Can You Be Non-Schizophrenic And Hear Voices?

 Well.....yeah, but it tends to fit into special group of factors.

Example: under a severe lack of sleep.....say over an entire week....less than 10 hours of sleep.....you might think you are hearing voices.

Example: under some pretty traumatic life experiences.....you might have developed severe PTSD/stress, and you might think you are hearing voices.

Example: under starvation conditions (like a prisoner of war situation).....you might think you are hearing voices.

Example: there are plenty of recreational drugs now existing.....where you might trip out and think you are hearing voices.

So, here's the odd factor.  You could walk around and find twenty-odd people a day who admit some type of voice in their head, and it's unconnected to schizophrenia.  Course, with the recreational drug thing.....you might go back two or three times a week....regularly.....hearing Elvis talk about global warming, or hearing Captain Kangaroo lecture you about washing your hands, or hear Adolph Hitler's voice (in English) talking over some demon stuff.  

If you thought schizophrenia was something to worry about....sorry, but I just made this worry a bit bigger in scale.