#auditory hallucinations

[schizopositivity]

Hallucinating is normal, many people experience it. You have most likely at least passed someone in the street who was hallucinating once. Or you've worked alongside a coworker who was actively hallucinating and you didn't even notice. Or your loved one hallucinated while you were in the room, but they were afraid to tell you.

Hallucinating is common, it's just not commonly talked about in everyday situations. If you don't experience it, or don't know someone who does and tells you about it, you've probably only heard it in the news or on TV. And they only really represent the worst possible outcome for shock value. But that isn't representative of how most of us who hallucinate experience it.

Most of us are just like everybody else, living our lives, just with the addition of hallucinations. We may need to take pills every day, or need therapy, or need to stay in mental hospitals sometimes, or need to be checked on by loved ones, but so do a lot of other people who don't hallucinate.

Hallucinations are just a symptom. Just like anxiety, or trouble concentrating, or tiredness. A lot of people experience it and have to learn to cope overtime. The only difference is we don't generally talk about it to people in casual settings. And it's because of the stigma. If you don't hallucinate, or know someone who does, you probably don't see hallucinations as a normal part of life, a symptom, just a thing plenty of people experience. But it is, it's not special, it isn't more dangerous, it doesn't have to be a huge deal.

Obviously hallucinations can be life changing and horrific, but so can other mental health symptoms. Hallucinations can also be neutral, or just annoying or even a positive experience. It's just a symptom, it doesn't automatically mean someone is in the worst mental state possible if they are hallucinating. It doesn't automatically mean someone is dangerous or unpredictable. It just means a person is experiencing senses that the people around them are not.

You have to learn to accept that it's just a symptom, and that people around you experience it, and they deserve to complain or talk about it just like anyone else gets to with other things in their lives. All you have to do is listen, and try to be understanding. Hallucinating is normal, you just need to stop treating it like it's abnormal.

[ayyliencat]

Hey there, just needed to say something quick. ALL of this misrepresentation about schizophrenia everywhere is ableism. People that say “schizophrenia is spiritual”, “schizophrenia is satanic”, “schizophrenia is demonic”, “schizophrenia means that you have demonic entities attached to you”, “schizophrenia means that you are in spiritual warfare with demons”, “schizophrenia just means that you are going through a spiritual awakening” is just so frustrating for people who ACTUALLY have this mental Illness or suffer from psychosis. It all comes from people who don’t even HAVE this illness or experience these things. It is dangerous to tell people who have or don’t have schizophrenia/ schizoaffective disorder, people who are on the schizo spectrum or people who experience psychosis that what they are experiencing is real and is caused from external forces or that they are just in a “spiritual awakening”. Stop spreading your misinformation on this mental illness and do some research, your ableism is showing. This goes to all of you new age spiritualists that say “people with schizophrenia just experience the world differently than us” No, we are suffering from psychosis/hallucinations or delusions. It is a mental illness, not what your idea of what schizophrenia may seem like to you. I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, I’m not haunted or “woke” I’m mentally disabled, It is a mental illness PERIOD.

[whumpster-dumpster]

This just in, baby's first sleep-deprivation-induced auditory hallucinations (it's me, I'm baby) and it was surprisingly chill. A ticking clock in a room where I don't have a clock, dripping sounds and muffled singing as if it was through the wall

[psychotic-system-culture-is]

Psychotic System Culture is...

Not reacting to a noise around others because you assume it's an auditory hallucination and don't want to seem weird, only for it to be an actual external sound and being weird for not reacting to it

[painsandconfusion]

Whumpee gets auditory hallucinations a lot since they've been rescued, so they've learned to just cover their ears and ignore Whumper's voice or Caretaker's screams, knowing that they're safe at home and no one is going to get hurt.

So. One day, when Caretaker actually screams, pleading for help and for Whumpee to call the police, they don't think anything of it.

[autisticdreamdrop]

this user experiences hallucinations

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[TEXT ID: this system struggles to decipher what is and is not an auditory hallucination]

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[nonaltercdd]

Let's talk about auditory hallucinations, shall we?

Auditory hallucinations are a very normal symptom that's documented in many CDD cases, and no, they're not the same as the alter voices some systems report

Auditory hallucinations normally reports in flashbacks as a part of experimenting it, but also it's reported in non flashbacks episodes, especially when the pwCDD is in some serious stress or the hearing of things thanks to the paranoia and abuse the pwCDD has expirience

In this cases the hallucinations are more because of trauma, hypervigilance and alert, are reactions, are symptoms of the abuse the child happened to develop this

Sometimes it even comes with dissociative symptoms overlapped, in some cases of DPDR people have reported to hear a voice reinforcing the lack of reality and self connection they have with the now present and body, or sometimes they hear certain sounds that aren't there

Also it's necessary to clarify that auditory hallucinations aren't only voices or words/phrases, some auditory hallucinations can be sounds of objects, music or anything that you can hear, this is what makes it more terrifying because it can make your fear and stress go up

Alters talking isn't an inherently auditory hallucination (It can be,m but it depends in a lot of factors), please don't say that just because you hear them you're hallucinating

And I think is kind of funny that this two phenomena can mix up and be confused with the other, but is important to separate them and acknowledge their individuality, they're not the same and recognizing the hallucinations can help you sometimes (Not all the time though)

Now that you know about this, have you ever experienced auditory hallucinations too?

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

Dear Eclipse, if you don’t mind me asking, but…wh-who were you talking to at the entrance of your brothers door when you first entered?…😰😰😰

“No one~

The voices inside are now outside~

They all left the moment I was free. Good riddance. I can hear my own thoughts for once.”

[b4bybunnie3]

I need to bathe but the voices keep telling me not to please help me motivate me or encourage me i think it'd help to have support

[elliott-the-creature]

bro having AIWS is so weird, and I think being a system makes these episodes a lot more visceral

last night I was talking to The Voices™️ (aka my headmates) about what their favourite trinket was and how I should create my headspace, and as I would talk to each of them I felt my body shifting in size (when I talked to princess my body would feel like it’s shrinking, when I talked to ruby my body would grow) and it got so much worse when I talked to Something.

it legit felt like I was growing and shrinking and the body parts were growing and shrinking and extending and it was so weird—it was like someone was playing with the customization options of my body (like when you get to customize your character at the beginning of a video game and you can choose your size and how big you want certain body parts to be).

this continued for probably 20 minutes even after I stopped talking to Something (give or take, my time perception goes out of wack when I get these episodes), and it was honestly really weird. when I get these episodes it’s normally one body part or my whole body (usually it’s my hands that increase in size, or me feeling like I’m way taller/bulkier than I actually am), but this time nothing was safe from my hallucinations. I also heard random super quiet whispers, which was definitely unpleasant

also I don’t see nearly enough representation for people with AIWS… I wish I had more folks to connect to over this weird condition

ALSO ALSO! We’ve finally decided on our system name!! From now on, us as a collective will be know as The Trinket Collective! We’ll probably make a post talking more about it in the near future -📺📚

[schizopositivity]

I'd love it if more people understood the difference between hallucinations and illusions. So let me try to explain with examples. [TW: examples of auditory hallucinations and illusions described as you experiencing them]

1. Imagine you are home alone with your windows closed and it's silent. And then you hear unfamiliar voices talking about you, it sounds like they are coming from another room. You go to check but no one is there. Your brain created entire voices of people out of thin air. This is a hallucination. There is nothing but your brain creates something.

2. Now imagine you are in the same scenario but your windows are open but the curtains are closed. You hear your neighbors having a conversation, and you hear it as them talking about what you are doing in that moment. They couldn't possibly see what you are doing, so realistically they can't be talking about you, but your brain makes you change the words and hear it that way. This is an illusion. There is something but your brain changes the real thing into something unreal.

It's not always easy to know the difference when you are experiencing it. But if you do know which one it is (nothing there and something unreal appears or something there changes to something unreal) then I think it can be really helpful to label the symptom accurately.

For me it was helpful to gage the effectiveness of my medication. I noticed that I have more illusions than hallucinations, and for me that was a sign of improvement. It can also go the other way, to see if your psychosis is getting more severe.

[ayyliencat]

Hey there 😊 just wanted to say a thing quick.. 💖

If someone has schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder or on the schizo spectrum, please do not say that they are gifted, that they’re clairaudient, telepathic or anything of that sort. I know you’re just trying to make sense of it all but please 💖✨don’t✨💖

It feeds into their hallucinations/delusions that they are experiencing and that is DANGEROUS to someone who is hallucinating *them already thinking that the voices are REAL, that they actually can read minds or that they are thought broadcasting and everyone can read their minds all while actually believing it to be real* and can lead to them thinking they have a gift and can lead to them putting themselves in danger by thinking that what they are being told while hallucinating is REAL because they “have a gift” or are “gifted”. I’ve been told this before early on when I was first diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder about 5 years ago I had to find out on my own with my diagnosis that not knowing what’s real and what is real is just apart of having this mental illness. We are not being haunted by demons or ghost’s, it is a mental illness just like anxiety or depression, and unfortunately we suffer from hallucinations, catatonia, depression, and labile affect(Inappropriate involuntary laughing and crying) amongst a lot more symptom’s, just like you take meds for anxiety and depression we also have to take medications, it is a mental illness and should be treated as such, with knowledge and treatment can help someone get clarity about their recovery and can help reduce their symptoms. Thank you for reading 💖✨😊

[masquerade-flags]

Auditory Hallucinations flag?

Auditory Hallucinations flag with and without this hallucinations symbol

Color meanings:

The dark blue on the top of the flag is for auditory hallucinations that are not the result of a psychotic disorder, and the dark purple at the bottom is for auditory hallucinations are the result of psychotic disorders.

The lighter green is for internal auditory hallucinations, and the darker green external auditory hallucinations.

The dark red is for auditory hallucinations in the form of words and voices, and the lighter red/pink is for auditory hallucinations in other forms such as music, knocking or many other things.

The light gray for is confusion, and the near black is for attenuated auditory hallucinations.

[psychotic-system-culture-is]

Psychotic System Culture is...

"<current fronter>, stop swatting at nothing! It's not real, and your mother keeps staring at us like we're crazy!"

[queer-quantum]

GUYS HELP WEVE PLAYED SO MUCH CRK IN THE LAST THREE DAYS THAT NOW WHENEVER WERE NOT PLAYING WE HEAR THE MUSIC 😭