The voices in your head.

[Angst]

That just sounds like her dad?

rofl

But, I had that shouting voice well into my twenties -except it was my Mum's voice, and didn't really bother me at all.

I've certainly never been diagnosed as schizophrenic. I have every reason to think I'm unremarkable in every way. If not less than unremarkable.

Well, she couldn't cope with it. She might've been weak or something (Note that there's nothing wrong with that you are perhaps better at coping with some things than she is; we are natural beings after all, with different temparements) but she kind of got quite insane and did self-harm every once in a while too. It wasn't the oversensitive teenage kind either, she got into the coockoo's nest a few times. Luckily, she was a pretty girl with great tastes so she got this cool boyfriend who practically just helped her out of it because he liked her so she's pretty happy right now and can cope with the voices when they show up.

 

[Borachio]

I really only have one voice...

Really? So when you imagine talking with someone, you don't imagine their voice too?

 

[Mise]

I imagine their voice, yeah, and I imagine that I'm talking to them, but this isn't "another voice" - it's my own voice wearing another voice's hat.

That reminds me of a great quote from the TV show Community....

Spoiler :

Link to video.

"[An analogy is] like a thought with another thought's hat on."

 

[Borachio]

So when you hear another person's voice in real life, you really do hear that voice, and it's not just your brain telling you that you're hearing another voice.

I'm sorry. I'm hopelessly lost. I haven't a clue what I'm trying to say.

What is it about the imagined voice that tells you it is, in fact, imagined?

 

[Mise]

Imagining someone else saying something is very different from actually hearing someone else say something.... What part of this are you having trouble with?

 

[Borachio]

Yes. I see it is different. But what tells me it's different? What is the defining characteristic?

I suppose it comes down to what distinguishes reality from hallucination. Any sufficiently convincing hallucination seems to be indistinguishable from reality.

 

[timtofly]

It could be the mind's way of disassociating certain "ideas", that it would never honestly admit to being it's own. I have never heard voices, all my thoughts unfortunately belong to me, and I freely admit that they are mine, even though some I would rather not admit being mine.

 

[Borachio]

I have heard it suggested that when early man first realized he could hear a voice in his head, he mistook it for the voice of God.

 

[timtofly]

I have heard it suggested that when early man first realized he could hear a voice in his head, he mistook it for the voice of God.

Your ancient and my ancient should have used the internet to compare notes.

 

[strijder20]

I've only got two voices. Logic telling me to do bad things when they're logical, and good telling me not to do them even when they're logical.
Oh, and procrastination, which tells me to do bad (although not in a moral sense) things while they're not logical -.-

 

[Borachio]

Procrastination tells you to do stuff?

It only ever tells me not to do anything at all. Or to displace what I should be doing with something else, I suppose.

 

[Terrance888]

Procrastination is definately a voice.

"You can do that HW at 6:30

Oops, you past it. Ok, 6:45

Damn, it is 6:40 and you are only halfway done reading, how about 7:00?"

 

[gozpel]

Good now tells me that everything you're saying is very interesting.
Bad tells me to tell you all to shut up!
Logic tells me, please continue with this interesting discussion.

Some different views here and I like to try to figure out how that works in "my world".

At least we can say, we are all individuals or in some places many individuals.

 

[LamaGT]

I do have multiple paths of thought but it's all just my voice, they're part of a single me. The lazyness path is so strong that I just came to accept it as a part of me that can hardly be changed.