Sparkle1984
14-12-12, 18:12
This happened to me twice last night - I was woken by an auditory hallucination. The first time, it was in the middle of the night and it was still dark outside, and I was woken by a voice. It sounded quite loud - I can't remember what it said (it was nothing menacing or anything like that), but luckily I managed to fall straight back to sleep again. Then this morning, I was woken by the sound of a loud cough - it sounded like it was coming from inside my head. It definitely wasn't me coughing. About a couple of seconds after hearing the cough, my step-dad knocked on the door as it was time for me to get up.
This sort of thing has happened to me in the past - back in August one night I was woken up by the sound of someone snoring, but I knew it wasn't real as I don't snore. About 7 years ago, I was woken up by a tapping sensation on my shoulder. It felt like someone was tapping me on the shoulder to get me to wake up, but when I turned round no-one was there and my bedroom door was still closed (I always have my door closed when I'm sleeping). That happened 2 or 3 times in the same month - one of the times, the tapping sensation was on my back instead of my shoulder. Since then, I've always slept with the covers wrapped around my body completely, and I've never felt the tapping sensation since then.
I wonder what could be causing this. Has anyone else here had a similar experience? I've been thinking about the incident this morning where I heard the coughing sound immediately before my step-dad knocked on my door, and I'm thinking that maybe it was because my brain was in transition from the sleeping to awakened state, so maybe the coughing sound was part of a dream?
This sort of thing has happened to me in the past - back in August one night I was woken up by the sound of someone snoring, but I knew it wasn't real as I don't snore. About 7 years ago, I was woken up by a tapping sensation on my shoulder. It felt like someone was tapping me on the shoulder to get me to wake up, but when I turned round no-one was there and my bedroom door was still closed (I always have my door closed when I'm sleeping). That happened 2 or 3 times in the same month - one of the times, the tapping sensation was on my back instead of my shoulder. Since then, I've always slept with the covers wrapped around my body completely, and I've never felt the tapping sensation since then.
I wonder what could be causing this. Has anyone else here had a similar experience? I've been thinking about the incident this morning where I heard the coughing sound immediately before my step-dad knocked on my door, and I'm thinking that maybe it was because my brain was in transition from the sleeping to awakened state, so maybe the coughing sound was part of a dream?