psychics hearing voices

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...voices/531582/

I have never seen ghosts or heard voices. I have a sister that does and began to in her late teens. What interested me about this article is how individuals who claim to be psychic learn to "control" the visions and voices they see/hear.

I do wonder about schizophrenia and psychosis and quite frankly at times my sister has concerned me with her so called powers to see/hear ghosts and somehow know things. Yet, she also experiences panic attacks and can be very controlling. I am wondering if she somehow uses this challenge as a way to comfort herself as is touched on in this article.

The only time I saw what I thought was ghosts was after having life saving surgery when I was coming out of the anesthesia. I have read that one can have hallucinations while coming out of anesthesia.

I wonder if the conversation in one's own mind gets distorted to a point where the internal voices/conversations one has where they review conversations and know they are problem solving gets so they begin to develop a mindset where they actually hear voices and see people and begin thinking it's real. I am still confused about this tbh. So, when I came across this article it was nice to read how they are studying this where they feel that some people who claim to hear voices and see "ghosts" learn to manage it.

Interesting read. I'm curious as to how this thread plays out.

I don' have these things happen to me now as an adult however this frequently happened in childhood.

I find it interesting that the article mentions psychosis but not neurological conditions that can also contribute to such a discussion.

That is an absolutely fascinating article. Thank you for posting it.

Very interesting.

My take away from the article was sometimes people do hear voices but it's not considered full blown schizophrenia. And some people may have schizophrenia but learn to manage it. It made me think of the movie "A beautiful mind" where an individual who was genius in other ways also began to struggle with schizophrenia and learned to manage it and function and eventually became a college professor.

I have PTSD and have experienced flashbacks, and they can be so real yet, I am not seeing ghosts and for the most part I remember what I am experiencing in the flashback. I have been trying to understand "what" happens in the brain when a flashback takes place.

For as much as we do know about the human brain, there is still so much we don't know.

I was thinking along the lines of what I know about neurological conditions and the susceptibility to have a hallucination, autitory, olfactory, and visual. Migraine sufferers sometimes report an aura. An injured brain of any level can lead to a hallucination. I guess from my viewing from a neurological perspective is an underlying understanding that one can also have full function of self despite hearing, seeing or smelling something that is not part and parcel of present, physical reality.
For me, if I lack enough sleep, I'll see shadows. Sounds can seem louder. Just part of the spotted matter on my brain. I make sleep a priority, as a result.

Truthfully, I am not Psychic I am Psychotic.