Hi, I hope this is a workable place to ask this, I think that maybe an "ask psychiatry' subreddit would be better but this is what I could find in search.
I'm wondering if there's a name for a phenomenon I've been experiencing a lot recently, induced by sleep deprivation as well as the consumption of certain substances (no more detail will be given there). It's pretty much only then, so don't worry!
The experience is of hallucinating a thought, that enters the mind as if someone else thought it. It's like the internal monologue of somebody else is projected into my mind, and I hear a thought in my head that is "spoken" by someone else and not connected to what I'm thinking and does not follow from my own thoughts. It's like auditory hallucinations, except it's not heard out loud in the real world but in the inner space of my mind where I speak thoughts into my internal monologue if I choose.
Sometimes the mental voice is mine, sometimes it's not. The external thought is sometimes accompanied by sort of slipping sensation in my head, as if something just escaped from me internally. The thoughts are random and sometimes sound like two strangers talking to each other.
I'm aware of the concept of thought insertion, but that seems to be the genuine delusion that the thoughts come from someone else. But I know this is something my brain is doing, I have no illusions about psychic powers. But I want to know if there's a special name for it, it feels like it should be called "X hallucinations" where X is latinate for "thought' or "thinking".
Anyway yes in all, I'd really like to know if this sort of thing has an established name or research surrounding it!
Thank you.
Julia