[xRavenx]

I'm not sure what this is about....but have any of you heard conversations at night before you are going to sleep that are not real? Sometimes they are muffled, but other times, they are full-blown conversations. It is when I'm usually almost a sleep, but still coherent. Not sure what this is about. I do notice it when my Seroquel isn't high enough, but I have a hard time differentiating if this is a symptom or just something most people experience. I don't experience this during the day....only hypervigilance to sounds where everything is amplified when overly stressed and perhaps manic. Any help/input is appreciated.

[Anrea]

I believe people with bipolar experience their symptoms of delusion through various senses. Some see colors, others hear sounds, others feel sensations very strongly (like cannot shower), I don't know about smell.

For me, it is psychic more then visual, although I have had a number of visuals. I have heard things a couple of times. A woman singing opera, a sentence.

I believe our experiences can be similar because the brain is being stimulated, and we interpret the stimulation into something we can understand.

Another theory that I have is that we are all psychically connected, and we are actually hearing, or seeing, or sensing something. But with this knowledge, comes the responsibility to ignore it and travel through the part of life that we can participate in and affect. Which is the seeing/touching part. The part the 'normies' call real.

I would say - explore your various situations, because similar situations will probably come back to you in years - but try not to let these things interfere in how you interact with the world you can touch.

[MusicLover82]

I get this, too. I've had friends who are not bipolar tell me this is "normal." I know it is not an everyday occurrence for me, however, so I consider it a mild hypomanic thing. We're not "hearing voices" per se, but more of what I consider having "noisy thoughts." I do ONE of these things to handle it (or sometimes more than one I'm really anxious about it):

1. Take some extra medication (ask your pdoc if you can do this PRN (as needed) with one of your antipsychotics. I will take an extra Risperdal as needed at times that my thoughts are racing too much or I have too many "noisy thoughts.").
2. Take a Xanax. (My pdoc prescribes it PRN for me).
3. Take Bee Pollen with a glass of milk. Bee Pollen is a natural supplement that calms down my hypomania. It's inexpensive and worth trying, IMO. I doubt there are any interactions with it, but you can check with your pharmacist first to be on the safe side. I feel like milk is very calming.
4. Listen to guided meditations or relaxing music while falling asleep. That will keep the noisy thoughts from happening altogether.

Hope this helps! You're not psychotic, trust me. This happens to me and I've been pretty stable for quite some time. I would only be concerned if you think you are ACTUALLY hearing voices outside of yourself that make you think someone is in the room or if you are having other alarming symptoms. You will be just fine. Try the things I suggested. They work for me.

[xRavenx]

Originally Posted by Anrea

I believe people with bipolar experience their symptoms of delusion through various senses. Some see colors, others hear sounds, others feel sensations very strongly (like cannot shower), I don't know about smell.

For me, it is psychic more then visual, although I have had a number of visuals. I have heard things a couple of times. A woman singing opera, a sentence.

I believe our experiences can be similar because the brain is being stimulated, and we interpret the stimulation into something we can understand.

Another theory that I have is that we are all psychically connected, and we are actually hearing, or seeing, or sensing something. But with this knowledge, comes the responsibility to ignore it and travel through the part of life that we can participate in and affect. Which is the seeing/touching part. The part the 'normies' call real.

I would say - explore your various situations, because similar situations will probably come back to you in years - but try not to let these things interfere in how you interact with the world you can touch.

Interesting. Yes, I do agree with this and have some spiritual beliefs that might be connected to all of this. For instance, I believe in visitation dreams and such. I know that's an example different from this particular context, but hopefully you can tell where I'm going with this as far my belief system. I believe in things coming to us at night when dreaming or lucid.

Originally Posted by MusicLover82

I get this, too. I've had friends who are not bipolar tell me this is "normal." I know it is not an everyday occurrence for me, however, so I consider it a mild hypomanic thing. We're not "hearing voices" per se, but more of what I consider having "noisy thoughts." I do ONE of these things to handle it (or sometimes more than one I'm really anxious about it):

1. Take some extra medication (ask your pdoc if you can do this PRN (as needed) with one of your antipsychotics. I will take an extra Risperdal as needed at times that my thoughts are racing too much or I have too many "noisy thoughts.").
2. Take a Xanax. (My pdoc prescribes it PRN for me).
3. Take Bee Pollen with a glass of milk. Bee Pollen is a natural supplement that calms down my hypomania. It's inexpensive and worth trying, IMO. I doubt there are any interactions with it, but you can check with your pharmacist first to be on the safe side. I feel like milk is very calming.
4. Listen to guided meditations or relaxing music while falling asleep. That will keep the noisy thoughts from happening altogether.

Hope this helps! You're not psychotic, trust me. This happens to me and I've been pretty stable for quite some time. I would only be concerned if you think you are ACTUALLY hearing voices outside of yourself that make you think someone is in the room or if you are having other alarming symptoms. You will be just fine. Try the things I suggested. They work for me.

Thanks. Yes, "noisy thoughts" sums it off perfectly for me as well as racing thoughts at night. I also like guided meditations, especially when my anxiety is so high. I used to be on Xanax, which helped, but my pdoc switched me to Klonopin since it's long-acting, but still in the same med family as Xanax. It does help. She also recommended increasing Seroquel during the times where some of 'warning signs' of hypomania/mania flare up, and then when they die down, going back to the slightly lower dose is fine. I just went back on the higher dose for now. Hopefully that'll help too. At least I know not to be especially alarmed.

[fishin fool]

I did experience this often when I was in my teens.
It seems to have stopped after that.