in the last 4 months so I think its a new thing). I also have decided that during one of these little "episodes" I can hear at a different frequency than "normal" people can, and that's why the noise is only there then. My counselor said this reasoning isn't as ridiculous as it seems (I was a little nervous to bring it up) and if I needed a reason to justify me hearing for myself it was fine. But after training in sound and phonetics, I really sorta do believe this more than I care to admit.
This sorta annoys me too, it just seems like they are the most common ones and highly stigmatized. People with bipolar disorder and things like borderline personality disorder can usually function normally in the world with mental health help via medication/counseling/etc. Schizophrenia and OCD are often things shown on TV and in the media to be "reasons people are in a psych ward" so it just seems that how people perceive mental illness.
This gets me also to how my psych dr asked me if I have Tourettes Syndrome. There are other tic disorders out there, and with no evidence of a phonic tic that was a bit out of line.
Yeah, that's what I mean when I said my own "voice" I don't really count as "hearing a voice" because everyone has this I'd think.
Yes, but there are several other mental disorders that are also real and serious and can majorly impact/determine the quality of someone's life.
Everyone does. Please don't troll P&S
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Does everyone have a small case of OCD? When you take a shower do you do it in the same routine each day? I tried to switch up the routine and it made me feel weird and a bit off all day.
Something that has interested me for quite some time.
And to stay on topic, I have heard voiced after drug binges, never while fully sober though. and sometimes I do see weird things like shadow movements while sober, though this may be just my brain playing tricks on me.
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If I am really tired and on the brink of going to sleep but still aware that I am awake I will start to hear voices.
They happen right before I go to sleep and sometimes they say the most craziest insane shit in the world but I can hardly remember any of it.
It's just something in the brain/mind. I don't think we really understand much about mental disorders and I think many are misdiagnosed and mislabeled.
They happen right before I go to sleep and sometimes they say the most craziest insane shit in the world but I can hardly remember any of it.
It's just something in the brain/mind. I don't think we really understand much about mental disorders and I think many are misdiagnosed and mislabeled.
severely etarded
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What if the human psyche's created reality actually exists in another dimension of infinate consciousness?
Maybe what your mind creates is just the link between 'reality' and the greater purpose of life...
This may not apply to delusions after stimulant binges
When you hear voices after being on stims for awhile, i think it's more of a case of your mind needing rest, and not functioning properly.When fully sober, I often hear a voice of guidance inside my head.. - My consciousness.
That's exactly what pythagorus is saying!
Those voices are your consciousness...
What pythagorus is saying is if those voices start to go against your consciousness, then you should seek medical help.
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I'll tell ya the strangest damn business, and the greatest mystery of all:What if the human psyche's created reality actually exists in another dimension of infinate consciousness?
Maybe what your mind creates is just the link between 'reality' and the greater purpose of life...
This may not apply to delusions after stimulant binges
When fully sober, I often hear a voice of guidance inside my head.. - My consciousness.
If you want to be "right here" with me, don't take me as being "out there", away from you.
I'm right here where I am, and so are you, subjectively speaking. You are "right here", where you are.
The moment you see me as an object out there, you've separated us in your mind, and are going to address me as an object (other). This will cut us off from one another, not bring us together.
We're in the exact same boat. You're looking out through your own eyes. I'm looking out through mine. Don't be confused by words. I'm not coming at ya from your screen -- I'm sitting behind my own.
Peace...
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modern buddha
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As outside of the topic as this post might be, hearing voices is not something to be concerned with, I think. Because we are all interconnected, even if you're "hearing things", it's probably coming from somewhere, whether it's your mind, a spirit, or a physical being. I'd not be frightened; they're just words.
Our bodies are all interconnected, as reality. Funny how our physical inter-dependence seems so unwanted by an 'ego' that thinks being a physical being is the ultimate state.
"Ego" seeks the impossible -- physical independence. Like the hardest worker isn't totally dependent on their boss.
The end of 'ego' is spiritual independence, while one's body remains in the network of human co- and inter-dependency.
modern buddha
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^However, hearing voices is not a direct part of the ego, nor is ego part of this discussion.
'Tis true, aside from the fact that the voices one hears are always those of others, and it seems it's a nutty version of "me" hearing them.
A 'me' that has been reality-ized via insanity.
If anything points to the illusory nature of the 'me', it's extreme states such as paranoia and borderline personality disorder -- fear blown out of proportion, need/desire blown out of proportion.
The 'me' consists of proportion -- a portion of 'me' and a portion of 'you' co-arising in the same reality, but taken as inhabiting different realities. "The same one" hears both "me" and "you" speaking, yet we're taken as not existing in/as the same consciousness at all.
This is not to say that you're not reading my words. But the actuality of the situation is that they're *your* words, because they're appearing in/as your own thoughts. They were mine when they were in mine, and now they're in the reader's thoughts. See the danger in the mental forcing of separation? A portion of your own reality is "other-ized" and taken as absent, "not here", belonging to another, even "out there with another" despite being read directly on-screen.
One simply ceases to take the self/other dream seriously.
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severely etarded
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Ya but what if this 'reality' is just a part of a bigger reality in another dimension? Sure we're 'in the same boat'... It's called "life on planet Earth"... What there's a greater reality this 'reality' we live in exists inside of... open your mind a little bit
Quantum Perception
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OP! You should read Julian Jaynes book: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
He explains that around the time of Homer and his Muses in ancient Greece people had their psyche split between their body-world self and a high order though process which dictated behavior; this he believe is the origin of people being guided by god.
Over time the two parts of the brain fused, and now we lost that "other voice" part of ourselves, only to come about when tripping or high or in a peculiar mood.
He explains that around the time of Homer and his Muses in ancient Greece people had their psyche split between their body-world self and a high order though process which dictated behavior; this he believe is the origin of people being guided by god.
Over time the two parts of the brain fused, and now we lost that "other voice" part of ourselves, only to come about when tripping or high or in a peculiar mood.