wow..

[ex-mushroom784.livejournal.com]

tonight i was skimming through the stations, cuz i'm feeling all alone tonight. probably cuz i'm sick, and NO one wants to deal with me. blah.

anyway, backing off the emo-ness there...

i came across some... tv interview. it was like some independant station interview thing. i don't know how to explain better.

the host chick was interviewing some guy. i wanna say he was a multi... but...

he was going on about how he hears voices, and kept on not knowing what he was talking about. and she kept laughing at him, as did i.

i think he was TRYING to be (acting, at least) serious, about being a multi, but this just blew my mind. the host chick seemed to be trying very hard to stay serious with him, but even i couldn't keep a straight face.

"it's like... voices... yeah, voices... in a... radio... and... you can hear them!"
"could i hear them?"
"if you tried..."

.......urgh. i dunno. the guy seemed to be trying to force himself to have answers. like he wanted attention or something.

anyone else ever see something like this, and doubt it highly? aside from the dumbasses who just mock, and need to be tossed into a lake. :) i don't doubt many people, but this was just... messed up.

if anything, it just made me mad, and wanna slap someone. hard. ~_~;

Comments

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

There is no need to refer to one's expressions of negative emotion as 'emo' or 'drama' or apologize for them. The idea that expressing loneliness, sadness, existential concerns, etc. is foolish is a product of an increasingly shallow society in which everyone seems to be expected to wear a vapid smile constantly and gets tagged with a mental illness if they refuse to.

Anyway, were they possibly referring to this? http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/londoncuts/articles/19903160

There have been several studies done recently on 'hearing voices' in people who are considered mentally 'normal.' A few of them have focused on hearing music. I suspect that some of the giggly, snarky reactions to the findings are the discomfort of 'normal' people being forced to confront any resemblance in themselves to the ostensibly insane. You've probably seen people walking around with t-shirts that read "I only do what the voices tell me to" or "you're just jealous because the voices only talk to me." People make jokes about it, and about being 'insane,' because they presume that if you can call yourself crazy, it means you're really not. The giggling is because they're actually quite nervous and desperate not to show it.

-J

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

We have never heard voices. We constantly hear music. Since it's not "officially" considered a mental problem, we never got in trouble for it!

Until recently, it had never occurred to us that our hearing music could be in any way related to voice experience.

Actually, our little music player helps; if we don't like what's on the "home" channel we can play something out here. Some frontrunners have speculated that we are picking up Laurad radio, possibly one of the no-talk stations which would explain why we do not hear voices.

[inshadowhiding.livejournal.com]

um, is this meant to be weird, i mean that is something that seems ... normal, to me, even if people look at you odd if you talk about it in too much detail, just a "song playing in your head" that isn't one song, but a string of songs ( and sometimes words as well, but they are fuzzier)

um


* embarrassed *

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

Since it's not "officially" considered a mental problem, we never got in trouble for it!

Well, apparently they've started to haul people in for singing along and dancing to their .mp3 players for over 6 songs only to look down and find out that the battery is not in the player and it has not been on for one second of the music playing/switching through songs/sounding helluva good... Well, no, we left that shrink the session I told her about that. XP

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Stalia stalia ki axortaga
ta pinou ta philia sou,
Kourniazo sai avinato
pouli stin agkalia sou... *looks up* hah??

[changelyng14.livejournal.com]

LOL!

"ipods make you hallucinate!" followed by: "best deals on ipods!"

I wish they explained whatcha gotta do to get that condition cuzz that'd be coooooool.

-candy
(oh yeah, i wear a button that sez: "the voices in my head don't like you")

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Listen to a lot of music. We were constantly exposed to music, particularly on radio, from infancy on. Some of us think it may have helped our in-house communication by giving us the idea that music and other stuff are broadcast from many places and radio receivers pick it up. The same people think that the constant stream of sound was what led us to hear music as clearly as we do. Curiously enough, we even get adjacent channel sound and "station changes".

I said constantly, but it is not quite constant. It is absolutely as if a station we were listening to had signed off for the night, and then come back on the air a few hours later.

We had to laugh, reading that article.. Gabe backchanneled in and said "I hear 'Abide With Me'." He says when he is very tired he can clearly hear his sister's voice singing it, no matter where he is.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

The voice in my head is Neil Young! He even did a tour called "Music In Head". I think I'll get that on a pin and wear it on our hat!

[ricktboy.livejournal.com]

I wanted to say we don't hear music or voices, but then after reading that article, it made me think about it and realize I do hear music sometimes...just not for no reason...When I'm fronting, but someone back in the honeycomb is playing music loudly(we're very aural, but not so much visual in back, thus the simple honeycomb)I can definitely hear it. and it's not so much hearing a song in my head, because in my experience, that's a snippet playing over and over...but this is whole songs, and in the order of the album or whatever...

Tends to happen alot when we've been listening to certain songs or albums that catch the attention of people inside...like Tara and Faith loooooove Sarah McLachlan, and Faith likes Queen of the Damned soundtrack...so if we've been listening to it out front, they'll get the idea, and go put it on inside...

but yeah.

Rick
Pack Collective

I also tend to hear other's conversations, if they're close to the front room, or loud, and sometimes I hear cubbie's video games, or Liz's movie collection.

Tara
Pack Collective