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Saw a fellow somewhat recently with a bunch of patches on his jacket. "Which one is your favorite?" "The voices may not be real, but they do have some good ide

Saw a fellow somewhat recently with a bunch of patches on his jacket. "Which one is your favorite?" "The voices may not be real, but they do have some good ideas" - https://imgur.com/8KjfH56 https://imgur.com/8KjfH56 I've "heard voices" two, maybe three times, spread out over maybe 7 years. Both times they were very helpful. The second time was while walking through my apartment. A very distinct voice said, "You're doing well, now go back to [website] and read about [subject]". I did as I was told and was amazed - I'd been studying the reports on [website] for years, and just hadn't noticed that [subject] was extensively covered, and was of much importance for getting the author's various ideas to fit together. One of my passengers has had a complex relationship with her voices. Her psychiatrists tried to snuff them out, but I don't think their efforts were very helpful.

__s 9y ago
Philip K Dick experienced a voice which told him to clean himself up & get his finances in order. Also to have his kid see a doctor, "When this presence warned him his infant son had a fatal birth defect that required immediate surgery, Dick took the child to the emergency room. It turned out that the voice was right."[1] [1] http://www.signature-reads.com/2014/12/poetry-prophecy-and-madness-philip-k-dick-and-the-teeth-of-wisdom http://www.signature-reads.com/2014/12/poetry-prophecy-and-m... [2] http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/philip-k-dick-takes-you-inside-his-life-changing-mystical-experience.html http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/philip-k-dick-takes-you-i...
- wl 9y ago
  There's also a rather fascinating case where a woman had voices telling her she had a brain tumor and the voices were correct. http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7123/1685 http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7123/1685 PDF available from the NIH, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2128009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2128009/ , starts on pdf page 17/document page 1685.
mathewsanders 9y ago
I’ll see if I can find the source, but I remember reading an article that talked about how in some eastern cultures (Japan) hearing voices wasn’t considered a negative/psychotic problem and instead was considered a neutral-positive experience. The same article also mentioned that people in that country diagnosed with schizophrenia typically heard voices saying positive things, compared to western cultures where voices would say/suggest negative things Edit: was Ghana and India not Japan, and study was very small sample size. Still a pretty interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/when-hearing-voices-is-a-good-thing/374863/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/when-hear...
- taxicabjesus 9y ago
  Thanks for the link. I think there's probably a much better explanation for 'voices' than that they're "hallucinations".

__s 9y ago

Philip K Dick experienced a voice which told him to clean himself up & get his finances in order. Also to have his kid see a doctor, "When this presence warned him his infant son had a fatal birth defect that required immediate surgery, Dick took the child to the emergency room. It turned out that the voice was right."[1] [1] http://www.signature-reads.com/2014/12/poetry-prophecy-and-madness-philip-k-dick-and-the-teeth-of-wisdom http://www.signature-reads.com/2014/12/poetry-prophecy-and-m... [2] http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/philip-k-dick-takes-you-inside-his-life-changing-mystical-experience.html http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/philip-k-dick-takes-you-i...

wl 9y ago
There's also a rather fascinating case where a woman had voices telling her she had a brain tumor and the voices were correct. http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7123/1685 http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7123/1685 PDF available from the NIH, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2128009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2128009/ , starts on pdf page 17/document page 1685.

mathewsanders 9y ago

I’ll see if I can find the source, but I remember reading an article that talked about how in some eastern cultures (Japan) hearing voices wasn’t considered a negative/psychotic problem and instead was considered a neutral-positive experience. The same article also mentioned that people in that country diagnosed with schizophrenia typically heard voices saying positive things, compared to western cultures where voices would say/suggest negative things Edit: was Ghana and India not Japan, and study was very small sample size. Still a pretty interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/when-hearing-voices-is-a-good-thing/374863/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/when-hear...

taxicabjesus 9y ago
Thanks for the link. I think there's probably a much better explanation for 'voices' than that they're "hallucinations".