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AIBU?

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AIBU to think this is bloody freaky

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chelle792 · 02/05/2016 07:32

Sleeping happily last night, hear someone whisper my name. Opened my eyes, DH fast asleep and not stirring. I was too scared to check if anyone was there and it was pitch black so I just screwed my eyes shut and didn't move!! Luckily I'm still alive and it wasn't a mass murderer or anything!

Anyone else ever been woken by someone whispering their name?

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WeAllHaveWings · 02/05/2016 09:04

Many years ago, and a couple of years after SIL died (suicide), something had happened and she was very much in my thoughts when I was going to sleep.

I woke in the middle of the night and felt someone poking/pushing me in the back twice to get my attention, I even felt myself being pressing into the mattress with each push. Cuddled up to dh and screwed by eyes up tightly absolutely terrified.

WeAllHaveWings · 02/05/2016 09:05

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Tiopyn · 02/05/2016 09:06

Namechange - that sounds terrifying! I've had sleep paralysis once with no visual hallucinations, and just that left me panicking.

I second hypnagogic hallucinations though - I used to have similar.

Slutbucket · 02/05/2016 09:19

I was bout with my gmil and we both heard someone shout her name. We both turned round expecting to see someone she knew.... Nobody there. Apparently it happened to her a lot. Freaky!

ClopySow · 02/05/2016 09:19

I had a really weird one recently where it sounded like wood splitting right next to my bed. I sat up for a very long time with my heart pounding. In the end i put it down to new medication i'd just started.

LittleHouseOnTheShelf · 02/05/2016 09:26

The worst one I had was on one of the first nights in our new house, I was sure the house was full of smoke. We had just fitted smoke alarms and tested them so I knew it wasn't but it was terrible until I woke up enough to realise it wasn't real.

springydaffs · 02/05/2016 09:31

I'd not heard of Alice in Wonderland syndrome! I had this a lot when I was a child - and migraines run in the family.

Mum that sounds terrifying!

AugustaFinkNottle · 02/05/2016 09:32

If you were sleeping it was obviously a dream.

LittleHouseOnTheShelf · 02/05/2016 09:34

Augusta I thought I was dreaming but I could 'see' it when I walked out of the room, I was trying (and failing) to sleep - 'seeing' the smoke didn't help!

springydaffs · 02/05/2016 09:35

I had an experience a few years back after I'd had flu. Anyone who has had the proper thing (don't mean to be snobby about this) knows it is appalling. I live alone and spent days moaning 'oh god' because the pain was immense. I had to get downstairs to get some meds and the effort was huge, it took me hours to get there, to pluck up the courage and then to get there. About a month later as I walked through the kitchen door I audibly heard my 'oh god'. It was as if the 'suffering' had caught in the fabric of the house somehow.

ExpandingRoundTheMiddle · 02/05/2016 09:38

I occasionally get this when I'm wide awake. I've always had it so it doesn't bother me.

KittyKrap · 02/05/2016 09:40

I don't get names but I get a bang on the front door or the doorbell. Definitely no one there!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 02/05/2016 09:45

Ahhh, it's REAL , I have had this recently, my DH and DD think I'm touched.
"Heard any more voices then, Mum"?

Couple of weeks ago, I was snoozing on the sofa , I heard 70 . Said "What" to DH, he was because he hadn't spoken.
Heard it again in the night (nice voice not scary)
Then "70 wake up" at 3am, DH was sleeping.

springydaffs · 02/05/2016 09:46

Perhaps repeated experiences create neural pathways somehow that replay don't really know what I'm talking about here

Magicpaintbrush · 02/05/2016 09:51

When I was a child in bed I often used to think I could see swarms of spiders scuttling over the walls. After reading this thread it all suddenly makes sense!

AlwaysWashing · 02/05/2016 10:15

What's the word for a smell hallucination (cba to Google!)
I used to get them really frequently, particularly when I was pregnant. The amount of times I'd leap out of bed and race to the kids room because I could smell smoke so, so clearly. Strong, acrid smoke. It would take me a few minutes of me hunting around for the source of it then for the smell to go and I'd go back to bed. Also I've been woken up by a strong smell of flowery perfume, proper old lady, rose type perfume. Very odd?

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 02/05/2016 10:54

I turned my back on a tea cup, sitting on a table in an empty room and within seconds, it hit me in the back with enough force for me to exclaim, then it just crashed onto the floor.

Never found an explanation for that.

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 02/05/2016 10:55

Sorry, I was off on a tangent there. This isn't about woo, it just got me thinking a bit woo.

DailyMailEthicalFail · 02/05/2016 10:58

Wow. Grateful not to have had these.
I have had some horrendous nightmares in my life but diff to this.
I did have someone say: 'I love you' really emphatically just as I went to sleep last week. It was NOT my H!

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 02/05/2016 11:01

I lived in a house once that gave me terrible nightmares about the house itself. More than once, I woke up, reciting the Lord's Prayer out loud, absolutely rigid with fear. Awful place.

SweetieDrops · 02/05/2016 11:04

I get the doorbell one too.

Crazypetlady · 02/05/2016 12:12

My old house was haunted. I had stuff thrown off the shelf at me and someone told me to shh amongst other stuff

NameChangeMum456 · 02/05/2016 17:59

Having lived in army camps in Germany, I have experienced homes and buildings with horrible feelings, and had some rather nasty dreams in them, so I'm not entirely opposed to the belief of woo. But I am rather glad to have a more scientific explanation for my sleep hallucinations and such, otherwise I'd never want to sleep again.

StrawberrytallCake · 02/05/2016 18:04

I get loud bangs that wake me up all the time which don't actually happen.

Also I spent most of my early adult years age 16-22 talking in my sleep often half awake to an object which I thought was a person like a bedside lamp or wardrobe. I think it was trauma related.

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