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My best friend of 28 years is schizophrenic. He was diagnosed in his early 20's.... late teens. I don't talk to him much anymore, but I want to. It's hard to communicate efficiently. Last I knew he heard voices in his head... and saw lights in the sky. One of those voices were me, and every single one of them were always mad or disappointed in him because he didn't do what they"me" said to do and would berate him.... I feel so bad that my own voice can cause him pain like that. I haven't talked to him in two years... Last I knew he was on meth with some shitwhole 'friends.'

I remember when my brother had to have a psych evaluation, he told me that one of the questions they asked was "Do you see and hear things that other people don't see and hear?"
I realized it was good I wasn't the one being evaluated, because I see and hear things other people don't see and hear all the time, whenever I'm alone for instance, and often when I'm with others if I'm looking at or listening to something no one else is. That answer wouldn't go over well, I'm fairly certain.

I often wonder if auditory hallucinations that are not verbal or in any way communicative are indicative of anything important or worrying. I often can hear phantom music or phantom unintelligibly quiet talk radio in white noise, which defeats the main purpose of the white noise (made by a loud air filter), which is to drowned out all distracting noises so I can sleep.