Hearing Voices

[paranoid_cataclysm]

I thought of a question that interested me... how many of you who hear voices hear them from inside your mind, from outside of your mind or both?

[Xila31]

I have to say that you are a really strong person to have to live with seeing all those scary things.

I've heard of it before, the whole bugs in the skin, thing. :( I hope you're feeling better since then.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

I guess I should have given a detailed answer... I picked both because I've heard voices with their own thoughts, mind, and intentions in my thoughts before that I couldn't make go away and I've also heard them externally.

I had other hallucinations as well, which have been auditory, visual, olfactory, whatever the word for taste is, and probably tactile but I can't be for sure on the last one, but my visual and auditory ones are usually in the realm of fantasy, undead and monsters or ones which border on being realistic such as seeing and hearing someone walking with a cane that disappeared when they put it down behind a counter and then they walked away fine or cockroaches that aren't there, that I've noticed so far.  I even experienced one eating through my leg of all things.  That was recent and I still feel a sense of repulsion toward my leg off and on like I want to dig the damn cockroach out that didn't even leave a wound.  Like I can almost feel it crawling in there.  My taste and smell ones involved food just tasting bizarre or very very seldom a smell that isn't there.  The touch ones, I am pretty sure a lot of the unexplained pain I feel such as it feeling like bugs are biting/stinging me randomly is not really there but I honestly can't tell.  I think my tinnitus may be a hallucination because the volume of it was a lot lower when I was on the highest daily dose of Geodon.

I couldn't really write down all the specific examples of my hallucinations anyway because it would take up way too much scrolling space.

[Xila31]

Well, I know it isn't voices, but that phone I heard was deffinately outside my mind. Even though it was not a real phone and no one could hear it. I've never heard a voice, though, but I do hear voices inside my mind.

I think I've seen things that weren't there, though.
2 cars, each one with 6 wheels instead of 4, driving past me and "searching" for me.
(1 car was a police car and the other was a blue sports car with the double stripes.) Now, maybe the cars were really there and it was only the wheels I saw, I can't say.

1 playground, glittering in the moonlight. Slides, swings, monkey bars, bridges, the whole 9 yards. It was there for about 15 seconds, and then vanished when I turned my head and looked back. I was with a group of about 10 people and no one else saw it.

All 3 of these experiences, (phone, 6 wheel cars, and playground,) all happened during the same period in my life when I thought the evil people were out to get me. :(

So.... that's the detailed answer.