hear voices

present singular third person hears voices · participle present hearing voices · participle past heard voices · past heard voices

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, voice.
2. idiomaticHave the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations.

   From this time onward, [John] Mason was a changed man: he began to hear voices and experience visions of the coming millennium.

   2018 June, Martin Greig, “Elijah in Dorset: William Freke and Enthusiasm in England and the Atlantic World at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century”, in Church History, →DOI, page 439

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   They're hearing voices, they may have delusional thinking. They may have illogical thinking, so that when you talk to them they don't make very good sense. That's the disease called schizophrenia.

   1991 April 19, Why Are They Here? (television production), [E. Fuller?] Torrey (actor), ABC