How to let go of wondering

Personally I acknowledge that it's a hallucination/a thought I simply don't recognize as my own. I recommend researching about voices and schizophrenia. If that doesn't work then try listening to music to drown out the noise

Sometimes the most helpful thing for me is just accepting that I don’t know and can’t know. Sometimes uncertainty can be scary, but the reality of the world is that it’s filled with uncertainty and it’s uncomfortable but it’s also ok. Focus on what you can control like self care and doing fulfilling activities. Best of luck!

Get some.headphones turn them up so you can't hear yourself think

But what if I want to know where my voices come from, how may I find out? I would like to have a conversation with the nicer ones.

I would like to know this too. A psychiatrist said to be that I’ll probably never know for 100% certain the answer, but if the voices are upsetting me or making me ill or unsafe then that’s not good, whether they’re real or not. Thing is, even when I tell docs about voices or hallucinations that don’t bother me, they seem concerned even though I’m chill with it.

Thank you. And stay strong to those who need it!

Please read the post I just added to the community. I've driven myself nuts with the same thing.

I asked them what they’re doing there and where they came from

Meditation, mantras, audio book, and cold showers are powerful medicine.

I think they’re your own thoughts. I’ve personally felt myself thinking the voices and discerning that they are in fact my own thoughts. It’s weird to realize because why would I think things like that and torture myself? 😅 But it’s not conscious, it’s just bits and pieces of thoughts from the farthest corners of your mind. Thought soup, if you will.

I’ve personally felt that recognizing the voice as me dispels the voice and allows me to quiet it, or at least not be as bothered by it. I have a tendency to overthink and ruminate, which can aggravate the voices when they’re happening, while recognizing them as just my own malfunctioning mind (which I try to believe even when it doesn’t feel obvious) helps me to let go of the voices and focus on reality, which also makes the voices go quiet. (I am on meds too, btw.)

This is my personal take, anyway.

I was also told by a… therapist (I think?) that people with psychotic symptoms experience them like water spilling over a barrier; healthy people have a barrier in their mind that keeps the water (thoughts) inside their unconscious mind, and sick people can take meds to create an artificial barrier, but for more severe cases, the meds won’t be enough to dam all the water and there will still be some spilling over and therefore symptoms. Personally, I thought it was a neat visual, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

I don’t think you should necessarily ‘let go of wondering where the voices come from’. While I mostly agree with some of the other comments made here regarding the voice I hear being the result of a brain malfunction that doesn’t mean you should. We get to define our own reality in this life, and that includes those of us who hear a voice/voices. If you find it enriches your own life to believe the voices have a deeper meaning, I would support that - with the contention that it makes your life better. Auditory ‘hallucinations’ (<-they are real enough to me) can be dangerous when combined with delusion, so I think there is definitely a fine line to walk with regards to assigning meaning to the voice/voices. While in psychosis I believed I was talking to God, the devil, people who have passed on, aliens and more. At some point I changed this belief to ‘knowing’ a woman had broken into my house and put a tiny device in my ear that allowed her to both talk to me and hear my thoughts. I finally went to see a doctor in hopes he would find this device and take it out claiming I had ringing in my ear…of course he found nothing, and the next day I admitted to myself I was hearing a voice in my own head. Since then I have had to reconcile my many theories on what the voice was, and today I feel certain it is a part of my brain that is simply malfunctioning. My voice experience is conversational. It’s just like talking to another person. It feels like the voice has its own independent thoughts, so it made it difficult for me to reach the conclusion it’s just another part of me in there. I think it’s important that you make the very personal decisions you need to make to make it okay to live and function daily with your own voice/voices. Stay positive!

Who cares where they come from. A place of evil that's where.

I can never acknowledge that the delusions and voices that don't bother me are concerning either. I've also wondered to the point of episodes.

Sometimes I put the voices and delusions into the context of a story I'm writing. For others it's piece of art. I don't know what a doctor would say about this technique - probably that it's a really bad coping mechanism. I think it's a way of loosely connecting the delusions and voices to something solid in reality so I don't feel like they're literally just hanging out in a void above my head. The story is false but the piece of writing or art is solid so I have something to remember the story of how I made it by - that it came from delusions and voices as opposed to "It is the delusions and voices."

I don't let myself just write fictional gibberish though that propagates the delusions and voices. I base my writing off true experiences and include mostly truth in there while adding elements of sci-fi or fantasy throughout to represent the delusions and voices.

It sounds dry, but I've gotten used to it on the medications. I don't like it when people just say, "ignore the voices 100% and don't talk to them or recognize them" that's a really unrealistic idea to do that all in one moment, especially when I've heard voices multiple times throughout my life and that's my life experience.

That's my 20 cents.

I find comfort knowing I will know once I get to the afterlife.

From my clairvoyance, a unique voice belongs to a person, which has a location, probably in this solar system, where a physical body is optional. Why does a unique voice have to belong to a person. If we paraphrase the 1st law of thermodynamics, "you can't get something from nothing". In short, a unique voice belongs to a person. I have a blog where I talk about my adventure in the avatar world, a.k.a. voice world. The link is here: https://www.thevoiceinsidemyhead-myavatar.com/2015/01/ I have drawn a picture of the device the voices use to talk to their human, which is in this blog post: https://www.thevoiceinsidemyhead-myavatar.com/2021/03/ibol-story-arc-7-music-in-my-head.html I hope that helps. If there are other questions, let me know.

I can tell you my theory! I hope it can bring you some peace.

I was listening to uncanny, a BBC podcast about ghosts and the supernatural (stay with me here!!). There are loads of instances where people hear the voices of their loved ones in times of crisis. After car accidents telling them to get out of the car, telling them to hold on when they're considering killing themselves. It is a survival mechanism imo that is built into our brain to help us survive as humans.

I think it is this survival mechanism just fucking up. Like, your brain obviously has this in built feature, and sometimes it just starts working at the wrong time or says the wrong thing.

Most conditions are just your body fucking up, diabetes, allergies... You name it. This is just another one of those things.

This is my opinion and it really bought me peace with my voices when I started thinking this.

I feel like im in a superposition of being in both worlds. The spirit realm and our world. I consider them my watchers or my "team"