National Hearing Voices Network – For people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual perceptions
www.hearing-voices.org

It's a neat org. Hearing voices isn't really uncommon and doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you and they're trying to raise awareness of that. Check them out. Hearing voices, outside the context of serious mental illness, is just one of those weird human quirks that some folks have like the cilantro gene or ear wax variations.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    10 days ago

    One of my favorite facts about auditory hallucinations is that they differ culturally. A burgers potentially paranoia inducing voices as part of mental illness seem to become helpful ancestor advice in other cultures. Which is obviously a lot less harmful and perhaps speaks to the burger psyche

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      10 days ago

      I stg it should be mandatory that patients have a patient's advocate who works for the patient present and doctors are not allowed to be alone with patients.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      10 days ago

      Haha. There's a couple of major kinds of ear wax in the world. I forget the details though, but I think it's split between parts of asia and everyboyd else.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      10 days ago

      Awesome. : )

      If it's not causing you problems in life it's fine. Just a normal part of the wide, wide, wide variety of ways humans experience the world.

  • ProletarianDictator [none/use name]
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    9 days ago

    Makes sense that this would be the case. The human brain is wired for processing language.

    Earlier this summer I had spent about a minute trying to figure out what song was playing, but it was just my AC unit going off.

    Probably a similar neural pathway results in hearing voices where there aren't any.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      9 days ago

      Yeah, my best theory is that when someone yell's "Tiger!" And you hear "Tiger!" Then you don't get eaten because you were warned and hid from the tiger.

      And when you have a hallucination of someone yelling "tiger" you still don't get eaten.

      But if someone yells "Tiger!" And you don't process that in to the word "Tiger" then you get eaten.

      So I think, maybe, that it's been better for us to be to hear something that is there than not hear something and there's a bias towars interpretting sounds as voices. Because maybe there's a tiger.