Imaginary Voices

Fascinating article about people who hear voices. It corroborates what I've long believed; these people are experiencing real things in their mind and body, but they're misattributing physical and chemical reactions to metaphysical causes. A psychic's talent isn't speaking with spirits. It's being highly sensitive to microemotions and moods and feeling their way through a conversation kind of like a psychosis sherpa.

I hear voices all the time, but it's not like someone talking to me. I hear dialogue, like a play happening in my mind. Imaginary conversations as a form of thinking. I suspect this is extremely common, especially among writers and heavy readers. I can easily imagine a person who takes this one step further, and hears these voices as breaking the fourth wall. A non-religious person would hear them for exactly what they were. A spiritual or unstable person might think it was ghosts or god.