Famous People Who Hear Voices
Aiden Shingler
Aiden is an artist and is also diagnosed as a schizophrenic. He calls himself a schizophrenic artist, one of his pieces of work made up of four crucifixes stamped in [...Read more]
Anthony Hopkins
In 1993, in an interview in the News of the World, the Hollywood actor Anthony Hopkins made a remarkable admission, he claimed he heard strange voices in his head, “I’ve [...Read more]
Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson from The Beach Boys (Extract from transcript of interview on Larry king Show, 20/08/2004 with Brian and Melinda Wilson ) M. WILSON: Because all of the sudden – [...Read more]
Charles Dickens
The experiences of Charles Dickens were widely publicised by the author himself. He used to tell the tale with relish about becoming so involved with his characters that they actually [...Read more]
Doris Stokes
The late Doris Stokes, the renowned English medium heard the voice of what she regarded as her spirit guide, the guide was called Ramonov, a Tibetan monk. At first she [...Read more]
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of fifty-six he [...Read more]
John Forbes Nash
On October 11, 1994, John Forbes Nash, Jr. won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in game theory. Nash was 66 and, for most of his adult life he’d lived [...Read more]
John Frusciante
John Frusciante from the Red Hot Chili Peppers: I had just so many mental problems. It wasn’t until I was 28 that my brain actually felt like a spacious place. [...Read more]
Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum became the first person to circumnavigate the world single handed in 1898 aboard a boat called Spray. He claimed to have been aided by the ghost of Christopher [...Read more]
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi, the man who almost single handedly achieved Indian independence from Britain, relied on an “inner voice” for guidance. Here Gandhi describes his experiences and beliefs about his voices: [...Read more]
Philip K Dick
Philip K Dick was an American science fiction writer, who died in 1982. Eight of his stories have been adapted into films to date, including “Blade Runner”, “Total Recall” and [...Read more]
Robert Schumann
Robert Alexander Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. He was one of the most famous Romantic composers of the nineteenth century, as [...Read more]
Saint Joan of Arc
It was at the age of thirteen and a half, in the summer of 1425, that Joan first became conscious her “voices” or her “counsel.” It was at first a [...Read more]
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis wrote, “ During the days when I was living alone in a foreign city … I quite often heard my name suddenly called by [...Read more]
Socrates
Socrates’ reliance on what the Greeks called his “daemonic sign”, an averting (ἀποτρεπτικός) inner voice that Socrates heard only when he was about to make a mistake. It was this [...Read more]
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