Oh yes, I've been...

This is a tenuous connection, but I like to join in.

I am occasionally awoken by someone shouting my name.
No joke.
I can always recognise the voice too, it's always someone I know or knew.
I woke Mum up once because it was her voice I heard. I responded the way you would expect when you live in the same house and someone is shouting for you through your bedroom door.
"Whaa?! What? I'm awake, what's wrong? You okay?"

No reply, dozed back off. Okay, I guess in a real situation I would have followed it up.
But Mum's memory of what I said tallied with mine, except she was asleep until she heard me calling out.

I think I'd rather have clicks.

Are you sure it's not your TMJ clicking?

You know that thing where you learn of something and then see it everywhere?

The Atlantic is writing about my thing. And it matches my own experiences.

Aww man. The twanging sound. I get that. It's the weirdest fucking thing. Sometimes the sound of a sharp knock.

I get the knocking too. I've woken up and gone to the door.

If there's suddenly a spate of articles letting you know your not the only one, and it's OK, don't worry about it, probably the insurance companies ruled they won't pay for it.



I'm glad I haven't become cynical. :rolleyes:

is it ever words?

like someone says something and it wakes you, and you can swear your ears felt it....like tactile memory.... but not a bang or a knock.... more like... FRIDAY 8PM! and you're wide awake with that ringing in your head.

but it's tuesday morning, and now you have to wait all week to find out what happens?

(nothing happened)

I've had that. Sometimes really scary when it happens. I remember one time it was the words 'Stop it!' in a deep male voice. *shrugs* really freaky. Even more freaky was the time I heard a woman's voice saying in a sing song kind of a way 'Daaaaannniiii'

so is this a dream thing? like you dream the sound illusion? or is it physical ...like a knuckle cracking on your ear drum?

Feels physical. It's not usually while I'm 'asleep'. But I've more than likely gone in and out of sleep without realising it.Often it's when I'm just offin my own little world, starting to feel drowsy and then a noise / sensation of sound of one type or another will jolt me to full awareness.

The voice ones sound like someone is in the room speaking. Like I've heard with the ears rather in the mind.

Same here, but never voices.

Clicks, snaps, bangs, booms.

The only one that is an internal sound is the twang. It's like something has twanged inside my head. hard to describe really. It's still heard as a sound, but there's an accompanying physical sensation of something snapping/twanging inside.

The voices sound more like hypnopompic hallucinations - hallucinations that occur as we're on the threshold of regaining consciousness. Hypnagogic hallucinations are similar phenomena that occur just as we're falling asleep. I've had those, but not so much the waking ones. Otoh, I've woken with a start, knowing - just knowing - I heard some major sound, but unable to pinpoint what it was - and finding that nothing at all was happening.