[Resident Bipolar]

Hearing voices is something I experience...but very, very rarely. Something much more common I get is hearing laughter: despite there being no possible source or other sounds going on at the same time.

I first experienced it in hospital: I thought people were laughing at me, and at the time it was mixed with voices and extreme paranoid. I got so stressed that I self harmed and smashed up my personal belongings. It's like real laughter - a little distance. It definitely sounds as though it's coming from OUTSIDE of my head. But alone in my house I hear this - and it's a fully detached house.

I also hear it sometimes when out in public. Which, as you can imagine, is very stressful.

Anybody else get this?

I get laughter sometimes, and yes it's distressing to day the least. I still haven't figured a way to deal with the hallucinations. But I wish you luck with this. Maybe someone will have some advice. I just try to keep telling myself that it is not real.

[Hydrophobic1212]

I get laughter a lot. But recently (now that I've started Latuda) it's been getting better. It's still very distressing, though. The voices cause more distress with me, though.

[Moose72]

I don't see why laughter is different than talking or telling you mean things like I've had- its still hallucinating.

[Beezup2]

Originally Posted by Resident Bipolar

Hearing voices is something I experience...but very, very rarely. Something much more common I get is hearing laughter: despite there being no possible source or other sounds going on at the same time.

I first experienced it in hospital: I thought people were laughing at me, and at the time it was mixed with voices and extreme paranoid. I got so stressed that I self harmed and smashed up my personal belongings. It's like real laughter - a little distance. It definitely sounds as though it's coming from OUTSIDE of my head. But alone in my house I hear this - and it's a fully detached house.

I also hear it sometimes when out in public. Which, as you can imagine, is very stressful.

Anybody else get this?

No, but I get the conversations, low voices, like radio or tv is on (not). These were I was told connected to times of high stress on occasion and almost mania the other. The odd psychosis with things like we're talking about for me - paranoia for ex. - I was told is a sensical outgrowth of high anxiety. When I think out my circumstances during all my hallucinations, it fit perfectly. Other folks definitely could have other reasons for their psychosis (my OWN general word for episodes like this). I believe how I'm feeling, experiencing at the time of these, is reflected in what I "hear/see/feel". If I'm scared then it's something creepy etc. Just some of my own experiences and thought. Way too much - I hope you find your answer.

[Lauru]

No, but I hear a telephone ringing sometimes, or think I hear my name being called by someone. Only when I am seriously stressed or manic or too deeply depressed. Does that still count? I feel like I've nothing to complain about because others have it worse than me. Of course there are plenty of others who are better than me by far

[Fleetwood Jack]

I hear this on average maybe a few times a month. For like 8 years. I'm 46. I think it's because laughter is rather loud and as such travels far. I just hear once HA HA HA HA and that's it. I don't hear any other voices or anything like that. EXp: Last night my roommate was watching TV and laughed. I thought I was hearing things lol. It can be a bit unnerving though. Usually happens when I'm deep in thought and always at night when I'm thinking about Hegel or Zen Buddhism. I read a lot about psychedelic experiences and stuff like that and it's possible that some minds are not fully insulated in this world unlike most "normal" minds. It comes of as if a trickster or perhaps a less benign "entity". Again, maybe it's just a real sound. There are homes around and people watch TV late at night. I am Type O negative and a leftie. Furthermore psychiatry to say the least by far is no gospel it's 19th century modernist way of thinking that hasn't changed much. I wouldn't rely on it. Michelle Foucault was highly critical of it. "Crazy people" were Oracles in ancient Greece and throughout history "they" we're considered to have a sort of uncanny wisdom. In Greece generals went to war based on what some "crazy person" (oracle) told them. Highly intuitive people. It is the establishment and their psychiatric institutions that won't give any room for further investigation into this. The reason is that the status quo suits them. They are making a lot of money maintaining this order and making sure it stays that way. Big pharma is responsible for more deaths and they are responsible for compromising peoples minds with psych drugs while in fact there are natural alternatives that actually work like Psilocybin and Ibogaine. I found that microdosing psilocybin mushrooms incredibly effective. All that being said, ignore it. Find your center and move on.