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.

Sorry but "I meant "dead" though she was very dear too!" Made me laugh wornoutboots

I sometimes get this in the middle of the night. Freaks me out.

for you S1naidSucks

Someone’s bum cheeks said ‘Czechoslovakia’

Thank you Welder. That’s very kind if you.

I had no idea this was a thing! I don’t know how some can seemingly so calmly ignore it, I would find it so creepy even though it sounds explainable .

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I’ve had this when very very tired. Certain it’s my brain telling me to get some rest!

I got this once, came home after a run of night shifts, turned on the shower and heard someone shout my name. I heard it in my head, not through my ears, but it felt so real it freaked me out.
I was just massively overtired, I think. Nothing like that before or since.

@tullebelle check this out en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

I was once in a creepy room alone at work and a loud voice said what do you think you are doing. I got a new job.

she’s convinced a ghost wanted us to hurry up, get the place clean and bugger off so he could have some peace

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I think this happens a lot more than people realise, people just don’t talk about it because they worry others will think they’re crazy.

My mum died in March. On the way to the hospice on the night she died (although I didn’t know she was going to die that particular night, I just knew she had gone downhill) I was driving along and I literally heard a bell- like a sleigh bell / cats collar bell- so loudly in the car with me I nearly had an accident as I thought I’d somehow locked a random cat in the car with me when I got in (we don’t have cats or any pets by the way). It was so unnerving.

My mum died at midnight a few hours later after I had visited and come home and I remembered a few days later that when I was little and was upset as I found out Father Christmas wasn’t real one Christmas she dug out some old sleigh bells we had and rang them at the bottom of the stairs where I heard them that night in bed, as if to say the magic of Christmas is still real, even if Father Christmas isn’t.

Make of that what you will.

I am sure it was some sort of weird sign from her.

I do think not everything can be explained.

I hear either DM (still alive) or DF (dead) call my name when I'm drifting off, always the same, just short and sharp and quite loud. Or I'll hear a knock at the door.

Just asked DP if he ever heard stuff like this. He said no but when he's asleep he'll hear somebody say "Get up, you're going to be late for work". Yeah, that's actually me...

Perfectly normal, OP. I’ve had this often, especially my son calling me when he’s asleep or at school. Just insignificant/pattern-making brain glitches.

Though I now really want to hear that fart that sounded like Czechoslovakia.

My old fridge used to make a noise frighteningly similar to my baby calling out for me

This happened to my husband a few weeks ago! He was in the shower upstairs, and I was downstairs with the baby.
I heard him say something, then cry out loudly in horror. I laughed to myself as I thought he'd fallen over, and it reminded me of the time when he fell out of the shower during sex and he ripped down the shower curtain as he went. Hilarious. He sat there on the floor like a wet ghost under the curtain.
Anyway, it turns out he'd heard my voice loudly say his name really close to him and he'd turned around and was shocked to see the room empty.

I said I must bug him so much that he hears me shouting for him even when I'm not, like I hear the baby crying every time I get in the shower, even when he's sleeping silently in reality!

Happens to me a lot, often when I'm v tired or half asleep

If it makes you feel better, my great great grandfather had the sight, and lived with a ghost. She was not very communicative but liked to sit by his bed when he was trying to sleep. He was used to it, would have given me the horrors. He was a very matter of fact farmer, not at all woo, but seemed to accept that he attracted spirits, and in fact, lived with one in residence!

Dp and I stayed over at mils once. I got up and mil was downstairs. Dp still in bed me and mil were in the kitchen having a chat.

As clear as day both of us heard the name dp calls me. It sounded like dp was in the living room and it sounded like him. It's an abbreviated version of my first name.
We both looked up at the same time and went into the living room. It's small house and neither had heard him come down.

We went in the room and no one was there. I went up to our bedroom and dp was still snoring.

Mil insists it's her husband/dps dad who died 10 years before. She was really happy said, it was fil letting us know he liked me and I was part of the family. She says dp sounds very much like him.

I dont know what it was. We both heard it. Either it was a noise that sounded like my name or it was fil. Either way. Not scary.

I genuinely think there's more to it than being tired and hallucinating voices.

I'm not woo but I've had lots of experiences of this which makes me think this. Most you won't believe but I'll tell you this one.

Lying in bed awake in the morning, I know it's before my alarm as it hasn't gone off yet but don't look at my phone to see the time. I'm lying awake, eyes closed, thinking I need to enjoy this time before my alarm goes off. A while later, I hear the words in my head "on your marks, get set..." and then on "go" my alarm goes off. On that exact word although the word isn't said the alarm just goes off. How on earth can that happen? I had no idea of the time, it wasn't someone else looking at the time and commenting either as it was just me in the house. I have no explanation it was just weird.

For those who got it when they were going to sleep, there’s a type of hallucination called hypnagogic hallucinations that happen when falling asleep or waking up. I’ve had it happen to me before, could hear loads of chatter, some were voices I recognised like my auntie, and others were random but it was like being in a busy pub with several conversations going on at once!

Yes there are hynogogic (falling asleep) and hypnopompic (waking up) hallucinations but neither explain my story above nor any of my other ones.

There's nothing remotely supernatural about yours, origami -- your half-awake state was just giving a 'logical' dream voice to your subconscious realisation that it's time to get up. There was a long Guardian reader comments section discussion about waking up just before your alarm clock, and someone said she dreamed she was at the opera and the tenor started singing the aria 'Nessun Dorma' ('None Shall Sleep') just as her alarm went off. I think it's the same kind of dream logic.

“On that exact word although the word isn't said the alarm just goes off. How on earth can that happen?”

Dreams can happen in a split second- I remember very clearly a dream about someone coming to my door and the doorbell was my alarm clock ringing. The alarm had started to ring and my brain created the dream in the instant before I woke up.

There's nothing remotely supernatural about yours, origami -- your half-awake state was just giving a 'logical' dream voice to your subconscious realisation that it's time to get up.

Yes I get that. If I heard something like "get up" and then I woke up or my alarm went off but 1. I was awake not asleep just lying with my eyes shut and 2. It was timed perfectly, Ready, set, RING...not Ready, Set.....RING. It was like 3x 1 second beats.

Dreams can happen in a split second- I remember very clearly a dream about someone coming to my door and the doorbell was my alarm clock ringing. The alarm had started to ring and my brain created the dream in the instant before I woke up.

I've had those, had a stomach ache and had a dream I'd been shot in the stomach, someone knocks the door and it happens in your dream. But these happen in your dream as they are happening in real life. My alarm didn't ring and I heard the word go or get up. I heard...Ready, Set, RING. So I heard the words before the noise. And I was definitely awake.

Don't think it's supernatural no, but it was weird, really weird.