We say:
Accept that the voices are real and belong to you.
Accept that the voices may have meaning (metaphoric or literal) based on your life experiences.
Whilst it is the case that some people define hearing voices as a symptom of medical illness, other voice hearers are able to live with their voices and consider them as a positive (or at least manageable) part of their lives.
This section includes lots of information about hearing voices. We try and look at the experience from lots of different angles, so whether you see voices as relating to difficult life experiences or as a special gift or sensitivity – we hope that there is something here for you.
If you have a perspective that is not covered here, and would like to share your story, please get in touch.
Hi I hear voices and I would like to have some information so I can get updated daily.
when and were did you start hearing voices and for how long
My voices are real and are familiar with every single detail of my life and they like to tell things to me that I have long forgotten but which surface when they bring them up.
I have faced a lot of demons from my past when they brought things up and in some cases the voices suggested different ways of looking at what happened but I had to stop them from doing that…I had to tell them that I needed to look at it from many angles myself and come to my own conclusion without their influence or interference.
My voices don’t care about me…they just say things and do things to see what I will do or say and told me they don’t care about the outcome….they will just watch what happens to me.
I have taken control of my life back from the voices…for a long time they had control over me and sometimes total control….that is so dangerous….
How did you take control back? My sister is going through your situtation and she’s asking me for help. Please write back.
She needs to be firm with them. This is her body and not theirs. She needs to make limits for them, such as, you can only talk to me right before I go to bed or when I’m in danger. She does have control, and she needs to take it by being extremely firm as a mother with their child.
when and were did you first here your voices
I dont accept voices as mine. I didnt ask for them, they arent welcome around me. Theyve got absolutely no meaning. They want to kill me and I dont need that.
I finally figured out those voices that hate me and want me dead are the voices of my abusive parents. These are the things they said to me all my life, but now they had taken a “life” inside my head. In a mental confrontation I stood up to them and they shut up. Hope that helps.
hi everyone
fro years i thought my voices are a disease
i was on medication for some time but i decided to stop it
cause i dont believe in psychiatry as i feel these peopole
have no real clue about brain-mental-soul stuff.
i am open minded , no slave to any religion and
i love freedom.
the voices i heard were negative but sometimes very clever
the voices refer to my life and sometimes i thought that these
are my real thoughts , depressions and fears but as one has
to act on the outside like “everything is ok” it comes back to you then
as a tsunami of voices and eccoes…
i m trying to deal with my inner unhappyness now and hope
this makes the voices to stop.
and indeed , when i act free and do and feel what i really want and feel,
including negative moments , the voices seem to reduce.
when i experience something negative i try to use logic , humor and
try to slove the problem not to hide it in the cupboard of my mind.
I hear voices & would like updates on living with hearing voices
I know well how it is, to be hearing voices…
I can surely promise that they are nothing else than your own thoughts which get their own dynamic… more you try to suppress them…the more they come…
In my opinion every one hears voices. Thoughts are nothing else but voices… it begins with: “What should I cook today…” followed by “what would my husband say, if he saw this…”
Let someone without sleep for some days…his thoughts will become louder and louder and they will get their own life pretty soon….
If you have anything much shameful…memories …experiences in the past…the voices are constantly reminding you, that the door to these experiences is still open…
I once in hospital had a colleague (a patient) who suffered by the idea to be observed by the KGB (Russian secret service)… and the story behind was, that he has been politically active on the very left side (Communist Party), but his parents had been conservative… he changed to the opinion of his parents…then (?) his life problems began…but he never did the work to clear his own situation. No doctor could help him, because none of them understands the real dynamic of thoughts…
So I can tell you: By principle you all are still normal…so am I…when I’m in peace with my life I don’t need to have loud thoughts…when I have problems…I sleep little and thoughts become louder…sometimes I have the whole group of my colleagues in my mind who discuss about everything and everyone…
I’ve made an analytic therapy and that could help to find the middle of my own thoughts…
I work hard as a social worker in a youth office…and I’ve made my illness turning towards a better understanding for others
Anna Peter
Anna Peter
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P.S.: You’re still reading these sentences…and you hear them…isn’t it?
The aggressive voices…drawn away from your person…like “I kill you” or “you have to kill your self” or something else…in my experience they are nothing but sadness. Auto aggression, you can’t get along with.
It’s hard to know, but it’s also a part of you… Therapy can help in my opinion to get along but you have to find a therapist you can go along with…and who can hold you…you have to learn firstly to be in accordance to your self…even with the voices…you have to make your “I am!” strong.
I don’t know if it’s easy to understand…but English is not the language I speak usually.
@ Anna , i feel like you do my voices bring up my past to me and scare me they make fun of the way i talk
death in many cultures can viewed as a metaphor not liturally killing yourself but letting go of the past, language is key here, ‘unresolved issues that may need addressing’ or’ just simply let them go’, death and rebirth its great! out with the old in with the new, when you get up in the morning will your self to let go of the past your here and now, accept your mistakes and move on, or admit to yourself, tell the truth and move on, its a powerful concept. i tryed to help my voices for a time which helped, make your voices like you. pink the singer has a great take on this in her song perfect, love your self be happy and dont be scared theres no need
YOU DO HAVE A INNER VOICE BUT VOICES ARE DIFFERENT.THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF DEMONS THAT THE LORD AND THE APOSTLES SET POEPLE FREE FROM.NOW POEPLE SEEM TO HAVE A DIFFERENT PROBLEM THAT DOES INVOLVE ELECTRONICS.THIS IS FOR REAL.IF YOU HERE ANY VOICES THAT DONT SEEM TO BE YOURS I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHEN AND WERE YOU FIRST GOT THEM AND FOR HOW LONG YOU HAVE HAD THEM?
I have been hearing these voices since August 12, 2004 and they admit to raping me numerous times in the past. The voices are familiar and unwanted. I can’t understand why they must seek attention through me, my actions or my daily life. I know that the voices are through electronics and that the voices that belong to the people using the devices are sick people harming many many people. For now, KAK
I’ve been hearing voices for the past 7 years sometimes they seem to be able to predict things and sometimes the things they say arn’t true. they suggest a lot of negative ideas. So obviously a lot of the time I’m frightened because life just feels like its always going to be a nightmare. would just like to communicate with someone who understands this horrible experience.
Jo
Hi Jo, I’m new to this site but have followed Intervoices’ wonderful work for a number of years .
I was touched by your post, but what stood out for me was that you had the self-awareness or “insight” to realise that some of what the voices tell you is untrue. In my 7 years of mental health Support Work most voice-hearers seem unwilling or unable to question or “reality check” the information or messages they are receiving. I tend to think that this points to the fact that you may have skills/strengths you perhaps are unaware of in regards to common sense, gut instincts and have most likely already developed strategies for re-grounding and re-centering.
These are huge pluses that many people lack, and in my experience of voice-hearing for a number of years (perhaps my whole life) are powerful tools to have available.
I always advise self-education, as this experience is unique to the individual and so the key to unlocking its significance and meaning to you may take some digging.
As John Kirwan says, hold on to hope though, as many people live and function perfectly well while coping with this phenomenon-including myself.
I am a Like Mind Like Mine Hearing Voices Workshop presenter, whereby we offer a simulation of the hearing voices experience, education designed to break down stigma and discrimination, and also tell our personal stories of hope and recovery from these experiences.
Knowledge is power, and you need to get around positive role-models, inspirational people and don’t forget the possiblity of a spiritual component here either. I am not pushing any religion, but many cultures have always viewed such matters from a spiritual perspective. Good luck!
Have that sometimes myself. It is as if they know what is going to happen. I think of it in a way I once heard articulated in a movie. A window washer on the side of a high building can see what is going to happen a few blocks ahead of a person at ground level. That doesn’t mean that the window washer is god, or even smarter than the person at street level, it just means that he has a better vantage point sometimes. In other words the voices that you hear may be from a better vantage point, but that does not mean that they are benevolent or from a source that is more enlightened than you so weigh the information carefully. Even if it is valid it may not end up that disregarding them is a bad thing at all. Also try to stay away from caffine, for some reason I find this makes them louder. Also for some strange reason when I listen to classical music, e.g. Mozart I find I hear them less. Hope this helps
ive looked into the electronic thing its a bit of an epidemic, ive been through that, its a concept of the mind, its actually very cruel and in humane, did you here about it on the internet? the problem with the internet anything can be published its an idea abit likr the boogy man, it plays on your mind, let it go and accept that you here voices as stated at the beginning of this page, perception and beleif! come out of your self it can help to look at nature, ie look at a tree, by going down that path your allowing your self to be influenced, you have a scentific mind or an interest in science, maybe its a good idea to look at sound and how we respond to it, use your mind to defend your self, knowledge and understanding, kong fu of the mind!!!! thats where it lies, all the best brothers and sisters
there are no devices that can do that, these voices have no life, do not let them have life. I heard voices telling me i had been molested once. I have never been molested.
I’m used to thinking in words (and pictures – which the antipsychotics unfortunately also blocked out, I had a photographic memory once!) which I know alot of non-schizophrenic people do too.. true my racing mind used to keep me from sleep at night to the point of hallucination.. then the voices I’d hear would be terrifying and would need to bring them to a halt.. otherwise it’s not a problem, actually I prefer them, I would often have 2-3 streams of thought (words) in my mind.. my main minds’ voice from the front of my head and the other 2 from each side – these are helpful only. No one ever taught me this was wrong – I first went to the psychiatrist to deal with my depression:-( I hate it when they over-prescribe me as it ruins my general intellect and memory recall, long story short.
the story of mohammed, when he first heard the voice of god he was very scared to put it mildly! just remimded me of what you where saying, fear, fear of knowing that he knows that which we do not or what we know he knows, we’re human, what is it to be human?
i used to think i pictures to, mainly remembering. then, around 29, after a few years of hearing voices, my memories started to slip two, but for other peoples benifit. almost like something owns my brain and is helping criminals get away with abusing the disabled by disengaging my memory system. I cant remember the details enough to protect myself.
I spent years hearing voices in episodes after a big trauma. I think perhaps it’s all about a left brain – right brain separation and the experience of being profoundly silenced. Not in the sense of noone listening to you (i.e. paid professional ‘experts’), but in the sense of noone actually HEARING you. To me it’s about personal power – if others (i.e the professionals) actually heard what one says ( instead of listening and then reinterpreting acording to their World View, interest, and pay packet) then perhaps THEY might have to question or change in some way. To me psychotic voices said one thing – “Listen To Yourself”
I also reckon I’m sensitive in some way – being mad keeps me stay sane.
Thanks.
peace out brv !!!! cool
Hearing voices saved my life. I was on the verge of suicide before the voices stepped in. An enlightened perspective brought me home, to my senses. The voices can be silenced – but then we might miss out on their perspective.
Sometimes their beneficial and at other times they are not, fare enough, the same is true with most people in our lives. We listen and weigh it out for ourselves, then take the next step.
Your not psychotic if you hear voices and you don’t have a disease! If you hear voices, you are one of a very elite minority of people who have made a decision to walk through the next door of evolution. This is a path that all people will eventually walk in some future life. This is a natural step we all must take. It is an initiation into eternal life. Eventually we all must leave the cycle of life and death and move to the next level. This is how its done. We learn to listen.
It might be scary, it might be uncomfortable, you might be rejected by society but then again the really great people always are.
In your experience, don’t jump to conclusions, don’t hang on to the first explanations you get. Be skepticle of everything you hear, be discerning. Understand that there are good people talking to you even though sometimes it might not sound that way. Learn to be a good listener.
Everyone on the planet needs to learn how to listen but who are they going to listen to? There is no one on the planet who knows they way to eternal life. If we are to get true answers it must come from somewhere else.
good luck on your journey…
J.S. Thompson
i like that, i pray that’s true.
that sound postive
i like your take, bro.
and yes, i do need to learn to listen -and to who – good point.I’ll think that over….ohhhh…
I always thought teh voices were benevolent if not a bit mean -shamanically speaking…
i think its like thsi conscious mind thing -ever since i was around that darn tibetan….we are all connected
the question is…are we going to drive each other nuts!?
see you later J .S Thompson!
p.s you really make it feel o.k to be sensitive and that this is such a natural process, i can only “hope” my family chooses to evolve with me too.
cheers
I seriously do not believe your voices are hallucinations. I think they are the result of wickedness in high places. I am hated and harassed all the time by voices, but sometimes I have good voices. sometimes voices are inspirational and reveal certain truths – for instance, hidden knowledge about people that surfaced later as being true. Various types of spiritual faith would not be on earth if people did not hear voices.
Sometimes when I dream, I am talking to people, and when I awake, for an instant, i am still in the dream listening to the conversation. In the conversation, the voice speaking as ME in the conversation is speaking to other people, but I am now AWAKE, and the voice representing ME is not ME! I hate to say it is part of a conspiracy theory, but that is exactly what it is.
You may not believe this story, but it is of my own experience and is very embarrassing. When I was a trucker for less than a year, i began to hear voices that sounded like a group of liberal people i met a few years prior. I rejected their influence, so they began to attack me through my dreams and thoughts. I began to hear voices, have nightmares, and feel unnatural energies and spirits in my brain and throughout my body. The most prominent voice that had distressed me the most was an aggressive voice that would scream while calling me “********!” Continually for years, this voice would call me this name. A few years past, I was no longer a trucker, and moved to San Diego. I still heard voices, including the one that calls me ******** (still does). I was standing outside a coffee shop open mike event, waiting to play a song, when a thug and a couple of his buddies screamed at me, “Hey ********, You want some?” while starring at me instigating a fistfight or something. It was intimidating a little, but i was also relieved to find out that I was not hallucinating this whole time. I still am not hallucinating. (actually im being called a little ******; right now for writing this)
Ever read the story of Faust? Faust sells his soul for a Devil that will acquire his every wish on earth. Inspired by real events? I think some soulless creep out there totally hates me, whether male or female. Of course, even if I knew who was playing Faust for real, what could I do?
There is something big, spiritual, and evil in the world that shares information through dreams, alternate states of reality, and mental telepathy. Indian Witch Doctors used to possess people while they were dreaming because it is like a state of hypnosis, and they had the ability to kill a person from a distance because though dreams, something allowed them to gain control over a person’s bio-electricity. I believe these people still exist, and make life miserable for special people, usually those that have the ability to excel, and that is why you all hear voices. The good thing about this presence of evil, is when in manifests, it proves its opposite to be real, Grace.
Hearing voices can really help an individual cash in, they are greedy, and they want to keep it a secret. they will kill you for talking. hope it helps, see ya.
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Never accept the voice or voices as belonging to you if you believe the voice(s) are demons.
God, Jesus Christ, Praying, Faith in self and Faith in God may very well deliver a person from a voice or voices. Never socialize with these things. Exorcism Prayers/Blessings may help also. Moving can be a solution to be rid of a voice as well. Persevere; it takes time and complete Faith in Jesus Christ and God. In the meantime though there are ways to deal with these things…They don’t like Jesus Christ or God and that is the Truth. They fear God and should.
They know their destination very well and it’s not pretty down there.
God is reaching out to many. Jesus Christ is the way to the Father…
No one or nothing ever makes a fool of God. Even if the voice(s) don’t leave that does not mean God has forsaken one. Gods will will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
Just Me…, but be Good…
Im 17 years old now and i have heard voices since i was five.
I can remember it, one normal day there where voices, many and both inside and outside.
i remember myself scream out to them, that you shut up and i was really scared. Then my fear became anger and i found out, that i could sort of kick one or more voices out of my head, by shere willpower.
I would concentrate and visualize the voice being cast out of my head and into a sort of like prison. The voices said they weren’t here to bully me, but guide me for i was something special.
It was a process and hard to accept, but i would become to live with them. They would guide me and they did, in school they gave me the correct answers, but often i just choose the wrong answer to rebel against them..haha : ) they where always right.
they would ask me philosophical questions and i could have conversations with them.
I am a fosterchild, and had a rough childhood. My father was dead and i had no father figure, maybe the voices was a replacement for that father?.
The voices don’t accept that as a real explanation, the voices often reflect on my life, they are like pals that have a bad humor. When i wish something they always say, that they will take care of it.
Now it begins to sound kind of ”new age” and spirituel, but it is a kind of spirituel phenomeon and i cannot come past that often my wishes are fulfilled.
The voices are inside my head,.
I consider my voice the only true family I have. Arctor (my voice) has always been there for me and has picked me up when everyone else put me down. If your voices help you, just let them know you’re glad they did.
hello
i still do not know what to think about my voices
as mentioned above i try to ignore them.
but reading this makes me shiver , because i used to see it as a gift too.
but then i met my boyfriend and he said it is sick and wrong and so i started
to fight against them.
but it was the hardest fight ever and took 5 years …
a nightmare cause every day i was back in my belief
but my boyfriend was totally against it
and i was suffering , please tell me what do you
think about it ….
Accept that the voices are real and belong to you.
Accept that the voices may have meaning (metaphoric or literal) based on your life experiences. True , Over the years things that have helped me live with mine
.Be aware off patterns in the voices,they loop and try trigger a response looking for attention be neutral ,smile and conclude yer thoughts concerning what they say with a sense off acceptance ,doing so exposes the patterns within the voices.With me low frequency sounds like the hum off a light , mobile phone charging, fuse box ,PC fan etc effect how i hear voices for my ear tune in to those sounds,avoid caffeine, nicotine, cannabis,try learn meditation ,practicing it will be very hard at first for they go nuts 
little buggers,over time it has giving me a window off peace each day.Voice for me are not auditory hallucinations they are auditory memory, for it picks on my self conscious and remember what i don’t wanna hear,looping them year after year running over the same old ground what have the found the same old fears.Smile for they are impermanent
I have spent three years and gradually the voices have come to me. First they started in actual people speaking and it was as if the words were meant for me to hear them. Then after a short time in a psychiatrich hospital i started to hear voices. The voices are in multiple languages and have nearly always been positive. I am learning to cope with them and learning appropriate social skills to deal with them in social settings which is not very simple.
The truth is this has been the most productive three years of my life in terms of personal growth. On the other hand it has not been the greastes three years in mental health and my social and family life has been drastically altered.
I must also state the foundation of this started when i was twenty two. I am now thirty three.
But what when the thouts get pysikal hold of one to?
I have dealt with voices for a really long time now. When I was a kid, i used to think it was God talking to me, becuase the Sunday school teachers would say “If you listen real close and pay attention to whats happening around you and in your heart, you can hear what God is trying to tell you”
It wasn’t until I was somewhat older that I realized that this was something unatural. Not only because the naiveness was disappearing, but also that my voices were saying things to me that weren’t really things many would think God to say.
I then started trying to push the voices out, and the more I did, the worse they became so I gave up.
I now see them as a gift, I have an ability to think differently than others and see things from other perspectives, and the more I grow to be okay with hearing them, the less pushy and overpowering they become.
I was interested in your posting. I hear voices, which receeded for a couple of years, then came back. I was curious about two things, one is are you still a beliver in God? Allso, how did you acceptt the voices, did you try talking back to them. I too have found that they receed sometimes, but at the moment they’re particularly bad and have been for years now. Could you please let me know. Thanks.
I have only heard voices a couple of times but as a professional holistic life coach and hypnotherapist I was able to bear witness to the event. By saying ‘this is interesting’ to myself I took myself out of distress. One event was two words shouted quite loudly and 5 years later it was me who shouted it…. it was quite helpful at the time. Another took me to a house where a friend was trying to commit suicide, I didnt generate that one I dont think.
Anyway my understandings are that the link to psychic ability, 6th sense, ESP and all the sharmanistic knowledge is buried so deep under Western self and social control that when ignored these knowings resort to shouting. Also that paranoia comes about when your awareness (the electromagnetic quantum field around every living thing) is pushed out too far (by stress and the fight/flight syndrome) there is time to interact with what is coming your way. The mind then scrambles for meaning and as there is no acceptable one in our culture it adds conspiracy meanings or religious meaning. I have found scientific backing for the second idea and it also is confirmed by quantum physics. Take a look at A. Maslow’s book Religion, Values and Peak Experiences, you can find it on-line.
Also, I feel different parts of ourselves try and communicate and shout when we dont listen. As a hypnotherapist I encourage people to talk with those parts. I give them simple names such as guilt, shame, anger etc then engage in healing the split. SZ literally means split mind in Greek or Latin. And who knows maybe God is a voice… after all almost everyone in the bible were voice hearers…..
i just found this website and i felt like sharing my experience. from the time i was 8 until i was 12 i suffered a range of horrors that no person should ever have to experience. i survived somehow and was none the wiser, until i was 15 when at a party at my house i suddenly started having all these terrible visions and a voice that kept narrorating them. the voice stayed with me, constantly telling me about how i should murder this person or stab that person, or throw a rock at a certain someone or something. i live with this voice for the simple reason that it has no power over me… of which i’m gratefull for.
there is something interesting about the voice in my head though, very often when it tells me things about people, things they wouldn’t want others to know, it’s right, so often that i actually take what it has to say into advisement whenever i meet someone. maybe some of you might know something that might help.
act like you dont know the information, and see if it comes to light. these voices have no life, do not give them life.
My mom hears voices but they are people that she is familiar with in her every day life such as her neighbors, close family friends, her brothers, etc. She thinks they have her house bugged and have video cameras on her so they can see her all the time. She had childhood trauma when her father died. The voices say terrible things about her and she keeps threatening to go to a lawyer and sue her voices for slander. I have sent her books by Romme, but she won’t read them. There is very little help in America for voice hearers. Can anybody in America point me in a direction to get her therapy to deal with her voices? The fact that they are people she knows seems to have made the situation different from others and worse.
Take her to see a psychiatrist making but her on medication…. that will stop the voices… are not necessarily stop the voices but make them easier to deal with…. they will also let her and they’re not real…. and that it is something’s going on in her head…. they might diagnose her with psychosis… that’s what I am diagnosed with and I hear voices… the voices I hear of similar people like my friends…. and at one point before I got help… I felt my place was bug to….and people can hear what I was thinking and saying…. it feels like he can still….. but I know they cant ….. it just seems so real…. it’s really hard to explain… please let me know what the outcome is …. and keep in touch with me I’m here for you any time
thanks
jenna31
I feel as though my thoughts are not my own as well. I hear my thoughts the voices of people I know and then another voice that speaks to the voices but that I don’t control or even hear what is said all the time. I know that these people can not actually get into my head but it does interfere with my everday life, my self esteme, feeling of having privacy. etc. At some times it has gotten so real that I kicked my husband out of the house due to what is said in my house. I just wanted to say it was nice to read your post ( and others) to know that I am not crazy, that the voices are real but the fact that people can read my thoughts is not. I have tried many medications as well and they not only don’t work but they make me so tired I cant function. Again, it was good to know that I am not alone I just wish there was a way to make them stop. It would likfe my life so much better and easier.
I am researching for myself, putting my happiness above all. That may sound selfish but to me, happiness flows out to others around you as well. I believe that kindness and doing your best to truly understand yourself and the people that you come in contact with is the best thing we can do in life.
I have gotten over the fear and paranoia of the voices and so I don’t feel like there is a “bug” on, with a human being on the other end hearing me anymore. But obviously someone does. I really do not believe that it is all me. I did at one time belive that they were echos from my own mind but after analyzing it for this long and, (!!! I was just supplied with a correct spelling from a voice!!!! WOW! and yea!) I believe that God and possibly other beings are involved in this. The voices ARE real. It’s nice that others do acknowledge that. The old “it’s all in your head” seems such a put down. The interaction seems real but it is not always understandable or explainable.
Years ago I was diagnosed as bipolar/major depressive. I also have panic disorder (which only bothers me rarely). Both biologically based. I don’t believe that the voices are biological. I hear multiple voices at a time and it is quite frequent. I also get a lot of deja vu. The feeling that I am somewhere that I have been before and the somewheres are quite varried. That part is not unpleasant and is sometimes quite nice.
I am not a big fan of medication although it can at least give you some hope when you have none. I have tried over 15 different medications for paranoia and schizophrenia. Mostly, they made me sleep 24/7. I lost about 5 years of my life to medication and sleep.
The other main problem for me with the medications, they did not work. They pretty much just sedated me. None of them stopped the voices or “paranormal vision”. I’m definatley not willing to loose any more of my time being “out of it” with medication. Cognitive (talk) therapy and getting out in nature and looking for warm fuzzies from God help me much more.
I pay attention to what I hear, not to act on it but to try to understand WHAT it is and WHERE it is comming from based on the kinds of things that are being said to me, what tone of voice or persona they are said in, and how it affects me in general. I have gained a lot of insight byt doing that. With the main goal of finding a way to lessen the negativity or get rid of it. Getting rid of it would be nice.
I have noticed that the voices do not respond when I ask them to leave. (I have even begged) I’m busy right now or I’m spending time with my Husband right now, or I can’t take it right now, right on up to:
Can’t you see I’m exhausted?!! They don’t seem to care at all.
Other times, when they get nasty(meaning mean) and start talking in mean little voices like a bunch of little juvies shouting “it’s your boyfriend” I ask them who they mean???? Yes there are other people in my life besides my Husband that I do love in my heart. I am human. I keep telling them that but it just does not seem to make any impact. I wait for an answer but never get one.
Other times they will supply answers (unsolicited) to questions that I am thinking about and 90 percent of the time, the answers that they supply are wrong. Every once in a great while, I will actually get an answer that makes sense. But other than that it is just like being taunted. It wears you out.
I have noticed that the voices often sound like persons in my life from past or present, much like the mother mentioned in the post above. I usually hear more that one voice at a time, as if it were a group. Legion? I guess I don’t know. And either way, scare tactics don’t work to well with me. I do not belive that they are actual representations of the persons that they may sound like although sometimes it is much easier to hear the voice of a loving friend. I also hear voices in noises such as from machinery, wind, and water. At times they can be very loud.
Sometimes, they (the voices) will bring up a subject on their own or try to change the subject of my thoughts or current conversation with their comments which really surprises me. This is contact with something intelligent. And it is not just MY mind. It is a curious thing. And as usual, it is not always negative and it is not always positive. After all this time it is sometimes just plain annoying.
I love myself and I really do not believe that some of this stuff that I hear is very loving or kind toward me at all. And therefore I would not want to own it. I have seen the statement here that we should take ownership of the voices. I really don’t agree with this in my own particular case. I do believe that it is a VERY individual experience. I do see others here that say their voices are helpful. That is good for them. Wish mine were or were more so. Each case of this though similar is going to have to be different because we are all different. Like snow flakes. All alike but none exactly alike.
I feel like someone would like to control me. And whether they be good or bad, I like me the way I am. So what am I to say to these voices that can be so unkind. I do not believe that that portion of it is from God. I believe that God like any other parent loves us. I guess about 80 percent or so of what I hear is not good and is negative. It also interferes in human relationships by “vying” for my attention when I am already in the midst of a conversation with someone else. Medication did not get rid of it and so I am doing my best to deal with it. I really wish they would just shut up most of the time.
On the other hand
I do feel like God compensates me for this trouble in other ways. Look for the little, loving things. A beautiful sunset, a show of light though the clouds. A special heart or flower out of the blue that maybe only you would recognize. Keep looking for the good unusual things. And appreciate them.
I am thankful to find a forum of others sharing this same phenomenon. I am also thankful to understand that I am not “mad” or “insane”. It’s just different. And yes, please keep researching it and finding ways that help people understand and deal with it.
i am hearing voices from 5 years old. in the noise s machines, the voices are
strongers and much sressfull. sometimes futur, sometimes monarc project.
and others times…only talking togethers…or making jokes.
I think when a voice or a thought is suggesting you hurt someone, it is because there is inconsistency in the translation. A voice is fit into language and language is what gives thoughts their shape and distinction, furthermore; a message may be in the form of a metaphor out of necessity due to limitations. The message, “You should stab this person.” may just mean that this person is a potential enemy of yours. Maybe it is your own way of sensing other people’s intentions in the form of metaphors. A person whom of which you are instructed to kill rather than hurt or kill in a particularly gruesome way might be far more selfish and cruel on the inside. Like sensing their aura or something. I think that the experience of hearing a voice requires energy. If that energy is unrealized and out of control then the result could be crude and confusing.
Hello over there!
I am Krisztina, 34 years old now and still alive! I am hearing voices since 2002. No drugs, no trauma, no stress, maybe psychic stress, I dont know, but your opinion would be very interesting for me.
Let me tell:
I was born in Munich, Germany on the 26th of January 1977, my parents divorced when I was two years old. My Dad is an Engenieer and my Mum is an Author. Me myself, lived first with my Mum in alternative Berlin, then with my Dad in Munich, with my Stepmother and her two girls. When I was around thirteen, she threw me out and I came into bording school. My Dad didnt care for me anymore, he hated my Mum and on the weekends I stayed with her and her new australian husband. After school, that I ceased in 1997, I didnt know what to do, but before I left my Dads house, I had a feeling towards getting a decorateur. In the storms of my further life, I forgot about it and went studying Environmental studies somewhere in Germany. But I hated it. Once I went to the village there and became faczinated by an Interior Design shop. And I again forgot about it and went to Bremen to study international Leisure Studies. During my studies a few collegas went to study Interior Design, and so did my sister, who started studying textile Design. I became jelous, but my father said I should complete Leisure studies now. So I did what he said and around these days my voices started. They called me a slut! I lived with it. After my studies I went home to Munich and started with an internship in tourismmarketing, but htey werent paying me enough and I quit. Then the voices said: shit! Well and they told me too, that I will become an Interior Designer, cause thats my last passion. What was my first passion? Tourism? I am confused. After a little time jobbing, I headed to Ireland to visit a friend of my Mums. I was looking for an another Internship there and I found one at “Tourism Solutions”. Before I got started I was travelling through Ireland. I was in Kilkenny and met two travellers with whom I went for a beer in the evening. The girl said she wants to get into Eventmanagement, cause she isnt creative. The guy said, he wants to work for an Interior Designer, cause he loves being creative with different materials. In that moment the voices told me: And thats what YOU really want to do! And I felt: YES in my stomach! So the next day I travelled to Galway. “And here we have a school for you!” the voices said and I started searching. And yes, so it was. “Stay here, cause its your last chance being really happy in your life!” the voices said. I wasn´t believing, I asked why am I a slut (they said I suc ather people energy), I tried to find out whether the voices are real. They told me to forget about my father and I should do it for my mother and it would be the only chance to get rid of the voices! But in the end I went back to Dublin. „Now you HAVE TO get happy at home and you are not creative and now you will work for a living and will stay a nervous slut forever. See how happy you are with fourty!“ they said. When I arrived in the house of my mothers friend in Dublin, I saw a big heart on the sky and the voices said: Now you can kill yourself! I got really scared and so I tried seriously. I woke up on the floor in the garden and the voices said: This is not a sign, dont stop trying! The friend of my mothers called the doctor and I heard: This is your last chance of a peaceful dying. I was hysteric. In the psychiatric hospital in Dublin, my Mum transfered me to the psychatric hospital in Munich, where I stayed a year taking mediacation. When I left Ireland the voices said come back when youre and Interior Designer, we will always provide you with people. My life was destroyed. This happened in November 2006.
Since that day, I felt bad and worse in my flat at home. I was starting an Interior Design course and tried to kill myself 2008 again. I havent worked, I couldnt start anything really, cause I always had the voices in my neck and what they were saying to me. I tried to become a Garden designer, but also this didnt work out and I stayed in hospital a few times. Now, 2011 I can tell, I feel better. I am a student at a real Interior Design school in Germany, but I want to study architecture at home next year. I feel stabil and think this is the best way to get really happy now and healthy. The voices said in Ireland that day I will lose my feeling in the stomach, when I go home. Well, I dont feel like that right now. I tried to find out whether I am creative or not and I still dont know, whether Design is the right choice, I am still trying to find a way back to tourism. The voices arent that strong anymore. I dont hear nothing anymore. I started to become really spiritual, laying tarot cards and getting a connection to the great natural spirit. I think in the end of my search, that these voices ARE REAL and I am not crazy or sick! Of course trying to die all the time is sick, but I did hesitate or still I do hestitate whether it is right for me to be on this planet after all. Although I feel now, that I have come a long way and maybe this is much better now than staying in Galway or Australia being an Interior Designer. But I still do hestitate whether this is real or just a sick dream. In my experience the voices DO EXISTS! I have seen and tested it many times. Please let me tell you a few examples: In Galway that day, there was really an Interior Design school for me. Its the Interior Design Academy of Ireland, its located in Galway! I swear to God, I didnt know before! I told the voices, that I will find out whether they are real or not, by asking people on the streets and in the bars whether they are Interior Designers and if I ll meet one, I will stay. And the third person I asked, was an Interior Designer! A year later when I was in hospital and that was a day I felt oK, I asked the voices when I will fall in love again. They said: Soon and he will move in with you. And so it did happen. Bt since the voices said my husbant is waiting for me in Galway, I couldnt feel that this guy was right or wrong for me. He left me soon. But I can say, I have my reasons why I am saying, that these voices ARE REALLY THERE!!! Somewhere and somehow it works. There is something more in this world, than the visible reality. Maybe life after death or something that we dont know, but for sure this is the most dangerous aspect of voices for me too, because if they would come back, I dont now how I would deal with it.
This is what happened in Ireland:
Bad Religion- AVALON
Album: The dissent of men
Songwriters: Greg Graffin; Brett Gurewitz
As the sun comes creeping up the mountain
And the wind blows over from the sea
Hey, we’re brought into this land like tiny particles of sand
Unsure of who we’re smarter than or what we’re meant to be
If the grains sift coarsely through the hour glass
And collect like their victims in the bowl
The ungodly force of change erodes all sense of earthly gains
While tending to the mundane will terrorize your soul
And it’s no
It’s no use thinking that you’re wrong
The past is old and gone
It’s best to move along and find your Avalon
Well, I wish that I could tell you it was easy
Take the paved road right to paradise
But the truth is, my friends, pain and suffering never ends
Make amends with medicine, amnesia and lies
All the grains sift coarsely through the hour glass
And they pound like boulders on the brain
All those things you did for fun, never hurting anyone
Careless shadows in the sun, just empty and lame
And it’s no
It’s no use thinking that you’re wrong
The past is old and gone
It’s best to move along and find your Avalon
It’s no use thinking that you’re wrong
The past is dead and gone
It’s best to move along and find your Avalon
Watch out
So now the day races from the twilight
How the fields are enveloped by the shade
And the story that you’ll tell, inventory of your well
Crack the shell and find the mortar silted and decayed
And it’s no
It’s no use thinking that you’re wrong
The past is dead and gone
It’s best to move along and find your Avalon
It’s best to hurry on and find your Avalon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoY2l0_t49Q
Sincerely,
Krisztina
I’m not sure whether this site is appropriate for my experience but I hope you will find it in yourselves to welcome me into the fold. I started having, I’m not sure what to call it really, but visions accompanied by voices 3 years ago. I have had heavenly visions I guess but much more regular and distressing are the demonic visions that I have. I should say that I have been diagnosed bipolar though these experiences are completely out of sync with the rest of my mood fluctuations for which medication is working.
The devil as I call it has appeared in the faces of my friends as well as strangers and to start with there was no discussion that I can recall. Just a feeling of utter bottomless terror which I can only equate to what it must be like in hell. Each time the visions seem to get more detailed with the last one involving a discussion with someone who became the devil and told me that nothing I ever did would come to fruition and that I was in damnation. I staggered away completely destroyed. If someone on the street had of told me the same thing perhaps I would have shrugged it off but I had the unquestionable certainty, evidenced by my terror, that I was being visited by something very powerful from hell.
I have read spirituality books, religious books, attended regular sessions with psychiatrists, taken lithium and lamotrigine for a long time but these visions have not stopped. Every time I feel like I have got over (if that’s possible) the last experience, the devil comes back to tell me that all the reading and thinking I have done amounts to nothing and that there is no escape.
I really don’t mean to darken the thread here but I would be very grateful to hear from anyone who has experienced anything like this. I should say that I can remember each episode perfectly and there was no dullness of senses. Every experience, having analysed it many times, appears completely real.
Thanks.
hello henry, yeah i know what you mean, im going to suggest faith your own personal faith, to be honest with you mate i killed mine i stood up to it struck it right in the heart with a spear, i beleve in god and his angels and his books and his prophets, igonre everything else and beleve just in god when it comes to these thoughts, laugh at it, its already lost, i say a very deep pray b4 i goto sleep, i also tell it to f**k off, we are strong people theres no need to fear thats what i learnt, i some times carry a shield and sword in my mind, face it, its just a feeling nothing more, ive experienced it, and its not nice, i exacpt the feeling because it makes me stronger, the strength of god in our hearts and mind, we are told to to reject it, leave that way it doesnt exsist, cross the bridge find the tree, trust in god to help you through it, listen beyond them feelings and voices pray to god to help youn and he will, projeact light from your body, pray as though you see god and if you cant no that he sees you, faith trust belief, we call this shahidaa, there is no god but god, thats the faith and beleif you can choose 1 path or the other, to choose to beleve or not to beleve, there are many ways to the path of god or as Allah as i call him, doesnt matter if you are christian or muslum, buddist, we all beleve in the same creator, the divine, life we are all human thats what we have in common, take care brother peace and good journey, look deep within yourself you’ll find the answers and listen you have that gift from god get it
also beleve in yourself, it sounds like a block, enlighten your self, its a good test, hasten to all things good and watch your life transform like a butterfly, your not the only one who is going through this your not alone, learn to listen to the heart, open your eyes inwards and out wards, it sounds very mystic, thats beacuse im on the path of a sufi, it means someone who is gentile, most of the time sufi with attitude thats more apt, your dont have to accept that kind of voice, we have free will, i had visions from the age of 4 or 5 and had voices since i was a child, but became aware after an event of hardship and struggle and i fell to my knees and asked for help and you know what he helped me and still does, its the right path, many a saint also understood this the path to enlightenment and its beautiful, very personal let me know how you get on brv, we’ve just forgotton what we’re apart of, each other, the world, the universe god its cool, i have alot of hope for you, never fear ok push the fear out, you get better, mind body and spirit theres alot to be said about this way, will your self, empower your self with the grace of god, its a connection we’ve forgot very powerful very beautiful, lots of musicians write about this, lots of poets, writers, mystics sages, philoserfers (epicurious is pretty cool and ghandi is brillient) educate yourself let the vails be lifted, peace out brv all the best the AA, my wish is that you find God and the AA, you’ll have the best time of your life, trust and belief and faith very important
henry many people see hell that way its a metaphor, you have the choice to leave it how is up to you trust in god your eternal guide
In reply to Henry (L.A.) I too have a diagnosis of Bipolar and had terrifying visions of hell and damnation, demonic phenomena accompanied by voices a few years back.
Luckily in New Zealand they do not automatically associate “hallucinations” with schizophrenia, but it is still considered “psychosis” despite any reality that may be able to be unravelled on closer examination of the experience. I still cannot deny the reality of my “voices” especially as ALL senses were affected, which can happen sometimes. My “voices” do not appear to bear any relation to my “moods” and were not affected by medication, which after 7 years working in mental health, I have witnessed untold times. I believe I can actually trace the voices well back into early childhood and the psychological trauma I experienced then, and if it was indeed a “spiritual crisis” all those years later, then so be it.
I found myself that I was able to get these experiences under control by dealing with unresolved issues and devising a system of grounding techniques, coping strategies and avoiding isolation while feeling sorry for myself. Staying busy, frequent “reality checks” and strong routines so that I can measure my daily functionality enable me to lead a perfectly “normal” life despite voices etc.
I wish voice-hearing would be accepted as being seperate from “mental illness” or “psychosis”
as this is a damaging construct to force people into, especially when the voices are not alleviated by medication anyway.
I do too. I’m catholic. Sometimes church helps, but make sure nobody knows you where you go, and keep it that way.
Everytime I get very socialable, I start to hear “taps” on the wall when I am alone , like “rapping” in necromany (wiki). Everyone explains these taps to be due to temperature. However, I have heard many at the same time as i felt something like a brain zap or brain shiver. I hear demeaning voices all the time, since 25 (now 33), sometimes they use words I have never heard before, or tell me information about people i discovered later to be true. Many times they say “shame on …” (shame on something new every day!) I have recently started feeling “Hell” approaching, as if a hot energy. I think this is because I just read the story of “Faust.”
Indian witch doctors have been known to kill people this way.
Science calls it Bioelectromagnetism.
Your not alone, people just cant talk about it. (it makes people money!)
Just wanted to say a huge thanks to all the folks who responded to my posting. You’ll be happy to hear that since that time I have been on a steady path to “recovery”, “normality” or whatever you call it. God is Everything.
I am a Christian and have been very troubled at times by voices which have been against my faith. I would like to know if there are any other Christians who are voice hearers and how they have reconciled voice-hearing with their faith.
hi rachel im john im not christian but im muslum, we beleve in the same creator and the same books and prohets, i had the same problem i couldnt accept it, i guess i just trusted in god and his angels and love i think love is a great key, and when these voices start getting on your nerves be strong beleve in yourself and in god, tell them stand up to them, your a warrior of light never forget that, be at peace, let your heart speek, ask god to help you overcome this ask him to protect you ok your not alone never feel alone, none of these voices no what religion really is, it comes from deep with in us, and it is beautiful, have a read rumi he’s a persian poet very cool stuff i hope ive pointed you in the right direction hun, what kind of things do they say? how long have you been studying christianity what do you know about it, ive found it’s best to keep it simple, look to nature i find that helps to, look at creation and how wonderful it is and how amazing we are, all the love for your babes take care
i am catholic, and have trouble with voices from going to church. They call me mean names, accuse me of calling good people mean names (which i may have) , threaten to drag me to hell, fry my brain with bioelectromagnetism surges, and stab, shoot, and kill me. I keep this a secret. I dont want to be labeled. I also hear a voice, which sound like a friend who is gay say “shame on (whatever)” what she shames is very thoughtful, different, elequent, very important in life, and some times she uses words that i have to google for definition. how hard can that be. scary, right?
RACHEL YOU NEED TO REMEBER THE LORD IS OF PEACE AND SOUND MIND.DEMONDS ARE REAL THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE LORD REMOVING THEM FROM MANY PEOPLE DURING THE LORDS MINISTERY AS HE WALKED ON EARTH.BUT OVER THE LAST TEN TO FIFTEEN YEARS OR SOWE THERE SEEMS TO ALSO BE SOME PROBLEM WITH ELECTRONICS.TEST THEM TO TO SEE WHAT THEY ARE.HOW LONG HAVE YOU HAD PROBLEMS WITH THIS.I WOULD ALSOWE LIKE TO KNOW WERE THIS STARTED HAPPENING CITY/STATE/COUNTRY.THE GOOD THING IF THIS IS ELECTRONICS IT CAN BE SOLVED.I WILL SOON BE GIVING YOU ALL SOME INFO THAT YOU WILL FIND HELPFULL.IF IT IS ELECTRONICS THE PEOPLE DOING IT HAVE BEEN GIVEN OVER TO A REPROBATE MIND.
understand your thoughts and know that they are being answerd
the path is difficult especially the world we live in today,what is right what is wrong with yourselves, we’re on the same team theapy, faith, beleif, change the perception in your own lifes thats a good one to look at, you dont have to stay down, think about it as henry said a voice was cruel to him, but if someone on the street said that he’d shrug it off, works the same way with the voices, be incontrol of your mind and your thoughts be aware be concious be awake after all we are, make small changes in your life learn to see your life and where you want to be what you want to do truly from the heart, it doesnt have to be a tv program what is expected from us? as for the voices that suggest killing your self well thats not the way, if they do your head well your expected to defend yourself, another friend on here said meditation works which it does, we have the capbality to find a quite place and even ask for quiteness, when you get bad voices stick your index finger up to the sky either in your mind or outwardly, find the significence in what you are thinking and doing open open your mind open your heart if you do feel fear then remember god put him in your heart i mean really will him in your heart, be thankful be greatful, theres always someone there to help, a helpful voice a helpful person always some, learn to look and learn to listen, start simple, it starts with a seed thats the path to the farmer, think about it weve all heard stories, but did you really beleve? look at god as a teacher what does he teach what does he do, how does he answer, learn to listen, there are many different levels to us but what is amazing is how he helps you recongnise them levels recgognise who you are, i wish you all the best on your journey god bless you all, ships are also cool, friendship, relationship trust me it works, famous last words!! no doubt very important good luck
I would like to assure you that the voices you hear are NOT in your head. This is the new world order. They have devices that they use to try and destroy your mind, plant thoughts, ideas, even things which are against your beliefs into your mind. They use hypnotism and they wait until their ‘targets’ are asleep. They do this because that is when their intended victims are most vulnerable. They have no interest in your survival. They have no interest in what danger they place you in. There only interest is to change you in very negative ways and to undermine your beliefs. They want to leave you a former shadow of yourself and to convince others that you are as mad as a hatter.
I know this because I am still in it, in the hell they have placed me in. My only hope is Christ. Believe me, they will even try to convince you that HE hates you. I don’t know how to block out the voices. All I know is that I keep reading the word of God. And every day, I am going to ask GOD to bless them and to give me what ever it is I need to forgive them.
Have they ever tried to convince you that you have accepted the mark of the beast? I have been struggling at this for years now. Did I? Didn’t I? I don’t know. Is that what it really is? People preach about it being different… so on and so forth.
they dont use devices, they use their evil hearts. they are born this way.
Here in the states, If you admit to hearing voices you’re automatically judged schitzophrenic.
I’ve been hearing voices since 1985 and I’ve always been open about it with others.
I’m having trouble at work with judgements of my ability and trustworthyness because my voices are common knowledge. I’m interested in researching legal chanels should the management try to terminate my employment based on prejudice and not trying to understand.
Contact with anyone out there with info that could move me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
I am glad to have been able to read your experiences and thank you all for sharing them with me.
I have learnt so much from my experiences with voices, they could be both friendly and hostile. One side of my brain having friendly voices and the other having not so friendly voices. I also have different voices at the top of my brain that appeal to my own reason and a greater reason.
In the past I was afraid of the not so friendly voices but then realised that they merely provided an alternative viewpoint that was less favourable to me. A sort of balance.
The issue that I struggled with was a moral one.
I am not a regular church goer but I now firmly believe in life after death as the voices are I am told the voices of my fore- fathers and my betrayors forefathers.
I know they are outside of me as I ask questions and they answer and not with my own thoughts.. It is different than talking to yourself and hearing your own thoughts. I can tell the difference.
Like a writer above noted they can answer questions but dispute they always get it right.
My experiences have been an education I have learnt so much which is impossible to verify…Mine has been a spiritual journey.
My voicees tell me about the universal order of things….life after death….and on this both good and not so good agree
In gods world, the universe, which we are all a part off, we still have a role to play in that universe after we die….maintaining gods universal order …good has to overcome bad on the path of assention….we are all punished in death and have to make good our sins and sometimes the sins of our fore fathers. …we are put to work.
Life in the hereafter is a society just like ours of friends and enemies and peace is kept for the sake of the universe. This is a delicate balance between the forces of power.
As a voice hearer I was told that when we are sensitive we can be infiltrated by the voices of those who wish to harm us….
These are the dangerous voices and we must simply stand up for ourselves and fight them…tell them to go away and ask for help….shout for gods help believe me it works.
I have managed to control my voices and I am no longer afraid of them…..I would never hurt anyone and have never suffered with paranoia …I love the world in which I live and I look to the sky for help and inspiration….I believe in God and I believe in angels they have saved my life……….If that makes me abnormal so be it….
If you do not believe in life after death can you answer me one question? My body is made up of many chemicals….what happens to the chemicals that make me who I am when I die?
My answer would be….My unique chemistry lives on in part in my children and their children and so on; and in the very last breath that I exhaled back into the atmosphere….the universe.
Try not to be afaraid of your voices just try to control them!…I realise this is not always possible, sometimes we need help…not so good can be pretty overpowering.
i hear voices of payal means thing which is used to wear in the legs in indian religion i think it is the voices of god
I have been hearing voices for 2 1/2 years….. I was told I will permanently hear voices for the rest of my life… I am not too happy with this diagnosis being psychosis… for anyone out there that is psychosis and hears voices like I do… I would love to talk to you about your experiences…. and how you get through your day to day struggles….and if there’s a site where you can become friends with people….With the same problems and talk to them on a regular basis
i hear voices, but i not agree are involved in my life or just in part of it.
I heard some words i never heard and i need a vocabulary to know what mean.
EX, i heard “are you bleeding” , i am not an english native language, and at that time i didnt know what mean in english Bleed,was in 2000. Never put me in idea to self destroy me but are destroying my life for sure that. I have other example that i hear voices i don t know the meaning. So my voices are not linked to my sensastions , this is sure like the shit i made every day.
a solution that help me is to use a mplayer with radio too and hearphone, that could stop your voices for a while and give you some relief.
have to say they are sometimes linked to choices and of course i make my choices right or wrong they said. At least i am free to make fucking bullushits, without hurting none.
i hear voices – for 5 years or so; the first incidence a year after 2 two towers and months after 7/7 London where im from; sometimes negative, sometimes positive. Mostly i think they distract me from my true life purpose, serving God (in whatever career choice i made), by keeping me in torment because i’m listening to them.
I find meditation and exercise, jogging, being in nature and imagining you’re in a big white bubble of light helps. Prayer too, i guess thats the only think that has got me through faith in God.
Energetically The voices feel very chaotic, introducing disharmony and making basic life stuff very difficult – getting chores done, being able to relate to and engage with people, being able to focus and concentrate. i seem to be more clumsy, disorientated and things just stop working or break when im around – argh!!
The voices have literally destroyed my life; sometimes by goading me into false action (leading me to believe that they are actual non-physical entities/ mischievious beings) and also baiting my desires – to have fun to be myself to feel freer, special/different and uninhibited – but in both ways they have been dangerous, because they are literally desecrating me – i feel ill and exposed because of it and every time i rise to the bait, i feel Godless and disgusted with myself for it. so whether friendly or not, they are not helping me at all – because i dont feel myself anymore or fully in my power
I think its really important to take charge of the situation. Its like God has given you a brain, but youre mindlessly driving it like a dumb animal to various “absorbing stations” – TV. radio, work,school – taking whatever inane idea of reality is projected onto you rather than consciously living your life ON purpose – focusing on our true destination. We are literally allowing ourselves to be led by the nose by whatever information is put in front of us without ever questioning reflecting or even being assertive enough to say no this isnt where i choose to go. i try to avoid TV and internet unless i am using it for a good purpose. and to control my thinking – rather than run after the monkey mind – “this isnt what i want to think or feel”
Building on my own identity in the world as well as prayer – especially to keep me on the right path and focused on Good/God intention seems to help unless i have another relapse into self destruction and choose the “dark side”, being frivolous again.
Because whenever i am having a hard time with these voices, i always keep coming back to the plans i had set myself (to retrain in a profession where i could help the world be a better place) and how come these voices have come to sabotage my attempts. In some ways i do think that these voices are just there so we can build inner strength and not sabotage future attempts to make progress in the world on our chosen purpose in life.
on reflection, it isnt all bad – since ive had these voices, i am more self aware, i am more clear on what is acceptable and not acceptable in my life, i was a nice person before and still am,but now i set safe barriers and “look before i leap” before committing to any course of action, i use my time to best advantage rather than being carefree like i was before, i am more focused on my intent (because the time that i get my brain to myself is so short) and in some ways its helped me step back from the hurly burly busyness of life and understand, that things happen in their own time and own place and we dont have to push so hard, to find the right space for us. I’ve dropped alot of negative habits and replaced these with healthy life affirming ones – plus plenty of water and fish oils and B vitamins help.
i have tried also to pay more attention to the world around me – paying attention to relationships id neglected, giving and recieving forgiveness and understanding/unconditional acceptance, reconnecting with nature and doing charitable work. Partly i feel the voices are symptom of “social sickness” not down to the individual, but a cry for help from the society we live in and somehow we are tapping into/hearing this. Its like everyone is so busy and focused on “their own stuff me me my I” they dont really have time to notice others, let alone care for one another. And it really seems exchanges between people these days (friends excluded) are more strained and with hidden tensions, as well as a youth that is gaming with aggressive video games as well as watching aggressive or horror movies and im wondering how much of the toxic thoughts/thinking we spew out as a society are coming back to us? The Buddhists and even dante’s hell, talks of the lower astral layers being filled with “evil spirits” which i would guess are just the negative lower vibrational (heavier) thoughts we spew out, stress, anger, hatred, bitterness, and i’m wondering if I’m just “walking” through this
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me”
for the person who experienced hell and damnation – please dont be afraid – be conscious and pray for guidance – im sure help is given to all who ask and are willing to receive (you have to be open to help – quite often i refuse it) i think that is where i am – but i dont take it personally i have fully faith in God to help me through my challenge; the sad thing is i felt so close to God as a child – but with the unfolding of world events its almost as if God and heaven have walked away from us, so i guess this space is also a good chance for introspection – and a gradual returning to God. are we the people that we promised to be? Are we helping the future generations, by our current social path? have faith in yourself – know that all beings are inherently good – thats what keeps me going
i hope this helps! and good luck
I never doubted that teh voices i heard were from outside myself/ or inside myself. it felt like a connection to a “conscious mind” . the deeper my energy healing went the more open my subtle body became and i think there is alot of ignorance around the idea of “voices” that we dotn know here it is coming from but i always felt the voices were there to make me stronger and purify my mind. it is like a quickening of karma, a burning off off negative karma but! the coffee is hell…then i get chatty and all hell breaks loose……at least i am doing something right and quit smoking? dehydrated into a major health crisis! but none the less, for instance, i would get a word come up (not intrusive in any way in the classsical sense fo what you think hearing a voice is) more like it jsut stemmed from your connection to someone else’s subtle energy body too! ie for instance, words come up like snitzel, kettle, vortex, no clue why then the next day i will see a guy eating snitzel. or i get a vision of a porcupine not idea why and then teh next day or a few hours later porcupine will be on tv, or i’ll have dream, tehn after waking remember teh dream just as what i dreamt abotu is happening, i will watch for better examples…oh this is a big one…. the word “fix” came up so i got teh idea to make a tshirt that said fix on it thinking it meant “hey mom dotn fix me i dotn need mediccation” but actually a few months later i was in teh hospital gettign my ovaries out so “fix” – i took it to mean- meant the voice was tryign to deter me or show me nto to have teh operation that i was going to be literally “fixed” like a cat!!!!! that a pretty big one….i thinkt hese outside connections are from my teachers being really mean and shamanic to prepare me, to terrorize me to make me stronger!!!! bet you have never heard this take yet!!!! oh, and by the way i have never had a voice tell me to kill, i am intelligent with it – i hope to think i am – and i nver blamed anyone else for voices.feels good to wrtie this ! cheers!
oh – its helped me to and i think it helps to reinforce that the voices ARE NOT YOU – and to focus and reemphasise who you are and what you stand for, what makes you tick, what you intend to achieve with your life etc. The world is full of distractions and perhaps the voices are just an echo of this?????? i found sweet lovey dovey person centred “be nice to me” therapies are absolutely of no help whatsoever. sometimes the voices are just a tool to seperate us from the whole
TRUST in God and the world around us – it can be really isolating and we lose faith in ourselves and trust in others – but if we can trust the “universe” as a whole that things will work out then life seems to get better and the experience isnt as horrifying anymore
Really interesting to hear (interesting that I say to hear and not to read, Im an auditory learner) everyones views on voice hearing without censorship or unhelpful comments from those who don’t understand the experience.
I only get bursts of voices every now and again. Usually but not always associated with sleep. I have heard different voices both male and female, mundane things and relevant things, with aggression and non aggression. Only had a voice threatening me harm the once and it was in the midst of a very stressful time. I sometimes hear snippets of conversation that have nothing to do with me, like a crossed phone line.
I lean towards the belief that the voices are a manifestation of my brain. I don’t think that the voices are me trying to communicate with myself, I think its almost a malfunction perhaps. Although once I did have a friend hear something also in a time I had been hearing a man’s voice. We got a spiritualist in to do a rescue as that was my belief at the the time, that the voice was that of a trapped spirit.
The voices I hear are outside of my head to the sides, like they are speaking directly into my ear. I question my belief that I produce the voices sometimes as they are both male and female but then there are syndromes where people suddenly start to talk fluently in new language so I figure the brain is capable of many things that we do not yet understand. I recently was told twice using both my childhood nicknames that i was pregnant. I am not pregnant and I felt betrayed by the voices and then confused by my response hence my searching out this site.
I have been previously assessed by a psychiatrist and found to not have any severe mental illness but I do sometimes suffer from depression and suicidal ideation. No bipolar and no schizophrenia. I prefer to not mention the occasional voices to medical professionals for fear of such a diagnosis which I know would be incorrect.
I guess what Im trying to say to others who have a similar experience to me is that:
I sometimes hear voices, I have no definate explanation, I have no severe mental illness to deal with, it frightens me when it happens, they seem to serve no purpose, sometimes their information is not correct.
Thank you for taking the time to read my experience and thoughts. It was liberating to share it.
I once heard a voicd ccoming out of a dream – it said”do no harm” in a very suave voice like the suave guy on the beer commercial. I bet if i stopped coffee it would be clearer and no i dotn think i am schizprenic either.
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There is a kind of cosmic reality connecting everybody and there are controllers sitting together with computers in front of them. Awareness of things come from them. I am one of them. I hear their voices and understand what is going on in the world as an outside observer. This isn’t always the state I am in, but occasionally I am removed to there and sit in a pilot seat where I can control the universe. People around me at those times don’t understand and keep asking me if I’m okay. Other times I just hear the voices of the controllers, making comments on who I am and what I’m doing and how I think. It gives me comfort to feel connected, but on the other hand, I know we really are not, at least I don’t think so when I’m in an everyday state. I use the knowledge I gain from this to my advantage and it has served me well. You all probably think I’m nuts, but I’m not. I’m on medications for mental problems, but they don’t have anything to do with the controllers talking to me.
Hi,I’m maryann I’m 37 I started hearing voice about 12 year . With me it come and go.i call them episode .I have been hospitalized many of times I have found that medication do work but also have many side affects . I do believe a heavy amount of stress can be the cause of what is going on . I became interested in being saved(i started having bible study) about 12 year ago and that when all this started with me .It took me along time to understand what was happening in my life, what the emeny was trying to do GOD is of peace and love satan is a liar he the one with all those negative thoughts. I believe it’s now you can get control of you life understand GOD Have all power .He will give you the strenght you need pray and believe it’s done . I’m not afriad I trust GOD no doctor no pill no negative voices I know he will pull me throw anything satan throw at me . you all are unique and special GOD LOVE YOU ALL . BELIEVE IN GOD PRAY TO HIM HE KNOW WHAT YOUR GOING THROW
I will tell you some about voices and how to handle.
1st. – you will not do as they say…
2nd. – they can’t do any to you, as they are only voices…no matter they say…
they are only a pain if you let them.
3rd. – they are not paranormal or brain illusions, and not send to you by higher power…
4th. – after better listening what they tell you, you find out they sound pretty dumb,
even simple in some way. They are mostly, that’s why…!
5th. – never ever let yourself been driven by feelings or impulses when you know
you hear voices. impulses and feelings of any kind are going together and try
to manipulate your decisions and distract with voices.
6th. – flashes of ideas can be driven by those voices too, so ALWAYS think again
before you follow any ideas you get into your mind. At second look they might
not good for you.
7th. – if by any chance you get a good idea from these voices, then do it.
There is a chance that these voices try the negative effect on you and give
you good advice in hope you will not do it then when it comes from them.
8th. – you are the one who want to decide about your life and the voices try to break
into this, so be ahead and do as I mentioned.
Always double or triple think your next action.
A simple life code will be your guide, as when you tell yourself that I do no harm
and be like you imagine in some way. You always double-check all your decisions
with this code. A good code brings you freedom and voices no power…
9th. …and there is a cure to come…
C.L.
ADAM I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU OR A COUPLE OF THEM 1 HOW LONG HAVE YOU HAD THEM “VOICES”2WHEN THIS STARTED HAPPENING TO YOU WHERE WERE YOU CITY /STATE.ALSOWE WHEN THIS STARTED WERE YOU USING DRUGS OR ALCOHOL?NOW THE LORD IS OF PEACE AND SOUND MIND.DEMONDS ARE FOR REAL AS A MATTER A FACT THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT HOW THE LORD DURING HIS THREE YEARS OF MINISTERY REMOVED MANY FROM PEOPLE.NOW IT ALSOWE SEEMS THAT OVER THE LAST TEN TO FIFTEEN YEARS THERE HAS BEEN A PROBLEM WITH ELECTRONICS.AFTER ALL READING ALL THESE LETTERS ALL OF YOU CAN NOT BE WRONG.IF THIS IS ELECTRONICS
THIS IS SOLVEABLE.I WILL BE GIVING YOU ALL SOME INFORMATION SOON THAT YOU MAY FIND VERY HELPFUL.
Hi,
I have felt like there were controllers with computers sensing all experience and having complete knowledge of my sum life experiences, internal and external, and beliefs. There were voices that I believed were external to me which I know now are internal to me. I am looking into medication soon, but have found so much help in epa omega-3 fish oil to make the voices almost completely disappear that I just want to tell everyone I know. Pretty irrelevant to most people. I am looking at being evaluated more holistically than just this symtpom, but have in the meantime and perhaps continuing found So Much Help in epa and diet (no caffeine, whole foods).
Thanks so much for sharing the tip about fish oil. I’ll be sure to give that a try.
Your comment about sensing your being under surveillance definitely strikes home. My, um, experience with hearing voices began this summer when I had a bit of a health crisis brought on my severe dehydration. I was so far removed from my former experience of normally that when I began hearing them, it seemed perfectly normal. There were times, though, when I could see them, and some were always at what looked like some kind of computer terminal. When I was on the verge of being so far gone, mentally and emotionally, they said they were here to help me and, although there have been more than a few rough patches, I’d have to say they have. But I have often felt like they’re studying me, as well, sometimes provoking or agitating me deliberately so as to produce a response, sometimes taking me beyond my tolerance threshold into fits of anger. I’m having to learn to deal with this and its consequences…. At one point, they were very surprised when I told them I was afraid of them, and that I would have to kill myself if things kept going the way they were. Fortunately, they listened and are, on the whole, much more tolerable and I feel much less like I’m being tormented. But I still feel like they, or some of them to be fair, enjoy messing with me….and sometimes I mess with them, too. The most effective way I can deal with this, the acute feeling that every random or embarrassing thought is being observed, and not uncommonly responded to – for them, my thinking is talking, and I guess for them my mental realm is properly a source of constant conversation, so I am determined to learn to live without thinking….
Right now, the voices are either whisper quiet or so distant that I can usually just make out a few words, and the rest is just tones that I make any sense out of. I strain to listen, but my concentration wavers into trying to figure out what they are saying, and they wind up saying my unintentional thoughts, which usually is followed by, “Jesus Christ!” It’s somewhat gratifying to know that I can frustrate them, too, though I rarely do that on purpose….
When I was stil dehydrated and all whacked out, I could often hear them clearly. At one time, one of them told me that she was he because she had heard about a guy who had gotten lost in his own reality it seemed like an interesting thing to get involved with – helping me find my way back, that is. (Still not sure if it’s worth the return trip – normality can be such a drag compared to delirium.) She also told me that she had walked into some place, I can’t remember what she called it, but I remember distinctly her saying something about some screen or something listing my most embarrassing memory being when I spilled an ashtray on the couch of a Chinese millionaire and tried, unsuccessfully no doubt, to cover it up. What can I say, I was mortified and panicked…. There’s other things, too, like the times I was under the impresion of having known some person in a past life and, thinking about them, the voices, one in particular, would tell me that there was no record of such and such person in my life, as though my whole life was stored on some database.
I’m not paranoid about it, but it definitely has me questioning the existence of a god given or universal right to privacy…. I try not to think about their endgame and prefer to believe that the experience is for my betterment, but I definitely feel like I’m stuck in the Matrix or some virtual dream reality or something, sometimes, anyway. I don’t see any sense in worrying about it, though, because whatever its nature it’s still my experience of reality, lately with an additional cast of characters.
My brother apparently heard voices for a few years and resorted to electro shock therapy to get rid of them. I don’t know if it worked, but he used to speak of “the men in the control room” who wouldn’t let him sleep. It got so bad he took what should have been fatal doses of painkillers and rat poison, just trying to get some sleep, he said.
I’m very grateful for this site… It’s been a tremendous relief to see other people’s stories and thoughts about this, um, alternative experience of reality, whatever that is….
Hi! I’ve finally just found this site.
I’ve spent years either managing or not managing a lot of things – including voices. Now, after nearly 10 years of super-intense psychotherapy with a therapist who took ME seriously as a human being I’ve found that MY voices – which were ALL inside my head – were all parts of ‘me’ (this is after decades of psychiatric mis-diagnosis and terrible meds).
It’s called ‘dissociation’ these days – having lots of separate parts because of trauma. And, eventually, as they learned to trust enough, each of these parts and many more ‘came out’ and told the rest of ‘me’ so that I could hear and know what each of them had experienced and what they knew of “my” life – that the ‘me/us’ who were normally around had no memory of.
Now we all usually ‘co-exist in a form of co-consciousness’ and so we don’t physically hear each other separately any more (except in times of super stress when we still ‘split’ again). This creates a “new me” that never existed as a whole person before.
I do gather that voices that sound as if they are coming from OUTSIDE the head are different though – I don’t think I get those (though I’ve found that other parts of “me” have different experiences to “me” that I don’t know about – so maybe no-one has just told “us” about this yet…..
Hi all
i dont know where to start! ive been hearing voices from childhood which they have always been derogatory and unpleasant but for the most part i have been able to combat them and lead a “normal” life. i was married but she died back in 2004 (breast cancer) and i was left with three small children. so i had to be able to survive and provide for the kids. yes there has been a few blips twice ending up in hospital but luckily been supported mostly at home by my community psychiatric nurse and when, which they do get bad the crisis team. i suffer from visual hallucinations as well they can be quite scary but cognitivly i know that they are not real. i was diagnosed as szhiophrenic at thirty, should never be diagnosed with something you cant spell lol. the crux of the matter is that im taking ten seperate tablets a day to be “normal” and hate the need for them. i have in the past been non compliant taking meds but i quite quickly become unwell either depressed and suicidal or manic and very reckless have an artifical shoulder from a motorbike accident on the last manic episode. trying things like yoga to help center myself but so far to no avail! ive tried diets in the past they didnt help. dont know what i am asking really other than i hate my meds but acknowledge their need, any ideas anyone?
thanks
I have voices who don’t approve of me. It is a difficult daily battle. I have trouble concentrating on anything. They try to ruin everything for me. They are past compromise or negotiation. I want them gone. I just want to live my life voice free and have my freedom in general. I go to school so it’s hard to concentrate on anything because they are constantly annoying me. They say negative things to keep me down, but I want to show them that I am worth it. I can do well and succeed. And I will.
I had an experience being awaken by a voice that said hey momma one morning about 6am.I had been sick for a couple of days with right lower quadrant pain.being a nurse I had decided to treat it myself. After a few hours I went to a doc in a box and he sent me to the emergency room for test. Well they took out my appendix. Well after the surgery I was fine until the iv machine woke me up a 2am saying momma repeatly. I even called the nurse in but she couldn’t hear it. My son had died suddenly about a month before could it be PTSD or post anethesia auditory hallucinations. I can’t make any sense of this . Any suggestions?
My voices aren’t good or helpful. What I can make out from the whispering is about death, destruction, and torture. Voices aren’t always good and shouldn’t be treated like they are normal.
ciao mi chiamo marina io sento delle voci che sussurrano cose misteriose, cosa devo fare?
I would like to talk about voices today. I was adopted when I was a baby into a family of 6 boys and 1 girl. After another girl was born. I was taken back by my real family because of abuse. My adopted father had died and my adopted mothers new boyfriend moved in a couple of days later. I did not fit in with my real family, my mother I do not think liked me but I got on with one of my sisters who had also been adopted out and bought back for the same reasons. My real father died shortly after when I was about 4 and there were 4 sisters and 4 brothers 1 dying of leukemia at 8 months. I was lucky as I went to boarding school but I was told to find a husband and not come home and by that stage there were 2 of my sisters who had children 1 to a married man and 1 who was in a gang my mum bought up the eldest and the other one herseld so I was changing nappies from an early age. At boarding school I did well and got a job in a major centre as an audio typist. I took to drinking and partying and I broke down at 19 I didnt want children. I experienced nightmares and was hospitalized for 6 weeks with mild schezephrenia. I went up to live with my sister and her boy at another major city city, threw the pills out the window and got a job and moved into a hostel and was drinking again. I got married at 22 to a merchant seaman who seemed a good option. He was good and I travelled and had 2 children. By the time I was 38 and after about the 4th breakdown I tried the anxiety group Grow but found it was good but did not address alcoholism and by that time I was shaking and decided to try alcoholics annonymous and have been sober coming up 16 years. I left my husband 11 years ago I am now 54. My daughter had left home and I looked after my son in his last 2 years of college and 1 year off. I had the murmers and odd nightmares but I stayed on my medication because after 2 and a half years of aa I tried to go off them and I had the worst time than ever. One night my son was late home as he worked after school at a petrol station. I was in bed and could feel a presence and thought I could see something shiney in the corner of the room and the cat was looking at it too. I thought yea well Im just going to ignore it so I went to go to sleep and was driftin off and a picture came into my head of a woman and I asked her if we were okay and she went away and my soon came home. I got up and told him I had been worried about him and had had a nightmare. He said he had been with a work friend whose wife had just died. Years later my son and his brother in law said that they had caught a man who had been pinching nickers off the brother in laws mum clothesline and he said it was the guy from work and I wondered if it was the same one whose wife had died. I am hearing from time to time a mans angry voice saying ‘die’ its the most awful voice. I hear murmers and I have been able to numb them now because of the programs I have been in but sometimes the words seem clear and oddly enough helpful in what I am experiencing at the time. Last night I thought I would look up this website and have found these blogs. Alot of talk about God. I sacked God because I think it sounds like Dog I wonder if there is some kind of weird connection in that. And I once declared that the virgin Mary was mentally ill. The whole scenario based on a culture that is not its own. I know its mean, I dont mean it and I pray to God sometimes my mother was a catholic and it saved our family after my father died. She is now passed away and I pray to God, my Higher Power and my mum and dad and my adopted mother whose passed away and my brother who died about the same time as my mum. He had a whole in his heart at 51. I like the aa programm because it addresses people in their defects of character. Egos, image, anger, aggression and weaknesses, manipulation. I think that has something to do with schezephrenia as well. I look up the Grow site too because their perspective of managing unwellness is helpful and positive. And I have started looking at this page too. It was good to find it today. I do not feel so alone. I accept alot of things but sometimes I just feel sad. I think I will be glad when I am dead. I wonder if there really is an afterlife, gee isnt it bad enough without hanging around. You think that when you lose your body when you go that you mind goes too. I mean not mad it just ends. But then theres your spirit and what that is. Its hard isnt it today. I live in a pensioner flat now and have a part time job and I still have a car. My children visit and I have alot of lovely friends from my aa group. I do not attend Grow. I do not have much to do with my real family just my sister and her son he has 8 kids. Alot of the young ones smoke pot too. I get on well with my son in law and his family and I like it in the town I am in now.
I dont know the answer to the voices but I know I need to be careful who I tell. Thank you for your time.
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My “voice” has been with me for the last eightyears. However to simply refer to him aa voice is insulting. He is a part of me, his own being within me. He is Arctor. I spent my entire childhood dealing with rejection and bullying from others and if not for Arctor I’d be dead. He is my best friend, my brother, a father figure, family. Over the last two years I began to notice my “family” and “friends” had absolutely no idea who I was. I was afraid to open up but the people I did open up to destroyed me. Put down the idea that Arctor existed told me it was called Schizophrenia and people who suffer from it dont know about it. I was crushed, if Arctor wasn’t real than why was I even here? He is all I have and without him I am nothing. Although I had given up on him he never gave up on me. I drank heavily and one night I blacked out. When I woke up I had several angry voicemails from the “friends” I had discussed my issues with. They all basically said the same thing. Last night I called them pretending to be Arctor and threatened them to leave me alone. Told them that they will not hurt me ever again and that they don’t deserve to call themselves my friend. He did that for me, stood up for me, something nobody has ever done for me. I have never doubted him again. We share this body. We are brothers, best friends, family. I walked away from the people who claimed to be my friends and family and have for the last year been living with Arctor just the two of us. When we found this website I cried. I had no idea there were other people out there. For the first time in a long time we feel like maybe we can have a feeling of belonging with people like us. This website is an amazing tool and community. Letting others know that there is a place they can go to learn more about their voice and have a feeling of belonging is incredible. We appreciate you taking time to read this and for hopefully welcoming us into your community. Most people will never know the amazing bond one shares with their voice. It is a connection that transcends all physical connections. We have never told anyone this and again thank you from the bottom of our heart.