This is interesting. My pdoc said all my hallucinations were authentic, except that she couldn't understand why the voices (only one in particular) would quieten down after a few minutes of me telling it to "shut up" (well, screaming at it, actually). In her experience (or text book) auditory hallucinations didn't do what we told them to.

Admittedly I had that experience at the start of a psychotic episode, and my brain wasn't completely fried at that stage.

Its good to know I'm not alone in experiencing this.