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I think you are having a hard time really believing that people "hear" the hallucinations. When they started for me it wasn't voices, but telephone's ringing.
by ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
I think you are having a hard time really believing that people "hear" the hallucinations.
When they started for me it wasn't voices, but telephone's ringing. I never thought, "is that telephone really ringing or am I just thinking of a telephone ringing?" I never considered the sound was generated internally.
I just went and answered the phone. It was months of what I thought were random hangups before I realized that I was the only one who could hear these calls.
- elboru 9y agoThat's really interesting, did you used to hear it in 3D? Were the sounds coming from a certain position and then increasing volume as you approached that position? or was it just plain?
- ghostbrainalpha 9y agoThat's a great question. It mostly happened when I was a good distance from the phone. So I would be running to pick it up before the caller hung up or it went to the answering machine. (Early 90's). I do think the ringing would get louder as I got closer to the phone, but it never actually went off that I remember in my hand or even when I was within 5 feet of it. Really close, the sound would have been much different. Also the phone should have actually vibrated in my hand which never happened. I always thought that meant I had 'just missed' the person who was calling. But it may have just been the limit of what the hallucination was able to produce.
- mitchty 9y agoWould a reasonable analogy be to phantom phone vibrations? I know a lot of people have those and if it’s similar it might be a good analogy to hearing things. Aka just like feeling your phone vibrate but it didn’t.