The human brain is great at connecting dots. You are just a critical thinker.

CBD oil is fantastic for this.

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They make hemp and non-hemp derived tinctures that promote healing and overall relaxation through the use of cannibidiol. This differs from traditional marijuana because there is no THC, thus, no psychedelic effect.

there is no THC, thus, no psychedelic effect.

Well that's just pointless.

Lol

It's legal, you can smoke it next to a cop and they can't say a thing, and it has 95% of the medical benefits. A $15 tank vaporizer cartridge lasts approximately 2 weeks with daily use.

Thats not to say I don't partake in anything else, but for people who can't smoke due to work, probation, etc, this is a totally viable and amazing option.

Yeah I was just kidding...kind of lol

Can you link me that $15 tank vaporizer?

Aah it's at a local vape shop but they sell them pretty much anywhere they sell stuff for those obnoxious vape pens. My place even sells CBD candy!

Agreed, I can handle regular pot, but to unwind I will smoke a very high CBD content bowl, with little to no THC. And all a sudden all is right in the world and I don't worry as much. It's funny because regular potency THC bud send my thoughts into overdrive and it's almost unbearable

It's only a monologue if you don't respond to the questions presented by your mind.

No its problem solving. Like mice do. They look at a problem. A thing that makes no sense. The unexplained, and they attempt to solve it with pre existing knowledge.

This can be hard to observe socially, but our social sphere is very cluttered. Facts are harder to observe, and proof. So like the mice we find new ways to test things etc.

You're not nuts, you are just thinking outside the box, conspiracy material is always thought provoking. You mind is just thinking freely, questioning the narrative.

That's not hearing voices. Hearing voices is when you're listening to the lady on the radio and think she has an annoying voice but the radio isn't even on! Sounds like you're just a critical thinker and there's nothing wrong with that. You're not crazy.

Internal dialogue aint nothin to be afraid of.

No, not at all. This is a sign that you're still human and still capable of critical thinking. People who "hear voices" often report that the voices are coming from outside their "self" (ego) and are literally speaking to them just as a third party.

I will say, as someone who "hears voices" it is sometimes in the head, just a different voice then your inner monologue.

This is what I was trying to express. The voices they hear are different and apart from their ongoing inner monologue. Thank you.

Oh no problem I was thinking you meant more "outside the body". Auditory hallucinations are scary. Maybe even more scary than visual hallucinations because the eyes are known to play tricks.

I can imagine so. Can you close your eyes to make visual hallucinations go away? Obviously with auditory hallucinations you can't just plug your ears, which as you said probably makes them worse.

Yes I suppose closing your eyes would work for visual hallucinations but they last so quickly for me I've never really had time to try it. Same with auditory it's usually very quick.

We live in an age of massive media supersaturation, with disinfo and propaganda being thrown into the mix by all sides and factions. It's not crazy to take all this information and come up with a wide range of possibilities for what could be true. As someone who has experienced auditory hallucinations, I don't believe what you are experiencing is "hearing voices." It's normal for a person to be fed so much information that one's brain tries to deduce what could be true, for the purposes of survival and well-being.

Personally, I believe it is impossible to discern truth from amongst the noise. It is far better to focus on oneself and one's immediate reality, and improving one's standing while helping friends and family along the way.

I do not have a PhD, but I have spent a large portion of my life studying philosophy and cognitive science, among other more esoteric teachings.

From personal experience though, I believe there is a hand behind the noise that is helping guide people to different ideas/conclusions. The more you build yourself up and make yourself noticeable/distinguished, the more the information you come across seems to be manipulated.

Yes and no. What I've written there does not directly cognitive science, but rather a conclusion derived from my understanding of psychology and informational processes in the brain.

As for something to google...I would suggest if you have no familiarity with the field, start with understanding yourself. You are the lens you filter the world through. In having a better perception of your own interpretations, filters, and censors, you can better digest the dense verbiage of lectures and writings that you can find with google.

If you have some familiarity with the field, Wittgenstein is a good place to start building from. Not directly in the cognitive field, but his ideas on language are highly formative of the modern cognitive sciences.

As far as guardian angels go...well, there's definitely one ("one") watching me. A short story, after some synchronous experiences here on reddit, I felt compelled to go to a particular subreddit and begin responding to posts. I'm not going to give the name of the subreddit because I've been heavy-handedly nudged to not draw attention to it. After a few replies, I noticed a new post in the sub. It was written by me in the past. Not literally, but rather it was so detailed about a moment in my past that it really made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I answered, and it was immediately deleted. Another popped up, from a different time in my past. Something that only I thought I could know about myself. I replied, and it too was immediately deleted. This happened a few times in a row, with a theme of recurring words and phrases. I feel this was a means to uncover information about my inner world, what I thought about shameful moments in my past, for the purposes of further conditioning me.

This wasn't the first or last time I've noticed this invisible hand reaching out to me.

So now i have some insight in what it looks like when we begin to confuse critical thinking with going batshit. Don't worry, its normal. I'ts what people did all the time back before they taught us to be afraid of our own thoughts.

Turn the tv off for awhile and see how you feel.

How many have you been medically "labeled"

No...you're fucking nuts...j/k

What's more concerning are people that dont have inter-dialogue.

Yes and no. What I've written there does not directly cognitive science, but rather a conclusion derived from my understanding of psychology and informational processes in the brain.

As for something to google...I would suggest if you have no familiarity with the field, start with understanding yourself. You are the lens you filter the world through. In having a better perception of your own interpretations, filters, and censors, you can better digest the dense verbiage of lectures and writings that you can find with google.

If you have some familiarity with the field, Wittgenstein is a good place to start building from. Not directly in the cognitive field, but his ideas on language are highly formative of the modern cognitive sciences.

As far as guardian angels go...well, there's definitely one ("one") watching me. A short story, after some synchronous experiences here on reddit, I felt compelled to go to a particular subreddit and begin responding to posts. I'm not going to give the name of the subreddit because I've been heavy-handedly nudged to not draw attention to it. After a few replies, I noticed a new post in the sub. It was written by me in the past. Not literally, but rather it was so detailed about a moment in my past that it really made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I answered, and it was immediately deleted. Another popped up, from a different time in my past. Something that only I thought I could know about myself. I replied, and it too was immediately deleted. This happened a few times in a row, with a theme of recurring words and phrases. I feel this was a means to uncover information about my inner world, what I thought about shameful moments in my past, for the purposes of further conditioning me.

This wasn't the first or last time I've noticed this invisible hand reaching out to me.