Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - How Hearing Voices Works

How Hearing Voices Works

09/22/23 • 63 min

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Have you ever been convinced you heard a voice -- shout, a whisper, someone speaking directly to you -- only to turn around and realize no one was there? This experience is more common than we might comfortably imagine. For millennia, people who heard voices in their heads were considered prophets, lunatics, or vessels of infernal forces. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore the nature of this particular paracusia -- ultimately learning modern science still struggles to understand what may well be a conspiracy within your own brain.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - How Hearing Voices Works

Transcript

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From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A production of Iheartrading. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, my name is Noel. They called me Ben. We're joined as always with our superproducer Paul, Mission controlled dec and most importantly, you are you. You are here that makes this the stuff they don't wa