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I'm sure for most people, this is somewhat disturbing.
However, I have at least 3 voices going in my head at any given time, and they cycle.
One is figuring out what's happening.
One is analyzing what was just happening.
One is talking to itself.
All while I decide which one is the most interesting.
That's pretty cool!
Mine have names too, sort of like positions on the bridge, I guess?
[HopingForBetter], or just my name, is usually deciding what to pay attention to.
Vega is the one that's usually analyzing.
Francesca wants to have fun.
And then there's Vivian, the destroyer of worlds...
Very interesting. I don't find this disturbing and it makes a lot of sense to me.
I've long known that my "salience network" is over active and / or an asshole. People often describe these as intrusive thoughts or "l'appel du vide" (call of the void) but I get warnings from that fuckhead all the time. "It would be so terrible if you plunged that knife into your belly right now". Also just spiralling catastrophising anxiety like "That work thing you're worried about is gonna turn out so bad"... and so on and so forth.
IDK if I would've naturally come to the conclusion that there are 3 distinct networks. For me it feels like there are 6 or so, with some overlap.
Huh, this is one and the same for me, more like a mode-switch depending on situation. But that might be because of Asperer. No one is talking, too: i need to translate thoughts in words.
I hear things. I'm bipolar though.
I often have to check in with a person close to me to see if they heard what I heard, or if its my "imagination."
For those worried, I'm under the care of a psychiatrist, and mostly this isn't an issue anymore.
I work with clients who hear things. for one of them its folk talking down to him, or shaming him. For the other its people scolding him or screaming at him. Both seem very unpleasant. Is there a theme or emotion you could attach to the things you hear?
And which one is deciding?
Me, of course.
Huh, I have three as well but they're very different. I've got "me" or the primary voice, a "child me" that is terrified almost all the time, and an "asshole me" who is the loudest meanest person you've ever met but is only ever turned inward.