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Saturday, April 04, 2009 John Allman asks

Q: Does anybody else find listening to these sound files effective at curtailing the hearing of voices?

Eleanor White wrote to me recently (and to others) as follows, about a novel proposed treatment for V2K abuse that might also work for schizophrenia or other voice-hearing aetiologies.

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There is a countermeasure being used by people who hear "voices" they presume to be artificial in origin, conversationally called "voice to skull harassment." These people report relief as a result of using this idea. The idea is to play, either through a speaker or by way of a portable MP3 player using headphones, a "jumble" of audio tracks from radios playing different talk-oriented stations. This has allowed people with heavy voice to skull experiences to break their attention free from the content of the voices, and allows them a rest from forced attention 24/7.

This countermeasure *downloadable* from this link:

http://www.creviews.net/antiv2s.htm

I'd like to suggest that this countermeasure might well provide at least some welcome relief for psychiatric patients troubled by "voices" of NATURAL illness origin as well.

Sincerely,

Eleanor White (retired engineer)
Elliot Lake, Ontario
Canada
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I have listened to one of the soundtracks on Eleanor's webpage, and so has a colleague, who exclaimed, "It stops my voices completely!"  I'd appreciate feedback from anybody else who tries it.  If you hear voices, and would like this to stop, then, does this home remedy work for you?

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4/ 4/09 3:35pm

Hi John Allman,

 

I am not someone with SZ who ever heard voices; I had different, nonetheless debilitating, symptoms when I got sick.

 

So I'll defer to those of us who can vouch for your technique.

 

Best regards,

Christina

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8/ 6/09 6:54pm

My psychiatrist told me many times to use a walkman. Walkman is a word for people my age or older. She really meant something like a portable radio or mp3 player. In short, if you listen to music through head-phones, ear-phones, or similar, it helps with hallucinations which are voices. It does not work as well if you listen to music through regular speakers. I have felt that if I have voices and a put on ear-phones, after some minutes of listening to anything (even five minutes might work wonders), which could include a talk radio show, news over the radio, or any music which calls your attention or musical taste, voices stop or diminish quite a bit.

I plan to buy wireless head-phones and try the same thing I do with a portable radio, with a tv set, like simply watching tv or watching a movie from a dvd-player.

Again, this only works if you have audio-hallucinations (commonly called voices). This really doesn't work for other symptoms of schizophrenia in my case, like for example, releasing way too much adrenaline.

 

Best regards,

 

Me.

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1/ 9/10 9:16am

First of all, I admit I haven't tried this yet.  But my "voices" often already sound like jumbled soundtracks of music and voices talking.  And that is when they are most disturbing.  Just scanning from one station to the next on my car radio is disturbing because I just get bits and pieces before I move on to the next station.  It reminds me of my very worst hallucinations.

 

But playing "nature sounds" like the surf or thunderstorms is very calming and I do that most nights in order to go to sleep peacefully with quality full ear-covering headphones.

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12/24/11 1:31am

I have found it effective for disrupting V2K noise, also listening to several radios on different talk stations. However, I have not had any luck with just trying to distract oneself with music or tv. It has to be the jumble of several soundtracks to make their voices drown in the crowd.  A very crowded room can have a similar effect, but only if it is very noisy. A sleeping pill helped me sleep through the noise at night untill I found this soundtrack.

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12/24/11 3:16am

I might add that when the voice to skull harassment began I had no idea what was really happening, someone claiming to be both my neighbor and the police were shouting harassing remarks about seeing me through the walls and my clothes, and playing audio recordings of my thoughts back at me, making bezerk threats to crash any vehicle I enter by making noise at the driver or pilot, keeping me awake with accusatory dialogues and skits.  

 

 My family felt I was behaving erratically for two months with wierd  complaints about the neighbors, and brought me to a doctor. Typical of voice-to-skull targets, medication was useless. However after I found this soundtrack 3 months into the 24/7 harassment, I stopped needing the sleeping pill to sleep through the constant noise at night - it was drowned out fairly effectively even with a couple of radios set to different stations at once. I was told by a doctor to stop taking medication.

 

The difference between me and a schizophrenic are several: I have never had anything like a mental disturbance before. I am both too young and too old too suddenly become accutely mentally ill with the severity of this harassment simulates, and to have the effects of harassment suddenly reduced by mere sounds is unexpected. I remember to bathe, speak lucidly, am responsible with money, etc. Most importantly the harassment I experienced seemed to loosely adhere to oft-repeated scripts - and these scripts the harassers followed exactly match the scripts of other V2k targets that I've found online. Similarly the harassment seems to be consistently conducted by a team of one man and one woman who take turns (8 hour shifts) to make it 24/7, using a limited number of voice-over characters in an attempt to seem like more than two people. Sleep deprivation due to 24/7 harassment is another typical complaint of V2K targets.

 

Of course this was not my neighbor, and the only existing technology that could theoretically do this in the U.S. is the exclusive patent of the Department of Defense.

 

See website http://www.scribd.com/doc/31743865/Mind-Control-Patents-Index for a list of mind control patents that exist today. As far back as 1976 apparently there was already patented technology to mind read at a distance and speak to the targeted individual so that only they hear.

 

The harassers who bother me boast about their technology, and thus I've learned a little bit about mind control technology and been able to follow up with research on a few terms they've used. 

 

Look up articles in reputable newspapers such as the New York Times, on psychological weapons and 'Voice of God' technology, for things similar to radios that can target one person without others around them hearing , and you will appreciate that such technology does exist and was used in the recent war in Iraq. Essentially such technology can simulate the symptoms of hallucinations in people who never have them. 

 

So the technology really exists nowadays to 'beam' voices into someone's head. But of course anyone who says the military is beaming voices into their heads is still automatically deemed delusional, although several diverse technologies to do this have been around since the early '70s. 

 

Scandals like MKUltra and Cointelpo are often cited as proofs that the Department of Defense has at times practiced nonconsensual human experimentation. The new use of new psychological weapons is difficult to monitor, difficult to prove. Some believe that the technology is being experimented with at the expense of a handful of individuals.

 

A schizophrenics mind looks different through a CAT scan than a normal person's. Noone did a CAT scan on me or anything to find a physical sign of mental defect, merely saying the words "electronic harassment" is enough to be deemed severely mentally ill, even from someone who never made weird claims about anything in their lives before. Perhaps this should change. Because  now the technologies exists that can follow individuals with noise, painful shocks, or simulated visual hallucinations wherever a cell phone or GPS tracking system can go. Medication doesn't shut off a real radio or t.v - or similar technology via voice to skull, although painkillers might help with any form of induced or perceived pain.

 

If anyone takes claims of voice-to-skull harassment seriously enough to do a study on how to tell the difference between someone suffering from simulated hallucinations vs. real ones, it could help usher the psychiatric world into the modern era. Because mind control is a rapidly advancing field and such technology is in use in warfare today. Several countries: the U.S., Russia, Canada, Australia, India and England all have a number of technologies that can loosely be termed voice-to-skull, and other nations have openly expressed interest in developing such technologies. 

 

Did this voice to skull experience change my life? Yeah. I never worried about a psychological weapons arms race before. I thought such things were the domain of Star Trek and believed the science fiction time-line that says even in the imaginary world, mind reading machines or radios that only one person hears could only happen in the far off future. Now I read about developing mind control technologies with intense concern. I hope the psychiatric world will too.

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