Someone's just whispered my name and I'm home alone!

[tullebelle]

I'm shaking.

Was in the kitchen and clear as day someone just whispered my name.

I don't want to tell anyone in real life as they won't believe me.

Doubt anyone on here will believe me either to be fair.

Just wanted to tell someone as it's scared me.

Why are you scared OP? Do you think it’s something paranormal?

we often see/hear things that are not real, as our brains process the visual or auditory data to make it something recognisable and often human.
You may have heard something; it wasn’t a disembodied being whispering your name.

I get hypnogogic hallucinations. It's actually how I know I'm close to falling asleep. I'll be still awake, still consciously thinking of something, and they start, and I tend to think "oh, okay, I'll just fall asleep then", and that'll be the last thing I'll remember. I'll often have weirdly vivid instrusive images, too, at the same time. It feels as if my dreams make an early start on me, before I'm even properly asleep.

I remover being at home when I was about 7 or 8 and my dad very clearly calling out Hello. As he always did when he got home. Except for he was still at work!

Okay. So we moved into our current house just over 5 years ago. We'd been in the house about 6 weeks and I'd been pottering about getting a few chores done. I sat down to have a sandwich when my daughter called me. I shouted back that I'd be 5 minutes - just having a sandwich. Clearly she couldn't wait as she shouted again "Mummy!" I got up, marched out of the kitchen, across the hall and just as I put my foot on the first stair, I realised she was at school. I was on my own in the house.
I've thought about it lots and if I'd just heard it one, I'd put it down to new house and brain making stuff up. But I heard it twice, clear as a bell. Never really been able to explain it away.

Freaky!

I get this, but for me it is because I need to call a particular family member urgently, as something is happening to him. I've had it (or similar) several times.

I get it regularly, since losing my husband. I don’t like it when my name is shouted, as I work from home and often think an unexpected client has arrived. Lately, it’s been more like someone ‘saying’ my name, rather than shouting. Funny enough, the voice woke me up this morning.

I think it comes from always listening out for my husband, for the two years that I nursed him. When I lost him, I used to get night time visual hallucinations and the really loud voice would startle me out of my sleep. I think in my case, it’s my brain trying to learn to ‘unlisten’ for him, so it’s happening a little less often as time goes by.

I often hear a bell or a knock or a buzzer, or someone calling my name. I’ve learned now its not real. The only time it was a sentence I heard ‘come into the light Eva’ ! it was hilarious.

As others have said, I had a friend this happened to. Standing in a room in a house on her own and clear as day heard someone say her name. It's not that uncommon.I

The only time it was a sentence I heard ‘come into the light Eva’!

Could have been worse. It could have said, come into the darkness, Eva! 😁

Happens to me a lot when I’m really tired, poorly or weirdly sometimes just when focusing hard on something. Auditory hallucinations are common, please don’t worry.

Floatingthroughspace

I have heard my name being called but in my case two other people also heard it as well. We were inside, just the three of us in the house. No radio or TVs on. No windows open. I was in the kitchen making drinks stood with my back to the other two people who were stood by the kitchen door (about 3 metres from me). I heard my name being called from behind me so I turned around thinking it was one of them but when I turned around they had also turned around to face the front door thinking that the voice was coming from behind them. We had all heard my name being called in a clear, fairly quiet voice. Weirdly though, the voice didn't call me by my first name but referred to me as Mrs BlueThang. I've tried thinking of a reasonable explanation for this but can't think of anything that would explain us all hearing it.

This has happened to me twice. It was my dead nan saying" hello, hello, hello!: in her Scouse accent. It was loud, in my ear and no-one else was around. I thought it was nice.

Well I always thought it was just your ears playing tricks but after hearing some of these I'm not so sure 🤔 How can 3 different people hear the same voice?😱

I've had it. It's really unsettling but read about it and it's not unusual.

I get this too OP. It's nothing to worry about. It sounds really clear and as if it's very close. It's just your big complex brain playing tricks.

Was there a fan on, or air conditioner, or any white noise? I sometimes hear music or people talking in white noise, apparently it's quite common but I have tinnitus too so I always put it down to that

How can 3 different people hear the same voice?

It's probably wind or creak or something that randomly sounded like someone's name. A friend of a friend once farted and several people swore they heard his bum say 'Czechoslovakia'

I've had the 'mummy!' call too, from the stairs late at night. My (then) only child was tucked up in bed fast asleep. It wasn't an hallucination or imagination as my DH was sitting with me and heard it too, we both turned and said 'he's up.'
I've also had the unannounced name of a friends new baby spoken into my ear, which I had no other way of knowing.
Not all things in this life are known or can be explained.

I heard someone say my name once. It freaked me out so much because I definitely heard it with my ears, not my brain iykwim, it was definite and clear, but there was nobody in the room with me. A while later I heard it again and realised it was the noise of someone pulling the curtains downstairs.

This has reminded me of a time at work. My dd 18 and I made a massive mess and had to stay late to clean it up. Large warehouse, just the two of us on site mopping up the mess I’d made. I was chatting away to her about buying a car and all of a sudden she told me to shut up
Asked “did you hear that” I said no what ? She said she heard a man tell her to “keep on mopping”
She was deadly serious and even to this day she’s convinced a ghost wanted us to hurry up, get the place clean and bugger off so he could have some peace

When infection made me deaf in one ear for days and heard organ music playing 24/7. Really complicated pieces too.

I’m the least musical person ever but my brain made it all up to fill the silence being reported by my ears.

It’s not easy to sleep through either.

When my DC were young they were playing in the back garden one day while I was upstairs in my bedroom folding clothes to put in drawers. I felt the floorboards as a man walked across them then a hand rest on my shoulder. I vaguely was thinking it was my now ex then suddenly realised he was at work. I turned quickly & there was no-one there & I could see the children still in the garden. Talking with my mother not long after I told her about it. She recounted the story her sister told her of someone coming up behind her & laying his hand on her shoulder but no-one there when she turned. She was standing on concrete at the time & the hand was the only sensation she had. My aunt was convinced it was their late father saying "goodbye" to her. I was under 2 when he died but have 1 vivid memory of him & I was his favourite. I've no belief in ghosts or other such things but although I've no explanation for what happened I know without any doubt that what happened to me happened.