I keep hearing loud sounds as I wake up?
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It started last night, I went to sleep at around 10 (a bit early but I was tired) and woke up at about 1. I just looked around for a bit but as I moved my head I heard the sound of a man speaking very loudly, I could even make out the words he was saying. It startled me so much that I started to scream before I stopped myself.
After that I kept nodding in and out of sleep, during one of the dreams I had there was a very sudden and loud sound in it but it didn't wake me up at first, but it happened several more times before I finally did wake up. I didn't note the time but I went back to sleep and woke up again at 3, this time I saw moving things and heard the voice of a woman speaking slowly grow louder as I got more awake before it was almost unbearably loud (once again, I could make out words). This time I just rolled over and waited for everything to stop. The voice ended up fading before suddenly being interrupted by the very loud noise of a car engine. I didn't sleep for the rest of the night.
Now it has started to happen again last night. I was really tired from not sleeping enough so I went to bed at 10 again and ended up being woken up by more loud sounds just a couple hours later.
I really don't think I can take much more of this. I had my first visual hallucination after waking up a couple weeks ago so I assume it has something to do with a routine I have or something I am doing but I just want to sleep.
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dh1230 simon08890
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Bird82 simon08890
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lorraine28330 simon08890
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Sometimes when our anxiety is very high we can hear or see things that are not there but they seem very real, could the male and female voices on that night have been ppl outside arguing as the car left shortly after ? The other time you woke up as you were only half awake that can be still part of your dream, dreams when we are not well can be awfully vivid and very very real.
I know now from personal experience that anxiety can make me hear voices but on a normal low anxious day I don't get them.
my suggestion would be is to seek medical advice and see what help they can give you.
i wish you well
lily65668 simon08890
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I'm wondering how old you are. In most people it tends to start in their teens. I think I had it as a small child, but it only started again, and with a vengeance, when I was 23 and a bit stressed while studying for my final nursing exams. I know just how terrifying it can be, but it's just something you learn to live with. It tends to get better with age, though I still have the occasional bad night, and I'm in my 70s now.
My hallucinations are tactile, and often very painful, with occasional auditory content - running footsteps, whooshing noises etc. I never actually see things. Tactile hallucinations are comparatively rare but you can hallucinate with any of your senses. My father had it too - it does tend to run in families - and he used to have a combination of visual and olfactory hallucinations (disgusting visions and smells). However, the latter is very rare.
You're right to wonder whether it was some change of routine that might have triggered this. Most people manage their condition by identifying triggers, though this isn't completely foolproof. My most common triggers are getting too hot in the night, and sleeping too much. However, others find that too little sleep triggers attacks. I think stress is a major component for most of us too. It might be worth looking at what you ate or drank on nights when you had an attack, as well as any unusual late-night activities.
The few scientists who've bothered to study this phenomenon (google Michael Persinger to get started) have come to the conclusion that it arises in the temporal lobes of the brain, which are sensitive to electro- and geomagnetic influences. In some cases, susceptible people have found their condition gets worse if they sleep close to electrical junction boxes or under overhead high-tension cables. This appeared to be true in my case, as I always noticed I suffered much more when sleeping in my parents' house, which had overhead cables running just 20ft away (though I can't rule out psychological factors there). Certain geological formations have also been incriminated, as well as underground water-courses.
You're going to have some tough nights over the next couple of weeks, but I promise you that once you calm down and stop giving way to very understandable fears of the supernatural, this will tail off and become much more manageable. On the plus side, people who have this condition are more prone to lucid dreaming - that wonderful state where you suddenly become completely aware that you're actually dreaming right in the middle of a dream, and you can then consciously direct it. I did this a lot when I was young but have largely lost the ability now, which makes me very sad. I'd be quite happy to start having more frequent sleep paralysis attacks if it meant I could start lucid dreaming again.