hearing voices? telepathy or schizophrenia?

true enough but why would my mental aberrations be frightening for and therefore invoke hosility in someone else? i mean, i can understand why some folks would consider telepathy to be a scary concept but what's there to be afraid of if i'm just a self deluding nutcase?

 

I don't know. I wasn't saying he was afraid, just giving a common reason why some people react the way they do to things they may not understand.

 

Some people like to be right and superior.

Not me though, I thrive on being wrong and inferior.

 

Is that right?

 

HA!

 

I was wrong to be right.

 

Somewhere this discussion took a left turn.

 

Are you saying it's getting sinister?

 

*off topic* it's funny how a psycho forensic analyst named Dexter can be so sinister. lol latin.

back on topic, whether it's real or a delusion really doesn't matter. bullshit makes the flowers grow.

 

i thought that too :2thumbsup:

 

Unknown nutcases can be quite scary, unless you know them you don't know when the wall will them how to kill you and where to hide your body.

 

that doesn't ring true... you are unlikely to meet the OP, so you have nothing to fear in that sense... also, it's a fact that even if one does know someone who is "mentally ill" in that way, there is no telling if and when the wall will tell them to do that and how to cover it up... i think your feelings regarding this go deeper... ofcourse, i could be wrong.. i often am

 

Unknown "sane" people can be quite scary, unless you know them you don't know when greed or jealousy will provoke them to kill you and hide your body.

 

If my "voices" told me that, I'd tell them to go screw themselves.

 

Oh, sane people are quite susceptible to many sinister forces and ideas as well. I didn't mean to say that mentally ill are inherently dangerous, just that when someone's mind works in a way that yours doesn't, it can be a lot harder to predict how they will behave, especially if you don't know the exact nature of their ailment. I know at least one quite agreeable, friendly, gentle person who is schizophrenic, among other things.

 

just that when someone's mind works in a way that yours doesn't, it can be a lot harder to predict how they will behave,

lol you couldn't even begin to fathom ... :dizzy2:

 

So....

I was diagnosed with PTSD a little while ago.

I hear people calling my name. I hear random telephones ringing. Some nights I wake up with sleep paralysis and other nights I have whole conversations with people without being awake.

Hallucinations come in many different forms. They can be auditory or visual in my experience.

The human mind can be an interesting thing. My advice is if the voices aren't interfering with your life then roll with it.

 

well, my imaginary friends certainly do not interfere with my daily mundane life. externally my life couldn't be more normal. currently i'm trying to figure out from where these extra mental characters originate. i'm under no immediate undo stress nor have i been recently traumatized so i'm guessing they manifest from some early childhood trauma (my childhood was pretty violent and confusing). but thus far my childhood doesn't seem to come up much in the inner conversations. the hallucinatory conversations are mostly about "vibrational interchanges", "modifying human emotional codings", "solidifying the actuality value of the gestalt" and the like.

**shrug** it's just weird.

 

I would very much like to participate in conversations like that...do you mind if I join in?

Sounds like conversations about directing human spiritual evolution...

 

THAT'S exactly what the conversations are about and it's not all words either. there's a lot of impossible to describe manipulating of vibration and vision sharing that goes on. helixes and mandalas and shifting patterns. fancy!

sure! join us if you can. the problem is that we (my imaginary friends and i) seem to be working in isolation, like in a virtual workroom or lab. i don't know if other minds can gain access. i've detected only my Id and those other 2 selves in the "workroom". maybe it's buffered against a "too many cooks spoil the broth" scenario. if you do manage to get in be warned. one of my imaginary friends can be a real asshole sometimes. though brilliant he tends to try to dominate in a space where co-operation is key ... but then his primate-ish alpha male attitude becomes the focus of experiment and modification so it's all good.