Voice

[Wizzy]

First of all, this is my first post and I am new to the forums. Please be gentle!

Over the past year or so, I have been hearing a voice. I don't believe the voice is ever the same, and it has been a female's voice as well as male. I can hear the voice as clear as if someone were sitting next to me. It is never more than one word or possibly a short phrase.
Sometimes it doesn't make sense what is said. Its never malicious. At times it seems helpful ( once when I went to bed, I heard a voice say " the front door". I got out of bed and saw that I forgot to lock the front door ). No one around me ever hears it and I can't seem to "channel" the voice.

Am I going mad? Is this a paranormal activity, a psychic?

I am looking forward to all responses.

[wishawish]

hii i'am new one on this i hope to all here and also i want to say 1st happy new year for all about health ,life...every thing...with my best wishes&harmonization

[778898]

Both you will cure, and me will cure, and it will cure =))

[Merrick1]

Originally Posted by Wizzy

Am I going mad? Is this a paranormal activity, a psychic?

I am looking forward to all responses.

It may be called a paranormal activity.

Just from a quick look:

"It is some entity from another dimension. It is not wicked but rather immature, if entities may be labeled in this way, and it is somehow lost and confused. There is some aimlessness, it doesn't know where to go, what to do and in your company it has found a feeling of certain closeness and it has been clinging to it.

Why has it been changing its voice all the time?

Well, it's not a problem for it and it has been trying to simulate voices of many different people."

Merrick

[778898]

world war !

[Arcturus]

If there are different voices it could be different spirits or entities speaking to you.

[778898]

These voices it is a nature error, it is necessary to finish to mind having mixed with electronics this way! And for these voices it is possible to expose claims to the whole world and it is concrete to the state for this lawlessness!

[SkylightMT]

It doesn't sound like schizophrenia because, at least from your post, you don't seem stressed out or scattered or paranoid. Schizophrenia does not have to include these things, but usually when hearing voices is associated with schizophrenia, there is an increase in the amount of stress you are under, and this usually shows with some sort of mood changes such as fearfulness, anger, excitability, etc. Also the people around you will notice mood and/or behavior changes, so if you are not hearing about that from them you are probably not developing a mental illness. However if you are in your young 20s and going to college, I might worry a bit more - that is a very typical time for schizophrenic symptoms to begin showing themselves if they are going to.

So if its not a mental illness, then that leaves some kind of psychic phenomena, I would guess. If the voices do not bother you or prevent you from falling asleep, I think you could welcome them and be relaxed about it. Perhaps it is the start of something exciting and not unwanted.

[778898]

That there was that was! That is - that not to change any more! And here that will be - it is necessary to try to change!

Change life to the best!

[Fellforit]

I believe that auditory hallucinations related to mental illness/schizophrenia are usually negative and inhibit your day to day life so that it's difficult for you to function. Schizophrenia most often begins in the teens and 20s and is found more in men than women (although it does happen to women). Do you fall into any of these categories? If yes, it wouldn't hurt for you to be checked out by a doctor.

Otherwise, you could be developing clairaudience where spirit/guides communicate with you through your hearing. The "front door" warning seems to be clairaudient as it a) is helpful and b) was true at that time. Do any of the other words or phrases seem to make sense intuition-wise?

These gifts can develop at any time (happened to me a few years ago) and don't necessarily start in childhood.

There are lots of articles on the 'net about clairaudience. Here's one by Anna Conlan: How To Develop Clairaudience

[778898]

It is silly - to prove to you that or!
There are two variants:
1) you deceive me
2) you really consider that all this telepathic society - about which I speak to you is a fiction and therefore I am scatter-brained!


But the exit is one! It also will work only whereas this society of telepathists of it will want! Will want will send mankind in the confidential world of telepathy. And people usual will understand in due course that this such - cutting heads to telepathists!

[prototype]

Originally Posted by Wizzy

Over the past year or so, I have been hearing a voice. I don't believe the voice is ever the same, and it has been a female's voice as well as male. I can hear the voice as clear as if someone were sitting next to me. It is never more than one word or possibly a short phrase.
Sometimes it doesn't make sense what is said. Its never malicious. At times it seems helpful ( once when I went to bed, I heard a voice say " the front door". I got out of bed and saw that I forgot to lock the front door ). No one around me ever hears it and I can't seem to "channel" the voice.

Am I going mad? Is this a paranormal activity, a psychic?

Wizzy, this is perfectly normal. Lots of people hear voices, and most of them are neither mentally ill nor psychic. If it bothers you, in many countries there are support networks for people who hear voices. There are even some on the internet, just google "hearing voices".

I have been hearing voices for years, and I like it. It keeps me entertained...

[MagicalRealist]

Originally Posted by Wizzy

Over the past year or so, I have been hearing a voice. I don't believe the voice is ever the same, and it has been a female's voice as well as male. I can hear the voice as clear as if someone were sitting next to me. It is never more than one word or possibly a short phrase.

I've been hearing similar voices since I was a child. It's always as if someone is standing just behind me, looking over my right shoulder. If I'm standing, I get the impression of someone a few inches taller than me.

The voices are sometimes distinctly male, sometimes female, but more often than not don't have a gender.

They've never said anything to me that was more than four or five words long. A lot of the time, it's just a single word or short phrase that doesn't seem to make any sense at all--but I can't stop thinking about it once I've heard it. Eventually, I figure out the significance, usually in some startling, absurd, or funny way.

For example, I got the phrase "the Lion of God" a while ago. I couldn't figure out what the hell it meant and couldn't get the phrase out of my head. Then I needed information, and the fellow who provided it was named Asadullah--which, he told me, means "Lion of God." Once I got what I needed, I stopped thinking about the phrase.

Sometimes it doesn't make sense what is said.

For me, it often makes no sense at all until much later. I've had voices tell me "GET OUT!" when there's danger (even before I know about it), or a gentler "Get out" or "Leave now" or "No" or "Give him the money" in certain situations, but about half the time what I hear just seems annoyingly cryptic or nonsensical until the meaning gets revealed later.

Its never malicious. At times it seems helpful...

Yeah! I'd worry if the voices said nasty things, or told me to do anything that would harm myself or other people. But they don't. I've been hearing them for 35+ years now, and have never heard anything that was malicious or scary.

As for helpful: years ago, my life was falling apart. I had no idea what I was going to do or how things would work out; it seemed hopeless. One afternoon I was so tired, frustrated and scared I sat down at the kitchen table and started crying (which I normally just don't do).

After the worst of it subsided and I was drying my eyes I heard, "Radio. Now." So I got up, turned on the radio above the kitchen sink, and the song that was playing was Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry." Not only that, it was at the exact point where the lyric Everything is gonna be all right starts repeating, and it kept repeating about a dozen times. I went from crying and feeling hopeless to laughing and feeling immense relief. I wasn't alone, everything was going to be all right, and after that day things started to get better.

Am I going mad? Is this a paranormal activity, a psychic?

I just call them my guides. To me, they feel like older, wiser friends who are looking out for me. In my concept of them they know stuff about my life that I don't because I can't see it from this limited human perspective. They are watching me muddle along through this physical existence, helping me out when they think I need it.

Or maybe I really am just crazy. But it's such a benign, helpful form of crazy, I'm more than happy to stay this way.

[Anna Conlan]

Hi Wizzy,

It doesn't sound like you're going mad at all. I believe there are two main differences between clairaudience and mental illness. The first difference is that clairaudient messages are not abusive or destructive. They are usually uplifting and should be helpful in some way. So clairaudient guidance is positive, the voices that arise from psychosis for example are often negative and destructive. It sounds like the voice you hear is helpful.

The second difference is that clairaudient input can be controlled and shut off. Even if you don't realize it now, you can genuinely want and intend for the voice to go away and it would because spiritual guidance respects your free will not to listen to guidance. Mental illness is not like that.

I wrote an article a while back on the difference between the two, which elaborates on this further. Maybe you'll find it helpful - Are Psychics Crazy People?

Loads of people think that hearing a voice (or other people hearing a voice) means they're crazy. It doesn't mean you're crazy unless it's out of control; taking over your life and/or destructive. That's why I called my website 'psychic but sane' I think it's sad some people think hearing spiritual guidance means you need psychiatric help.

[Jai]

I agree with Anna. I also suggest that you get a hearing test. Many people are frightened to reveal that they are hearing voices or seeing people. It seem to occur when either of these senses get weaker. Below is an excellent video lecture by Oliver Sacks on Ted.com that I recommend you watch.

Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds | Video on TED.com

[Wizzy]

Thanks for all of the responses. I'm not frightened by the voices, nor are they bothersome. I'm more curious than anything.

I'm in my 30's. I do not live a stress-free life, but who does? I haven't had much time to check out all of the links that were posted, but I will.


Wizzy

[Procyon]

I have heard voices only once, but it was rather strange experience. I heard this voice that sounded like it was trying to tell me something important. What it actually said was quite different. It kept saying something like this: ”Kill yourself. Kill yourself now. You must kill yourself. It is very important that you kill yourself. Do it now. You must kill yourself. Do it now...” Clearly I didn't do anything. Lately I have been thinking this incident. What was this voice? Why was killing myself so important? I was feeling anxious at the time, but I have felt anxious other times and never heard that voice second time.