I’m spinning from side to side in bed, tired of the buzz of thoughts in my head, of the aimlessly lived day and suffering from insomnia for a long time ... A light breath takes my consciousness, and the buzz of thoughts and falls silent. long-awaited dream...
Suddenly, in the most peaceful moment, very clearly and suddenly a male voice calls my name and asks me something.
"BUT?! What?!" I jump up in horror. The body trembles, the heart jumps out of the chest. I don't understand what's going on... Sticky sweat glued me to the crumpled sheet.
This happens every night. It's scary to go to bed. It is difficult to deliberately delay sleep time because of the fear of sudden incomprehensible voices. Frightens, tenses, does not give rest.
Feeling crazy
I was one of those people who was able to "communicate with people" without opening my mouth. The presence of the interlocutors themselves is not even necessary. I talked to them in my head. Sometimes they themselves spoke without my "invitation".
I had the "ability" to play music without playing it live. She's in my head. Either classical music is circling on a grand scale, or rock is yelling and roaring. The chaotic mixing of internal dialogues mixed with music caused terrible discomfort. The head from this became heavy, buzzing, as if in the head a swarm of bees from voiced thoughts.
Strange things were happening in my apartment. From time to time, rustles or sounds of falling dishes, the creak of a door were heard. Or a loud male voice might call me from the kitchen. When I came to the kitchen, the voice called again, but from the room ...
At some point, I realized that I heard voices in my head. The sounds and voices were so realistic that they were frightening. My consciousness refused to believe, but the increase in cases with polyphony in my head made me figure out what was happening. And the more I thought about the extermination of voices, the louder and more intense the endless dialogues scrolled inside.
At night I had dreams. Noisy, snarky, boisterous. Heard voices and indistinct booming accompaniment. It was not clear in the half-sleep where the reality was, where the dream was.
Voice hallucinations
I asked some close friends if they had such conditions. I tried to calm myself, thinking that every normal person hears this and there is nothing unusual about it. After asking a couple of friends, I realized: I hear voices alone. And do not find a person in the world who will understand me and say: "I myself am", - and will tell me the secret truth of the emergence of voices.
It became difficult to talk to people. As soon as I asked a question to the interlocutor, I immediately stopped hearing the answer: the internal dialogue resumed and absolutely did not give a chance to concentrate. The person speaks and answers me, and at that time I look through him and have been having an internal conversation for a long time. Sometimes an attentive interlocutor saw my indifference, disconnection from the conversation and safely retired.
Who likes to communicate with a person who does not listen to you. The reasons for the avoidance of acquaintances of my person are obvious. Have excellent hearing and not hear people. This caused me great internal contradictions. Hear voices in your head, but not real people.
I hear voices in my head: what to do
To tell someone, to ask for advice that I hear voices, is the same as admitting to my stupidity. It doesn't matter what to say: “I’m eccentric, I hear voices. Please don't avoid me. I just got a little crazy!”
Hundreds of dialogues replayed in my head day after day, many of them sounded real. I even answered aloud the questions that were asked of me. From the outside it looked like a dialogue without one interlocutor. But how? I have to answer the questions that have arisen - they ask me after all ...
It is common knowledge that those who speak to themselves and hear voices are included in the "lists" of lunatics. In any case, they definitely have a mess with their heads. I am sick - mentally ill - the only thing that arose and was fixed in my understanding.
To date, I have no internal annoying dialogues or voices. They are gone forever. Sleep is normal and sufficient. There was energy to live, to do things. There is no place for apathy. I managed to find the area of activity that fills the voids of the sound vector and gives impetus to mental work. Which, by the way, brings great, indescribable pleasure. Finally, I live.
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Who among us has not come across the so-called inner voice that tells us what to do in this or that situation?
And if such voices are heard in reality? Maybe it's time to see a psychiatrist? But do not rush to consider this a sign of insanity! For example, there are many cases when invisible voices warned a person about danger.
One day the English poet Byron was traveling through Greece with a local guide. Suddenly, the Greek started convulsing and announced that he had heard the voice of his father, warning that something terrible was happening not far from here. "Two years ago I also heard my father's voice, and it saved my life," he said. "The Turks massacred the village where I was going."
Byron shrugged skeptically, but decided to stop anyway. When they set off again, they soon saw eight dead bodies on the road - a battle had recently taken place here, and if the travelers had not slowed down, they might have found themselves in the thick of the battle ...
Another episode, already from our time. The mother of a 13-year-old boy has died. Returning home after the funeral, he decided to go for groceries that were stored on the back stairs. But suddenly he heard the voice of the deceased mother, calling him from the room. The teenager looked there, but found no one. As soon as he took a few steps towards the door, his mother's voice called him again ...
Then a neighbor came and said that the back staircase had recently been removed, as it had become very loose. If the boy went there, he could fall from a great height and get injured or even die.
Sometimes mysterious voices warn us of upcoming events. A schoolgirl from Moscow, Lena Grineva, once heard the voice of her older brother calling her by name. My brother was serving in the Navy at that time and there were no letters from him for a long time. For some reason, the girl immediately decided that her brother would return home soon. And so it happened.
But much more often "auditory hallucinations" portend tragedy. So, Irina K. from Moscow in January 1990, leaving home, kissed her father goodbye and suddenly heard a voice from somewhere above: "Next time you kiss the dead." Two days later, she was talking to her father on the phone, and suddenly it came from above again: "You won't hear his voice again." And five days later, my father fell seriously ill and soon died ...
Sometimes people think they hear the news on the radio or TV. For example, on October 2, 1968, parapsychologist William Cox heard a radio report about a car accident that killed a Baptist minister. His car collided with a mail car. During the day, this news was repeated twice more, but for some reason they did not mention at what time the accident occurred.
The next day, Cox was returning from work in a taxi. On the way, the driver said that yesterday he had seen a mail van collide with a clergyman's car. But he assured that it happened somewhere around eleven o'clock in the evening! Cox was perplexed, because he heard the news in the afternoon! They began to argue, each insisting on his own.
At home, the parapsychologist decided to call the radio station and find out when the message about the disaster with the mail van was first transmitted. To his surprise, he learned that the first time the information about this went on the air at midnight, and repeated it only in the morning newscast the next day ...
And here is another case. A young Englishwoman was watching the news on TV on June 1, 1974. The announcer talked about the huge explosion that happened that day at a chemical plant in Flixboro, which claimed the lives of dozens of people. When the girl was visited by her friends, she told them about the terrible message.
In the evening, a report from the scene of the tragedy was shown on television, but for some reason it was reported that the explosion occurred at 4:53 pm. And the girl found out about him at noon! It turned out that according to the program at that time, news releases were not broadcast at all ...
If you heard “otherworldly” voices or even saw a “picture” that turned out to be a hallucination, then it’s not at all a fact that we are talking about contact with representatives of another reality (although this possibility is also not excluded), parapsychologists say. Most likely, in this way our own subconscious is trying to reach out to us and give us some important information ...
Good afternoon, Svetlana Evgenievna,
My name is Peter, but I don't want my name to appear somewhere on the site.
I am a visitor to your site. For the first time I got to it when I could no longer put up with my inner voice, which tormented me greatly and, in search of at least some help, began to surf the sites and stumbled upon this site, read a couple of articles, found them very useful. He began to use something, for some time the inner voice calmed down, but then again, even I would say with even stronger absurdity, he began to drill in my head, citing some absolutely absurd arguments that I already gave up to him.
For example, he (a nasty inner voice, just nasty, because for some reason it only hurts me, refutes everything that is useful for me, casts doubt on everything to the point of horror, just ... I would like him, of course, on the contrary to help me somehow), let's say I start repeating affirmations (but, he doesn’t let me, I practically hear him, as he says - HOW DO YOU KNOW? this phrase appears on all my positive thoughts and it doesn’t let me think the way I want .. Let’s say - I am charming , I am self-confident, I make a favorable impression on people, Nothing can happen to me and then the voice comes in immediately WHERE DO YOU KNOW ???.. BUT if, out of habit, I forget and start to think negatively, then imagine how they will run over me and so on, the voice of a bitch, the creature is silent for some reason, but as soon as I start talking about the positive, then denials immediately begin ... anger takes ..
And it can give such arguments - YOU CAN'T CHECK THIS, or (if I tell myself I will do everything that the doctors and everyone (doctors, I mean Psychologists), but then the second phrase, YOU ARE A FOOL, IF YOU WILL STUPIDLY FOLLOW SUCH RECOMMENDATIONS, MAYBE THIS IS ALL A FALSE, MEANING YOU ARE A FOOL!And if I really tried some techniques of psychologists on my "skin" and everything turned out, then right there the voice in my head THIS IS ALL ILLUSION!
But if I only think about something bad, then the voice is gone ...
They say that you need to think about something pleasant in the event of a dialogue or switch your attention to something else (to get down to business), but if you do this, then I retreat and do not fight, that is, I do not think positively (since there is a voice), that is I don’t try to convince myself of the positive (because there is a voice there), I don’t pray to God (because there is also a voice there), and so on, I retreat from everything trying to distract myself, but I want to defeat him and think about the positive, and not switch and put a ban on myself think about the positive, here is some kind of dead end ..
Please give me some good advice to help.
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Dmitry
Hello! We all talk to ourselves i.e. normal internal dialogue, and doubt the nature of man. Doubts help in uncertain situations from hasty actions. At some stage, you need to thank them - let them go - thank you, you put everything on the shelves, now I will act on my own. This method helps people who have doubts. Affirmations are also usually effective. But you say you work on yourself a lot - it helps for a while and then worse. If it is difficult to help yourself, you need to contact a psychologist. In this mode, we have no opportunity to discuss - how long the voice has been heard, starting at what age, whether it interferes with work - how able they are to work at this moment, after what events this arose. The psychologist will talk to you about your childhood, most likely it will take some time to figure out the reasons for what is happening. I want to tell you that fighting with yourself is not the way to go. Well, is it easy to live in a state of struggle? No, it's very hard. We must love ourselves - even with shortcomings, make friends with ourselves, because we are friends with others, but we are at war with ourselves. Write a list - why do you dislike yourself so much, why do you execute like that? Think about it - does it deserve such a punishment, even then they return from prison! Forgive yourself for hurting yourself for so long. Now write a list of why you love yourself, why others love and appreciate you. It is indeed easier for a person to imagine a sad outcome of events than a brilliant and excellent one. A very good book, you may have read it, Lilian Tu "Inner Feng Shui", helps to make the mind calm. - and this is a link to the article of this site "When I fell in love with myself" by Leonova N.V. Charlie Chaplin's poems about relationships with himself. It's the right way. All the best.
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Those who hear "voices in the head" do not understand that they belong to themselves. Another thing is what we hear when we read to ourselves. To answer this question, psychologist Ruvanee Vilhauer from New York University (USA) conducted a study summarizing and analyzing the experience of people who "hear" their own inner voice while reading.
Wilhauer used user responses on the largest English-language Q&A site, Yahoo! Answers (At the end of 2009, the site had 200 million users and over a billion questions and answers). She was able to find 24 questions on this topic posted on the site between 2006 and 2014, and 136 responses in which site visitors described their inner feelings while reading.
The majority of users (82%) stated that when they read to themselves, they “hear” a voice in their head, another 10% did not hear such a voice, from the rest of the answers it was impossible to unambiguously understand what a person felt in the process of reading.
Of those who heard an inner voice while reading, 13% heard it not always, but only in some situations (which could depend on various factors, including the degree of their interest in the text), and about half of them always heard the same voice, for the rest it “sounded” differently at different times. At the same time, for example, the speech of different people in the text could be “voiced” by different voices, or the content of an SMS message or e-mail could be “voiced” by the voice of its sender. According to several users, the same inner voice “responsible” for reading them as for ordinary thoughts. Those who always heard the same voice usually considered it to be their own ordinary voice, which, however, could differ in timbre or tone.
Almost all users of the site who heard the voice while reading stated that it had some kind of sound characteristics - volume, timbre, accent, and so on. The degree of control over the voice differed - for some it seemed distracting or even frightening, for others it was easy to change it with an effort of will.
It is noteworthy that for most of those who left comments, their personal experience seemed to be universal for everyone. For example, some commentators were sure that everyone heard the voice in the head while reading, while others could even consider it a sign of some kind of mental disorder.
For details, see R. Vilhauer "Inner reading voices: An invisible form of inner speech", Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches, 2016, vol. 8, no. 1.
Perhaps everyone knows what the inner voice of a person is. Many people think that this is something secret, true, the voice of the subconscious, which knows exactly what we need and what is best for us. Meanwhile, if a person's inner voice says something bad, it does not have to be the ultimate truth. So what to do when the inner voice speaks - listen to it or not?
Voice in our head
Let's say you decide to ask your boss for a promotion. You are almost ready for a heated argument, but suddenly you hear a voice somewhere in your own head: “It’s better to sit quietly and don’t stick your head out, otherwise you’ll be thrown out of work altogether.” Or, let's say you came up with the idea of enrolling in a painting course for amateurs. You thought that such activities could be a good rest and bring variety to the gray life. But your inner voice whispers: “Why do you need it at that age, you will only be disgraced, you have not a drop of talent.” Your enthusiasm immediately bursts like a soap bubble ...
Familiar situation? Probably everyone has experienced something similar. It is said that when someone hears voices, they need to see a psychiatrist immediately. But we are not going to talk about such a phenomenon. Our inner voice is an inner critic that works like an effective brake system. Its task is to extinguish enthusiasm, destroy self-confidence, the desire to pull us down by the feet. At the same time, he is very inventive in coming up with excuses, he always finds some reasons for inaction.
If the inner voice says nasty things, and we let it control our life, then we will live it colorlessly, we will not try anything new, because we are paralyzed by fear and doubt. In 99%, he stops us on the spot, and, as you know, who does not go forward, he moves back.
Inner voice = intuition?
We tend to overestimate the importance of internal monologues or dialogues with ourselves because we often take them for our real “I”, subconscious signals, intuition. For some people, glimpses of intuition really only happen in the form of voices. They say they clearly hear something in their head. How to distinguish this help of the cosmos, the Universe from the internal brake?
It's actually very simple: glimpses of real intuition never criticize, drag you into controversy or explain anything. The task of intuition is to protect us, so the “messages” from it will be short and simple: “don’t go there”, “go down the other street”, “call home” and so on. You don't hear in your head that you don't have to go somewhere because you can't handle something or get lost. Intuition doesn't say, "Don't go there because you're in danger." And the inner critic has only one goal - to weaken us morally and turn us into his victim. Therefore, it is worth getting rid of it, or at least learning to control it.
How to stop the war between the ears?
Many people are faced with the fact that they have more than one vote. And this is not at all a reason to feel crazy or slide into depression because of internal monologues. This phenomenon needs to be dealt with somehow, just because it blocks the realization of dreams.
- The first step to victory is looking at yourself from a distance, as an observer, and changing your point of view. Believe that you are not a toy, not a pawn in the hands of the cosmos or the world, you are, if not the only, then one of the main reasons for your own actions. When once again the inner voice starts to say bad things, what should be done? Ask yourself where it came from. Tell yourself that it is your inner voice, not yourself, and believe it with all your heart.
- Step two is to learn to allow yourself weakness, to openly admit that something went wrong, was done wrong. This gives a person great freedom, because he no longer has to hide his own weaknesses before himself and the world. In any person there is a light and a dark side, an angel and a devil, a hero and a villain. The only question is who will win in a particular situation.
When the inner voice begins to whisper that you won’t succeed, that you don’t know how to do anything, cut yourself off energetically and say “stop”. Do not let yourself be drawn into this game of thoughts and reason, distract yourself with something from them.
