Thread: Hearing very vivid voices in transition to sleep.

I don't recall this ever happening before. I fall asleep with the TV on every night, simply because complete silence is deafening to me, and my thoughts keep me awake. It's as if my own thoughts make me paranoid, but that's a a completely different issue. I've never been the one to fall asleep while watching TV either. I fall asleep with my head on the pillow and my eyes shut. The other night I was watching a special on the paranormal while I was very tired, so I was a little on edge as it is, since the program was on ghosts or something like that. The next thing I remember was hearing my mother's voice in my head very vividly say my name, as if she was asking a question, "Kevin?" This was completely random and sounded exactly like she was three feet away from me, kneeling over my bed. I was in the transition from awake to sleep (to which I became fully awake after,) and watching a program on ghosts, and then hearing my mom's voice as plain as day freaked me out a bit. I should probably mention that I am away at college, and not at home now too. After I came to, the voice still felt like she was there, in other words, it didn't feel like I had just had a small dream, it felt like my mother was right there and said that. After I calmed down a bit, I realized that someone on here must have had a similar situation. So, has anyone ever experienced this?

Nowp sorry i have'nt experienced anything like this b4. Perhaps its something 2 do wiv wots happening in your mind during the state u were stating?
I've taken 2 extracts out of a magazine 4 u:
Least Possible Cause:
Hypnopompic State:
This can occur as u wake from sleep. Like the hypnogogic state, it is accompained by hallucinations and bizzare visions. It is responsible for many famous creative flashes.
Most Possible Cause:
Hypnogogic State:
This is twilight world you may enter for a few minutes while falling asleep. It is characterised by strange thoughts and dreamlike images.
I hope this helps

Originally Posted by Haz

Nowp sorry i have'nt experienced anything like this b4. Perhaps its something 2 do wiv wots happening in your mind during the state u were stating?
I've taken 2 extracts out of a magazine 4 u:
Least Possible Cause:
Hypnopompic State:
This can occur as u wake from sleep. Like the hypnogogic state, it is accompained by hallucinations and bizzare visions. It is responsible for many famous creative flashes.
Most Possible Cause:
Hypnogogic State:
This is twilight world you may enter for a few minutes while falling asleep. It is characterised by strange thoughts and dreamlike images.
I hope this helps

Oh god, please speak english.

As for the voices, it is completely normal. Most people think that hearing voices is
a bad thing and it usually is but when your falling asleep, as I said, it's completely
normal. It is hypnagogic imagery ( not hypnopompic ). I have experienced
several of these sounds which include:

a single tone that goes away as soon as I focus on it
a piano
Music
clapping
My mallet part for indoor

then the voices:
a teenage girl about my age seeming to be trying to get my attention saying "Wes!"
a guy yelling at a coworker about something I couldn't make out
a middle aged woman saying "Lay down, you need to sleep" over and over
Some random dude saying something about prostate cancer...
The list goes on, and there will be more I have no doubt.

Anyway, its perfectly normal and those of us who regularly attempt WILDs
hear these things very very very often.

~Wes

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Originally Posted by Haz

O'nus u need 2 keep it simple
speak english next time
don' copy and paste

look whose talking.
Just because you are not smart enough to understand it doesn't
mean we aren't... just saying

The only experience I've had which is similar:

''He wants to meet you'' I replied ''Who?'' I cant remember the exact reply but I think it was like ''The ALIEN'' Then I woke up.

I was attempting to OBE.

Well firstly, the mind has the ability to project and believe stimulus' regardless of the fact that they do not exist whatsoever. You may hear a sound while staying up late at work when really there was no sound at all and the truth behind the hallucination is that you are so bored that you wanted to hear something, so your mind made you hear something (although there was actually nothing).

This is the basis of hallucinations and schizophrenics - their minds project sensory stimulus and believe they are real because of whichever neurosis they suffer. The hallucinations are typically (if not always) corelated to the neurosis of the individual.

Your mother calling your name during the transition to a hypnogogic state before falling into slow wave sleep could symbolise the desire to be at home in the care of your mother rather than being on your own at College. It's a wish-fulfilled hallucinagetic projected stimulus. This can happen easily during "day-dreaming" as you simply become engrossed into vague thoughts or fantasies.

Neurologically, it is simply the increased production of gamma-amino butryic acid (GABA) or suppressed production of n-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) and other glucides. Which can explain why those who feel groggy and tired will tend to day dream and drift off into "cataleptic" states although they are, physically, still conscious.

Hope I have been enlightening.

O'nus u need 2 keep it simple
speak english next time
don' copy and paste

Exact same thing used to happen to me when I was tired and everything's (nearly) silent. I just heared voices of people I know saying things I had heard them say or completely random things/questions.

Originally posted by Haz2004
O'nus u need 2 keep it simple
speak english next time
don' copy and paste

Everything I say is authentic and comes from my own educated mind. I have already dealt with being accused of plagarism on multiple accounts so if you feel I should include a bilbiography with every one of my posts that I do copy from, then I will (even though that is not often).

My integrity is very important to me considering the field I wish to enter so I will not even think about plagarism..

Thank you..

Be nice to O'nus! He doesn't copy. He just happens to be one of those ppl that's too smart for his own good (btw, I'm being sarcastic and not trying to come off as abrasive)

Thanks for your input O'nus. Some things just can't be explained simply.

What is your position in the medical field O'nus? I think it's a great asset to have someone who knows the facts about the human body and such to set some of you loonies straight

Originally posted by CarbonCopy
What is your position in the medical field O'nus? I think it's a great asset to have someone who knows the facts about the human body and such to set some of you loonies straight

I am a student at the time. I have done volunteer work and counselling for teens "in need".

I suppose it is my lack of a prestigious position that immediately deems me worthy of ridiculement.. *Has flashbacks of accusing emails*

To stop it now - if you think I am in no position to state any facts, then just PM me and I can give you a list of my sources I use to clarify facts I state..

i have hear voices in the room as if they were right there with me. i get sleepparalysis alot but i seem to put a dream into my real world. eg i am lying there unable to move, knowing full well i am where i fell asleep (which this time was on the sofa in the living room), i cant see anything as you can in a dream just hear it as if someone is really in the living room. so i assume it is real. i heard my dad come in the front door from work, he didnt say anything to me, i guess as he thought i was asleep, he went into the kitchen and i could hear him put his bag on the side,fill the kettle and open the back door to go outside. then i forsed myself to wake up so i could move but he wasnt there.

it felt so real i was sure he was there, but it wasnt.
sleepparalysis used to scare me, not because i couldnt move but because of what i could hear. thinking it was real, i just ride it out now and enjoy it.

Originally Posted by Lynz

i have hear voices in the room as if they were right there with me. i get sleepparalysis alot but i seem to put a dream into my real world. eg i am lying there unable to move, knowing full well i am where i fell asleep (which this time was on the sofa in the living room), i cant see anything as you can in a dream just hear it as if someone is really in the living room. so i assume it is real. i heard my dad come in the front door from work, he didnt say anything to me, i guess as he thought i was asleep, he went into the kitchen and i could hear him put his bag on the side,fill the kettle and open the back door to go outside. then i forsed myself to wake up so i could move but he wasnt there.

it felt so real i was sure he was there, but it wasnt.
sleepparalysis used to scare me, not because i couldnt move but because of what i could hear. thinking it was real, i just ride it out now and enjoy it.

I had a very vivid sleep paralysis experience recently. I first heard as if there was someone in the house doing something. I couldn't tell exactly what it was, but could hear rearranging noises as if someone was cleaning up. Then, I experienced the paralysis. I freaked out and was screaming my head off. I realized I was paralyzed and tried to calm down. I screamed again and I felt this sound as if I were traveling on a fast speed train followed by a high pitched tone and woke up.
How did you stop freaking out when this happens? I read this is a very good way to enter a lucid

I often hear voices saying random things while falling asleep. Sometimes I hear music that my mind just made up, it's pretty incredible. I have a TV on my computer that i leave on at night and i have woken up in the morning to hear my TV playing even though i had the volume turned down all the way.

Hey, thanks for the responses guys. Especially you O'nus. You really know your stuff, of course, when I read your sleep FAQ when I first joined the forum last month I realized that you are really intelligent.

As far as hearing music that your mind made up, I believe that has happened once or twice with me, and since I am a part time composer/arranger, I'll try to remember and notate it the next time it happens, since I'm writing a marching band show based on the concept of dreaming and lucidity. It would be really interesting to have something in the show that actually came out of an actual dream. But this is for a whole entire different thread that I am planning on posting in the artist forum later on.

Anyway, thanks again guys.

hey i too hear voices clear of day but this usually happens right before i sleep. for example: i close my eyes but i cannot sleep, and once 20 minutes pass, very clear voices enter my head, it's as though i am listening to people i know when they are actually not there. and in between 5 minutes, the voice changes and i suddenly hear a different person i know.

ive had times wen i hear my parents like are calling for me in the middle of the nite for som reason and then id be yelling "wat!" then later i woke up yelling "WAT!" then i realized i was dreaming. but it seemed very real. but somtimes me and my friend wuld have like random voices in our head and it wuld just be freeky at times. Last nite i was at my other friends house and i heard his brother going "Louie get up" while i was dreaming and i knew he really was calling for me cus wen i got up he was ther.

I've had audio hallucinations on the transition between normal state to deep meditative state. I now realize it is because of experiencing something similar to sleep paralysis during meditation. The hallucinations I had were extremely clear and totally coherent, like unexpected messages from unexpected figures. Never had it during normal sleep paralysis, though.

When I was 5, and about to fall asleep, I heard my mom call out my name. It was a hallucination.

So yeah, you're not alone.

Oh God, when it happens to me I jump a mile, it will be around 3AM and I will be alone and someone would say something to me. Thing is, if you beleive in ghosts, my last house was haunted by a bad spirit, got bad nightmares as a kid and things like that, I moved house and everything was fine.

It hardly happens to me though, only a few times a year, but when it does happen Im on high alert.

@gmil

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