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What happened yesterday night?

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fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:05

I live in an apartment with my husband and my toddler. Yesterday night, I was awaken by the loud noise of someone using the bathroom. I woke up, the chain flushed, water running for a few seconds, the sound of the switch being flicked, the exhaust fan. Thought it was my husband but I turned around and he was laying next to me.
Thought it was a robbery (with a loud toilet break lol) but was too scared to check and the bedroom door was wide open so I was scared of telling husband and being heard. I just waited and nothing, no one was inside.

What the hell could that have been?

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SageRosemary · 03/10/2023 17:06

A dream

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fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:07

SageRosemary · 03/10/2023 17:06

A dream

But I was awake when it happened

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OhComeOnFFS · 03/10/2023 17:08

I'm sorry, I don't know, but do you really say 'yesterday night' instead of 'last night'? I've never heard that expression before.

stayathomer · 03/10/2023 17:08

any chance it was your toddler? Or the people in the next apartment?

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fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:09

OhComeOnFFS · 03/10/2023 17:08

I'm sorry, I don't know, but do you really say 'yesterday night' instead of 'last night'? I've never heard that expression before.

Sorry, English isn't my first language, so it's probably not an expression that actually exists

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CandleWick4 · 03/10/2023 17:09

Auditory hallucination?

nebulae · 03/10/2023 17:09

fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:07

But I was awake when it happened

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Maybe you were only half awake. Seems far more likely than an intruder or ghost using your toilet facilities.

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fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:09

stayathomer · 03/10/2023 17:08

any chance it was your toddler? Or the people in the next apartment?

My toddler was sleeping next to me.

I've never heard the people from the next apartment from our bedroom. And it was quite loud.
Could be that though!

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fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:10

nebulae · 03/10/2023 17:09

Maybe you were only half awake. Seems far more likely than an intruder or ghost using your toilet facilities.

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That could be!

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HongKongGarden · 03/10/2023 17:11

fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:07

But I was awake when it happened

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What’s more likely, that you are remembering a dream or that you had an intruder or a ghost using the toilet?

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fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:11

CandleWick4 · 03/10/2023 17:09

Auditory hallucination?

I get visual and auditory hallucinations frequently as part of sleep paralysis but normally I know it's sleep paralysis because I can't move, and I get this feeling of something sitting on me.
Could it still be that? I could move around

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fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:12

HongKongGarden · 03/10/2023 17:11

What’s more likely, that you are remembering a dream or that you had an intruder or a ghost using the toilet?

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I was thinking hallucination which scares me a bit

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MidnightOnceMore · 03/10/2023 17:13

OhComeOnFFS · 03/10/2023 17:08

I'm sorry, I don't know, but do you really say 'yesterday night' instead of 'last night'? I've never heard that expression before.

This is a bit rude IMO, not everyone has English as a first language.

pippinsleftleg · 03/10/2023 17:23

Probably your neighbours and you could hear it because it was very quiet at night.

In my last house - semi detached - if I woke up first and sat downstairs very early morning I could hear next door walking around but it sounded like it was consign from upstairs in my house. I would only hear that in absolute silence.

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fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:25

pippinsleftleg · 03/10/2023 17:23

Probably your neighbours and you could hear it because it was very quiet at night.

In my last house - semi detached - if I woke up first and sat downstairs very early morning I could hear next door walking around but it sounded like it was consign from upstairs in my house. I would only hear that in absolute silence.

that's a good point! thank you

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AutumnFroglets · 03/10/2023 17:29

You can actually dream about being awake, doing normal things you do on waking up, ie stretching, turning off your alarm, putting glasses on etc, and then your alarm goes off and you "wake up" again. It's very confusing, and exhausting. I wonder if it's that.

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fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:31

AutumnFroglets · 03/10/2023 17:29

You can actually dream about being awake, doing normal things you do on waking up, ie stretching, turning off your alarm, putting glasses on etc, and then your alarm goes off and you "wake up" again. It's very confusing, and exhausting. I wonder if it's that.

It could very much be that!!

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MrsAvocet · 03/10/2023 17:37

I quite often have a phase kind of between sleep and wakefulness when I am dreaming but I know that it's a dream and that I will be awake properly very soon. Do you think it could have been something like that but in reverse kind of thing?
I mean realistically an intruder isn't going to flush the loo and give themselves away are they, and I don't really think ghosts exist, or if they do, I doubt they use the toilet, so most likely is either a neighbour had left their window open and the wind was just in the right direction to make the sound carry or you were in some kind of half dreaming state. Try not to worry, I'm sure it's nothing sinister.

cocksstrideintheevening · 03/10/2023 17:46

OhComeOnFFS · 03/10/2023 17:08

I'm sorry, I don't know, but do you really say 'yesterday night' instead of 'last night'? I've never heard that expression before.

I was struggling with that too!

HongKongGarden · 03/10/2023 17:48

If you’re interested then reading about hypnogogic and hypnopompic states is fascinating. It’s amazing what the brain can get up to when waking or falling asleep.

VeridicalVagabond · 03/10/2023 17:51

Sounds like the sort of "waking dreams" I have.

I suffered from night terrors as a child, and these have manifested as an adult into these very odd dreams where I could swear I'm awake. Had one the other night actually, woke up at 4am and was looking at my phone to make sure my alarms were set, when my phone was wrenched out of my hand and drifted across the room...

Today I would tell you hand on heart that it absolutely happened and I was definitely awake, but I know it didn't and I wasn't. It's somewhere between a dream and a hallucination, you're not fully awake and your brain keeps dreaming even though you're sat up with your eyes open and it feels very very real.

Tropicalsquirrel · 03/10/2023 17:55

I’ve lived in apartments where each floor has the same layout, so the neighbours en-suite was above ours. You could clearly hear it at night when there were no other noises.

TheEldersOfTheInternet · 03/10/2023 18:03

fivenonrouses · 03/10/2023 17:11

I get visual and auditory hallucinations frequently as part of sleep paralysis but normally I know it's sleep paralysis because I can't move, and I get this feeling of something sitting on me.
Could it still be that? I could move around

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Yes it could absolutely be that, the brain is an amazing place.
I also understood you completely when you said yesterday night, as would most people.

genesis92 · 03/10/2023 18:03

Probably just a ghost?

Findyourneutralspace · 03/10/2023 18:04

I think it’s pretty unlikely that a burglar crept into your home, walked past all your valuables, used the loo and left.

Most likely the neighbours. Have you asked DH?