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It's called hearing voices not hallucinating them!

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I was once viewing the Hearing Voices Network website during the COVID lockdowns and was reading through the many comments posted upon their now defuncted forum some years ago, and it slowly dawned upon me that there could be a common miss conception within the definition and the phrase of hearing voices as we assume that we are hallucinating them upon a continual basis and that we are not actually listening to them, as I thought that what if the concept and based ideology of schizophrenia where ideologically wrong, as how would we perceive sounds, or understand the semantics of spoken language if we did not firstly recognize that we are listening to words through our auditory vestibular system, or our actual hearing system as the related sounds or what could be perceived as an auditory stimulus generally passes through to the nerve ending of your vestibulocochlear to the inner ear to the brain, and then to be processed as sounds that your recognize within your conscience awareness as hearing, as to my best understanding a normal drug induced hallucination does not work in the same way as this continual experience of hearing the same personalities or voices, even the material and context is uncannily the rhetorical shit that's then repeated over the course of a couple of decades, as the drug wears off and so would any brief hallucinations, as this experience does not correlate with any thing remotely like that, even a dream is brief in nature and not at all strategic as it's random and fleeting, you would not be able to actively and consciously study it from the actual experiencer in real time, as what if our brains were not primely responsible for perceiving or producing this type of hallucination and that we are actually hearing a type of subliminal subsonic sound, as many voice hearing simply place headphones on in order to block them out and get some minor relief, as this would be by default covering over the vestibular system and playing another direct stimulus upon our hearing system, and this is why this tends to work well, as you also would be over ridding one direct source of decibels with a higher volume of decibels, so one is louder than the other in a sense, as you can play music over the internal voices, and lessen your awareness of them due to the increase in sound, as it's journeying through your hearing system and not your brain or forehead, as evidenced by this common tactic.

Could I ask if any of you would like to comment about this or what are your thoughts.
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Yeah, I get what you’re saying. Makes sense if the same hearing pathways are involved, even without an outside source. I’ve heard from a few people that music or headphones work because you’re basically drowning it out with something louder.

And you’re right — the long-term, same “voices” over years isn’t really the same thing as a short drug trip or random dream. Feels like it should be looked at differently.
 
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