Hearing voices & Auditory Hallucinations

Hearing voices & Auditory Hallucinations
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00:00 - Introduction

[@raymondmurdock8603]

One time when I was in the ER there was a guy there because he was hearing voices and it was sad seeing him sitting there uncomfortable obviously distressed he kept asking for help but still had to wait so he was just sitting there uncomfortable muttering but trying his best to hold it together and then he suddenly jumps as if he had been slapped stands up and looks at the empty chair next to him and says in a very calm but stern voice "you're not real so don't fucking touch me" then sat back down looking really embarrassed and like he was about to cry it was sad but profound made me really have empathy for what people must go through can I commend his efforts to keep it together while experiencing symptoms and also dealing with a rude receptionist that was pretty cruel to him when he obviously needed help

[@spshc]

When I was a young kid, I would sometimes experience a slowing of time where I would experience everybody around me going fast and I would be going very slow. I also would experience me shrinking to the point of all of my surroundings would be huge and I would be very small. During these times I would wonder why no one around me saw what was going on. Back then I had the ability to do this on demand. The older I got these things went away which I was kind of sad about because when these things were happening it felt very euphoric. The only time I experienced visual hallucinations was when I was sick and running a high fever, I saw dog heads coming out from the wall which I guess was a fever induced experience.

[@kandymich4861]

I’ve had those too. It’s really weird when it happens.

[@moniqueluther5814]

I've experienced all the above too, both as an Adult and a Child...🌸

[@TheCof6656]

accurately those probably (question?) aren't hallucinations but illusions, like you seeing a pattern on the wall (from a wallpaper, a tile, a shadow, whatever), and then the illusion would form?

[@Cassxowary]

I mean, time isn’t real so… and look up picnic at hanging rock (boom, movie, series), the author had similar life experiences regarding the flow of what humans call time

[@catobelle]

It's called Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (or Todd's Syndrome). I have had these - scared the hell out of me as a child. Took till my late 20s to get a diagnosis and most doctors still have never heard of it but it appears to be more common than you realise!

[@Liv_Says]

I started hearing people talking badly about me because I stayed in my room for years, dropped out of school, and had severe anxiety. I thought random noises I could barely hear were people talking about me, and it eventually lead to me being able to hear them clearly. As well as other random hallucinations, isolation and extreme anxiety did a number on my mental health.

[@user-cg1zg4ez1h]

I've been hearing things since I was 18yrs old. There's technology behind it called Voice-To-Skull (V2K). There are many others like me who experience this kind of "auditory hallucination" called 'Targeted Individuals'. They label us as schizophrenic and push us off as insane. But the voices we hear are input, induced and not coming from any thin air! They have employees and agents that are involved. Our thoughts are either being broadcast live or being translated by A.I. then transferred to others. I believe that in a lot of cases, this may be what's happening to others who say they hear voices. It's silent weaponry and basically, we're guinea pigs or just plain victims of crimes we can't report.

[@danielschroder6678]

I sometimes (okay, very rarely) hear REALLY loud bangs (like explosions) except there is no echo and no after ringing and it consistently only happens when I'm tired and almost asleep. Fun and harmless lil' hallucinations. :)

[@user-dc1xk9lt7m]

Yes I get that too. Once I swear I felt getting a really strong slap on the top of my head also, which is hilarious 😂

[@danielschroder6678]

@@user-dc1xk9lt7m Omg, that's weird. ^^ I often have very minor sensations of touch/vibration e.g., but with those I can't tell if it's just random nerve misfiring or actual hallucinations. ^^ Bodies are weird.

[@dionysusapollo]

I get that, I think its called exploding head syndrome. I often get woken by loud noises that aren't real.

[@Dull_Asce]

Literally everyday when I go to sleep, I’ll hear indistinct whispers, talking through the wall, game music, and just distorting the actual sound of my fan.

[@kerfondo9226]

I appreciate your insight as it helps me understand the symptoms of my wife's schizophrenia. Please continue to share your work. Thanks for sharing

[@ThePagan-pq1sk]

I started hallucinating big time around 2 months ago. It was hella fun but I stopped because there were people trapped with me suffering from by brain powers that i could not get rid of. I was able to hallucinate about any sound like my brain was a lyre bird, by using echoic memory. The best was when there was a thunderstorm. It was like I was controlling it. I felt the walls shaking. My record was 20 minutes of continuous thunder rumbling. I had fun also finding new voices to speak with. It became less fun when I had empathy for the voices because the sound of wind and traffic transformed into a constant screaming. I'm sad I have to let go of these power. (Which lies in frequencies having major effetcs on the brain when you can perpetuate them in a feedback loop) The cure for me is simple, no more weed

[@Jax_c1969]

I always thought the voice in my head that said horrible things about me and criticized me was not a hallucination because I knew it was not real. It sounded like my mom's voice but I knew it wasn't and it wasn't actual things she'd said just what she implied. I've wondered if I had complex PTSD. This is just another indicator that I do. I did get rid of it tho. I started yelling back at it telling it to "shut the f*ck up". That along with therapy eventually worked. I still have criticizing thoughts about myself sometimes, but it's not her voice and they don't impact me like they use too.

[@sebastianliwinski222]

You don't have schizophrenia!.

[@AishaMCoupons]

I have bipolar 2 and used to hear music quite often. Either instrumental music or music with voices that couldn't be understood. All very soothing and beautiful, though. My psych put me on abilify and upped it and now I don't hear the music anymore.

[@Thechangelingpnw]

I’ve heard the music before, it was a long time ago, I was a teenager. My dad did say he’d heard music before and he assumed his dental fillings were picking up a radio station…mine was definitely not a radio station lol (his probably wasn’t either). This was also not at the same time.

[@EEE-kh3tn]

Great Video! Keep up the great work, you will go far! Dr Syl, Have you ever asked someone with schizophrenia what specifically the voices are saying at that moment, have they ever described what they are hearing/seeing?

[@sihe5697]

that's really good content and it helps me understand hallucinations. I am clinical social worker and sometimes will encounter youth patients with auditory hallucinations. It is critical to differentiate between symptoms with insights or not, as well as it is induced by post trauma or part of psychosis. Thank you Dr Syl!

[@sihe5697]

And I love the data present-- 60% of patients respond to anti-psychotic medication. It is good psychoeducation I could deliver to the patients :)

[@Melon-pn5yt]

I find your videos very interesting, and can personally relate to many things mentioned here. Voices didn't go away, I still hear um but being medicated I'm less likely to act upon them. What helps me is writing down the chatter until it subsides. Sometimes hearing things inside as well as outside make the line blurry and reality gets distorted. Psychosis is like a living nightmare... running from something that just follows me everywhere, and everyone becomes an enemy. When unwell I felt like I had no integrity, no boundaries, nothing to hold me together. Like I didn't know where I begin and where I end, I could become anything or nothing. It is a lonely illness when it's hard to trust people, and easier to avoid. Only that life becomes meaningless and that's when sometimes people start feeling suicidal. Not wanting to accept facts or face cold hard reality. I saw it as an easy way out but got helped and am here still. It's a battle but we learned, got insight and educating myself also helps in separating myself from the illness. Best of luck with your next videos, keep them coming, you are a great speaker.

[@Nexus.system]

Elliot, Hi, I’m a system member for the Nexus system, a Dissociative identity disorder system, who has taken on more than an academic interest in our own field of psychology. Smiley, this was most helpful for evaluating clients today. Would you feel comfortable doing a video on ways health professionals can spot the difference between auditory hallucinations and OSDD/DID and recognizing alters/system members? We are finding it difficult to word the differences we are spotting with clients who may be having auditory hallucinations verses those with dissociative disorders. For reference we are doing some volunteeer work at various crises hotlines, where you are forced to make rapid decisionss based on limited timing to gather patient history/s on top of stigma with regards to dissociative disorders.

[@xenabobeena]

I love these videos! I am in grad school to become a marriage and family therapist, so these are super helpful and interesting :)

[@brettnott8669]

I hear "auditory thoughts' all day long. Sometimes it gets disturbing. When I am having an episode, they are not auditory thoughts, they are evil evil things. They say I do terrible things, which is not true. Thanks for your videos Dr Syl :)

[@naba.fatima]

Love this series

[@paulk8072]

Interesting and informative content once again, thanks Dr. Syl.

[@Brodiesmh]

A few months ago I heard a voice yelling at me it sounded like it came from the front door but it was in my head can’t explain it but it was at 2 places at once

[@kevinwarming7706]

Love these car talks! Always learn something :)

[@dianahenderson5053]

Thank you for your detailed insight into auditory hallucinations. I know the auditory hallucinations i experience are different than most people and I really would like to understand them better. You have given me better understanding. Nearly all of the auditory hallucinations I have are of familiar voices of people I know or familiar voices from tv or radio. After your explanation of different auditory hallucinations I would say they probably would have been classified as pseudo hallucinations. Except for the voices I heard during my first episode of mania several years ago. I believe that was psychosis. At the time I thought what I was hearing was real beacuse it sounded like real people I know amd at the time it was comforting because it was during my first episode of mania.

[@rockbottom3984]

My voices would tell me that the cops were outside, and that I'm going to jail. I'm strong enough to know better. Some people can be week to this... I originally thought my voices were my neighbors and that we could telepathically communicate with each other. They were telling me to come over to introduce myself, but I was like, no, come to me. I was in an apartment and I told them to bang on the ceiling and I heard the bang in my head, but not from my floor. I then asked if they were demons and they got offended. That's what made me realize that they are really demons!!! God bless to those that suffer this!

[@sharonthompson672]

Thanks Dr Syl, very interesting. 🙂🖐️

[@dwilliams197381]

My wife is hearing voices, she says that it is one of her nabers and my self talk to her, when I ask what is being said she becomes very angry and upset saying that I know what I was saying, she says that she can hear my voice in her head constantly, she is not willing to get help and believe that hearing voices is a normal part of life, it is destroying our marriage and I'm at a loss on what to do I truly love her but I'm not sure how much more I can handle, it's heart breaking seeing someone you love go through this and not be able to convince them they need help.

[@123March22]

Sam Vaknin...❤🎉😢 . kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGmqdZKliterb5Isi=enA9V6xf5vPRVFTU ... The last sentence in this video is very very interesting... ... I am just a simple human of 60+ years. ... I am not qualified to counsel and have no qualifications to give you any advice. . But if I am allowed to say something I would say this: it is hard for you to go through this experiences. ... Can you "split" from yourself, can you separate from your spouse role as spouse? ... Can you become her super friend from inception until now? ... It will be very challenging, but I think worth trying... ... I cannot elaborate on why she feel like she feels and thinks how she thinks... ... But I would say: these are all symptoms of severe TRAUM-A!!! ... How do you write dream in the German language?

[@123March22]

Daniel Mackler...initial PSYCHOSIS and beyond

[@raymondmurdock8603]

used to hear dogs barking every time I would try and fall asleep despite there not being any dogs in the area and I was trying to decide if there was a dog I didn't know about or if it was a hallucination because I never heard it any other time than when I was trying to fall asleep and the second I would just start to drift off it would start instantly last for a few seconds and then stop but just the idea that I was gonna record it to prove one way or the other was enough to snap something in my brain and I haven't heard it since which is such a relief because being startled awake by loud barking just as you drift off to sleep was really frustrating never actually bothered to record it because it just stopped

[@Mountain_Spirit]

I sometimes hear a beautiful angel music before I fall asleep.

[@sallycwhatzgood]

I love the in the car video. Keep doing it. It's great 👍

[@24-hours-in]

Not an auditory hallucination but I used to see smoke a lot when I was really struggling with insomnia. It would be dancing in the corners of my eyes pretty consistently and was a sign to me to get to sleep. When I'm really not in a good place, the thoughts get really loud and messy in my head. It's been enough to force me to lock myself in a room alone because it's overwhelming.

[@meganwaters7772]

Nooooo! Body parts are needed. Thanks for the video. I appreciate your outlook as a DIT Dr Syl! It is really good to hear it from the side of the psychiatrist. I can see similarities between my symptoms and the negative symptoms of schizophrenia - but didn't have the disconnect with reality to that extent where it was distressing or continuous, or hear voices commanding me to do things/ see things. One time, when I was attending a spiritual group when I was younger, I was riding a bus and heard a random clap around my head. There was a big wake up to 'oneness' movement at this group, so I put it down to spiritual weirdness, but it could have been ego boundaries. I knew it wasn't real. I have experienced sleep paralysis but this is a different experience to waking hallucinations.

[@activenature]

haha you made me laugh! gedankenlautwerden, yes! good pronounciation. german here with my final psychotherapy exam tomorrow. i didn't know it was a thing in english. awesome channel and information, thank you!

[@raymondmurdock8603]

Interesting that you mentioned it cause one time when I was really really sick with food poisoning and very sleep deprived every time I would hear running water it would sound like a cell phone ringtone and I would have to honestly check to make sure my phone wasn't ringing

[@kandymich4861]

This is information that everyone should know. Definitely if they get asked if they’ve had or are experiencing them. As all the info everyone gets is what’s on tv and movies. Which isn’t the best.

[@clarencejimmy4230]

I am hearing voices through the ceiling and walls. It sounds like the neighbors talking about me negatively, and telling me to get out we don't want you here, you stink and it's gross. Even kids swearing saying get the fuck outta here. I ask my roommate if he can hear this he says, no. It began as I stayed indoors for about two months, no outside activities at all. I'd open the door and windows for fresh air but I didn't leave the apartment. It was faint at first like whispers, but now it's full on yelling and screaming. I don't know if this is real or not. The building I am in is for 19year Olds who have aged out of fostercare system. So I believe there's alot of trauma there. They could be trying to break me and get my apartment. It's the biggest and has a private entrance. But, at the sametime I ask my it's neighbors that I get along with if they hear any of this they say no. So I feel like I'm going crazy. The neighbors that do this will not talk to me in the laundry room or mailroom. So I can't confront them because they just walk by even when I say hi or hello, it's like I'm invisible. But when they get back to their apartments it's started again with get the fuck outta here. It's really depressing, and quite bothersome. Am I crazy or is this happen. I can't make sense of it at all. Tell me what you think. Do I sound paranoid or just a wackjob?

[@MelissaC-by5tn]

I get physical hallucinations when the auditory ones are really bad. It feels like it’s a migraine and the voices say they’re punching me in the head

[@monte68x]

I like how you touched on the difference between psychotic hallucinations and non-psychotic hallucinations.

[@ChaiLatte13]

Very thankful I've never had anything like this. It sounds so frightening.

[@zeitmeister]

I love getting educated about the different kinds of auditory hallucination, because it's reassuring to be able to differentiate between what's pathological and what's odd but benign. For instance I often have hypnopompic auditory pareidolia based off traffic noises and my partner's CPAP machine, but since I have full insight I don't worry about it. I guess it's a sort of benign functional hallucination? I've only had one really scary experience where I lost insight, and that was from intoxication. If someone ever seems to be having command hallucinations I'll know to take it very seriously- it sounds terrifying. I've heard of people enucleating an eye or removing genitalia because of that.

[@MelissaLong-sq4sv]

This was so interesting! I haven't experienced anything like THIS but I have migraines and it's like those break my brain 😂 so I'll lose peripheral vision, see flashing lights flurry in my eyes, and I will not be able to speak clearly. Either I'll speak sllllloooowwwww or my sentences never form correctly and it's all backwards and jumbled. I've never gotten the actual headache, though. It's weird. My daughter, however, has had one of these kind of. She's 5 and got a really high fever. She kept saying there were spiders coming out of the cracks of the ceiling. 1 there were no cracks and 2 there were no spiders. She also screamed at me while we were driving "DONT HIT THAT MAN MAMA!" and scared me so bad. There was no man there 😭

[@Funkelbun]

I used to only hear voices. But two weeks ago I had a period of not sleeping well for a long time and I also started on bupropion the same day, I got psychotic in public seeing a shadow man figure two times popping up at my left eyesight….. I got so scared I froze and I could not really turn my head but when I did there was no one there…..

[@Funkelbun]

It was scarier then it sounds

[@theoriginalskinsey]

That sounds terrifying!

[@lindacarter3898]

Very helpful

[@hayleyprice8345]

Thanks

[@dualityofself]

I have been diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder. One of the diagnostic criteria that I fit with is auditory hallucinations. Though, with StPD, they're known to be much more mild and shorter lived than with something like schizophrenia. Mine come in different forms, but freak me out every time they happen. For me, at least, they don't appear to be the psychotic type, as I'm aware they're not real. I also have C-PTSD, but I'm not sure if that has any influence or not. I think they're mostly due to the StPD. They have been enough for my therapists to be concerned when they do happen, though. It's not fun.

[@shaldnash547]

Living the same thing but i don't know how to explain it , but the voices are so real to me , i think that they are real people playing with my mind can't know exactly what they want but really need to discuss about it

[@cherruthhines7131]

Thank you so very much for your videos particularly... voice auditory hallucinations very educational. I now understand my ex boyfriend symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.😊

[@bonfireballads]

I often hear loud noises that arent happening outside of my head. They usually happen when im anxious or stressed out. Sometimes they occur when i wake up from a nightmare. Often it's specifically the sound of someone scooting a table across a gym floor. Sometimes it sounds like semi-trucks on the freeway with crazy music feeding back. It's very loud, and sometimes i can't hear sounds around me including people talking to me. Sometimes there are inaudible whispers in those sounds. It usually lasts a few minutes or comes in and out during stressful moments. My therapist told me i shouldnt worry too much unless i start hearing voices saying scary things.

[@AzadC]

Really what is it?. I always wondered why i hear my own voice inside my head. Mostly when i think negatively about alot of assholes provoking types of people i meet in my life. My forehead gets wrinkles. Not voices outside my mind that arent my own. As i never did have hallucinations seing things out of this world that arent real like ghosts aliens dead people. Mine is mostly the paranoid type of schizophrenia

[@Omegared_o]

I would well still get picked on for my thoughts and my actions when i was psychotic. Now my head has popped and the stress haas gotten to me. I cant work anymore. Yea still get followed by ppl itll never get to the doctor though

[@cherish5364]

youve said before that visual hallucinations are very uncommon but to what degree do they exist? recently ive noticed things that are definitely there, but they move a little. there was rice on the ground and i thought it was maggots because it was moving. freaked out i picked it up in a tissue and it tried to squish it but it crunched and i had to put a bit of effort to 'crunch' it so then later in the day thinking back on it i thought maybe it wasnt a maggot but maybe rice? still wasnt sure but i chucked it out. my phone lock screen is my old cat and it looked like he blinked. and a while ago i felt and saw a BIG spider on my hand and flicked my hand. no one else at work saw it but i freaked out bc it felt so real. i dont really have auditory halucinations at the moment. i used get a lot of car crashing sounds/drums etc and tinnitus. and only ever outside of my head voices in a hypnagogic (?) state when i was nearly asleep. i dont know if the way i talk to myself/the voices in my head are me or not idk. i get lots of random feelings of heat or sensation. especially my foot will often get a bit hot for no reason. or my ribs/ chest. i also definitely feel like i have a slightly higher amount of synesthesia than other people but most of the time i do have to focus quite hard for it to really happen. (listening to music and i close my eyes and all different shapes and colours happen with the music) but i have a lot of colour/word/number assosciations.

[@kateawake]

In german: "Gedanken laut werden" meaning is: the thoughts are becoming loud.

[@ZosiaDabrowski]

Hi Dr Syl, I'm a provisional psychologist and I've recently been taught by my supervisor about discerning trauma-induced hallucinations from psychosis-based hallucinations, but a few things said in passing in this video seem to contradict what I've been told. I'm trying to get my facts straight as I'm currently working with a teenager whose recently-onset perceptual disturbances are escalating and concerning me, and it's really tricky as it's mixed in with mild ID and very concrete religious beliefs. I was told that for auditory hallucinations, trauma-induced ones are a voice or multiple voices that are recognisable (own or known others), are usually perceptions connected with traumatic memories, and are heard like they are in the environment/outside the head, more often in vulnerable times like under stress or late at night or when fatigued. Whereas psychosis auditory hallucinations are an unrecognised voice, perhaps just one or two, and are distinct characters that are heard from inside the head, at more random times including throughout the day. Regarding visual hallucinations as well, I was told trauma-induced ones tend to be seen in the peripheral vision, be more fleeting, and more like shadows or flickers of things, whereas psychosis-based visuals tend to be seen in the main front-on visual field, be quite novel or distinct in appearance, /or more distinct 'figures'. Can you confirm or correct any of my information? I'm trying to hone my provisional differential diagnosis of CPTSD +/- something else

[@fiikahlo]

You might want to check out colin ross, there is a couple lectures available on youtube about psychotic vs dissociative (which are trauma-based) symptoms. Outside of the US, schizophrenia and psychosis are treated more commonly and successfully with therapy (instead or in addition to antipsychotics), because it's thought that a much larger portion of psychotic/schizophrenic people have trauma-based elements at the root of their symptom, or in addition to biological mechanisms. So it cannot be clear cut by any rule, what is psychotic type and what is trauma type hallucinations. I'm not a doctor, just a person with a dissociative disorder and CPTSD, and occasional visual and auditory hallucinations, that many would have classed as prodromal schizophrenia or psychosis-like. Anti-psychotics might also prevent from working on trauma and working with the voices/hallucinations, so they shouldn't be prescribed just because someone has hallucinations. The hearing voices-network has great info concerning auditory hallucinations and ways to work with them, not against them.

[@jonaskoelker]

> hearing your thoughts out loud "Gedanken laut werden" Gedanken = thoughts laut = loud werden = become i.e. "thoughts becoming loud"

[@kasie680]

Legend 😊

[@HalseyOG]

I’d really like to know what mine mean - I am constantly forced to be listening to a video or music or something to distract myself because if there’s quiet I tend to be able to tune into it. it seems like other peoples conversations. and when I do try to listen I can’t really hear what they’re saying. It’s more common for me if water is running. -Just finished video and you mention hearing the voices in water which is validating in itself.

[@Ona1979]

When I hear music, I feel it on my arms and back. When I run my fingers over fabric, I get a strong impression that I am hearing the vibration like hearing sound on fingers instead of touch. I am bipolar, I have ASD, used to have DID and autism. It feels like it doesn't it doesn't take very much to trigger hallucinations but I know that they aren't real. I have hallucinated from high fevers medication interactions. I have a long history of complex trauma. When that is triggered, I am more likely to have hallucinations. They usually aren't dramatic. A transparent cat out of the corner of my eyes. The corner edge of a poster waving around like a bats wing. A sound like a metal pipe thrown down the hallway. I take note of it and go on with my day as if I hadn't seen it. Feeling music on my body can be really nice though and just vibing feels good.

[@karafitz998]

Thank you for explaining "percitiety" what is the spelling on that? During my first and only psychosis I progressed over time into this where I literally thought that one of the voices in my head was taking over my body and I was out in its place, as a voice only. During this time I did a lot of crazy things to and around family members that to this day has put a damper on our relationships. This is the episode that put me into a hospital. This particular voice I thought came from an army sergeant so the blow out from it was pretty bad. Thankfully I never hurt anyone, because I made a pact to never hurt anyone. I was supposed to be a good dooer. I also experienced command auditory hallucinations which caused me to often act heroic or deviant. Let's just say I got lucky I was never charged with anything as it was dangerous during these times. (I was in psychosis for months at that point too) I've never been able to understand why I thought I was another person, my psychiatrist never went over that with me either. I thought I maybe had multiple personalities or something. So very enlightening, thank you.

[@nocturnal2284]

diagnosed with schizophrenia sometimes the hallucinations be scary at times very negative I tend to isolate my self from people at times and I tend to hear voices but I try to block them out and take my meds for them cause they get really loud up there

[@jeffmitchell5679]

You are the best! Your videos help me to grow my knowledge and understanding. I have a loved one that has finally been SAVED with long lasting monthly Invega 156 mg (and two daily orals: prozac and olanzapine)(diagnosis: schizophrenia with catatonia). Maybe you could address in the future: 1.) how to tritrate off antipsychotics (and if a mood stabilizer would likely always be needed) 2.) is there any research if the GAPS diet has helped patients with schizophrenia and mental illnesses or any experiences with "food as medicine" as a contributor to wellness (we are more microbes than we are ourselves)...kefirs, rejuvelac, fermented foods with beneficial bacteria...?

[@ThatStudioGirl]

When i read i hear my voice reading it. Feels compleatly normal as I never experienced different. I also get audio helucinations when I'm about to sleep. I just think it's the start of my dreams.

[@pardalote]

I can totally relate to that think of hearing auditory hallucinations through the sound of shower water. My husband used to play in a pipe band. We called the hallucinations "the bagpipe effect", because they happened so often after a pipe band event. I would hear pipe band music when in the shower! Fortunately, it was a hallucination. I don’t want a real pipe band following me into the bathroom 😅 I have also heard the phone ringing when in the shower, but that was back in the pre mobile phone days. I get tactile hallucinations fairly often. They are usually insects crawling on my skin or weird vibrations, but its not too distressing.

[@pardalote]

OK, here is something interesting. Since I wrote my comment yesterday, I have experienced 2 auditory hallucinations where I heard my mobile phone ring tone! It looks like it's not just the old-fashioned land-line ring tone! Thanks, subconscious, for chiming in with these concerns examples to ny claims in yesterday's message. 😊 Both times, I heard the sound through something else - once toilet flushing, the other aeroplane noise. Also, I am wondering if these experiences were triggered by my thinking about auditory hallucinations? I don't usually experience them anywhere near this frequency. Alternatively, perhaps it keeps happening, and I don't typically remember as they don't bother me? Any thoughts? Here's a nice piece of KZbin engagement for you in any case, Dr Syl. 😀

[@rohini8084]

I've always wondered how auditory hallucinations present in persons with no internal monologue.

[@juliaz3072]

I can easily imagine that. for me personally, voices are clearly distinct from internal monologue. those internal thoughts are like imagination of my own voice and hallucinations are actually REAL sounds but they occur in that same space where my thoughts are produced. I wouldn't say it's inside my head but like in an additional dimension.

[@MayasDream]

I have twice heard an audible voice saying just my name, “Maya.” Both times were frightening and both happened in the same hallway of the same home. I am a full time professional psychic medium going on my 10th year of this work. I have left these incidents unexplained.

[@alphadog3384]

If it was subconscious mind, coming to the surface. Things were not aware that needs to be addressed. Something similar happened to me.

[@-lloygic-3565]

Anything particularly special about that hallway? Not just in terms of its history in the house, but how about in your use of the hallway?

[@tulpamedia]

Auditory hallucinations are really scary. When I was in manic psychosis I had them constantly.

[@CptSassyWheels]

When I was studying social work I did placement with a mental health service and I always remember one client with schizophrenia who was active in their treatment, were able to live at home with their parents and had insight however, during a home visit, they were talking about how things were going well for them, but there was a ghost in the family home disrupting their sleep. Now, I believe in ghosts so when I heard that I was spooked 😂 but how do you reconcile that in a pt with a history of psychosis? Obviously spirituality plays a major role in disorders like schizophrenia (we had a few messiahs with a direct line to god in the service) but what do you do when it’s something like that where you’re not sure if that person is actually hallucinating or if there is something else happening?

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

That's a really interesting question. I don't personally believe in ghosts, but I know lots of people do when they don't have psychosis. It would seem really unfair to change the course of a person's treatment for reporting a belief that is fairly common in the general population. But it could also be that they're having hallucination, and then attributing the things that they hallucinated to a ghost. For example if they were hearing voices whispering, they might think that the ghost is whispering when actually it's a hallucination.

[@hucklejoseph6974]

I was more thinking, but i could be wrong that you repeat the voice with your thoughts in a delay is because its a similiar sense how you repeat things in your mind when your listening. You hear the vibrations in the air, that they are sending at you. Then you repeat it in your mind. There some reason static noise you hear them better in, it meditates you or something, and the distubed air waves makes it more distinctive, when they blast radio waves or what not.

[@ariahathaway5517]

I have schizoaffective disorder and experience a fluid sense of self that has no location. I don't feel I am in my body or am my body or difference between a you and i. Can you talk or explain more about the 'leaking sense of self' you mentioned with regards to schizoaffective disorder? I haven't heard much about it. Why is it not possible for me to have a solid sense of i? Could it be spiritual too? Thanks Dr Syl

[@HeyLetsTalkAboutIt]

Hey Doc, I love your videos! Especially your driving and ranting videos! I have PTSD and newly diagnosed ADHD, recently discovered that sound of packing tape being pulled off of the roll makes my body HURT. Ugh. Random question, what mic do you use when you film in the car? Thanks!

[@sebastianliwinski222]

I also have PTSD , I'm sensitive to noise , sometimes my body trembles, I've like my whole body jumped while resting on my bed, it lasted for like a second.. weird experience

[@thelegendfatherofgiants984]

schizophrenic , my voices started out by telling me to kill myself, then started feeding into delusions i've experienced a feeling of not being in control of my body as you've said , and another instance where a voice told me they could make me have an aneurysm and then i got intense headaches

[@karafitz998]

Maybe it's the placebo effect on the body, you Believe it Sinbad that the body manifests it

[@spogulitR]

I always thought that having "the narrator" in the head is quite a common thing to have. How can one distinguish between the narrator and actual hallucination? Or is it just all hallucinations?

[@4D2M0T]

You can also have a hallucination of your perceptioion or i prefer the term sense of time. And it sucks btw. The echoing of voices or sounds are kinda fun. I have also experienced the stretching and twisting ans squashing hallucination.

[@horsa1]

Really interesting video, thanks for sharing! I do have a question though, what do you think is the key thing when differentiating DID or OSDD type "commentary" or internal auditory hallucinations and Psychosis related auditory hallucinations? Because they can seem very similar, for example, you can have this internal monologue that comments on what you are doing, or says mean comments about people, slurs, other insults, but what could be the difference? Because you can have internal hallucinations in both DID / OSDD and Schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

[@beverlysettle8235]

My son had something similar, and he was diagnosed with a seizure disorder. Usually when this happened he had been cutting the grass (the hum of the mower and the vibrations) or been playing a game in the computer. This triggered events where he felt everything was moving really fast and he was moving extremely slowly.

[@user-ut3dc2iz1x]

Hey all and Dr Syl Thx for another amazing video 🌟🎄me and my Dr 👩‍⚕️ we have taking about this thing, and I have voiced that’s telling me thing, and say negative things and answer 😮 but what it’s cold when you see you self like image ? Dong things? But you are still like in bed 🛌 any way thx for your wisdom and greatness 🌟 you have good soul 🙌 take care and happy xmus 🎄 // J 🇸🇪

[@joeystenbeck6697]

Hi Dr. Syl! Are video topic ideas welcome? If so, here's one: negative feedback mechanisms in the brain, equilibrium, and math (e.g. neurotransmitter downregulation, inhibitory excitatory balance, different types of plasticity (e.g. STDP), myelination, synaptic tagging, gene expression). I'm also curious what is known about how those may relate to e.g. borderline personality structure (or ASD, e.g. hypersystemizing) and definitely curious if you have any personal theories on that or relating to any of the other topics. And, how different types of plasticity reach equilibrium (e.g. do some synapses in some parts of the brain just have plasticity entirely toggled off sometimes?). I'm studying computer science at uni and have an intense interest in spiking neural nets, which are pretty much watered down versions of the brain. I came across all the items mentioned above in reading rabbitholes but I'm really curious what you learn about in psychiatry training relating to the topics, what your takes/theories are and your overall framework for thinking about it/the brain is, your philosophy on those and how it could influence your work/judgments on tradeoffs and in decisions, and about additional related topics that you think are interesting. I know for a lot of the topics we might only know slightly vague information so it may be a bit intangible for a video, but thought I'd mention it anyway. Great videos btw! Edit: You also mentioned in another video that the more one learns about the brain, the more questions one has. I've definitely had that myself and am curious what you were thinking of when you said that

[@joeystenbeck6697]

Also, curious to hear your thoughts on narcissism. You said something along the lines of "I think I had a little narcissism" when talking about feeling like you were (in a way) above sports when you were younger and I'm curious how similar or different your understanding of e.g NPD or narcissism is to that. In my mind they are the same type of thing but that the only line is relating to how it affects one's life and how typical it is for one's developmental stage. Hearing how you think about borderline personality has been really great and insightful, and curious about NPD too ^^

[@aspidoscelis]

My suspicion is that most hallucinations come from attributing meaning to meaningless stimuli-the same process as pareidolia. The perceived phenomenon, though, might have no recognizable relationship to the stimulus that prompts it. So, not in the absence of stimulus, but with the connection usually obscured. An example: For a few years, before sleeping, I've occasionally had the perception of a cat walking on the bed-very obviously not the case when I did not have cats, but now I have cats so if I care whether the perception is accurate I have to look. Recently I figured out what it is-I'm feeling my pulse in my legs, interpreting it as the bed moving rather than myself, then imagining an entity causing it. So, it originates with a real stimulus but it took me a few years to figure out the connection. Misinterpreting sensory information in one way or another is just routine daily experience. It seems reasonable, to me, to assume hallucination is an extreme or unusual form of a perfectly normal process rather than a novel or separate process. (Also, I don't hallucinate on psychedelics. Perception is altered, obviously, but my mind isn't tempted to interpret the anomalous sensations as entities in this context. I assume many other people's minds readily make that leap.)

[@raziel68]

Been there, done that, but now I am free.

[@jadejago7664]

Gedankenlautwerden (thoughts loud becoming)

[@alphadog3384]

What about individuals with auditory processing disorder (learning disabilities) would this make any difference in the diagnosis?

[@bbycheekss]

Hello doctor, I have a small question to ask. During the past few years, I had a weird relationship with food like counting calories, restricting, binging, purging, but I didn't go further. I managed a healthy weight. But during last year, I was so stressed dropped out of the college, and I was diagnosed with severe depression. Later I had psychotic symptoms, visual and auditory hallucinations. I had ECT last year and this year, a total of 29 ECTs. Now I'm calm but still, I need to take antidepressants and antipsychotics, which I hate. Bc I gained 10 kg so quickly within a few months, and I'm overweight. Now my weird relationships with food came back but no weight loss. I restrict then binge, it's a cycle. I hate my medications so much, so sometimes I skip even though I know it's bad. Whenever I skip medication, it's hard I feel light-headed, nauseated, hungry, irritable, can't think right, can't bear lights. I can't go more than 2 days without medication because I wouldn't get up from the bed, I just cry only saying I can't go on anymore. But my family, psychiatrists don't know I skip medications these changes bc of it. it's so painful to skip medications, but I hate my body so much so I want to hurt myself. I wanted to ask if there's a quick, easy way to lose weight and have a healthy relationship with food while on medications so I can try it before I hurt myself even worse. I mean no exercise or hard things, I'm still not strong enough for exercising. So something like a pill to lose weight, something easy to do. I feel like I will k!ll myself because I don't want to see what I see in the mirror. I really struggle so much alone, but I don't want to tell anyone. They would just say you look good, weigh doesn't matter. It has become more than just 'losing weight' for me.

[@springwood1331]

'compassion for voices' vid is pretty good. Also Ted Talk by Eleanor Longden. Both here o. KZbin

[@rockbottom3984]

I went to the gas station one day and a girl came out crying. One of my voices told me to go make her cry some more. I said NO!!

[@alisonnixon]

Did i hear you say there are some medications in the works for negative symptoms...... Oh My GAWD!!!! Can you elaborate ?

[@kandymich4861]

Your mind also tries to makes sense of sounds and when it’s not quite sure it match’s it with a known sound. Which can seem not real and make you wonder if you are hallucinating or not.

[@DrSyl]

Yea, I guess that would be called pareidolia.

[@stoneyvowell1239]

That one gets me quite a bit. Also the feeling of the phone ringing or vibrating in my pocket, when it is not in my pocket. I was also going to comment something in the regular comments but somehow I'm not able to. Every sensory perception is technically a hallucination. Our brain can not actually see, hear, feel, taste, or smell, so it relies on signals from sensors. Those signals then have to be interpreted into our overall experience. Sometimes, those signals can be hijacked or interrupted.

[@vpheas]

Actually, auditory pareidolia. I hear conversations in several languages. Last month my therapist asked me to repeat what I had just said. "I heard a German couple talking outside my window which is unusual-- English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, but not German." He laughed and said that is a sentence he will never again hear

[@stoneyvowell1239]

​@DrSyl thank you for this video. You talked about a couple of things I haven't even heard about before. A couple of those hallucinations are usually associated with ASD, but I hear ASD is now on the schizophrenia Spectrum because of the overlap of cognitive symptoms and I guess a couple of the positive ones as well. That joint twisting really caught my attention because I've been dealing with some weird joint issues that feel like they're twisting.

[@vpheas]

Gedankenlautwerden, literally "thoughts loud become" The "e" in the wer syllable is, in IPA, referred to as a closed E, or long A as in late, but without a dipthong.

[@alisonnixon]

Could you do a video on the research around metabolic disorder as a possible cause of Serious mental illness ?

[@Obsessedwithpurple]

I have 2 male voices in my head. One says awful things to me and tells me to kill myself. The other male voice tells me not to and to call my psychiatrist and therapist and the suicide hotline.

[@user-ct2eu5qy2z]

❤❤

[@nastyayoga1567]

It's - ,,Gedankenlautwerden"

[@dionysusapollo]

What about plain old sounds, i have a feeling of having an electrical head, i thought it was tinnitus but im pretty sure its not now, its like a buzzing hissing electrical sound, ive asked two psychiatrists and lots of mds what it is and nobody knows. Then i asked the open AI and it said it could be because of increased neural activity from mania. It can be quite intense but i know nobody else hears it and its just inside my own skull. I also see blue sparks of light which are obviously subjective.

[@alextsignadze1138]

Gedankenlautwerden :D I am German and I understood it

[@mmamallama1827]

Can you talk about olfactory hallucinations?

[@dionysusapollo]

I often smell smoke and can't tell if it's real, it's quite unsettling

[@sharonthompson672]

I have a boring version of synesthesia. Spatial sequence synesthesia. I see time as a space around me. For example if you mention Christmas, I'll POINT in the direction of Christmas. Yeah. 😬🤦

[@MissJadeKennedy]

This is really interesting! I’m not sure if this is similar to what your talking about but I see for example the year calendar in a circle shape, so kind of like a clock, so each month of the year as its own area in that shape if that makes sense?

[@silverdweller2809]

People with schizophrenia are more likely to be both the perpetrator and the victim of violence. Once they get treatment that risk drops.

[@typedbyben]

I wanted to react to Dr. Syl expressing some dismay at the use of "functional" in the "functional" hallucination, i think the use of "functional" is strictly in the mathematical sense that an input results in an output, like y=mx+b, not the sense that the person suffering a functional delusion can carry on despite the impairment. I think I'd have a hard time distinguishing, diagnostically, a reaction delusion with a functional delusion. They sound pretty similar.

[@gourabsarker9552]

Sir how much do you earn as a doctor in Australia? Plz reply. Thanks a lot.

[@chiaramertens9969]

I love englisch speaking people trying to pronounce German terms.... It's Gedankenlautwerden... Which kinda translates into thouts becoming loud... But you did a good job tho :)

[@boglarkaszoradi4504]

The type of synesthesia to assign colours to letters is very common.

[@dionysusapollo]

So if it's a sound but not a voice and you know it might not be real, it's not a hallucination? Or can there be non psychotic hallucinations?

[@fiikahlo]

Nails on a chalkboard thing is NOT same as synesthesia. It's a reaction to the quality of the sound, not just reactions to sound. Research has connected it to possibly having the same frequencies as human distress calls or some other factors that make the noise particularly unpleasant, triggering a stress-reaction in our bodies. Synesthesia is usually neutral or pleasant, and many synesthetes only sense the irregular perceptions when relaxed or attentive to the triggering sounds, and they have it from the whole category of the perception, like from music, sounds, concepts etc. It's completely different.

[@GabiReads-vf4fc]

Just a curiosity, can a voice in psychosis be your own voice in your head?

[@GabiReads-vf4fc]

This is me being completely serious, like can the voice be your own voice being negative and telling you to do something you wouldn’t normally do?

[@AzadC]

I need to know the difference. Because there are actual different types of schizophrenia mine is my own voice i hear. I repeating sentences of either good or provoking things people have either said or done in my life. Not voices that are outside of my own mind. I never did either have hallucinations or hearing voices that arent my own voice inside my head. Mine schizophrenia is mostly about being paranoid sometimes. Having delusions. But need to know the difference between those?

[@FutureEyesOnly-be3do]

So what does a person do when they catch these voices on tape??

[@boglarkaszoradi4504]

If you know how that German expression is written down, you can type it in google translator to not only to translate, but also to hear the pronounciation. There is a tannoy sign you can click on to hear the word or expression or sentence pronounced. I cannot understand what you try to say in German, so badly you pronounce it. To hear thoughts is literally "Gedanken hören". Im not sure if this is the one you tried to say.

[@mattg141]

Is it true not all people have an inner monologue?

[@DennisBolanos]

Yes but, inner monologue ≠ hallucinations.

[@sharonthompson672]

Whew! That's a relief 😆

[@MissJadeKennedy]

Not everyone has an inner monologue? I can hear myself reading even when I’m not reading allowed lol

[@theoriginalskinsey]

​@@MissJadeKennedyi do this too, maybe why I read slowly

[@kandymich4861]

Umm the last half in a blank screen and soundless. Did the camera get left on or something

[@JayShort-Sisson]

try reloading, it's a complete video for me

[@DrSyl]

Yea sorry about that - editing error on my behalf - but should be fixed now :) Thanks for watching all the way through though!

[@dionysusapollo]

I read that it's easier for people to talk when walking side by side than sitting face to face, maybe this is why the driving videos work better too.

[@cutzycoolgirl2742]

Not the video accidentially being 46 minutes long

[@DrSyl]

Whoops! Will fix it sorryb