What is a spiritual voice?

Some people find the term 'hearing voices' a useful way to describe their experience; others refer more specifically to hearing God, angels, saints, demons or other spiritual beings. Others hear sounds but not speech, describe loud thoughts or feel the presence of God, angels, demons or other beings.
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What does it mean when you hear a voice and nobody's there?

While hearing voices can be a symptom of some mental health problems, not everyone who hears voices has a mental illness. Hearing voices is actually quite a common experience: around one in ten of us will experience it at some point in our lives. Hearing voices is sometimes called an 'auditory hallucination'.
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How do you hear and see spiritually?

  1. Close your eyes and pray. You don't have to close your eyes, but there's something about shutting out the earthly realm and tuning into God's realm that helps us see what He's seeing. ...
  2. Ask God for wisdom. ...
  3. Look for signposts in the Word. ...
  4. Keep your spiritual antennae up. ...
  5. Discuss what you're sensing.
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What does it mean when u hear voices?

Hearing voices may be a symptom of a mental illness. A doctor may diagnose you 'psychosis' or 'bipolar disorder'. But you can hear voices without having a mental health diagnosis. Research shows that many people hear voices or experience other types of hallucinations.
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What does it mean when a voice wakes you up?

Sleep Hallucinations

Some people experience hallucinations just as they're falling asleep (called hypnagogic hallucinations) or just as they start to wake up (hypnopompic hallucinations). These are thought to occur due to your brain being partly in a dreaming state and in themselves are nothing to worry about.
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What does the Bible say about hearing voices?

From the cloud a voice is heard: “This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!” (Mark 9:7), “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!” (Matthew 17:5), and “This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!” (Luke 9:35) After the voice has spoken, the disciples find themselves alone with Jesus.
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What does it mean when your sleeping and you hear your name?

Voices as you fall asleep or wake up – these are to do with your brain being partly in a dreaming state. The voice might call your name or say something brief. You might also see strange things or misinterpret things you can see. These experiences usually stop as soon as you are fully awake.
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What is the voice in your head called?

Also referred to as “internal dialogue,” “the voice inside your head,” or an “inner voice,” your internal monologue is the result of certain brain mechanisms that cause you to “hear” yourself talk in your head without actually speaking and forming sounds.
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What causes a person to hear voices?

There are many significant factors that can cause hearing voices. The major factors that contribute to this condition are stress, anxiety, depression, and traumatic experiences. In some cases, there might be environmental and genetic factors that cause such hearing of voices.
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Can someone listen to your thoughts?

Thought broadcasting is primarily characterized by an unshakeable feeling that people around you can hear your innermost thoughts. In most cases, people who experience this phenomenon are in a constant state of distress because they think that people can hear their thoughts.
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How do you know if you are a spiritual person?

Spiritual people mind their own business and focus on their own path while accepting others as they are. They honor other people's life experience by not passing judgment on them or criticizing them. When spiritual people don't have something positive to say about others, they simply don't say anything.
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What are spiritual eyes and ears?

To see and hear the hidden things of God requires spiritual eyes and ears. Hunger for spiritual truth requires awakened senses, and to love the things of God requires a new heart. (See Ezekiel 11:19 and 36:26.) God alone is the source of spiritual eyes and undivided hearts.
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What is your spiritual vision?

Spiritual sight is the ability to see that which is unseen. It is possible that we see things with our eyes but let's not be so limited by the word 'sight'. When you hear someone say, “I see what you mean,” they aren't talking about physical sight but referring to understanding.
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Why are the voices in my head so mean?

Psychologists believe these voices are residues of childhood experiences—automatic patterns of neural firing stored in our brains and dissociated from the memory of the events they are trying to protect us from.
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How do I stop the voices in my head?

Ignore the voices, block them out or distract yourself. For example, you could try listening to music on headphones, exercising, cooking or knitting. You might have to try a few different distractions to find what works for you. Give them times when you agree to pay attention to them and times when you will not.
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What sounds do schizophrenics hear?

Most commonly though, people diagnosed with schizophrenia will hear multiple voices that are male, nasty, repetitive, commanding, and interactive, where the person can ask the voice a question and get some kind of answer.”
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How do you know if you are seeing things?

You may have hallucinations if you: hear sounds or voices that nobody else hears. see things that are not there like objects, shapes, people or lights. feel touch or movement in your body that is not real like bugs are crawling on your skin or your internal organs are moving around.
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What is it called when you think everyone is talking about you?

Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental health condition marked by a pattern of distrust and suspicion of others without adequate reason to be suspicious. People with PPD are always on guard, believing that others are constantly trying to demean, harm or threaten them.
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What is it called when you make up stories in your head and believing them?

Confabulation is a symptom of various memory disorders in which made-up stories fill in any gaps in memory. German psychiatrist Karl Bonhoeffer coined the term “confabulation” in 1900.
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Does everyone talk to themselves in their head?

There is huge variation in the frequency with which people speak to themselves in their mind. In one study with 30 participants that involved ten beeps a day for three days, some reported no instances of inner speaking at all, while others reported inner speaking for 75 per cent of the beeps.
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Is it normal to have another voice in your head?

Voice hearing is often called auditory verbal hallucinations in the research literature. Hearing a voice or voices is not an uncommon occurrence with between 0.6% and 84% of the population hearing voices that other people don't.
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Is your inner voice always right?

This voice and feeling is incredibly important to listen to since it is always right. Even when you doubt it, it always turns out to be right. However, it can sometimes be hard to hear this voice because of all the other thoughts in our heads, fighting for our attention too.
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What does it mean when you hear God call your name?

When God calls your name twice, there is an elevation for you. Throughout the Bible this happens to men and women of God. In Genesis 22:11, Abraham proved to God that he was willing to obey him even in taking his son's life. Before he could cut him with the knife God calls his name twice — Abraham, Abraham.
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How do you hear the voice of God?

How to practice listening prayer
  1. Come to God with your request for guidance. ...
  2. Wait in silence for God to speak for 10-12 minutes. ...
  3. Jot down any Scripture, songs, impressions, or pictures God gives you. ...
  4. Share how God spoke to you with your prayer partners and follow God's will.
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