Hypnagogic Hallucinations

[Outdoorsman37]

I've been struggling with anxiety and sometimes before falling asleep I hear muffled voices/sounds. I don't experience this when I'm awake or throught the day. This has me worried about something more serious going on. I still function well and everything.

 

[Bobnnat]

Hi Outdoorsman,

You have nothing to be concerned about. I went through a period of such things which occurred sometimes as I was falling asleep, and occasionally when I was waking up. I know each has a specific term. You named the one related to falling asleep. I have had them especially at times of higher stress. Mine included feeling as if someone was pushing me from the back. It was so real like there was someone behind me. I occasionally get those sounds you mention. Almost seems like I’m hearing a radio broadcast. That initially freaked me out until I learned it’s all part of the whole sleep disturbance process. It will eventually go away, sooner if you don’t fret about it.

 

[Outdoorsman37]

Hi Outdoorsman,

You have nothing to be concerned about. I went through a period of such things which occurred sometimes as I was falling asleep, and occasionally when I was waking up. I know each has a specific term. You named the one related to falling asleep. I have had them especially at times of higher stress. Mine included feeling as if someone was pushing me from the back. It was so real like there was someone behind me. I occasionally get those sounds you mention. Almost seems like I’m hearing a radio broadcast. That initially freaked me out until I learned it’s all part of the whole sleep disturbance process. It will eventually go away, sooner if you don’t fret about it.

Hi Bobnnat,
Thanks for they reply. I've been feeling really stressed lately and that's when it started. I was worried about it being something more serious. I'm trying really hard to calm my anxiety down. Next time it happens I won't let it bother me.

 

[Cuchculan]

Sounds more like lucid dreams. Happen as we drifting off to sleep and just as we begin to awake. Because we are part awake and past asleep, a lucid dream can feel so real. If you see anything, it feels like it is really there. They are as old as time itself. In history it used to be Demons sitting on a person's chest. Pushing down on it. Out went the Demons and in came the Aliens as time went by. Though most sane people neither saw Demons or Aliens. Just those who believed in such things. Us average people simply knew them as lucid dreams.

 

[Joshua1]

I've been struggling with anxiety and sometimes before falling asleep I hear muffled voices/sounds. I don't experience this when I'm awake or throught the day. This has me worried about something more serious going on. I still function well and everything.

Speak to a doctor, It could be because there are noises throughout the day, that is why you do not hear voices during the day. I know because that is what happens to me, although on olanzapine i do not hear voices during the night so much. The voices are very very quiet. Only when its quiet, do i hear them, when i do not take the olanzapine medication.

 

[Outdoorsman37]

Speak to a doctor, It could be because there are noises throughout the day, that is why you do not hear voices during the day. I know because that is what happens to me, although on olanzapine i do not hear voices during the night so much. The voices are very very quiet. Only when its quiet, do i hear them, when i do not take the olanzapine medication.

I mentioned this during a mental health assessment and they said sleep related hallucinations could be stress or a sleep disorder. It really worries me that it's something more serious. I don't hear anything at all until I try to sleep. Sometimes it happens waking up.

 

[Joshua1]

I've been struggling with anxiety and sometimes before falling asleep I hear muffled voices/sounds. I don't experience this when I'm awake or throught the day. This has me worried about something more serious going on. I still function well and everything.

Perhaps noise during the day is suppressing the sounds that you hear. It could be the next door neighbours, etc. We will hear things before falling asleep, i heard my next door neighbours playing loud music, and kept calling the police. What your experiencing could be just speculation. Talk to the doctor about it.