Autonomous voice communication

Template:Proofread Subconscious communication can be described as the experience of engaging in linguistic conversations with a disembodied and separate audible voice of unknown origin residing within one's own head. This voice is often capable of directly manipulating various aspects and intensities of one's trip and will either clearly explain the logic behind its decisions or choose to keep it a mystery.

As a whole, the effect itself can be broken down into 4 distinct levels of progressive intensity, each of which are listed and described below.

1. A sensed presence of the other - This level can be defined as the distinctive feeling that another form of consciousness is internally present alongside that of one's usual sense of self.
2. Mutually generated internal responses - This level can be defined as internal linguistic responses to one's own thoughts and feelings which feel as if they are partially generated by one's own thought stream and in equal measure by that of a separate thought stream.
3. Separately generated internal responses - This level can be defined as internal linguistic responses to one's own thoughts and feelings which feel as if they are generated by an entirely separate thought stream from one's own.
4. Separately generated audible internal responses - This level can be defined as internal linguistic responses to one's own thoughts and feelings which are perceived as a clearly defined and audible voice within one's head. These can take on a variety of voices, accents and dialects, but usually sound identical to one's own spoken voice.

The speaker behind this voice is innately interpreted by those who experience communication with it to be either that of one's subconscious, the psychoactive substance itself or even supernatural concepts such as god, spirits, souls and ancestors.

The conversational style of that which is discussed between both the voice and its host can be described as essentially identical in terms of its coherency and linguistic intelligibility as that of any other every day interaction between the self and another human being with which one might engage in conversation with.

There are, however, some subtle but identifiable differences between this experience and that of normal every day conversations, each of which stem from the factor that one's specific set of knowledge, memories and experiences are identical to that of the voice which is being communicated with. This key factor results in a conversation in which both participants share a noticeably identical vocabulary down to the very use of their colloquial slang and subtle mannerisms.

As a result of this, no matter how in depth and detailed the discussion becomes, no entirely new information is ever exchanged between the two communicators. Instead, the discussion focuses primarily on building upon old ideas and discussing new opinions or perspectives regarding the previously established content of one's life.

Effect analysis

The experience of communicating with hallucinated voices has been well established with and without the use of hallucinogenic drugs through scientific study. For example, one study successfully demonstrated that anybody can encounter a dialogue between themselves and a voice of unknown origin under the influence of psilocybin mushrooms. This study interviewed 128 participants with an approximate total of 3,427 psilocybin mushroom experiences between them and revealed that 35.9% (46) of the participants reported voices whilst 64% (82) did not.

Even outside of these drug-induced experiences, hearing voices within one's head is a well documented psychological phenomena and can generally be considered as a harmless or sometimes even helpful state of mind to find oneself in (despite its social stigma and associations with schizophrenia).

Psychoactive substances

Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:

Experience reports

Anecdotal reports which describe this effect within our experience index include:

• Experience: 200µg 1P-LSD (sublingual) + 12mg CBD - The Vortex of Empathy
• Experience:1.5 Grams Psilocybe Cubensis
• Experience:150mg MDMA + 20mg 2C-B - I designed it this way myself
• Experience:1g of stars and love
• Experience:2.5g Syrian rue + 6g Mimosa Hostilis - My first experience with unity
• Experience:20mg - I looked up and saw an angry god-like figure made of clouds glaring down at me
• Experience:25mg DMT - Your wall can't save you
• Experience:2g Syrian rue + 1g Mimosa Hostilis - These voices are the building blocks of consciousness
• Experience:3 Grams of Mushrooms - Reset on my Life, Experiencing Satori and the Cosmic Perspective
• Experience:3.5g psilocybe cubensis - Relinquishing of Material Chains/Fear and Desolation
• Experience:300ug LSD - Profound religious experience
• Experience:3g Syrian Rue + 5g Acacia Confusa - Life Changing Madness
• Experience:3g mimosa / 2g syrian rue - I was the Universe's prophet
• Experience:40mg - Brothermind and the Forest's Hand
• Experience:50mg - Truth
• Experience:6g mimosa / 2.5 g syrian rue - Best cake I've had for a while
• Experience:800 seeds LSA - My First Trip Ever
• Experience:DMT (unknown dose, smoked) - It felt like I was on rails the whole time
• Experience:Mushrooms (~0.5 g) - Autonomous Voice
• Experience:Mushrooms and Snuff Films -- Trip Report (3.5 grams)
• Experience:Unknown Dose DOC (Insufflated) - Overdosing and Terifying Ego Death

See also

• Subjective effects index
• Psychedelics - Subjective effects
• Dissociatives - Subjective effects
• Deliriants - Subjective effects