Usually the sound of a song takes the form of human voice.
Every now and then, I hear one of Madonna's songs in my head.
It goes away and some other nonsense song takes it's place.
I don't think I've ever heard my own voice, singing a song, in my head.
BTW, "Apology of Socrates" was written by Plato (a part of which was cited earlier in this thread). No experts seem to suppose it is a fiction. I can believe the contents are almost the words by Socrates himself.
New Haven wrote:Whose voice?
A tenor voice in a Bach's cantata, for example.
NH..
(I am happy about it.)
I am just saying that hearing voices could not be very queer, as one can hear music or song (with voice) in mind.
I am simply feeling sympathy for the schitzophrenics in the world who "hear" voices that scare them half to death and/or cause them to do incredible harm to themselves or others.
That is not to say, however, that hearing voices or music is not the most wonderful of spiritual experiences. Maybe what's odd is the fact people seem to know if it's a good, or harmful, thing to have happen.
It must be more important to judge with reason what one hears.
Does a pink elephant ever sing? Would it be a pleasant thing?
I'll have to ask my bartender if I mutter in my sleep...
or if it was all just a dream.
Mozart hears music in his mind, and a person who are not able to tell difference of scales may hear music in mind. The results won't be the same when the both put forth the tunes for others.
To sleep
Is it possible to have a
waking dream,
and a
lucid dream at the same time?
If so, would the voices one hears be schizophrenia?
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Aristotle: Hope is a waking dream.
Adrienne Rich: It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Let them diagnose Socrates.
Quote: "Does Heaven speak? The four seasons pursue their
courses, and all things are continually being produced, but does
Heaven say anything?"
- Confucius.
(Confucius loved music and sang and played the instruments himself. He has an episode of becoming indifferent about the taste of delicious meal for a few months on hearing excellent music.)
"Wake!
Loud sounds the warning of watching guard
High on the ramparts
....
...."
(A part of a translated verse of Bach, J.S. Cantata 140, "Wake! loud sounds the warning"
- The related gospel text: St.Matthew 25. 1-13)
Once listened to it, you are sure to hear Bach's Cantata 140 ringing in your mind in the morning. (Voices are soprano, tenor and bass.)
