Auditory Hallucinations

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So this may sound very weird and sometimes makes me think I am going crazy, but hearing sounds that aren't actually there, but yet sound so real, for example this morning, as soon as I wake up it sounds like there's a helicopter litreally like 10 m above my house, I rush out of bed and rush outside, and then yes nothing, so I look at my girlfriend saying did you hear it, and she all confused going no there was nothing.
What happens to me also every now and then as soon as I get into bed,and settle in within 5 min I'll hear a bang, I ignore it, and the a few seconds later another bang, they sound so real that I actually get out of bed to see what is going on for me to realise that is just in my head, and the thing that gets me is that it just sounds so real and that I know I am not in a sleeping state or falling asleep because I am still fully aware of my surroundings etc. Has anyone experienced this?
 
Three things:

Your head is not quite screwed on right, in which case start making up stories for the sounds and enjoy them. They might become more real, and you more insane. But you'll have fun. Perhaps that bang was you reminiscing about being the war? Remember the war you were in?

You suffer from synesthesia, which would be pretty awesome. We're all synesthesic to an extent, but some people really have it good in this respect. I'd love to be able to taste blue and hear volcanos with every orgasm.

You have a brain tumour.

Good luck...
 
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Three things:

Your head is not quite screwed on right, in which case start making up stories for the sounds and enjoy them. They might become more real, and you more insane. But you'll have fun. Perhaps that bang was you reminiscing about being the war? Remember the war you were in?

You suffer from synesthesia, which would be pretty awesome. We're all synesthesic to an extent, but some people really have it good in this respect. I'd love to be able to taste blue and hear volcanos with every orgasm.

You have a brain tumour.

Good luck...
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Saltex said:
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While it might have had a jovial tone, the post is serious.

It might be a psychological thing that you need to take care of, or it could be physiological. A tumour pressing against your ventral cochlear nucleus might trigger audio that your brain is simply trying to interpret. Or there is something happening in your hippocampus that is creating a perception problem? Or perhaps there is an issue with your acetylcholine production that is wreaking havoc with your memory?

Or you really do suffer from synesthesia? It is actually far more common than medical scientists used to think. In fact we all experience it to some degree, but others more than the rest of us. Some people can literally taste colours. Others can see sound. Others can hear pictures. Really, this does happen, and it could be happening to you.

As havoc says, hallucinations are not something to be laughed off. They're usually a sign of something happening in your brain that is not normal. It might be psychological or it might be physiological. Either way, it's something you should certainly address. As an example, worst case scenario, you have a tumour that is connected to a blood vessel in your brain. Each time your synapses activate in that area of your brain, the blood vessel convulses and triggers an auditory hallucination. Distinct possibility. Deal with it early, and it might very well be treatable. Leave it, and you could land up like my great uncle - dead, from an untreated brain tumour that was entirely operable had he simply gone to a neuro-specialist when he started to have blackouts...
 
I sometimes think I'm hearing things that aren't there. Some of you think that I'm a neurotic and obsessive compulsive a-hole because in my class I expect there to absolute silence, firstly when I'm talking and secondly when the kids are doing work. The problem is, in my class I've got three large air condition units droning and also 45 PCs humming. Now if only a couple of kids are whispering the overall noise is much higher and really annoying. But the added problem is that I'm convinced that the kids have all mastered the art of ventriloquism because when I look up I almost never see the little culprits. I often freak out, "who the hell is talking ... STFU!!!

I swear, it's driving me crazy.
 
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3 times in my life I have been about to go to sleep and music has started playing in my head. I dont mean remembering, I mean actually playing, the last time I lay there for almost an hour listening to it before it stopped.

Some people have told me it was a lucid dream but I am 100% sure I was awake. It was some kind of classical music I have never heard anywhere else.
 
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3 times in my life I have been about to go to sleep and music has started playing in my head. I dont mean remembering, I mean actually playing, the last time I actually lay there for almost an hour listening to it before it stopped.

Some people have told me it was a lucid dream but I am 100% sure I was awake. It was some kind of classical music I have never heard anywhere else.
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This happens to me too, sometimes I will hear voices, but it so quiet that you can't really make out anything, so I came to the conclusion "you only hear what you want to hear"

I don't really think it is to serious as it does not happen on such a regular basis, im curious if anyone else just experiences these type of things.
 
If you get these hallucinations while falling asleep, or immediately after waking up, then they are hypnopompic and hypnagogic hallucinations, nothing serious, I get them too.
 
Madman88 said:
3 times in my life I have been about to go to sleep and music has started playing in my head. I dont mean remembering, I mean actually playing, the last time I lay there for almost an hour listening to it before it stopped.

Some people have told me it was a lucid dream but I am 100% sure I was awake. It was some kind of classical music I have never heard anywhere else.
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Is that the reason for your forum name? :p
 
Saltex said:
I don't really think it is to serious as it does not happen on such a regular basis
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Oh yeah, 'cos that's totally how things work...:rolleyes:

Rather waut until it becomes a serious issue and then deal with it. Hallucinations are NOT normal. Something is not right...
 
Madman88 said:
3 times in my life I have been about to go to sleep and music has started playing in my head. I dont mean remembering, I mean actually playing
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The brain is an incredible thing. We experience it's action by perception, and perception can fool you. A memory triggered incorrectly can have the exact same effect as perceiving it to be actually happening. You might not be able to tell the difference.

For example during brain surgery, you might feel things, taste things, hear things, see things etc as they probe around inside your brain. These perception are as real as the actual activity. Your external senses and central nervous system simply decode experiences, encode them into electrical and chemical signals, and send these to your brain. So you can hack into this process and send "fake" messages. The perception of the event is as real as anything you could possibly experience ordinarily.

Bottom line is that if there was no orchestra in your bedroom, you probably had a hallucination, or perhaps a very lucid dream, maybe...
 
I hear a soft high pitched ringing in my ears pretty much permanently. I usually only notice it when the area is silent or there is little noise. As a kid I used to think I was listening to the sound of electricity running through the cabling in the walls :p

That is a mild annoyance but if I were hearing actual fully formed noises that don't seem to have a source I would be concerned.
 
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