The sound of a voice to your head can also be healthy people
Last reviewed: 14.05.2024
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Imperative hallucinations are when a person begins to hear strange voices in his head. It is believed that only people with different mental disorders begin to hear voices, but a recent study has shown that sometimes even healthy people have voices.
Voices in the head are verbal deception, they do not have an external stimulus and arise exclusively in the minds of a mentally ill person. Voices can instill in an imperative or imploring tone a person to take certain actions.
When a person who does not suffer from any psychic abnormalities begins to hear a voice in his head, this causes an ambiguous reaction among those around him. Some say that this is the initial stage of schizophrenia, others consider it a common phenomenon (for example, mediums or psychics who can communicate with the world of the dead).
Until recently, experts believed that the sounds that occur in the head are a symptom of mental disorder and people who start to hear anything need urgent medical attention.
But recently, as it turned out, voices in the head can also appear in quite healthy people and as shown by numerous examinations that do not suffer from mental abnormalities in any form.
To deal with the unusual phenomenon, experts from the University of Durham in England polled over 150 people on the Internet. All participants in the survey were selected on purpose - each of them periodically had auditory hallucinations.
Analyzing the results of the survey, experts found that 26% of participants had no complaints about mental problems. More than 80% in their heads heard more than one vote. Of the total number of participants, 70% had marked imperative hallucinations with characteristic features, with 60% concomitantly with auditory, and experienced tactile hallucinations (such participants noted that during the time a voice appeared in the head, a feeling of fever, tingling , as if they were touched by an object). Often such hallucinations were painful, rough. In the course of the study, specialists established that such tactile hallucinations are associated with injuries suffered in the past.
The questionnaire created by the experts set a goal to find out what people feel during the attacks of auditory hallucinations. As it turned out, most of the participants experienced fear, anxiety, indifference, and some became depressed. But one third of the participants were amazed by a group of specialists - they noted that during the imperative hallucination they were in a mood, they felt joy, an all-encompassing feeling of happiness ensued.
Concerning a phenomenon such as auditory hallucinations, almost all specialists believe that this condition requires urgent medical care, since in the early stages the disease is cured more easily, otherwise such hallucinations can lead to serious consequences, dangerous not only for the patient, but also for his environment, in particular, it is a question of suicide or murder.