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Simulate, but it isn't anywhere near perfect. Hearing voices is really just one facet of a facet of the disease. We have five senses and they are all going off constantly. So to get a true sense of what the hallucinations are like you'd need the earplugs, augmented reality goggles that are full field of view, probably some of those electrical stimulus pads, and something to create tastes and smells at random too. There is a full symptom list over at https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml that goes into everything. Schizophrenia reminds me of that quote "hell is other people". Well this is literally other people allofthetime, as your brain will not shut up. My brain will not shut up but at least the only voice I hear is my own (and music/memes that I remember, and that shuts off when I sleep). It's so bad and constant that you start to question your own reality, and then you start to question actual reality. They tell you you're worthless, they tell you you're famous, they tell you you're the son of god, they tell you you're a president, they make you doubt anything that ever is or was in your life and confirm things that have never actually happened as you're constantly gas-lighting yourself. Finally, my favorite (disputed) schizophrenic artist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain. One of the images further down the page has a bunch of his works from different times in his life. Hell I'm lucky that all I have to deal with is some mild autism.

Before this gets confused, NO I am not promoting CNN. YES, as I have known people who were like this, I am sharing this video as a form of awareness. This is an experiment mimicking the difficulties of how SOME (NOT ALL) sufferers of schizophrenia interact with their surroundings. Thank you --------------------------------------------------- Anderson Cooper tries a schizophrenia simulator "Published on Jun 9, 2014 CNN's Anderson Cooper tries to go through a normal day using a schizophrenia simulator. More from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/"

I have seen situations were I see a psychiatrist ask a person if they hear voices and they don't elaborate for that person as to what hearing voices actually means, specifically when its a younger person and the family is pushing because they are desperate for answers and when that person ends up saying yes because they are being led to believe that their own internal chatter is actually psychosis, believe it or not that will get a person labeled and big pharma earning a new costumer, new SSI claims, new stigmas, etc=more government dependent people..because someone told them they were less than perfect and because they are labeled and the big bad ass mental health doctor said so than they give up, it's almost like they are expected to. ..that is why advocacy is important so people are able to teach what these disorders actually are and why having one doesn't mean you have to give up on your goals and desires to be successful in life. The fact is that it's not about the disorder, it's not about the label, it's about your coping skills, support system, self care and self awareness. We all have some shit going down inside...some of us know how to hide it, other's embrace it. Talking about it normalize it and makes some feel better because they can come out of that darkness and breathe for once. *just an observation.