danlennon3 said:

just talking to yourself. its a way of thinking.

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Yoschie99 said:

i hear conversations in my head w/ different voices doing the talking.. and will often have a voice that is definately not my own that asks a question..and i answer it.. 

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Harmonic_Order said:

Yeah, I dunno...
After witnessing a lot of textbook-worshipping by the Psychiatric Profession, I went and did a bunch of research on this myself.
Plenty of pre-modern and ancient cultures found this commonplace.
Some serious researchers think that at a definite time in history, the "Bi-Cameral Mind" which allowed people to receive in-the-head guidance from the deity of their choice, broke down.
Ever since, the divine-guidance meme hasn't worked so well.
Without doing the entire nerd routine and citing sources, think about these few examples of how hearing others' voices doesn't make you crazy.
Luke Skywalker heard Obi-Wan and Yoda. Shit, he even saw 'em. Nobody called that character crazy.
David Carradeen had flashbacks, mostly visual but also auditory, in the original Kung Fu series--and nobody found that odd.
Jeezus heard Big Daddy calling him "His good and faithful servant" while John the Baptist took him swimming with the crocodiles in the Jordan.
And one of the survivors of the Pentagon blast on 9/11 found his way out of the building following a voice in his head.
Crazy or sane?
Where does the line sit?
Depends on how "into it" you get, and who you hang out with.
We don't live in the ancient world, but plenty of people act like they do.

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Myself I don't necessarily think that the hearing of voices constitutes a psychological problem, but it sometimes does.

The problem is that the nerdly science-minded folks who essentially decide the rules of human understanding are people who do not put much stock in miracles or such occurrences, so rather than explain it as such when people really do hear voices of a supernatural origin, they instead claim it to be the result of being batshit-fucking-loco