Voices: inside or outside your head? Or both?

Oh I see. Well it's probably abnormal to get up and investigate what was said tho lol. It mostly happens when I get sleep paralysis- it's amazing how our mind works.

i don't think it's abnormal to investigate.. this shows that a part of you knows it's not real. but i know it can be scary, especially the sleep paralysis stuff. i remember having the most frightening nightmare and trying to scream. it was awful.

I hear whispers outside of my head. I do experience random thoughts in my head and they aren't even mine.

I've only heard things outside my head on very rare occasion, usually a few notes on a piano, or a voice shouting "hey!" or my name.

I, like Faerie Moon, have "another me". Kind of like an invisible friend. Her name is Christina, and I talk to her constantly. We have very intense conversations, with our own inside jokes and stuff. I think she is just another way of thinking for me-in dialogue instead of monologue. I get really lonely, so it's nice to have her. I don't think she's a hallucination, just a different way of my thoughts expressing themselves.

And then I've had telepathic conversations with inanimate objects and dead people. It's not really hearing a voice-it's more like me sending out a thought into the universe, and having my conversational partner insert their thoughts back into my head. I don't think that that's a hallucination either, but I am aware that it is not normal. It rarely happens unless I am currently having other psychotic symptoms, so I think it's part of the illness.

Hi I read this and I'm just wondering if when you say "developed people I know" you mean that the voices are of people you actually know in real life being internalized? Because that's what I have. I've been hearing the voices of people I know family, friends, people from the internet I've never met and so on and so forth. I don't really hear just plain voices or an unfamiliar voice I hear people I know.

Mostly in my head but once in a while out of my head and that can be freaky. Also some times noise turns in to speech for me. Like wind, motors, static interference, etc.

Mine are outside. I started with two. Know I hear the neighbors that talked **** about me every day that I heard because of the thin walls. They used to always beat on the wall to communicate with me too. I also hear somebody that I was "with".

I have a mixture of both, I have heard commands outside my head that tell me to do terrible things, until I was put on medication I was doing some of the things they would tell me to do so they would stop harassing me. Then I have the ones inside my head, they are two people who talk back and forth to each other about me. At first I thought I had multiple personality disorder and that when I was psychotic one of them "Came out" to the surface. A homicidal mainaic, unsympathetic, mean and angry etc.... I use to just refer to him as Satan, I am still trying to figure out though how they ever came to be? Did I create them? Do I create all of them? This has been happening since as long as I can remember, I am 31 now. I am medication dependent at this point in my life. They seem to come and go.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about this. A lot. And, just curious about it because I do have a running dialog like a commentary on going inside my head. I converse with it. I call it Other Me. I never thought about it much until coming here and I I talk to it outloud too but me using my voice and me using my voice to say outloud the response I get... it isn't a personality so much because it doesn't ever take over me, but it does comment and give advice. It's not bad.

Some examples of what she says to me: "you need to pay attention and focus on work" or "if people look over at your desk they will see you're playing on your phone, watch out." Or "I know it's hard but you need to try to calm down," stuff like that is things she tells me as an example. Or I will ask her questions like "that girl was being rude, do you think so or was it me?" then she will give me her interpretation. And then things like "we should watch a movie" or "I can't wait to get home so we can relax" sometimes we even disagree on what we want to eat? Is that strange?

But then I was thinking about it a lot and I have other commentaries that happen which are not my voice or whatever. it's just like a young man's voice telling me I'm being so stupid. Like a bully. Or ugly. Or just mean things. This is not continuous but it is a comment on me sometimes, perhaps several times a week. I've been paying attention to this stuff recently because I was hoping to see a psychiatrist later in the year at some point and I want some things to discuss.

These are things I figured everyone had going on usually. Like hearing people in your mind repeating over and over that you are stupid and dumb so you can't go sleep and you try to block them out but they won't shut up. But now I questions maybe not? I know what my own thoughts are, but "inside voice" was not something I ever even knew about before. Before I met my husband part of my insomnia was that these commentaries would even wake me up from sleeping. It was a big part of my insomnia. I used to call them "flashbacks" because they would jolt me awake and I figured it had to do with being bullied. Once I was with my husband at night they have been a lot quieter and don't wake me up any more.

I don't know... I wonder what you all think? Worth bringing up or just normal sounding things everyone has?

Both But typically I hear them outside.
Like people talking,and laughing or crying....
then I have the visual and auditory ones where
They are in my head threatening me and showing me
a scary image at the same time..I have to push the voices
out of my head all the time and it's not easy. But now I am
on this medication or will be when I take it,Called Risperdal
so hopefully it will help me out.

i know what ur talking about. i have this too. some of them are nice and helpful and then some of them aren.t it seems to coincide with my mood. but sometimes when the mean ones are there the nice ones try to be gentle with me. its hard to explain this. but i know what u are talking about

I also have an inside voice always very helpful and I get sad when it seems my inside voice
isn't talking to me and i ask it to forgive me just incase i upset it and it usually returns to me.
but the bad voices are a bit much but I took risperdal for the first time today and it cut down the problems and I feel pretty good atm... I woke up unexpectedly though and am having issues falling back asleep.

Thanks junkDNA and cannablissfully. My helpful voice is always there. I don't know how long I've had her around. I can't remember a time when I didn't have her, actually, that's how long it has been... The other ones are more random, not the same over and over. I think maybe that's why I didn't think about it at all until I started learning more about this. I'm definately going to discuss this once I get my appointment. Thank you for your help.

I had both but I am sometimes able to ignore the voices in my head. Also sometimes I find it hard distinguishing my thoughts from the inside voices. But usually the inside voices know me very well and contradict everything that I may be thinking while as the outside voices are just weird words and sounds that make no sense.

I only have one alter left, and if I have more, I get rid of them. Alters are bad, dangerous and I use my imagination to make them go away. You're supposed to practice mindfulness and not play with them, which I try not to do. I put this alter in lockdown and gave her my body memories and gave her a magic number in her own language. In order to get out she has to learn her lesson. She'll never get out. She should be in a bad forever and I know I'll never hear her again.

I experience both, but mostly they sound like they're coming from somewhere external, like someone standing next to me. I had an experience twice lately where I was standing on a street corner waiting to cross, with headphones on playing music, and over the music I heard someone clear as day saying "hey.... hey..." like he was trying to get my attention, but there was absolutely no one around. It sounded like he was standing near me. So either something crazy is going on with that corner (same location both times) or something crazy is going on with my head.

Occasionally the voices will be inside, but they feel like thoughts that someone is inserting into my head, not voices.

Outside. I can hear evil spirits whispering, but I never hear anything inside my head.

I used to think the voices in my head were normal parts of myself. Now they all have names and I drew them bodies and they are my characters for an upcoming web comic now.

I have some others that aren't though, and usually the inside voices make more sense than the outside ones, which tend to be incoherent whispers or my name over and over again.

With me it's a combination of both.

When I had my first psychotic episode... I heard maybe 2-3 voices that were external. I think perhaps one of them is my 'internal' voice just louder, there is a female who would be kind to me & perhaps 1 other.

Most of the time (when I can hear it... went for 8 months without hearing anything recently) I have a single recognisable voice that sounds like it is just inside my ear... I suppose it's in my head but I can most definitely hear it too. I found this a problem when asked "is it in your head or can you hear it..." because it's both.

It either gives commentary, criticizes (occasionally praises) or tries to convince me of things. In fact, it was the voice that told me I had schizophrenia. It tends to be quite quiet & I can ignore it but sometimes it gets very hard to ignore & can be a bit distressing. The louder it is, the harder I find to know whether what it is saying is true or not. I recognize it all as stemming from my own thoughts but it has a life of it's own.

My pdoc keeps referring to my thoughts as voices. It drives me up the wall. Many here seem to do the same thing.

I do not think that my internal thoughts are voices, they are just thoughts - nothing more.

Both. and In my body too - following my breath or in my stomach.