Glossolalia, anyone?

Definition:-
Incomprehensible speech in an imaginary language, sometimes occurring in a trance state, an episode of religious ecstasy, or schizophrenia.

An example of this behaviour, is the little girl from the movie the exorcist who is possessed apparently by the devil and can suddenly speak in Latin tongue with out ever being taught, so... I have a question.

Has this ever happened to anyone you know?, or maybe yourself?
Please share

Sorry to tell you, but, the exorcist is a fictional movie

I witnessed it hundreds of times when I was forced by my parents to attend church. It made me feel strange and I wanted to leave immediately because they were going absolutely nuts, speaking gibberish and jumping everywhere and flailing their arms like retards, even hitting me on several occasions (which pissed me off). There's nothing divine about it. The definition of glossolalia you provided describes it exactly the way it happened. At least I can't be forced to attend churches anymore.

sounds like me when im drunk

Originally posted by Condemned0625
I witnessed it hundreds of times when I was forced by my parents to attend church. It made me feel strange and I wanted to leave immediately because they were going absolutely nuts, speaking gibberish and jumping everywhere and flailing their arms like retards, even hitting me on several occasions (which pissed me off). There's nothing divine about it. The definition of glossolalia you provided describes it exactly the way it happened. At least I can't be forced to attend churches anymore.

How scary that must have been for you.
Lucky you have now escaped that brainwashing cult.

reply to post by WideAwakeNow


Never have experienced it, and don't know of some one who has. I do however believe it is possible if say you got possessed by some thing foreign.

I remember when I was about six, my brother and I would watch cartoons (usually Japanese ones). After a month or so of watching them, we actually started understanding what the characters were saying. It freaked my mother out, she had no clue were we learned to speak Japanese. All in all she still doesn't know, she thinks it's glossolalia

reply to post by meathed


lol, I know the movie is not real, that was my pathetic example on the topic.
People that have had alien contact have had similar experiences, probably another bad example lol.

reply to post by WideAwakeNow


I've heard of this type of thing where people have been hit on the head or somesuch.

Here this English guy woke up after blood vessel burst in his brain singing like a drunken Irishman.www.mindpowernews.com...

In this case a Croation teen wakes from coma speaking fluent Germanwww.huffingtonpost.com...

Czech guy wakes speaking perfect English
www.huffingtonpost.com...

In the last two cases they hadn't learnt the new language and only knew basic or minimal phrases or words.

I suspect the brain learns and stores everything we encounter, it's just that we are unable to retrieve any information we like unless the brain is stimulated in some way such as a coma or injury.
Alternatively, perhaps they tap into the collective conscience.

reply to post by Mentalistbee


Wow, that's really amazing, thanks.

reply to post by meathed


I wasn't scared. I was just bored, annoyed and pissed off. Nearly every Sunday for 17 years straight basically flushed down the toilet for some stupid belief system all because the idiots who brought me into this world decided to buy into a scam and force me to participate in it. Such loving parents.

reply to post by WideAwakeNow


Yep it happens to me. I quite often "feel" words (which for the most part aren't real words from what I can tell) jump onto my tongue. I can stop myself from blurting them out when I'm around other people, but I find it feels less awkward to just let them come out when I'm alone.

reply to post by WideAwakeNow


I knew someone who went to a pentacostal church who spoke "in tongues" (observed it once myself). She eventually quit the church because they heavily preached against the evil in the world and how they, being the devout ones had to help rid it from the world. So they started meeting during the week just to power pray I guesss you'd describe it, to fight against evil. Well, according to my friend she started to see a huge black blob on the roof of her house when she'd get home and just constantly felt unnerved. She eventually quit this church due due to all the emphasis on overcoming evil.

Oddly enough, I went to another pentacostal church where they spoke in tongues. Once when they were really getting into the swing of things and people were speaking in tongues and swaying, I distinctly heard a growl!
I kid you not, scared the crab out of me. It was so inhuman that there is no way any person could have made it without some wierd paranormal explanation.

Coincidence or not, there must be some trancelike state these people get themselves into and something gets crossed with our dimension.

reply to post by Bee2010


Thanks for the news articals, they are really strange and cool examples of this unusual condition.

Now that one of you have mentioned the sudden changes in accents and languages, the same thing happens to me on rare occasions. Every few months to every year or so, I'll accidentally speak one to a few words in a perfect British accent. It only started happening to me after I had been exposed to that accent in my past through television or some other source, so it must be some sort of subconscious mechanism that activates for a brief period, like a computer glitch. Same thing for glossolalia.

reply to post by Condemned0625


I'm fairly sure its just something for the subconscious trying to work itself out. Nothing I've seen has ever suggested to me its something external.

To be perfectly honest MANY of these experiences (not just on this post but on many, many threads) sound like classic cases of pure and simple dissociation, it just runs on a continuum, so some people are more susceptible to the more extreme instances of dissociation, while others are not.

Many strange symptoms and experiences reported here on ATS in general seem to be at least somewhat relative to dissociative disorders. It's much easier for someone to imagine being abducted and tortured by an alien or having a "past life experience" because then it's easier to accept abuse that occurred in a persons life since in a way the person is cutting their selves off from such an experience by saying "oh, aliens tortured me, and my past life was as an indian slave..."

Anyways, people who are more susceptible to being put into a trance state are the ones who are experiencing dissociation and sadly end up joining cults, and believing all sorts of crazy phenomenon which can many times be attributed to pure and simple dissociation. Unfortunately this only proliferates abuse for not only the original victim, but these sad and strange cases end up hurting EVERYONE if these things go untreated, or misdiagnosed.

The worst part about it is abusers know this tactic and use it to their advantage in a lot of ways.
If you or someone you love thinks there may be prevalent dissociative symptoms going on, I encourage you to take the dissociative experiences scale, it's fairly quick and painless, but can give a good idea of whether or not these different trance states are something real or imagined.
counsellingresource.com...

Sorry to rant but I feel there's so many people with false beliefs about what they experience on this site and elsewhere, while dissociation is a straight up dead on answer to all these different experiences...

I attended a non-denominational church The Living Word growing up....

There was Speaking In Tongues during every service. Some of the people I knew. It's "real" for whatever that is worth...they aren't making up the words, it sound like a congruent language to me (some form of Hebrew?!?!?)...

Anyway, they believe it's real.

about 4 years ago i started to talk this weird language idk hwo to describe it but it sounds really weird.

i remember just talking this weird language when i woke up and it sounds some what like gibbirsh or some middle eastern language mixed with african or someother # its so freaking weird, but i cant understand it.

i once talked it infront of my friend and he said 'WTF ARE U SAYING DUDE' and i told him i dont know i just know how to speak it

reply to post by matrixportal


There's a difference between dissociative identity disorder (which is what that questionnaire is for) and simple disassociated mental states. In addition, self-diagnosis from an internet quiz is almost as dangerous as getting duped into a cult. Many symptoms of many different mental illnesses and psychological problems are similar enough to the untrained person that they could easily convince themselves that they have such and such disease, freak out, and harm themselves, due to the incredible social stigma of mental illness.

As a further aside, your beliefs that my beliefs are false is a false belief to me. My mother didn't abuse me, but I have past life memories anyway. I was never kidnapped and tortured, but I believe in the occult arts and sciences. I got the s*** kicked out of me at school by everyone, but I had all these things in my head before then, as I did before I became symptomatic for bipolar as well. There is some truth to what you're saying, but the assumption that everyone who experiences strange things has mental illness to thank for it is just straight up pish tosh.

We had a family friend that used to use words that none of us understood. I used to think that he just had a great vocabulary. It turned out that he had the early stages of Alzheimer's. I remember him giving a speech before about 200 people and he started using words that didn't make sense to anyone. He had no idea what what was happening to him.

He had full blown Alzheimer's before he turned 40. It was gut wrenching to see him deteriorate so quickly.