The door bell keeps waking me up

[Hagnumber4]

Only the doorbell isn't actually going off... Please tell me I'm not the only one!

This has happened to me too!

I wake in the night to the sound of the doorbell but it’s not the doorbell at all. It scares me when it happens which thankfully isn’t often (maybe once a year)

It's so annoying. Twice last night and once the night before

Are you saying the noise is all in your head?
Or that the doorbell is sounding but no one is there?

It's in my head

It's the phone ringing, for me.

I get that, and I don't even have a doorbell!

Yup happened to me once and it was so vivid!

It’s called a hypnogogic hallucination after falling asleep or hypnopompic hallucination if just before becoming awake. ( usually harmless auditory hallucinations associated with sleep stages) I use to hear a doorbell, a horn , my mom calling my name or a short orchestral snippet… weird.

Yes, I have this. Not particularly regularly, but I did have it the night before last.

People knock on my front door in the middle of the night. Except…they don’t. Same thing!

Yes, I have this. It's the doorbell or a loud knock on the door, usually.

I used to be convinced I could hear my baby crying every time I dared to take a shower without him literally facing me in the bouncy seat in the bathroom. I’d stop the water in a panic and hear no crying, so weird.

Look up exploding head syndrome. I get the same sound even though we don’t have a doorbell any more! As well as various crashes, bangs and other alarming noises.

Yes, I also have this, it’s a bit different from a hallucination and I can feel the vibration in my ear as I wake up

I hear the doorbell too.

I get this but with the sound of the fire alarm not the door bell.

It’s the dog barking for me. Sit upright. Think about whether it was real or not. Hear nothing. Go back to sleep!

Oh gawd, that transported me back twenty years!

I've had this, it woke me up, I was surprised no one else woke up, looked out the window and no one was there, it was so bizarre, sounded so real

I do this but it's usually someone shouting me. I also used to do the shower/baby crying thing mentioned up thread. I hated that! It was so "real", I used to switch the shower off and speed through it every time.

Similarly, if any random strangers kid calls out for their mum in public and it sounds in any way like one of my kids (either similar to their past babyish voices, or like their present voices), it has the same effect on me as if my kid was calling out for me.

When I was breastfeeding, I used to experience milk letdown if I heard that newborn "feed me..NOW!" type of crying, regardless of who the baby belonged to (even babies on the TV!)

I think, with the sleep thing, sometimes we get locked into hypervigilance or stress, and the brain has funny ways of trying to circumnavigate it.

For me its the door being knocked I will wake and go and look out the spy hole and there's no body there , usually when am waiting on a delivery but this can happen anytime in the night

I get these auditory hallucinations usually as I am coming out of a sleep cycle and pretty much always when I have been a bit sleep deprived the day before. I also get visual hallucinations as I am falling asleep (again only when I have been sleep deprived). I think the visual ones are also called hypnagogic hallucinations. I get kaleidoscope vision or flicking images (like someone flicking through a photo album). The brain is an odd organ!

Yes! I’m glad I’m not the only one!
Only since moving to this new house where we do actually have a door bell though

I get this too - either the doorbell or knocking at the door!! I wonder why they are such popular hallucinations?

I occasionally wake up thinking one of the dc are calling out for me, ds is away at uni and dd is 12 so it isn’t even as if they’re small and frequently waking up in the night. I used to work in A&E and would wake myself up during the day after a night shift convinced the emergency alert phone was ringing