I hear things [Archive] - I-Mockery Forum

Big McLargehuge

Jul 4th, 2009, 02:47 PM

10,000 Volt Ghost

Jul 4th, 2009, 03:41 PM

Is it your own voice or does it come in different tones? Does this happen when other people are near you or by yourself?

Kitsa

Jul 4th, 2009, 06:13 PM

I sometimes feel as if someone has just shouted my name when I know no one has. Happens a few times a year. I don't have a good explanation for it, but my only diagnosed mental thing is OCD.

Big McLargehuge

Jul 4th, 2009, 07:10 PM

about three to six time a day i hear voices that sound as if they are coming from the other room. About half the time it is a familiar voice saying something that i have heard it say many times. Like my best friend calling my name or my mother saying something to my brother. The other half of the time it is unfamiliar voice saying things that i can't really make out, sometimes i'll catch a word or two. They clearly seem to come from outside my head, if you know what i mean. Not like the memory of familiar sounds.

ZeldaQueen

Jul 4th, 2009, 07:22 PM

What are you doing when you hear this stuff? Sometimes, when I'm by myself and it's very quiet, I think I hear stuff and sometimes when I listen to music, I think I hear the phone ringing.

Kitsa

Jul 4th, 2009, 07:25 PM

Do they start out sort of echoey and distant and end really loud?

Big McLargehuge

Jul 4th, 2009, 07:56 PM

i hear them all the time regardless of situation. with people, alone, in public. they sound exactly as if someone is on the other side of a thin wall talking in a normal voice.

Kitsa

Jul 4th, 2009, 07:57 PM

Hm. Weird. I'm sorry I don't have any quality answers for you :(

ZeldaQueen

Jul 4th, 2009, 08:06 PM

Hrm, maybe you're psychic? :\

The closest thing I can think of is the concept of the brain "misfiring", causing people to see or hear things that aren't there. This is the case with schizophrenia. I'm not saying you are schizophrenic, but perhaps it's something similar?

I'm assuming you're not on any sort of medications or anything, correct?

Big McLargehuge

Jul 4th, 2009, 08:20 PM

Lord knows what "medications" i have in me, they don't affect this.

Supafly345

Jul 4th, 2009, 09:16 PM

It may be your mind translating similar sounding sounds into whatever word or voice it can match it closest to. This happens all the time with sight, I don't see why it can't happen with sound too. I don't know why you are becoming more aware of this if that is the case though- it could be that you are listening for them more since the first time it happened or something.

This isn't a sign of any disorder I don't think, I your brain is just working overtime to make sense of nonsense.

LordSappington

Jul 5th, 2009, 02:02 PM

I recommend a lobotomy, ASAP.
/quackery

Fathom Zero

Jul 5th, 2009, 02:06 PM

Maybe you're hearing ghosts! :eek

LordSappington

Jul 5th, 2009, 02:08 PM

You probably live on an Indian burial ground.

Tadao

Jul 5th, 2009, 02:22 PM

But i'm not afflicted with any mental illness

How do you know this?

Fathom Zero

Jul 5th, 2009, 02:24 PM

I was gonna say, you're the one that's hearing things. I don't think you're qualified to judge your mental health.

Jeanette X

Jul 5th, 2009, 02:42 PM

Why don't you want to see a doctor?
I bet you it has something to do with that brain tumor. Go see your neurologist.

Evil Robot

Jul 5th, 2009, 07:05 PM

Don't let hallucinations give you financial advice. They won't be a problem unless they start asking for money.

Jeanette X

Jul 6th, 2009, 12:40 AM

Do you have any family history of mental illness? What is your emotional state when this happens? Have you been sleeping enough?

And most importantly, do you have any other symptoms?

You might want to start keeping a daily journal of this. Keeping track helps manage symptoms. I figured out certain foods were setting off my bad gall bladder when I started keeping a daily journal and I learned to avoid them.

DevilWearsPrada

Jul 6th, 2009, 02:18 AM

It might be caused by large amounts of stress, maybe as a defense mechanism your brain fakes perception of familiar things to calm you down?

Dimnos

Jul 6th, 2009, 10:25 AM

Have you been eating mushrooms or taking LSD?

ChrisGlass

Jul 6th, 2009, 02:45 PM

Well, I'm talking out of my ass here, but at least you can't really get a discussion or message out of it. It's really just a mixed signal, thankfully. I'd be more worried if they were saying some crazy shit.

10,000 Volt Ghost

Jul 6th, 2009, 04:34 PM

Did you stop taking your meds at all?

Tadao

Jul 6th, 2009, 04:37 PM

Turns out it was the neighbors T.V.

ChrisGlass

Jul 6th, 2009, 06:03 PM

Turns out it was the neighbors T.V.
I used to fuck around with one of my old roommates I hated. He was watching 24 on my PS2 and didn't know I had the PS2 remote, so I was sneaking in the living room and fucking around with it. Turning on the subtitles, muting, slowmo, etc.

He had so much shit wrong with him he thought it was in his head.

Tadao

Jul 6th, 2009, 06:06 PM

:lol I might even read your long ass blog history because of that post.

Yeah right huh

Evil Robot

Jul 6th, 2009, 06:49 PM

I used to fuck around with one of my old roommates I hated. He was watching 24 on my PS2 and didn't know I had the PS2 remote, so I was sneaking in the living room and fucking around with it. Turning on the subtitles, muting, slowmo, etc.

He had so much shit wrong with him he thought it was in his head.
Your a shit head and I am going to expose you to your peers.

ChrisGlass

Jul 7th, 2009, 12:20 AM

Your a shit head and I am going to expose you to your peers.
:rock

Trust me, if you knew the guy, he deserved it. Bastard stole my copy of Midway Arcade Treasures.

executioneer

Jul 7th, 2009, 01:00 AM

hey where did billybear's posts go! the same place he's going to go if he keeps sinning against our lord (HELL)

ChrisGlass

Jul 7th, 2009, 02:28 AM

Our lord is HELL or is our lord IN hell?

executioneer

Jul 7th, 2009, 03:06 AM

no his posts went to HELL

Tadao

Jul 7th, 2009, 03:16 AM

I hope Big didn't do what the voices told him to do. :(

executioneer

Jul 7th, 2009, 03:28 AM

it didnt seem like they were telling him to do anything!

Tadao

Jul 7th, 2009, 03:33 AM

Yeah, but now he's missing. He may now understand what they were trying to tell him! :hypno

Evil Robot

Jul 7th, 2009, 07:50 PM

:rock

Trust me, if you knew the guy, he deserved it. Bastard stole my copy of Midway Arcade Treasures.
Your not a shit head for what you did, your a shit head for exagerating it. He was probably all like "wow thats annoying, the controller must be fucked up", I don't think he thought it was in his head. Thats why your a shit head.

Sam

Jul 7th, 2009, 08:09 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/electric_shellfish/RandyOrton132EntrancePhotofilePhoto.jpg

I HEAR VOICES CRYIN

Tadao

Jul 7th, 2009, 08:14 PM

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Geggy

Jul 7th, 2009, 11:47 PM

i have tinnitus. i experience ringings in my ears everytime it rains.

Chojin

Jul 8th, 2009, 09:42 AM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/electric_shellfish/RandyOrton132EntrancePhotofilePhoto.jpg

I HEAR VOICES CRYIN

fuck, i was gonna make this same post

fuck

Kitsa

Jul 8th, 2009, 11:16 AM

Every time I hear the word "tinnitus", it takes me back to high school Latin hell when we had to sing Christmas carols in Latin. Our teacher was retiring that year and had checked out, so all we ever did was parties and "banquets" (wrap yourself in a sheet and eat grapes) and write latin slogans on paper grocery bags for the grocery stores, which was stupid.

Anyway, "Tinnitus" was her translation of Jingle Bells.

Tinnitus, tinnitus, semper tinnitus!
O tantum est gaudium dum vehimus in tra-hā!
Tinnitus, tinnitus, semper tinnitus!
O tantum est gaudium dum vehimus in tra-hā!

uuuuggggghhhh.

LordSappington

Jul 8th, 2009, 04:26 PM

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executioneer

Jul 8th, 2009, 04:51 PM

sometimes when i'm seriously sleep-deprived (OR SLEEP-DEPRAVED MORE LIKE) i get audio hallucinations, but usually i get hallucinations in my peripheral vision first

Big McLargehuge

Jul 9th, 2009, 02:16 AM

They haven't gone away, but they don't scare me anymore.

Tadao

Jul 9th, 2009, 02:27 AM

How long ago did they start? Sorry if you already answered that.

Big McLargehuge

Jul 9th, 2009, 06:50 AM

coupla months ago

Tadao

Jul 9th, 2009, 10:04 AM

Too bad that you are knowledgeable enough to know not o mention this to your Dr. We have a place in Cali called Behavioral Health, I think it's a state program so you might have one too. They won't bother you unless you are suicidal or homicidal. You might have to pay like 100 for a year, but they can get you all the meds for free, if you're a non working bum like me.

It starting a few months ago isn't really a gradual thing. Get it checked out buddy, my brother had issues and it wasn't a fun time for him, you got my IM if things get bad.

kahljorn

Jul 9th, 2009, 11:01 PM

Are you smoking pot when this happens and how loud are the voices? Sorry if these questions were already answered.

Geggy

Jul 9th, 2009, 11:45 PM

this one time i was tripping my balls off and all of a sudden my hearing aids batteries was fading out of power and i was experiencing a real bad fucking trip, ie. hallucinating all sorts of sounds and voices. thats why i carry hearing aids batteries with me all of the time otherwise i be having flashbacks n shit, ie. hallucinating all sorts of sounds and voices

elx

Jul 10th, 2009, 12:08 AM

But i'm not afflicted with any mental illness, apart from the standard bouts of depression, but i have been having increasingly frequent auditory hallucinations. All WebMd suggests is that i might be schitzo of bi-polar. Anybody have any advice, short of going to a doctor? Or any context.

well if i were you i'd just consider it to be a fascinating little quirk that's all your own and embrace it as such. the fact that you have the ability to recognize that the voices are not real pretty much rules out all reasonable chances of you being afflicted with a mental illness.

however, if you must place a diagnosis on it it sounds like it could possibly be a mild form of ( [ ] -> syn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia) sound ) in which case an external stimulus such as a specific sound or touch is provoking the presence of another sense; or in other words, something in your daily routine could be triggering an involuntary reaction (the voices) inside of your mind.

Tadao

Jul 10th, 2009, 12:21 AM

I know a lot of mentally ill people who don't believe they are mentally ill. When I was going to Behavioral health for anti-depressants, they ALWAYS checked to see if I was experiencing auditory hallucinations. Meaning they were asking me if I was hearing sounds that I knew were not really there. IDK if it would have meant they change my meds or something bigger though.