right now, I'm hearing 'Okay, enough Hacker News, you've got a meeting to get to in 30 mins and you are already late.' Can you actually hear it? Is it an actua

right now, I'm hearing 'Okay, enough Hacker News, you've got a meeting to get to in 30 mins and you are already late.' Can you actually hear it? Is it an actual voice, and the only way you know it isn't someone standing next to you is because there isn't someone standing next to you, and you can't seem to get any bearing on the direction it's coming from? It's like that. It's not an internal monologue, it's not just thinking, it's a voice. It's the same perception as hearing. It feels exactly the same as when someone next to you says something (without the spatial aspect); it just didn't originate as a pressure wave hitting the ear.