Do You Hear Voices???

[Yarnspinner]

This is an offshoot of the ghostly stuff thread. 

When I talk about hearing voices, I don't mean son-of-sam-the-voices-in-my-head-are-telling-me-to-kill-you type of thing. 

A friend and I were talking about how, when we are drifting off to sleep sometimes, we will hear people talking in the room with us.  I'll be almost asleep and I'll hear someone say something like "Oh, leave him alone, he's just a kid" or something equally unrelated. 

When I was a kid i'd hear these voices chatting as if at a cocktail party...except there was no party and I was alone in the room.  I kept quiet about it because, frankly, I thought it meant I was nuts.  (I always referred to the voices to myself as "the wall people" because the voices seemed to come from the wall.)

Now I'm (much) older and when I am very tired, but not asleep, I can hear these strange conversations going on...they often make very little sense because all the things that are said are non sequiters.  "He's just a kid"  'I bought it for 5 bucks" and so on.

My friend was telling me how she is having a lot of trouble sleeping and she keeps hearing "conversations like really bad party line connections or bad radio reception...I only hear like a sentence here and there."

She was convinced she was going crazy.

So, my question is, e-hellions...does anyone else hear voices when on the edge of sleep, or when you are really engrossed in an activity...and there's no one there to talk to you?  Is it sleep or concentration causing the phenomenon?  Are we hearing bits of things the WALLS have remembered over the years?  Or should we just sign up for a twofer at the local psychiatrist's office?

[blue2000]

When I was a kid, I used to hear someone calling my name sometimes. Very loud and sharp, but distant, as if it was my mother calling me for dinner or something. I still hear it once in a blue moon. I never figured I was nuts because of that (other reasons maybe, lol).

I did see a science program once where they speculated that inanimate objects (like rocks, or walls) have a memory, and that some of the things people see and hear are just replays of the object's memory.

Either way, I wouldn't worry, unless this stuff is keeping you awake, or really bothering you. If that happens, you might want to talk to someone about it.

[Clara Bow]

I used to hear a whispering sound in some old cemetaries, like a lot of people whispering at once. I've also heard someone call me in certain places. I think it happens to everyone some time or another....

[Suze]

I used to hear a whispering sound in some old cemetaries, like a lot of people whispering at once. I've also heard someone call me in certain places. I think it happens to everyone some time or another....

I think it does too.  Sometimes late at night I hear millions of voices but no words that I can make out.

Usually when I hear them is when I have the funkiest dreams.  I fly a lot in them. Superman style.

What does that say about me?

[Tabris]

I woke up one morning and heard, very forcefully, "BMT. Bomb."

I sat up in bed like a shot and thought, "I know who said that!"

Some background: When I was 16, I "discovered" guardian angels, and after a little while I realized that there must be a guardian angel in charge of the NYC subway system. I called him the GATA (Guardian Angel of the Transit Authority) and I would say hi to him when I entered the subway and thank him when I got to school on time. And what was cool was, after I started saying hi to him and thanking him for stuff, I was never late to school again because of a subway mixup. Before then, I was consistently late twice per marking period.

He's an awesome angel.

However, I've moved away from NYC, and I hadn't thought about him for a while until I woke up hearing that voice, and I immediately knew it was him, and I needed to pray. It was post 9/11.  I asked the anencephaly support group to pray with me, and my mother and some friends.

For non new-yorkers, the BMT is a series of subway lines in Manhattan. I believe the N, the R, the D... 

Anyhow, after a while I forgot to pray about that any longer, until one day I remembered and started up again. The next day, my mother emailed me and said, "Oh, did I forget to tell you about the bombing that got prevented?"

Apparently the police had foiled a plot to bomb the 34th station in Manhattan where all the BMT lines converge. I looked up the news article, and I was stunned.

I guess it really was him, the GATA, asking for some help in exchange for getting me to school on time all those years, and for holding the doors that extra second so I could get in, or getting my mom a seat, and all the other neat things he did.

[Shoo]

Sometimes my dd comes running down the stairs (or up, depending on where I am) asking, "What, Mama?"  And I say, "Huh?"  She swears she heard me calling for her.  I know I didn't.  It happens pretty frequently.  Guess someone's calling for her, but it's not me.

[IndianInlaw]

Not me, but when my sister was a teenager she heard someone call her name as she was taking a shower.  She screamed.  My mother had to tell my stepfather she had seen a lizard (common in South Florida for chameleons to get in one's house).

[MerryRaven]

Yes.

I used to hear someone call my name.  I thought it was the ghost that lived in the house where I grew up.

Now it sounds like there is a radio turned down really low so you can just barely hear it.  Sometimes it is voices and sometimes music. 

Usually it happens to me right before I get a bad migraine.

[Irish Clovers]

Every once in a while I'll hear a "woman" call my name.  Right as I'm drifting off to sleep.  Sometimes it sounds like my mom (still living) and sometimes it sounds unfamilar.  Sometimes it an urgent call and sometimes its just like someone calling my name at work. 

[ccnumber4]

My mom will sometimes call me or one of my brothers when she "hears" us calling her.  She said it is very audible and very real, as if we are sitting in the room with her, even though none of us live in her state. 

Most of the time, she really is needed. 

[Bijou]

This is an offshoot of the ghostly stuff thread. 

When I talk about hearing voices, I don't mean son-of-sam-the-voices-in-my-head-are-telling-me-to-kill-you type of thing. 

A friend and I were talking about how, when we are drifting off to sleep sometimes, we will hear people talking in the room with us.  I'll be almost asleep and I'll hear someone say something like "Oh, leave him alone, he's just a kid" or something equally unrelated. 

When I was a kid i'd hear these voices chatting as if at a cocktail party...except there was no party and I was alone in the room.  I kept quiet about it because, frankly, I thought it meant I was nuts.  (I always referred to the voices to myself as "the wall people" because the voices seemed to come from the wall.)

Now I'm (much) older and when I am very tired, but not asleep, I can hear these strange conversations going on...they often make very little sense because all the things that are said are non sequiters.  "He's just a kid"  'I bought it for 5 bucks" and so on.

My friend was telling me how she is having a lot of trouble sleeping and she keeps hearing "conversations like really bad party line connections or bad radio reception...I only hear like a sentence here and there."

She was convinced she was going crazy.

So, my question is, e-hellions...does anyone else hear voices when on the edge of sleep, or when you are really engrossed in an activity...and there's no one there to talk to you?  Is it sleep or concentration causing the phenomenon?  Are we hearing bits of things the WALLS have remembered over the years?  Or should we just sign up for a twofer at the local psychiatrist's office?

You're not alone. 
How about when you're folding clothes:  "The third one from the left."
Or hearing someone call your sister's name.  "Stella..." when  you're in bed.
I see 'visions', too, when I am in bed and sometimes don't think I am anywhere near drifting off to sleep.  I remember 'seeing' a little elderly lady crossing the street down at the corner. 
I chalk it up to having too much stuff in my brain and it just spills over.

[Yarnspinner]

Oh thank you guys.

I am feeling a little less loopy today.  (After I posted this I said to my self "Self, you are so going to be kicked off this board for being a headcase.") 

Yes.

I used to hear someone call my name.  I thought it was the ghost that lived in the house where I grew up.

Now it sounds like there is a radio turned down really low so you can just barely hear it.  Sometimes it is voices and sometimes music. 

Usually it happens to me right before I get a bad migraine.

This is interesting, MerryRaven, because the friend I was talking to gets migraines.  I'll have to ask her if it happens more around migraine time.  And, yeah, it DOES sound like a radio you can barely hear.  And now that I think of it, music will come through from time to time.

I used to hear a whispering sound in some old cemetaries, like a lot of people whispering at once. I've also heard someone call me in certain places. I think it happens to everyone some time or another....

I think it does too.  Sometimes late at night I hear millions of voices but no words that I can make out.

Usually when I hear them is when I have the funkiest dreams.  I fly a lot in them. Superman style.

What does that say about me?

Oh, I love the dreams where I can fly and feel all powerful!  Sadly, I usually end up in the OTHER dream cliche--the one where I am  standing at the blackboard (or the circulation desk, or the cashier's station) in my birthday suit. 

I think flying says you are feeling in control--but I am not good at dream analysis.  If I was, I would understand about the dream in which my best friend and I had made over a bus (as in big, yellow, school) and were living in it.  David Hyde Pierce (AKA: Niles Crane of "Frasier") appeared at the bus door, wearing a long pale blue silk smoking jacket and old fashioned pilot goggles.  He handed me a Yankee Magazine published in 1895 in exchange for the $22 I owed him for finding it.  I was so happy to have it (there was an article in it about Herman's Hermits--go figure) that I grabbed h im by the lapels and said "I'm afraid I must go all Daphne on you."  And planted one.

Then I woke up.  I have no clue what any of it has to do with anything.  Sometimes my dreams worry me more than the voices....

[Suze]

I have found that when I am "flying" (the dream is ever changing, but not the flying part) usually within the next couple of days something neat (as in out of the blue, kind of neat) happens.  And sometimes the feeling is more "walking on air" as I usually have to keep my feet moving in the dreams.

One of the worst dreams I have had was when I was a kid -- I got chased by Godzilla. (Sorry Moonbunnyopps I mean Cyndi, sorry)  Of course Ultra Man "saved" me.  Ever try to sit straight up in bed when you are sleeping on your stomac? (OW)

Of course that was nothing to the night that I dreamed our whole D&D session.  This doesn't sound too bad until I tell you that I was being chased by a "Death Knight on his Nitemare with 6 Hell Hounds"  and in the ever popular cliche "the fate of the world depended on me"

You know a Horse is REALLY big when you are only 4 foot tall. (Wood Elf = short)

Do any of you have the "I can't find a bathroom" dream, and try to "go" anywhere. Gladly I have come awake before something "bad" happens in MY bed.

[Yarnspinner]

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I have found that when I am "flying" (the dream is ever changing, but not the flying part) usually within the next couple of days something neat (as in out of the blue, kind of neat) happens.  And sometimes the feeling is more "walking on air" as I usually have to keep my feet moving in the dreams.

One of the worst dreams I have had was when I was a kid -- I got chased by Godzilla. (Sorry Moonbunny)  Of course Ultra Man "saved" me.  Ever try to sit straight up in bed when you are sleeping on your stomac? (OW)

Of course that was nothing to the night that I dreamed our whole D&D session.  This doesn't sound too bad until I tell you that I was being chased by a "Death Knight on his Nitemare with 6 Hell Hounds"  and in the ever popular cliche "the fate of the world depended on me"

You know a Horse is REALLY big when you are only 4 foot tall. (Wood Elf = short)

Do any of you have the "I can't find a bathroom" dream, and try to "go" anywhere. Gladly I have come awake before something "bad" happens in MY bed.

Ultra man!  With me it was G-Force.  And yes, I have had the "I can't find the bathroom dream."  More times than I care to admit and a lot more since I reached the other side of fifty. 

I like that you dreamed your whole D&D season.  Don't know why, but I do. 

A friend of mine (the same one who can no longer remember her dreams) used to say that when one dream ended, credits would roll before the next dream began.  I loved the idea.  (Probably should break for a dream thread here.)

[blue2000]

A friend of mine (the same one who can no longer remember her dreams) used to say that when one dream ended, credits would roll before the next dream began.  I loved the idea.  (Probably should break for a dream thread here.)

Lol! Sometimes when I am half-asleep and "dreaming", my mind will add a soundtrack to my dream. I kind of like the monsters and chase scenes when there is a good tune playing. I also like being able to rewind if there are cute guys in it.