There was a time when the conditions were further confused due to the use of the term "split personality." Schizophrenia means, "split mind," which is a reference to a split from reality; not to the person experiencing alters. With Schizophrenia, the auditory hallucinations are heard 'outside' the head; whereas, with Dissociative Identity Disorder, the voices are dissociations that are heard 'inside' the head. This can be heard in the form of sounding like a thought that is made by an alter and not the part hearing it. Another possibility is to hear voices within the mind that sound like a unique tone of speech, which may belong to a child, woman, man, or other forms of non-human alter states. Another difference is that with Schizophrenia, there may be one or two common voices at most, and these speak directly to the person who is split from reality. With DID however, the voices can consist of an unset number, and they can be any age, or gender of those ages, while they also converse with each other. Hallucinations do not tend to converse with another hallucination.