Where does your voice come from?

About 4% of the world's population can hear strange voices in their heads.

The mystery of the voice inside each person's head

Many people believe that the phenomenon of hearing a strange voice in the ears , in the head is a symptom of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or physical weakness. However, according to research by Dutch scientists, many healthy people also encounter this case.

The inner voice exists in any form: from repeating the list of things to do in the day to recreating a conversation that happened, or even imagining a dialogue.

The inner voice is very dangerous for people with schizophrenia and psychological disorders.

According to experts, this is considered a mental illness , also known as auditory hallucinations . Some statistics show that the number of people who hear voices in the head is not small, accounting for about 4% of the population. So what exactly is this 'disease' and where does it come from?

According to many psychologists who understand the origins of inner monologues and how they work in healthy people, it can help treat those who often hear voices inside the head in a direction. harmful as patients with schizophrenia and other dangerous psychological disorders. In many cases, patients often hear voices causing themselves to commit suicide, injure themselves or even kill others.

The larynx operates when there is a voice inside the head.

Psychologists all over the world have a long history of studying the inner voice. Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky said that in the early 1930s the inner voice was closely related to each person's ability to speak loudly. The experiment actually proved that the larynx vibrates when we hear voices inside our heads.

Mosely's recent research also brings us closer to the answer. The 1990 brain scan showed that Broca's brain area in charge of speaking and dialogue also works when the voice inside ' talks' to us.

According to Mosely, the illusion of sound language can simply be a form of inner voice that we are unaware of because it is born by ourselves. The evidence supporting this idea is that both cases have the same active brain region, the Broca region.

Broca's brain area is in charge of speech and active dialogue when the inner monologue takes place.

But it is interesting that the 2012 study of Finnish scientists found that the overall brain activity was very different in two cases of hearing hallucinations of sound language when they tried to imagine. words like that.

In particular, when there is hallucination, there is little activity from the brain region in charge of human self-awareness. This explains self-awareness being blocked and we will not know that the voice in our head is actually our own.

Mosely said: 'The study does not stop at finding the source of the voice within the head. We need to go further, learn how the experience took place so we can find ways to help those who are depressed, psychologically confused because they hear those voices. "