hear voices
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"Two days later, a colleague of mine had exactly the same experience. He could hear voices in the room so he didn't go in," Nowell said.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
Gucci Mane said that during episodes of what he called “psychosis,” he would hear voices speaking ill about people in his close circles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
“We should have the opposite. And I hope that we continue to hear voices around the country that speak into this moment for the sake of our kids and our grandkids.”
From Salon ● May 6, 2025
Many mysteries remain about the origins of hallucinations, but one hypothesis suggests that when people hear voices, they are hearing their own thoughts disguised as another person’s by a quirk of the brain.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
I hear voices in the living room—a chorus of them, in fact, joined by occasional bursts of laughter and a faint melody plucked on an instrument, a banjo or a guitar.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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