weird aural hullucinations.

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So admittedly I've been awake for almost 72 hours so my brain is a bit frazzled. It started with the electric fan which played a radio station this morning, which apparently (according to my facebook friends) can happen so, although it freaked me out a bit,

This is so hard to describe. I'd flicked through voicemail to check who I'd spoken to in the run up to hogmanay. I'd put the phone down, watched the end of the film and noticed that there was a humming coming from the phone. I could only hear it very faintly but could make out that it was deleted messages from the telephone. They were all very feasible (the phone is second hand), mundane to a medical proffessional called Dawn. Then I started recognising tones of voice and I thought I heard my mums but still to this Dawn lady with my name in it (which would be feesible). I can't fast forward or roll forwards the messages so thought I'd listen to the run of messages and start again....big mistake that was about 2.5 hours ago. And I've had the addition of radio news coming to my right ear, and sometimes a third lot of talking just around me.

Anyway, eventually the tone totally changed again and became voicemails to me from various - evidently I was purposefully missing from my two children and they were caring for them - totally in their accents and voices - updating me on my son's ill health and begging me to go to them. Asking me for Covid status. Then they were at covid testing centre message from son saying it was negative, then mum saying it was positive, then a worker - Rob - (yes I took notes!) who informed me it was actually negative but messaged a big spiel...about cancer etc. Anyway to the point of not getting boring the messages kept getting more and more desperate for me to be there (and they were seemingly getting no responses either), which I apparently didn't.

The voicemails then turned to basically all the bad life experiences my kids would have, mainly from my aunt and mum, but not in age order. All bad and all begging me to be there. The radio in my right ear gave mainly news stories. But a song has just come on "Fred and John on the radio, mum," to a pretty cool tune which ends we miss you.

I'm not coming across very well, but I've zoned out a bit recently and am going to have to deal with some heavy stuff in the next few days and the whole thing has made me change the way I'll deal with things as well as being quite emotional.

AIBU to listen to the "phone" and the "radio"?

Auditory hallucinations and visual ones are utterly fascinating and terrifying in equal measure. Sleep deprivation does some weird stuff so my first thoughts are you NEED to get a good solid kip first and foremost. I once went a similar length of time kipping just the odd 10 mins here or there when I worked nights and we had a shortage of staff meaning I stayed on to work the days when people didn't turn up.

Literally started tripping balls the entire building was moving / waving gently and the carpet grew flowers. I remember just going "Girls I need to go lie down in a spare room and sleep for an hour or two I am absolutely off my tits"

Just posting a link or two for reference that might make you feel a bit better and offer some reassurance. It doesn't mean you're fruit loop or on the way by any means though.

They are really frightening when you have no idea what they are or what's going on.

Get some kip first then read up and if it's worrying you or continues - see the doc asap

www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/auditory-hallucination

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557633/

www.healthline.com/health/hallucinations

get some sleep
take nytol if you're finding it hard to drop off - play some white noise or an actual radio station

72 hours without sleep will do this to you, OP. If long periods of time without sleep like this are becoming regular for you, you need to get yourself to the GP.

I went 40 hours recently after a 4 hour sleep and got oversensitive to noise to the point that I felt I could hear myself blink. It’s mad what your brain can do to you if you miss enough sleep.

I've had visual hallucinations when functioning on very little sleep and auditory ones when very stressed. They are weird but as PPs have said, they are a result of tiredness and stress. It would be worth a call to your gp though to see if there is sometging you can do about the stress and insomnia.

Thanks all, I've had a good 6 hours kip and feel almost normal....almost!!!

PinniGig those links were scary as. Substance misuse and lack of sleep and past trauma here so I think it is all sortable....I just have to change and rapidly. People have been telling it to me for years but sometimes it has to come from within.

aki and baba I already counselling booked through the GP and, unfortunately, and embarrassingly, we are under social services.

Big wake up call!!