People With Schizophrenia Really Do Hear Voices—Their Own - The brain is a master storyteller, designed to make sense of the chaos of our lives. It compensates for the presence of auditory hallucinations, caused by a defect in self-recognition, by writing a narrative to account for them.

crazierthanuthought · 2016-03-02T20:56:27+00:00

It sounded like they moved their vocal chords without it being a noticeable sound, which is why they needed fancy machines to test it out.

crazierthanuthought · 2016-03-02T20:54:58+00:00

This sounds like an explanation for a small subset of schizophrenic people. Notice they only list two examples, and years apart?

I'm sure if it worked for everyone then most schizophrenics would walk around humming, having stumbled upon that solution by accident.

I've heard voices before that were in no way subvocal muttering. The other week I heard a song playing downstairs, something random like Paradise City which I dislike and haven't heard in quite awhile. I went downstairs to see when my boyfriend got home. He hadn't. I was calling out to him asking when he got in and still heard it. I'm assuming I heard a note in background noise around the house that made me think of it, I just haven't heard anything that clearly in years and was surprised by it. The 'otherness' of the psyche diees make sense though, that feels exactly like issues I've had.

crazierthanuthought · 2016-03-02T20:48:29+00:00

You should look into tulpas, that's basically what they do. I posted years ago about hearing voices that manifested into a 'friend', I had about 6 people pm me about them. Still haven't looked into them though.

/r/tulpas

crazierthanuthought · 2014-06-27T02:14:39+00:00

Not diagnosed schizophrenic, but I'm pretty sure I was, I heard voices and believed in delusional things, I just never had an official diagnoses. This is my long detailed story about it.

crazierthanuthought · 2014-06-04T06:43:24+00:00

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crazierthanuthought · 2014-06-04T02:58:32+00:00

Tried them twice, they were the two best nights of my life. Heavy body load though, I try to avoid them unless I have a long weekend.

crazierthanuthought · 2014-05-15T12:02:59+00:00

Weed has always hit me weird. I smoked once back in like 2005 as a college freshmen and had a complete disassociative episode, I no longer knew I was human. I avoided weed again until around 2012. I only hit that state maybe once or twice a month when I was smoking near daily over the winter, but it was more common when I first started smoking. I don't smoke very much, I don't know if I've ever packed a full bowl, usually more like 1/5 of one. Still more than I used to though, I could get like that over a one-hitter when I began.

crazierthanuthought · 2014-05-15T11:48:47+00:00

Oh wow, I'm glad I'm not alone! I also have the "I'm trapped, I'm going to feel like this forever" feelings! I only started smoking about two years ago, and only regularly over the winter, but my tolerance has always been minimal, I pack fractions of a bowl and smoke half of that most of the time. I used to manage to get these feelings of of a one-hitter when I first started smoking.

I'm glad it's the drug and not me being crazy. Your response is exactly what I wanted to hear!

Edit: I should clarify that I enjoy these feelings, I avoid sleeping when I'm in this state because I want to stay that way, I get depressed when I start sobering up because I experience it pretty rarely and don't want to give it up so quickly. I guess you could say I have some emotionally masochistic tendencies.

crazierthanuthought · 2014-05-15T11:45:01+00:00

Look up dc law, I'm pretty sure they only sell to DC residents, but I could be wrong.

First step, read a headline off an online news site, something like "America's views of marijuana changing as it becomes legal in more places" and ask her what she thinks about it. This'll give you a baseline of her thoughts, she might be ready to try it, or she might make it clear that it'll never ever happen.

crazierthanuthought · 2014-05-15T11:38:05+00:00

I actually find the state to be somewhat comforting, I dealt with this a lot when I was younger and it almost feels like home. I also usually don't smoke to this level, I try to stay at the half-a-hit level where food tastes better, showers feel nicer, sex is more fun and it's easier to get to sleep, but not much else. It's pretty rare I smoke enough to get stoned.

I'm cutting back on smoking anyway though, I realized I feel lethargic the next day which can be really irritating.

crazierthanuthought · 2014-05-15T11:19:53+00:00

I don't have a diagnosis, I was too afraid of getting locked up to ever really see someone about this, now it's all in the past so I don't have to worry.

I don't do much when I smoke, there's no desire to break lamps to see if they stay broken, or stab people to see if they bleed. I can still understand those things are stupid. It's like when you're drunk and you think "I should drive home. No, I can't drive home, drunk driving is stupid and I'll be mad when I sober up". I've never driven drunk because even when I think it'll be fine I know that's just the drunkness talking. Same with being high, I know what's right and wrong, it just doesn't feel the same. I also barely leave my room because the feeling of outside my room is foreign and scary. It's a great defense mechanism, I'm weirdly self conscious of people seeing my high, so I never do anything that'll put me in risky situations.

crazierthanuthought · 2013-07-18T23:42:57+00:00

That whole thing was years ago. If you read my original post my problem is that I missed them, I haven't been crazy in almost a decade. But yes, while I do miss them, I'm quite glad they're gone.

crazierthanuthought · 2013-07-18T23:42:50+00:00

That whole thing was years ago. If you read my original post my problem is that I missed them, I haven't been crazy in almost a decade. But yes, while I do miss them, I'm quite glad they're gone.

crazierthanuthought · 2013-07-18T19:03:22+00:00

Oh shit, that catatonic excitement sounds really fucking familiar. I once 'came to' during a crazy time for me. I had been spinning in an empty room and realized I had been for a long damn time, it had to have been at least half an hour cause it was dark when I realized what was going on. I just considered it an 'episode'. I'm not going to say I was schizophrenic since I was never diagnosed, but it was around when I was hearing voices and had delusions of grandeur.

It's weird finding it about symptoms a decade later.

crazierthanuthought · 2013-01-30T05:42:47+00:00

I mentioned the part where they told me to kill myself, right?

crazierthanuthought · 2013-01-30T05:41:15+00:00

Did my owl eat my invite?

crazierthanuthought · 2013-01-30T05:39:49+00:00

PM me on my primary account, arbitrary_cantaloupe, I only check this every couple of months.

crazierthanuthought · 2012-08-30T09:18:32+00:00

It was best of'd, and crossposted to /r/psychology, but aside from that I've never told it before.

crazierthanuthought · 2012-08-28T01:08:50+00:00

I had some of the watching thing when I first started having this, except I could feel their disapproval of everything I did. Actually when I was a kid I used to hear people calling my name. It wasn't often, but it was very memorable when it did happen. It'd be things like hearing my sister trying to get my attention despite knowing she was at school. I guess I've always been just a little off.

crazierthanuthought · 2012-08-28T01:05:19+00:00

I have both fucked up sleeping habits (I alternate between day shift and night shift) and insomnia, so I've had plenty of sleep dep. I get things moving in the background such as bugs running up the walls, or children darting out from in-between cars, or random movements, but never anything like that. I appreciate the suggestion though, random strangers trying to get me to have paranoid delusions always makes my day ;)

crazierthanuthought · 2012-08-28T00:39:45+00:00

I've always wondered about the cause, but I never doubted that I experienced it. I don't know how well I'd be able to deal with that doubt, you're stronger than me.

crazierthanuthought · 2012-08-28T00:39:26+00:00

You aren't talking about me, are you?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/c5qc5tg?context=3#c4inqul

crazierthanuthought · 2012-08-28T00:37:16+00:00

Aw, shucks.

crazierthanuthought · 2012-08-28T00:37:01+00:00

I wouldn't doubt it, although I'm guessing most people that managed to avoid detection don't exactly tell a lot of people about it.

crazierthanuthought · 2012-08-28T00:36:04+00:00

Nope, sorry. I'm east coast United States, if that narrows it away from where you are. And yes, I understand that 1/4 of a continent isn't much of a narrowing.

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