So, at times I'll wake every morning to a couple or possibly even several different voices talking to each other giving me advice and comments about stuff I do. Sometimes, during the day, one of them will call my name or something. Once in a while, I'll just be walking along and they'll make some kind of comment or something about me. I've experienced this for many years, in fact, since I was a real young kid and to be honest I think I would miss it quite a bit if I ever didn't experience it. I even remember the first time it happened when I was like 5 years old, and I even talked back. I walked outside because I didn't want anyone to suffer through seeing me having conversations with voices in my head and we just kind of chatted for a while and I realized that this guy in my head or rather a figure in my unconscious mind and he was actually quite nice and he motivated me to become a very outgoing and well liked person. This guy's name was David and I haven't heard or seen him since I was a young kid, but there are other voices now that I hear sometimes at night like when I'm falling asleep, waking up, sometimes during the day, and especially when lying awake in my bed. I can kind of control it and if I really want to not hear them I can sort of "shut the door" in my mind. Usually though, I don't mind hearing them at all because I have become quite accustomed to it. The voices I hear have been very helpful to me although they always speak to me in a profoundly and beautifully metaphorical sense and if anything I have over the years become much more glad that I experience them. There have been times though, unfortunately that I have seen horrible things like the rotting, bloody corpses that I saw in my bedroom when I was like 14 and the evil aliens that performed horrid experiments on me. Believe it or not, seeing these horrible things have actually made me a stronger person and I am glad that I have seen these hallucinatory horrors before my eyes. Last night, in fact, I heard voices and rather than the horrifying experience it is made out to be, it in fact, motivated me to try harder with some of my pursuits that I am engaged in these days. I heard a woman's voice that I hear a good bit telling me that I was "about to fail my classes" which although was not true, gave me reasons to think I should try even yet harder and I have accomplished a lot in the past couple of days. I'm sorry if all this looks really rambling and weird, because I totally know that it is. I probably sound insane as hell and I know that, I just wanted to share my inner experiences with some people who might benefit them. I added a trigger icon since I'm talking about my experiences with things that a lot of people with 'mental illness' are terrified and possibly tormented by. Also, I've been to doctors and all and yea they have thought I was insane