i can hear voices.

venomkid said:
Yep. It's lovely, your brain wants you to hear them so badly it makes things up. Given a track of pure white noise, people can pick out whole phrases and even sentences. I make music that depends on the fact that human perception isn't passive.

boardstupid said:

what makes the brain do that?

MistressVamp said:
Ummm....is it wrong that I hear things when there isn't any music or sounds on?

malmuud said:

Only if no one is talking to you.

I find it to be a much bigger problem when there IS someone talking to me and I don't seem to hear them.

MistressVamp said:

Yes I mean when no one is talking to me and it is quiet.
sometimes I think I hear someone talking to me but really no ones there.

malmuud said:

I think you're safe as long as those voices aren't telling you to kill anyone. Or coming from the dog next door.

MistressVamp said:

WHEW! I think I'm safe then they haven't told me to kill anyone yet.....or have they?

MistressVamp said:

Yes I mean when no one is talking to me and it is quiet.
sometimes I think I hear someone talking to me but really no ones there.

SomeOneUK said:
Are you listening to Massive Attack?

boardstupid said:
when you listen to music in your rooom, with headphones on, walking down the road etc etc...do you hear voices? when im listening in my room withthe music up load it always sounds as though poeple are shouting up the stairs at me. so i turn my music down and shout "yes....? what do you want?" and i either get no reply or a "i didnt say anything".

highly annoying.

venomkid said:

I'm not really sure of the physical mechanisms. Human sense have an integrated predictive system, though. Your brain is anticipating what it thinks will happen based on experience, narrowing down every possibility until the last moment when it actually happens. This can lead to confusion, because when you get incomplete information, your brain will have already made up the missing pieces to a large extent, which is just one of the reasons eyewitness testimony is unreliable.

Within this, our senses look for meaning in everything even when we're not paying attention. Once you learn to read, when you see words, you can't not read them. Similarly, it's in your eyes to seek out faces in objects (especially when light is low), and your ears seek voices in noise.

I would guess it evolved because it keeps us slightly (if inaccurately) ahead of our competition.

venomkid said:

I'm not really sure of the physical mechanisms. Human sense have an integrated predictive system, though. Your brain is anticipating what it thinks will happen based on experience, narrowing down every possibility until the last moment when it actually happens. This can lead to confusion, because when you get incomplete information, your brain will have already made up the missing pieces to a large extent, which is just one of the reasons eyewitness testimony is unreliable.

Within this, our senses look for meaning in everything even when we're not paying attention. Once you learn to read, when you see words, you can't not read them. Similarly, it's in your eyes to seek out faces in objects (especially when light is low), and your ears seek voices in noise.

I would guess it evolved because it keeps us slightly (if inaccurately) ahead of our competition.

venomkid said:

I'm not really sure of the physical mechanisms. Human sense have an integrated predictive system, though. Your brain is anticipating what it thinks will happen based on experience, narrowing down every possibility until the last moment when it actually happens. This can lead to confusion, because when you get incomplete information, your brain will have already made up the missing pieces to a large extent, which is just one of the reasons eyewitness testimony is unreliable.

Within this, our senses look for meaning in everything even when we're not paying attention. Once you learn to read, when you see words, you can't not read them. Similarly, it's in your eyes to seek out faces in objects (especially when light is low), and your ears seek voices in noise.

I would guess it evolved because it keeps us slightly (if inaccurately) ahead of our competition.