>>   I don't either. But after being in a noisy place I
 >> come away with
 >> 'mumble' head noises. They're not voices (aural
 >> hallucinations). See

 >  BM> I would say that head noises are aural hallucinations, which normally
 >  BM> do not sound specifically like voices.  My experience is that they can
 >  BM> sound like an orchestra tuning up, a single tone, the mumble of a
 >  BM> distant social gathering, clicking, "loud silence,"
the tinkling of a
 >  BM> tiny bell (which I can no longer actually hear); a whole variety.
 >  BM> This most likely differs from person to person.

 > But I know they aren't real as in caused externally by
 > actual
 > sound. They're not drug induced nor are they
 > psychosis.

I do occasionally get a persistence of a sound actually heard; I sometimes
have to stop up my ears to determine whether I'm actually hearing a noise
or not.

 > The medical society does not' KNOW what causes them
 > AFAIK but I'd like
 > to find out. :) As for the blood flow.. that is real.
 > One theory is
 > that they are MEMORY 'echos' in the same way you
 > 'visualize' something
 > you've seen. It's not a hallucination. It's a
 > manifestation of the
 > memory. I'll find out more on this.

 >>> faucet) or see a door slam, my memory provides the
 >>> associated sound. I know I am not hearing those sounds.

 >  BM> This I don't have.  I can remember what things used to sound like,
 >  BM> usually, but I don't get a sound track when I see them.


 >  That's interesting. I do.. maybe memory impressions
 > are stronger in
 > some of us than others. I know some people can't
 > 'visualize' things
 > they've seen. Such as, 'can you picture a waterfall? I
 > can. I know
 > it's not real but I can visualize it consciously the
 > way you would in
 > in a dream.


 > BTW everybody. I'd like to find out about tactile/
 > olfactory and taste
 > memories. I don't have those but wonder if perhaps the
 > born deaf or
 > born blind do. How for example, if they do, does a
 > blind person dream?
 > Someone I had ventured discussing this with suggested
 > they dream in
 > colors/textures and sounds perhaps taste ? Touch?

 > And then again how come our memory impressions of
 > sight and sound are
 > so much stronger so as to be able to experience them
 > awake? And even
 > in dreams, I've never had a 'taste/touch/ or smell'
 > sensation.
 > ((Though you might if say you're just waking up and
 > thought you dreamt
 > the smell of coffee but then you wake up and that's
 > what it is. :)

My dreams don't seem to include eating.  As for smell, perhaps it is
important to not be able to dream of smells, as a survival mechanism.  I
have been waked by suddenly occurring smells, and perhaps that's
appropriate--certainly if the smell is of smoke.  I also partially awaken
when I smell skunk, wondering sleepily if that's something I have to worry
about.  After I decide that it isn't, I lapse back to sleep again.

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