To have heard a voice

[Seeleyboo]

Husband thinks I'm a dick. Has anyone else heard voices or seen spirits.

I’ve had auditory hallucinations before when very tired

I am the most sceptical and rational person possible. I have heard voices and sounds which logically could not be real.

Yes I have seen spirits. I find it quite comforting. Never heard voices but we’re all different

I’ve heard voices. When I was on morphine (after an op), I heard full conversations- I couldn’t sleep for the chattering. But I’ve heard words when not drugged up too.

I see people at night, standing next to and even in/through the bed, faces in the curtains like Marley’s ghost in the door knocker!

It’s usually when I am stressed and tired and falling asleep (hypnagogic hallucinations).

It's pretty normal to hear voices apparently. I have heard the odd thing.

My mum is into all this stuff and there is different names for the type of other worldly thing you sense - clairaudience etc. It's quite reasonable to think it is the brain playing tricks on you, but I think we all like to see signs of some kind of afterlife.

Hearing a shout, or a word (like no) or a door knock, just as you wake or are off to sleep is quite common and as someone said, is a type of auditory (hypnogogic) hallucination between waking/sleep.

If you are hearing whole conversations that's a bit different. Sometimes people do hear voices, and it's not always indicative of psychosis (although it can be)- there's networks of similar people you can join: www.hearing-voices.org/

I brought a house where my mates husband grew up and would always think I'd hear a radio on while laid in bed. Also I thought I see a ghost of this scary man running towards me and of a lady in the kitchen. Also a boy that I'd see out the corner of my eye peering around the door frame. My brother and mum on separete occasions see the lady too and my sister stay over in my room and heard the radio. I hadnt told them about this as thought I was going insane. Mentioned it to my friends husband about how his old house is haunted or I'm full on loosing it and he said he was an only child and had an unhappy childhood and would always fall asleep with the radio on to drown out the noise of his parents fighting. And his room was my new room. It makes no sense atall but it's like I see his memories. Still live here and dont see or hear things anymore.

Yes

Look up www.hearing-voices.org/

Up to 10% of people can hear voices- it is not unusual. There are various explanations in terms of brain systems but it doesn't mean anything is wrong.

I clearly heard....you're gonna crash....I did..80mph on m4. He says I imagined it. Did i

Yes, very likely it was a hallucination, they're common. 'You're gonna crash' could have been a normal thought in your head what with going 80mph, but some wires got crossed and you heard it 'outside' instead of in your head. I find them mildly distressing, but know that it's quite normal so long as it's not often or intrusive.

I'm so glad I came upon this thread. Been thinking I'm going mad every night jumping up in fright after seeing things in the room and now thanks to @Ad3laid3 I have an explanation. Off to do some more googling

Minniem2020 I was also weirded out until I realised they were hypnogogic or hypnopompic hallucinations, the key is they are always either when you are falling asleep/waking up, and it's like your brain doesn't seem to realise that and so projects stuff into the real world- it also vanishes pretty quickly once you really are awake, I find.

Mine are associated with beta-blocker use, vivid dreams and weird experiences are more common with quite a lot of standard type medications including this one.

I also find I see things in the first hour of sleep, waking me up, which is to do with sleep cycles.

There's a voice that keep on calling me...

Down the road, that's where I want to be...

I've heard voices more than once m when my hoover is running. One told me the name of a friends baby that hadn't been announced yet.
Yes I know I sound batshit but it's true and I can't explain it

Yes. We had huge problems with the 400 year old house we bought. I won't go into detail but I was not a believer before moving here. I researched a lot and in the end. I burnt sage in every corner of every room. Opened all the windows. Said prayers and asked the spirits to leave nicely. Things have been a lot better since.

@Seeleyboo

I clearly heard....you're gonna crash....I did..80mph on m4. He says I imagined it. Did i

I've been in two crashes in my life. The first as a teen on the school bus (no one injured). Right before I had a fleeting thought out of nowhere, "would be strange if the bus crashed" and within seconds it did

The second I was with a friend who was driving. The weather was really bad and he was a showoff/reckless driver. I mentioned that we were on the very road that my friend's sister had crashed and died on years before and to be careful.

He wrote off the car later that night.

Meant to add I'm not woo at all but I avoid thoughts of and speaking about crashes now when in a moving vehicle

@RobinHumphries

I’ve had auditory hallucinations before when very tired

Me, too. They're not all that unusual. Neither are visual hallucinations for the same reason. And what pps have said about hypnogogic or hypnopompic hallucinations, which can feel appallingly vivid.

I was once visiting a friend, having tea in her living room when I heard my deceased uncle's voice say, 'GO!' and I knew it meant run in and check on the kids in my friend's bedroom, now.

The sash window was wide open and my then 3-year-old DS and friend's 2-year-old were both leaning out the 5th-floor window.

Whether that was my own head telling me to 'act now' in a voice I would respond to better than my own, or my uncle prevailing on me spiritually, I'll never know. I'm glad I followed orders!

I’ve never heard voices but I totally accept that some would. The spirit world is just a different dimension, there’s bound to be crossovers sometimes. All will be clear when we die.

I am a rational scientific atheist and don't really believe in any woohoo. But several years ago when I was a single mum to Dc1 who was asleep in bed aged 2 I took the bins out in our new flat forgetting it locked itself yale style unlike the property I moved from. It was a cold December night and I was in pyjamas. I was locked out. I frantically tried to force the door, cried in desperation ( the other properties in the block only 2 others were otherwise uninhabited) then suddenly felt a sense of calm and the door gently opened. This is true and I've never understood it or forgotten it.

I get the occasional auditory hallucination. They are a bit freaky as it's not a voice inside my head, it's directional so it feels as if someone is standing on my left/behind me and speaking. It doesn't bother me too much, except the time that I heard my personal trainer tell me "It's all good" when my legs were killing me the day after a workout. The next time I saw him I told him to stay out of my head, he thought it was hilarious.