The patient tells the doctor that he hears voices.
hear voices
idiomHave the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations.
She felt frightened when she started to hear voices that no one else could notice.
The protagonist struggled to maintain his composure as he began to hear voices, a symptom that signaled his descent into a state of profound psychological distress.
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hear out
To listen to someone until that person has finished speaking; to thoroughly consider all aspects of someone's argument.
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hear the end of it
To cease to be told about, or nagged because of, something.
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hear the grass grow
To have an extremely sensitive sense of hearing.
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hear things
To imagine that one hears sounds that are not actually real; to have auditory hallucinations.
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hear through the grapevine
To hear rumors; to learn through hearsay.
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I can't hear you over the sound of
Said to dismiss what the interlocutor is saying.
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long time no hear
I haven't heard from you for a long time.
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one could hear a pin drop
Extremely quiet, for example, as during a lull in a normally bustling place or scene, or at a sudden dramatic or tense moment.