Here's my dedicated thread about the visual version of pareidolia...
https://www.sectual.com/thread-1828.html
This is the post I made in the dedicated Schizophrenia thread about audio pareidolia...
When people hear "pareidolia" (if they even know what it is) they think about the visual version, like seeing faces in clouds or whatever. But nobody ever seems to discuss audio pareidolia, and I think it's time we really put this topic on the table.
Audio pareidolia is what I experience. As well as regular/visual pareidolia, but that's not what this is about.
I think it's entirely possible that there are people out there who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but they're not really schizophrenic.
The auditory version of pareidolia is when you interpret voices (INSTANTLY, with NO conscious thought) in normal sounds in the environment. It could be anything. The refrigerator. The sound of water running. It can be literally anything. You hear a voice, and then you think about it and realize first of all, it COULDN'T be a voice (for whatever reason), and then you understand that the sound came from something else... like the washing machine, or ANYTHING.
I talk about one of my experiences with these auditory issues in this video at 9:25 and 19:00... https://www.bitchute.com/video/PdynebaU7Uwc
I've always had this issue. Historically, I've only heard voices when I was VERY tired. I remember my first experience with it vividly... I was probably about 13. I heard at least one little kid (male) talking in the kitchen, and there was definitely no such person around. I remember thinking "Man, well. That's my cue. Time to go the fuck to sleep."
And over the years, it would always be the case that I heard voices when I was either very tired, or falling asleep at night. For this reason, I started to use a fan at night and that did (and still does) mitigate the issue.
I have also discussed a visual issue that isn't pareidolia...
https://www.sectual.com/thread-6716.html
Seeing things out of the corner of your eye, like people standing there, or for me, it's almost always that I think I see a huge spider or something. Again, these interpretations are INSTANT. And it doesn't matter where I am or what the environment is, I am always going to interpret what I see as a massive spider-like creature. SOME kind of skittering creepy crawly.
I'm making this thread because recently my audio pareidolia has really been acting up. Even when I'm not tired, it still happens. Seeing the "skittering" thingies has been happening all day every day as well. I'll get up, and after about 15 minutes or so of being awake, I realize ah shit... it's still happening. The skittering issue has been a problem no matter what for years now... basically since I made that 2018 thread. But the audio pareidolia has never really been an ongoing problem for me day in and day out before.
The other day I was on the toilet and I heard at least one male voice in the distance, talking and talking. It wasn't a voice I recognized, and I knew it couldn't be anyone in the environment. I knew it wasn't a radio or any kind of shit like that... so I just listened and marveled at the fact that here I am, on the shitter, and I'm listening to some dude in the distance who doesn't even exist just go on and on and on.
Now here is the vital difference between schizophrenia, and audio pareidolia... you KNOW the voices ARE NOT REAL. You can reason with logic that they are not real voices coming from real people, and there has to be some kind of explanation from the background noises in the environment which would account for them. My problem with the bathroom incident was that there truly was nothing that should have been causing it. So... that was when I became slightly more concerned than normal about this issue.
I am posting this because I don't really wanna talk to anyone about it... it just sounds embarrassing and weird, and I'm weird and embarrassing enough as it is without any extra icing on the cake.
And I also think it's important to bring light to this topic because I am surely not the only one who has this problem. There are other issues that cause people to hear voices... it's not just schizophrenia, and that needs to be known.
Bottom line as far as I can figure is an issue of PERCEPTION. But it's basically subconscious. Your mind interprets voices from sound before you can even think about it consciously. You interpret the sound, it startles you, and THEN you get to reason about it. THEN you get to logically follow it back to its origin. Not the other way around.
https://www.sectual.com/thread-1828.html
This is the post I made in the dedicated Schizophrenia thread about audio pareidolia...
(06-11-2020, 11:57 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: Audio pareidolia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
https://www.sectual.com/thread-1828.html
I think it's possible that auditory hallucinations are a lot like visual pareidolia.
I have had a lot of highly detailed pareidolia experiences...
I talk about some of them in the above linked thread.
For me, I see the face and instantly along with it comes an entire story about the face.
The story varies but it's always INSTANT and always a detailed "imagining" of the story belonging to the face...
For example, whether it's a friendly face, a human face, the face of a doll, etc., there's always a story behind it which makes me able to categorize it as threatening, non-threatening, evil, whimsical, you name it.
I have realized that auditory hallucinations may be made from the same type of process...
Hearing a sound, misinterpreting it (usually as a voice) due to one's current perception (which is usually based on mood and emotion)...
And then with that comes a whole detailed, INSTANT story about what this voice is saying, whether the voice is good or bad, what's the message, etc.
What amazes me is how fast the process is. This "flash" of backstory is instant with visual pareidolia, but with audio... it seems even faster.
When people hear "pareidolia" (if they even know what it is) they think about the visual version, like seeing faces in clouds or whatever. But nobody ever seems to discuss audio pareidolia, and I think it's time we really put this topic on the table.
Audio pareidolia is what I experience. As well as regular/visual pareidolia, but that's not what this is about.
I think it's entirely possible that there are people out there who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but they're not really schizophrenic.
The auditory version of pareidolia is when you interpret voices (INSTANTLY, with NO conscious thought) in normal sounds in the environment. It could be anything. The refrigerator. The sound of water running. It can be literally anything. You hear a voice, and then you think about it and realize first of all, it COULDN'T be a voice (for whatever reason), and then you understand that the sound came from something else... like the washing machine, or ANYTHING.
I talk about one of my experiences with these auditory issues in this video at 9:25 and 19:00... https://www.bitchute.com/video/PdynebaU7Uwc
I've always had this issue. Historically, I've only heard voices when I was VERY tired. I remember my first experience with it vividly... I was probably about 13. I heard at least one little kid (male) talking in the kitchen, and there was definitely no such person around. I remember thinking "Man, well. That's my cue. Time to go the fuck to sleep."
And over the years, it would always be the case that I heard voices when I was either very tired, or falling asleep at night. For this reason, I started to use a fan at night and that did (and still does) mitigate the issue.
I have also discussed a visual issue that isn't pareidolia...
https://www.sectual.com/thread-6716.html
Seeing things out of the corner of your eye, like people standing there, or for me, it's almost always that I think I see a huge spider or something. Again, these interpretations are INSTANT. And it doesn't matter where I am or what the environment is, I am always going to interpret what I see as a massive spider-like creature. SOME kind of skittering creepy crawly.
I'm making this thread because recently my audio pareidolia has really been acting up. Even when I'm not tired, it still happens. Seeing the "skittering" thingies has been happening all day every day as well. I'll get up, and after about 15 minutes or so of being awake, I realize ah shit... it's still happening. The skittering issue has been a problem no matter what for years now... basically since I made that 2018 thread. But the audio pareidolia has never really been an ongoing problem for me day in and day out before.
The other day I was on the toilet and I heard at least one male voice in the distance, talking and talking. It wasn't a voice I recognized, and I knew it couldn't be anyone in the environment. I knew it wasn't a radio or any kind of shit like that... so I just listened and marveled at the fact that here I am, on the shitter, and I'm listening to some dude in the distance who doesn't even exist just go on and on and on.
Now here is the vital difference between schizophrenia, and audio pareidolia... you KNOW the voices ARE NOT REAL. You can reason with logic that they are not real voices coming from real people, and there has to be some kind of explanation from the background noises in the environment which would account for them. My problem with the bathroom incident was that there truly was nothing that should have been causing it. So... that was when I became slightly more concerned than normal about this issue.
I am posting this because I don't really wanna talk to anyone about it... it just sounds embarrassing and weird, and I'm weird and embarrassing enough as it is without any extra icing on the cake.
And I also think it's important to bring light to this topic because I am surely not the only one who has this problem. There are other issues that cause people to hear voices... it's not just schizophrenia, and that needs to be known.
Bottom line as far as I can figure is an issue of PERCEPTION. But it's basically subconscious. Your mind interprets voices from sound before you can even think about it consciously. You interpret the sound, it startles you, and THEN you get to reason about it. THEN you get to logically follow it back to its origin. Not the other way around.
