> There are people today who hear voices, but they are a minority and we label them as mentally ill. I've always wondered how much of that comes down to defini

> There are people today who hear voices, but they are a minority and we label them as mentally ill. I've always wondered how much of that comes down to definition and perception? I can "hear" my own thoughts, so I pretty much have "voices" in my head. That I recognize them as my own, probably isn't a given. Because when I try to talk about this with friends&family, most of them don't even seem to understand what I'm talking about with "hearing yourself think" like they have no active thoughts of their own?! As such I don't think it's something that has established itself on a large scale across the whole population, I think there are still very big differences between how individual humans think and perceive their own thinking, which by now we might label as being "somewhere on the spectrum".