Ever have auditory hallucinations?

[frogmarch]

Many years ago when my kids were babies, sometimes a minute or two after I’d awake from a nap, I would think I heard them crying, but when I’d go check, he or she would still be sleeping soundly.

Now I have an elderly little blind Boston terrier who requires constant care. Sometimes when I wake up from a nap (she gets me up a lot a night to pee, so I nap sometimes in the day) I think I hear her barking for me to come get her from her bed, but when I check on her, she’s peacefully sawing logs. Today the same thing happened. Mr. froggy was sitting near her bed and said she didn’t bark.

It’s a weird feeling to know I hear something when I really don’t.

Does it ever happen to you?

[Arugula Latte]

1. Sometimes when I'm in the shower I think I hear the doorbell ring.

[frogmarch]

4. Good! :-)

If it's not really ringing, maybe you were expecting it to because you were in the shower.

I think that may be why I think Abby is barking. I expect her to after she's napped a while.

Whew. I hope I'm not losing it. But if I am, I've been losing it for 40+ years since my kids were babies.

[Baobab]

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[MrScorpio]

2. Only when I'm sleep deprived

Although I did once have a dream that I was still awake and suffering from sleep deprived hallucinations, and from there I woke up.

That was weird.

[frogmarch]

5. Yes, that was weird.

I think mine could be from sleep deprivation too.

[Baobab]

14. Glycine before sleep

helps you sleep better

[sarge43]

3. Yes

Once in awhile I hear my mother calling my name. She's been gone for several years. No, I'm sure it's not her ghost, merely a pleasant memory.

[frogmarch]

6. That's a nice thing.

I'd like to have an auditory experience like that.

[sarge43]

9. Thanks. Yes, it is. n/t

[Baobab]

15. I think mothers carry a bit of sons DNA and vice versa..

Chimerism

[Laffy Kat]

7. Every now and then I think I hear my son (who is at college) call, "Mom?".

It wakes me up and is very disconcerting. I come up with a stupid excuse to contact him the next day. He's always alright.

[frogmarch]

8. I'm glad he is.

It would be disconcerting. I'd call too.

[panader0]

10. Yesterday, at our weekly Sunday jam session,

I thought I heard myself playing pretty hot for a while....
Coulda been the herb...

[frogmarch]

11. :-)

Maybe you were for reals. Regardless, that's cool.

[UTUSN]

12. Yes, like 50 yrs ago in a cafeteria line, thought it was my name, but it was "tartar sauce?"!1

Well, wait a minnit, it wasn't a "hallucination," it was a mis-heard thing?!1

[frogmarch]

25. That happens to me too.

But I don't mistake "tartar sauce" for my name. Someone says "manure." and I say, "Yes?"

[Behind the Aegis]

16. Maybe you have "exploding head syndrome"!

Actually, it likely isn't, but more a subconscious concern and it manifests itself in a way to wake you. It is more about your fears/concerns working their way into your sleeping mind.

As for exploding head syndrome, I actually have it. But what you are describing isn't it. For those who don't know, it is basically a condition where your brain "overreacts" and sends a massive auditory impulse to the ears resulting in "hearing" a very loud sound which doesn't exist. It can be so startling, it wakes you from sleep. It is usually worse when one is under stress, having insomnia, or prone to panic/anxiety attacks.

[frogmarch]

19. I do have exploding head syndrome. I posted

about it a year or more ago. It's weird too. I also have occasional sleep paralysis. It used to terrify me until I found out what it was.

I think you may be right that the sounds I think I hear are from a subconscious concern - years ago, my babies, and now my poor little blind Abby.

I'm always just barely awake when I hear the sounds.

Oh, and I'm a sleepwalker. I wear regular clothes to bed (I have all my adult life), just in case I end up going out on the town.

[Behind the Aegis]

30. I wish I had seen that post!

I have had this problem for YEARS! I never thought too much about it other than it was annoying. After I had a panic attack a few months ago, I started having EHS more frequently. It wasn't until I heard metal being dragged across concrete did I realize that wasn't possible for me to hear given my surroundings. So, I looked for more info and found EHS.

I don't sleepwalk anymore, thankfully. I did all the way through college. BUT...I do sometimes sleep with my eyes open (that freaks people out); I do talk in my sleep, not always in English; I sometimes sleep with an arm or leg straight up in the air; and I have even slept with a leg behind my head! My husband doesn't mind when I do that. LOL! I can't do it as much now because I need to lose some weight. If only I would sleepwalk on our treadmill downstairs.

Videos of us sleeping would probably be an internet hit! LOL!

[frogmarch]

31. Jeepers!

My sleepy-time adventures aren’t nearly as exciting as yours. I can’t say I’m sorry, though. I’ll take boring any time over going through what you do.

Glad you found info on EHS too. It’s nice to be able to put a name on weird things like this, and to know they’re usually nothing to worry about.

Maybe you should think of having your own beddy-bye time reality show.

[Sweet Freedom]

17. I hear my daughter say "mom" quite often

and my mother frequently hears her deceased mother call her name.

[frogmarch]

20. It must mean

you're thinking of your daughter a lot, or maybe she's thinking of you.

It's touching that your mother hears her mom calling her name. Very touching.

[Iggo]

18. Not in the last nineteen years four months and twenty-five days. (n/t)

[frogmarch]

21. Is that how old you are, or

did something momentous happen to you then?

[Iggo]

22. That was the day I ceased certain activities...

...which kept me awake for three or four or five days at a time.



(I'm 54)

[frogmarch]

23. Wow. I'd say

that was certainly remarkable and well worth remembering.

[a la izquierda]

24. I have hypnagogic hallucinations.

Not all the time, but often enough that I sought psychiatric help for them. It's a symptom of my extreme stress and anxiety.

[frogmarch]

26. I'm sorry to hear it. It would be

unnerving to have those, I think.

[a la izquierda]

27. Apparently, it sounds like what you're experiencing.

Basically, I hear what seem like fragments of faint conversations that I can't quite make out.
But hypnagogia consists of a whole host of odd hallucinations (like when you get off a boat and lay down for bed, yet feel yourself rocking as if still on the boat).

[frogmarch]

29. It would be disturbing to

hear conversations you can't quite understand.

I'd never heard of hypnagogia until you posted about it. Maybe it fits some of the weird sleep-related goings on I have too. I've never seen a doctor about any of them because they don't bother me when I'm fully awake.

[a la izquierda]

28. Also, I've never been a good sleeper.

I twitch as I fall asleep and sometimes I'm awake enough to actually realize that it happens.

[Major Nikon]

32. People say things and I never hear them

So perhaps I have an auditory hallucination that sonically cancels out their speech. Either that or my don't-give-a-shit filter works extraordinarily well.

[frogmarch]

36. ha! :-) I wish I had that

attitude.

[malthaussen]

33. I near you. n/t

[potone]

34. I often think that I have.

But every time it turns out that it really is what Trump or Cruz said.

[frogmarch]

35. It may be time

to turn off the tv, or tune to something besides news channels. I'm finding reruns of The X-Files soothing.

[potone]

37. Excellent idea!

I don't watch TV, but I spend way too much time on the interwebs reading political news. I think the X Files might be just the ticket!