hi renee,

it's really hard to tell what's going on by just this...You could just be dreaming and it wakes you up. If the voices start when you're awake all the time or tell you to hurt someone, then you should start becoming concerned!!

I would ask, do you have a history of mental illness in your family? Do you find yourself being really compulsive about things-like spending alot of money, or doing things other people think are bizarre? Are you hypersexual or hyperreligious.?

I don't discount psychic phenomenon, but nikpalj comes on here and tells everyone they are sensitive to "the spirit world", even people with clearly psychotic symptoms.

If it's obtrusive you might went to mention it at your next doctor appt. Good luck!

I've had a few lucid dreams before. I don't practice this stuff. But i've been told that i'm kinda psychic.And I do have a spirit in my house. I don't know if that has anything to do with this though.

Arggh, please stop muddling up the schizophrenia forum with new age babble. This is simply a normal process of the brain, you are likely very creative, but that's about all you can glean from it. You're simply more aware of when you're falling asleep and the voices you're hearing is your active brain breaking down so the automatic brain can take over during sleep. The funny thing about all this crap is all of it is totally hearsay, there is still nothing substantial anywhere to prove anything, so people like this enjoy making up theories and riding with them. The fact that you actually believe anything that first author writes is enough to laugh. Anyway, the important point is you're not hearing voices, believe whatever you want about spirits because until someone figures it out anything is a good theory.

Where did nikpalj's posts go? Did someone finally recognize their posts as spam and get rid of 'em? Hooray!

I'm sure stan has his reasons for saying things like "the fact that you actually believe anything that first author writes is enough to laugh" but it doesn't seem to be helpful. I'm sure it's not helpful to lend creedence to psychic phenomenon to possible schizophrenics, but it's also probably not real helpful to be insulting either.

I completely believe there are things we can't explain in this world, but I also completely believe that these things do not make schizophrenics psychotic or hear voices.

Renee, can you wake yourself up so you stop hearing this stuff? Can you control it? I guess what I mean is does it wake you up, or do you wake yourself up?

If you'd read the author she mentioned, who believes a race of lizard people control the US government, you'd understand why I posted that. I had them deleted, they just weren't proper for here. Ideas like that could make a real schizophrenic, or even someone normal who's having problems, go down a bad road. I know exactly what she's talking about because I experience it too. She'll get used to it, it's simply the mind shutting down for the night.

Oh, I didn't understand. Thanks for the correction! Sorry!