The Voices

One morning, I woke up and realized I could hear everyone’s inner voice. At first I thought I somehow unlocked something in my brain that let me have multiple inner voices at once. But after suffering from random people’s thoughts about weather, social media, what they should text to someone and what should they do afterwards for 3 hours I finally realized something was very wrong with my brain. So I went into an alley to find some solace in loneliness. I was barely hearing any thoughts there which felt so relaxing. Then I started looking at a water puddle to find myself really tired already. But also realized looking at my reflection caused me to only hear my own thoughts. Maybe looking at other people would make me only hear their thoughts? I tried my theory with the first person I saw asking them wheere the closest toilet is. And it actually worked! I was able to concentrate my ability of hearing thoughts by directly staring at a person for a few seconds. Even though I had to stare at random people while walking to silence others, I found a solution to that as well. I was going to buy glasses with no anti reflection properties. The purpose was to be able to see myself at all times while I was wearing the glasses. So I went to an optician acting like I had eye problems but asked for glasses with the lowest anti reflection properties. They were a bit weirded out but thankfully complied to my request. I immediately bought the glasses. But something wasn’t right. I could now hear my thoughts a few times. As I walked out of the optician’s, the amount of times I heard the same thought in my head multiplied. I couldn’t think of anything else because of the pain. I couldn’t even think of removing the glasses. After what felt like an eternity, I succumbed to the sea of thoughts and fell on the ground, unconcious.