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When I was a child (5 or 6) I remember often hearing voices – sometimes muttering, sometimes shouting angrily. It was often when I was sick, or suffering from a fever. It stopped happening I guess, but I still wonder if that's normal?

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This happened to me during my childhood fevers as well. Multiple voices more or less simultaneously saying the same thing, like a group of people whispering in a room, at times growing louder, more insistent, angrier, in the end shouting. Almost forgot about it until I experienced something similar during my brief experimentation with salvia divinorum in my early twenties, though this time the voices sounded somewhat unified and much less like an angry mob, more like some kind of incredulous medieval choir reciting lines about what I was doing while not having any of it.

Fast forward twenty years and the angry insistent mob decided to once more pay me a visit during a sleepless and feverish night, this was about a month ago. Not sure if normal, I'm definitely not, but I've never heard or seen anyone mention this phenomenon in a way I could relate to until you just did.

Yes, exactly that – the voices started out whispering, but would culminate in rage. Interesting, I wonder if there's a name for this.

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