[Laina M.]

I didn't even realise this was a thing until conversing with a friend of mine with schizophrenia, because it hadn't occurred to me to even classify the later as hallucinations!

So what I'm wondering for the other people here who experience psychosis, do you experience aural hallucinations (as in they sound entirely convincing, and you hear them through your ears just like other sounds)? And do you also get hallucinations in your mind, like people speaking to you that you can hear clearly that aren't your own thoughts, but that you aren't hearing with your ears.

I've gotten both, but a lot more of the first. The hallucinations that are like someone else talking to me in my mind are voices though, and say things, whereas the ones I can hear with my ears that are very difficult to distinguish from genuine sounds are more mundane, like muttering or music or doors opening and closing and opening and clothing.

[Moose72]

I hear talking and music that sound like they are in the room with me.

[newtus]

i hear both. talking and music and sounds in both my ears and in my head.

it took me years to realize the interior ones are voices. dont get them mixed up with OCD thoughts. my interior voices are distinguishable from those cause its not my voice and they dont repeat stuff - they converse with me mostly.but anyway it took me years to realize they were voices. i thought it was normal but aural hallucinations i learned quick werent normal because people didnt hear them. i thought i was recieving measages only coming to me in my interior voices. after asking many diff doctors and hospitals i learned interior voices can be a hallucination too.

[ickydog2006]

I had almost only an interior voice and didn't know it was a hallucination till meds made it go away. I probably should have marked option two, but a few days ago I heard music and I turned off the bath water and couldn't find it anywhere, and then when I turned the water on I could hear it again. Repeated process and could only hear it when the water was on, like it was coming out of the tap and it was really clear, close to the tune of a different song. I don't know. Freaked me out because it was the first time that' ever happened. Since meds, the voice is non existent and visual hallucinations are rare. Tactile hallucinations still around some but mainly when I'm stressed and my doctors don't consider them hallucinations but attribute them to conversion disorder.

[Laina M.]

Wow, as of this comment each option has exactly one vote Interesting!

Originally Posted by newtus

i hear both. talking and music and sounds in both my ears and in my head.

it took me years to realize the interior ones are voices. dont get them mixed up with OCD thoughts. my interior voices are distinguishable from those cause its not my voice and they dont repeat stuff - they converse with me mostly.but anyway it took me years to realize they were voices. i thought it was normal but aural hallucinations i learned quick werent normal because people didnt hear them. i thought i was recieving measages only coming to me in my interior voices. after asking many diff doctors and hospitals i learned interior voices can be a hallucination too.

it took me a long time as well! I sort of figured they were just more severe OCD thoughts, since I also have OCD but then I realised it had gone away along with my other psychotic symptoms when I went on quatiapine. I missed it for a few days, and had a really bad episode with constant (interior) pestering like (tw for psychosis/egging on si, please highlight to see) like YOU SHOULD DIE, ***** etc .

And also when I was medicated I started to realise that last year I was having conversations with people when they weren't there. I'd kind of known at the time that I was hallucinating aurally even if I was a little shaky on what was and what wasn't, but I didn't realise any of this stuff about the internal ones until I'd been medicated for quite awhile, and even then in bits and gaps because I don't have much memory of that time.

So it was also harder for me to recognize those as hallucinations

[Wayfarer25]

i get both. sometimes i have clear visual hallucinations complete with a person's voice talking to me. sometimes it's just external noise or someone shouting or screaming. but most of the time it's like noise in my head, like too many people in the room talking at once, and sometimes some of those voices talk to me.

I experience both but mostly internal ones (my old pdoc called them pseudo-hallucinations). It started with me hearing external voices like people were in my bedroom when there was no-one in the house, and whispers which are these malevolent voices all talking negatively about me but far away so I can't hear them clearly. Then I started hearing these 2 voices internally talking about me and calling me names and telling me to hurt myself. Then those 2 voices became external too. I tend to get more external voices when I'm stressed and the whispers when I'm really stressed, which makes things worse as they freak me out the most.

*Willow*

[newtus]

Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23

I tend to get more external voices when I'm stressed and the whispers when I'm really stressed, which makes things worse as they freak me out the most.

i get external when im stressed out too.
right now its equally internal and external. i guess im stressed. many times i fail to realize how stress affects me. i start hearing voices AFTER the stress wears off a bit. its like a delay. when it hits me its like BOOM! i freak out and yeaaa. its all downhill.

[Moose72]

Originally Posted by newtus

i get external when im stressed out too.
right now its equally internal and external. i guess im stressed. many times i fail to realize how stress affects me. i start hearing voices AFTER the stress wears off a bit. its like a delay. when it hits me its like BOOM! i freak out and yeaaa. its all downhill.

that's how I am too but Ive never had internal voices