Wow, check this out:
The University of Manchester investigation - announced on World Hearing Voices Day (Thursday, 14th September) - comes after Dutch researchers found that many healthy members of the population there regularly hear voices.
from the Holons link Can Hearing Voices in Your Head Be a Good Thing?
Wow...there really is a day for pretty much everything, isn't there? A friend told me about a writer he knows who lives a consistent 2nd life (not the computer kind) when he sleeps - in his dreams he goes go another world, where he has a different wife and different children; it is consistent and develops over time just as his life in this world does. During the day (in our world) he hears voices from the other world. My friend explained that the writer will never end up in a mental institution because he "knows how to play the game" of consensus reality, and he takes living in two worlds in stride.
Interestingly, last night I met someone who told me about a shaman he knows who works with datura, and as a result lives in two worlds in just that way. I guess it doesn't matter what kind of weirdness you experience as long as you know how to play the game and don't feel too distressed by the weirdness.
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