Heard child calling me, but child was asleep ??

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last night at 3 am I was woken from my sleep by my child calling me. Quite loud ‘ Mama ‘… it woke me up. When I checked, he was fast asleep. The voice also didn’t sound 100 percent like him.

a few weeks ago, in the morning, I was also woken up by the sound of a child laughing, again it didn’t 100 percent sound like my child. When I went to check, he was asleep.

my daughter was asleep too.

am I losing my marbles ? The only logical explanation is that I was dreaming, right? And then I woke up ?

it’s a bit creepy.

Yes, dreams can be very vivid.

I woke up a few nights ago because my dog barked in my ear - she didn't she was asleep in the other part of the house

i I have also woken up to MUUUM when my kids aren't even in the bloody house 😂

it's a proper jolt into wide awake as well. How dare my fake kids and fake dog do that to me 😂

It’s a heightened stress response. You’re hyper vigilant for some reason. Do some mindfulness type stuff.

When it’s really bad it happens by day as well- I would hear an alarm/phone ringing and go looking for it. Took me a few times to catch on- what with my phone being sat next to me and not ringing.

It happens at the same time as various other anxiety symptoms- flushing the loo before I’ve finished weeing, never finishing a task before rushing to the next one etc.

I get loud door knocking, my name being shouted and, only once thankfully, breathing down my ear - it’s just sleep brain shenanigans!

Auditory hallucinations like that are quite common in sleep or semi-waking states. I have them all the time. It’s unsettling but you’re not going mad.

Mine are usually a volley of knocks, someone shouting or screaming or a loud bang. But it makes sense that a parent would hear a child, for obvious reasons.

This phenomenon has a hilariously weird name for some reason!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome

I’ve had this - babies crying when young, seeing someone in the room, spiders in the bed and even gunshot. None have happened of course.
It tends to happen when at my most exhausted.

Thanks everyone. I think the most likely cause is the auditory hallucination thing as it doesn’t quite sound like my children!

I was woken up by my mum calling my name once but she was at her home, turns out she had attempted suicide that night (she was OK luckily)

DS sleep talks like this.
Makes a statement or calls for me.
Then straight back to sleep.

I do also think that messages come like this.
I remember waking suddenly, bolt upright, one night.

I ran into my parents room to say my sister was in trouble.
Next thing the phone rang, it was the police.

She was is hospital, after an attack on a night out.
They’d broken her arm, just for kicks. Terrible!

This was long before mobile phones, too.

Wow, I also have solid belief that messages and revelations come sometimes through dreams.

People also make noises and talk in their sleep, fleetingly.

I often experience a central important noise in a dream that causes me to wake. Once awake I find that actual noise is a reality on my road, or on my TV or from my kettle and my ears have written it into my dream. It sounds the same but isn't always the exact same noise in the dream as in real life. For example in a dream I was walking across a park with my husband and suddenly a bunch of soccer players were there and the umpire was blowing the whistle. I awoke to the sound of my kettle whistling in the kitchen..

My DS has always talked, shouted (even walked) in his sleep since v v young. He's 16 now and last summer I found a sheet (he wasn't using a duvet) half hanging out of the toilet 🤮! He had no recollection of that but must have gone to the loo in his sleep with sheet wrapped round him and dropped it in toilet. He shares a stud wall with his brother who complains about the sleep talking.

The other day I had a very vivid yet boring dream that when I went to the toilet I saw that the cat had vomited a fur ball next to the sink. I decided that I was too tired to clean it up so I would do it in the morning. When I went back to the bathroom in the morning, there was no fur ball and no one had cleaned it up! I must have dreamt it but it was so real, I could so clearly see it in my head, the exact location etc.

I hallucinate my child and my husband calling my name sometimes, when in light sleep. I think it's a nice way of knowing how ever-present they are in my life. My most loved ones.

The only logical explanation is that I was dreaming, right?
what a bizarre thread.

you know children can speak and laugh in their sleep, don't you? Adults too.

Probably your kiddo sleep talking when we haven't spoken in a few hours our vocal chords relax we sound a bit different when we start talking again.
Either that or its a victoriana ghost of a child standing at tr end of your bed looking for it's mama. 😁