tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post892830607823469551..comments2023-10-26T08:35:15.266-06:00Comments on The Oort Cloud: Hearing VoicesClowncarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02219213001049223673noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-79296657386459572582010-07-29T10:27:59.199-06:002010-07-29T10:27:59.199-06:00I have a good writer friend with synthasia - every...I have a good writer friend with synthasia - everything is a swirl of color and voices. Here writing reflects it.<br /><br />And I suppose my writing reflects the voices thing - particularly in my earlier writing, people would tell me they could "hear" my voice when they read it.Clowncarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02219213001049223673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-75267833088853433702010-07-28T18:38:22.064-06:002010-07-28T18:38:22.064-06:00Fun post!
I don't "hear" words, I s...Fun post!<br /><br />I don't "hear" words, I sort of "see" them, almost as if they're scrolling through my brain on an unending ticker-tape.<br /><br />An artist friend says she never thinks that way: <br />she sees pictures, colors, forms and the like all the time, not words.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-22807332441798806592010-07-21T17:03:40.160-06:002010-07-21T17:03:40.160-06:00"cocktail party in your head" reminds me..."cocktail party in your head" reminds me of a bit by Oliverio Girondo which starts thus:<br /><br />"I don't have a personality: I am a cocktail, a conglomerate, a riot of personalities. In me, personality is a species of inimical furunculosis in a chronic state of eruption; not a half hour can pass without my sprouting a new personality."<br /><br />The rest is posted under the number 8 here:<br />http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/oliverio-girondo.htmlMarzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05258262409718943594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-65726278161756413382010-07-21T15:24:43.355-06:002010-07-21T15:24:43.355-06:00Wow Nance. Glad that worked. What if you had gon...Wow Nance. Glad that worked. What if you had gone to high five her and she said "don't bother, today sucked."? Lucky you don't allow Future Nancy tat kind of autonomy.<br /><br />The fun bit is that it's such a large variety of voices. It's like a cocktail party in your head.Clowncarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02219213001049223673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-76502389386848569932010-07-21T06:04:31.096-06:002010-07-21T06:04:31.096-06:00"little did he know those peanuts would one d..."little did he know those peanuts would one day save his life"<br /><br />I'm so thrilled you said this! It's like self-narrating, I guess. I'll walk down the street thinking "She walked down the street without realizing the danger that lurked behind the mailbox." <br /><br />I would imagine life is much more interesting when you think in voices. Loved this post. :)Lauritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03688820247531607677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-63332278038750545282010-07-20T20:28:18.830-06:002010-07-20T20:28:18.830-06:00I'll go you one further. Walking down the ste...I'll go you one further. Walking down the steps from the parking garage to the hospital a couple of weeks ago, I high-fived the air imagining my 'afternoon self' coming up the steps and high-fiving me because we'd had a good day. It worked.<br /><br />There is nothing better in the world than listening to your characters talk to each other. Writing becomes dictation. <br /><br />"Trust messy" should be a bumper sticker.Nancy Dancehallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14169976337329559458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-20348260919039610992010-07-20T17:22:44.570-06:002010-07-20T17:22:44.570-06:00I'm not sure children would be sophisticated e...I'm not sure children would be sophisticated enough to tell the difference between internal dialogue and voices from elsewhere. Though I agree they are two separate things.<br /><br />How they phrased the question doesn't really make the distinction either: "one or more voices that only you and no one else could hear."Clowncarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02219213001049223673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-5832900221347184002010-07-20T15:19:14.163-06:002010-07-20T15:19:14.163-06:00I agree with Art Sparker that there are two kinds...I agree with Art Sparker that there are two kinds of voices. The internal dialogue voice is a voice that everyone is familiar with. It's our way of handling information. <br />The other voice, the so-called external voice or as Art Sparker calls it "from elsewhere" is the the voice we should be interested in. This external voice may say for instance that some danger lies ahead, and the person has then heeded the voice or not as the case may be ... <br />I think this is a phenomena that is worthy of study.Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-78976577866029172442010-07-20T13:07:25.269-06:002010-07-20T13:07:25.269-06:00Eric - maybe you are a character in a TV show. Yo...Eric - maybe you are a character in a TV show. You hear that tuning in sound right before you wake up because you didn't exist until the TV was turned on.Clowncarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02219213001049223673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-14416806049031727112010-07-20T13:04:48.473-06:002010-07-20T13:04:48.473-06:00Thinking theatrically - exactly, M. I'll be c...Thinking theatrically - exactly, M. I'll be cleaning out the car, see a bag of peanuts and leave it, thinking "little did he know those peanuts would one day save his life"<br /><br /><br />Art, a worthy distinction. I remember hearing years ago about the bicameral brain being responsible for the pantheon of Gods in early religion and lit. That voices from the other side of the brain were interpreted as voices of the Gods.Clowncarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02219213001049223673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-14081582115563889942010-07-20T12:34:38.354-06:002010-07-20T12:34:38.354-06:00I hear voices from time to time before I go to sle...I hear voices from time to time before I go to sleep--somewhere above that liminal state of the half-dream-- and used to hear them virtually every night when I was younger, from 15-19 or so. It was like listening to a scanning radio, but picking up snippets of conversations from people doing all sorts of things. I'd rarely remember what was said, but it was a pretty distinct experience from dreaming because I could think to myself while listening to them "I'm hearing voices again. That's a bit odd".<br /><br />And come to think of it, sometimes I hear a sort of "tuning in" sound, like the sound an old TV makes when you turn it on or off and the screen zaps from white to black or vice versa. Heard that last night.Erichttp://www.ericshonkwiler.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-22676497225649766252010-07-20T11:36:24.256-06:002010-07-20T11:36:24.256-06:00There may be two different kinds of voices at play...There may be two different kinds of voices at play here - there is the internal dialogue that we are all familiar with, and there are voices that seem to come from elsewhere, see under Julian Jaynes and the bicameral mind. A quick check on the internet confirms that the corpus callosum continues to grow in childhood, so that kids hearing voices are possibly those born with late-developing ...callosi, that is, one side of the brain experiences the other as foreign.ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8947514984021363360.post-64736756207142699672010-07-20T11:14:57.667-06:002010-07-20T11:14:57.667-06:00Hearing voices . . . that's just thinking thea...Hearing voices . . . that's just thinking theatrically, right?<br /><br />The bit about talking to your younger self made me laugh; I get the "what the fuck <i>are</i> you thinking?" from present self. (Not that it has much of an effect; it's more of a counter-commentary.)<br /><br /><i>I trust messy</i> - I like that line.Marzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05258262409718943594noreply@blogger.com