Auditory Hallucinations

[Mike Hoxbig]

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.

Did you fight someone to get their hallucinations?

 

[DJ...]

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

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.

Tinnitus? Many, many people suffer from this. I do, on the odd occasion, since I was a kid. Most common cause for sporadic perceptions of this high-pitched ringing is actually your ear's hair cells dying. As they die off, there is a perceived high-pitched ring. You're not actually hearing anything around you, and nobody else will be able to hear this either. It is simply your ears getting older.

The same principle applies, on a far more extreme scale, after having your ears abused at a club or a concert. Shortly thereafter and even the next day for some, there is a persistent ringing in their ears. The ringing is a different sound to the ordinary high-pitched random perceptions, as the loud club sound systems will damage these hairs across the frequency spectrum, whereas with age-related hair-cell death, it is simply the upper end of the frequency spectrum that begin to die off...

 

[Nanfeishen]

The brain is an incredible thing.
Bottom line is that if there was no orchestra in your bedroom, you probably had a hallucination, or perhaps a very lucid dream, maybe...

Besides the brain, the body can also produce some odd results.

Body capacitance is a physical property of the human body that makes it act as a capacitor.

Body capacitance was a significant nuisance when tuning the earliest radios; touching a tuning knob would couple the body capacitance into the tuning circuit, slightly changing its resonant frequency. However, body capacitance is very useful in the Theremin, a musical instrument in which it causes slight frequency shifts of the instrument's internal oscillators. One of them changes pitch, and the other causes loudness (volume) to change smoothly between silence and full amount.

Furthermore, because of body capacitance, people act as good antennas,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_capacitance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin

Inner ear provides secret to better radio reception

the cochlea in our inner ear is like an antenna

The cochlea has an amazingly large input dynamic range of 120dB, analyzes frequencies over a 100-fold range in carrier frequency (100Hz-10kHz), and amplifies signals at 100kHz even though its cells have time constants of 1ms.

http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/inner-ear-inspires-better-radio

Pdf paper:http://www.rle.mit.edu/avbs/publications/journal_papers/mandal_jssc_rfcochlea_2009.pdf

Under the right circumstances and conditions, it is always possible that some people may hear various oddities.

Then again it could also be messages from the "other side"

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

I actually do have synesthesia, although my particular branch of it lets me "see" sounds hard to explain but different tones have different colours to me. Only happens when I'm concentrating on what I'm listening to, which is fairly often being a sound engineer and all

But in regards to the OP just go see a doc, is probably nothing but for R350 it's better to be safe.

 

[Mars]

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...

Yea I think its some kind of hallucination. I would like to think its was some kind of super super memory thing tho. Makes me feel a little less crazy. I would love for it to happen again.

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

We all hallucinate as we fall in and out of sleep. Especially when very drunk or high. I often feel stuff walking on my skin as I awaken, slapping my skin to get the insect off, just to realise there was nothing.

 

[Datura]

Post made me think of this:

They say silence is golden – but there’s a room in the U.S that’s so quiet it becomes unbearable after a short time.
The longest that anyone has survived in the ‘anechoic chamber’ at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is just 45 minutes.
It’s 99.99 per cent sound absorbent and holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s quietest place, but stay there too long and you may start hallucinating.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...etest-place-chamber-Orfield-Laboratories.html

 

[Beachless]

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.

You should read Isis Unveiled by Madame Blavatsky.

Apparently allot of the great composers claimed to received their music from divine sources.
Einstein apparently got most of his answers from mediating and had a few copies of the above book.
Stephen Hawking apparently also reads that book.

You could be the next great composer if you write down this music you are recieving from another dimension/God/Aliens.


Tinfoil hat off :wtf:

 

[IzZzy]

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.

Starbuck, is that you?

 

[DJ...]

You should read Isis Unveiled by Madame Blavatsky.

Apparently allot of the great composers claimed to received their music from divine sources.
Einstein apparently got most of his answers from mediating and had a few copies of the above book.
Stephen Hawking apparently also reads that book.


Tinfoil hat off :wtf:

I've only seen uncited claims from conspiracy and scam artist sites to this affect...

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Your girlfriend is playing tricks on you, check for hidden speakers. Does she have life insurance or something similar on you. She is trying to declare you insane and get you in an asylum, then she can claim the millions..... :twisted:

 

[Beachless]

I've only seen uncited claims from conspiracy and scam artist sites to this affect...

Thats why I used all the apparently and tinfoil stuff but I would still like to read the books they seem quite interesting and you can get them free(or make a donation) as they are out of copyright.

From your past posts they might interest you as well, forget about all the conspiracy nuts they seem to be written from a scientist viewpoint.

http://theosophytrust.org/online_books.php

 

[winner]

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?

get this checked out. most diseases need early diagnoses for better outcome. other than management success rate, you must also know that as auditory hallucinations get worse, you might even start to believe this voices and if they are commands then that's the start of some serious trouble

 

[Redeemed]

You should read Isis Unveiled by Madame Blavatsky.

Apparently allot of the great composers claimed to received their music from divine sources.
Einstein apparently got most of his answers from mediating and had a few copies of the above book.
Stephen Hawking apparently also reads that book.

You could be the next great composer if you write down this music you are recieving from another dimension/God/Aliens.


Tinfoil hat off :wtf:

In 1964, Shabalala had a series of recurring dreams during his sleep, over a period of six months, featuring a choir singing in perfect harmony.[5] Shabalala described this as a beautiful sound, and one not yet achieved by his group of the time. As a result, he reformed the group, bringing on board newer (younger) relatives but keeping the group name. He strived to teach them the harmonies from his dreams, creating what was to become a signature tune for the group: "Nomathemba" (a girl's name - meaning "hope"). After deciding that this group well replicated the beautiful, soft sounds from his dreams, Shabalala entered the group into isicathamiya competitions, held on Saturday nights in the halls of hostels in Durban and Johannesburg. The group managed to win nearly every competition that was held.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

 

[porchrat]

Tinnitus? Many, many people suffer from this. I do, on the odd occasion, since I was a kid. Most common cause for sporadic perceptions of this high-pitched ringing is actually your ear's hair cells dying. As they die off, there is a perceived high-pitched ring. You're not actually hearing anything around you, and nobody else will be able to hear this either. It is simply your ears getting older.

The same principle applies, on a far more extreme scale, after having your ears abused at a club or a concert. Shortly thereafter and even the next day for some, there is a persistent ringing in their ears. The ringing is a different sound to the ordinary high-pitched random perceptions, as the loud club sound systems will damage these hairs across the frequency spectrum, whereas with age-related hair-cell death, it is simply the upper end of the frequency spectrum that begin to die off...

Thanks for this. Most interesting.

I'm not sure. I've had since I was young and before I started going to clubs. Perhaps it is tinnitus. Just checked the Wiki article and it says you can get it from having chronic allergies causing blockages in our nasal cavities. I do get that a lot. I'm hoping it is something simple like that. I don't like the idea of the sensory hairs in my inner ear dying.

Anyway it doesn't really bother me or concern me, just something I thought was weird. Especially when I found out from others around me that they weren't hearing the ringing either.

As I said though full on hearing of actual recognisable sounds when there is nothing there would creep out.

 

[DJ...]

Thanks for this. Most interesting.

I'm not sure. I've had since I was young and before I started going to clubs.

As have I. As has, probably everyone. It is simply your upper-frequency hair-receptors dying off. It is perceived as a ringing noise. No need for clubs or loud noises - it's just natural. The chronic blockages in nasal cavities would sound more like a hissing, I'd imagine, than a ringing. What you're describing is simply your hairs dying off...