Hallucinating sounds of loud arguments when starting to wake up

[Lencoboy]

This has been happening to me on and off for ages now, even going back 20-odd years in some instances and I never previously made a big deal over it but over recent weeks such phenomena has become much more frequent to the point where I am starting to feel quite disturbed by it.

Ironically, I haven't witnessed nor been exposed in person to any major confrontations recently, neither at home nor elsewhere, but I really have no idea as to what the potential triggers are. And despite me changing meds at least 3 times over the past 10-20 years or more.

I'm NOT attention-seeking either.

[Lencoboy]

This has been happening to me on and off for ages now, even going back 20-odd years in some instances and I never previously made a big deal over it but over recent weeks such phenomena has become much more frequent to the point where I am starting to feel quite disturbed by it.

Ironically, I haven't witnessed nor been exposed in person to any major confrontations recently, neither at home nor elsewhere, but I really have no idea as to what the potential triggers are. And despite me changing meds at least 3 times over the past 10-20 years or more.

I'm NOT attention-seeking either.

P.S. Is it possible that this thread could be moved to the 'GAD' sub-section?

[NoraB]

One for your GP or a psychiatrist methinks Lenco...

[Lencoboy]

I've already created another thread on this in the 'Symptoms' sub-section, but it's barely had any response, so I decided to start another one here, as this sub-section appears to have higher traffic.

On and off over recent weeks upon waking up very early in the morning, I have been hallucinating the sound of loud arguments and domestic violence-like incidents, despite no such things actually happening, and all I can hear is the sound of the central heating, which doesn't generally bother me, plus both my parents are almost always still spark out at about 6 am, so unlikely to be rowing and screaming that early in the morning, but they thankfully don't have such confrontations very often nowadays anyway.

I am just finding it so disturbing and terrifying, especially as it seems to be so random.

Also, is it normal to hear random things in sounds like the whirring of the central heating system and other mechanical devices that aren't actually present when waking up?

[nomorepanic]

Hi

This is just a courtesy reply to let you know that your thread was merged with another of your threads.

Please when posting on similar topics add it onto your previous post rather than starting a new one.

It is nothing personal it is just to make it easier for people to follow your story and to give you advice as a whole.

[Pamplemousse]

Hypnogogic sleep, I think it's called.

[MyNameIsTerry]

Hypnogogic sleep, I think it's called.

Yep, waking being the Hypnopompic stage of it. All quite normal and increased anxiety can cause more of it.

The brain works very differently in these stages so we can experience all sorts of strange things.

[pulisa]

Hope this helps you, Lenco? Sound sensitivity can really ramp up with increased anxiety too.

[Lencoboy]

Hi

This is just a courtesy reply to let you know that your thread was merged with another of your threads.

Please when posting on similar topics add it onto your previous post rather than starting a new one.

It is nothing personal it is just to make it easier for people to follow your story and to give you advice as a whole.

Thank you. Much appreciated.

[Lencoboy]

Hope this helps you, Lenco? Sound sensitivity can really ramp up with increased anxiety too.

Yes. It happened once again first thing this morning, even though I had a fan on all night which mostly obscured the sound of the central heating coming on at 6 am this morning.

I am going through the cycle once again, though unlike certain persons on here, whose (user)names I shall not mention, I am not out to attention-seek.

Although I don't really believe in the paranormal, supernatural, etc, I sometimes sense some bad vibes in our house, despite it only being almost 50 years old (built in 1972). In fact we as a family actually had far worse 'crises' at our previous address that was about 6 years younger than our current address and we moved away from it in 1985 when I was almost 8.

ETA; I just did some research on Wikipedia about Hypnopompia, and kind of sums it up

[tham]

Hi, I woke this morning hearing loud deep banging sounds and the sound of like wha wha whoosh woosh in my head ( only way I can describe it ) . Also this was coupled with palpitations . Sometimes I hear a loud bang as im going to sleep too . Its disturbing but I try to accept it,s due to high levels of anxiety . I had a very intense confrontation with a family member and it takes me days to settle . Stress upon stress too often trigers these auditory episodes with me .

Just wanted to tell you, you'r not alone .

Hope this helps

[Lencoboy]

Hi, I woke this morning hearing loud deep banging sounds and the sound of like wha wha whoosh woosh in my head ( only way I can describe it ) . Also this was coupled with palpitations . Sometimes I hear a loud bang as im going to sleep too . Its disturbing but I try to accept it,s due to high levels of anxiety . I had a very intense confrontation with a family member and it takes me days to settle . Stress upon stress too often trigers these auditory episodes with me .

Just wanted to tell you, you'r not alone .

Hope this helps

Thanks Tham.

On a similar note, yesterday, like a fool, I watched old episodes of Crimewatch UK from the 80s and early 90s on YouTube and ended up having nightmares about armed robberies and shootings, which was most ironic considering Nick Ross's famous catchphrase 'Don't have nightmares, and sleep tight!'

It was also an eye-opener to the fact that violent crimes, especially armed robberies, were actually much higher back in the 80s and 90s than a lot of us seemed to realise at the time.

[Pamplemousse]

Much easier and more lucrative to steal money online these days.

[Lencoboy]

Much easier and more lucrative to steal money online these days.

Hence probably why online fraud/scams seem to be talked about far more these days than the classical armed robberies of banks, building societies, post offices, shops, pubs, Royal Mail/Securicor vans, etc.

In many ways I think this country was actually far more unsafe at times back in the 80s and 90s than now, despite us being saturated with endless instantaneous info nowadays, mainly thanks to the Internet.

[Lencoboy]

This has started up once again after just over 2 years, which obviously coincided with a simultaneous anxiety dream which I had prior to waking about 6:30 am this morning.

The dream was about returning to our previous address and hearing our original next door neighbours there having a terrible domestic with tons of shouting, screaming, swearing, slapping and banging going on (they were quite volatile as they were in the forces) and then gradually started to awaken still kind of hallucinating the sounds of all the hullabaloo coming from next door at our previous address circa 1978-1980 that I don't really remember personally but I recall my grandma telling me some years later what terrible people they were and that it was really horrible in their house. I also remember hearing smacking sounds coming from their living room whilst outside in the back garden during summer followed by their child screaming and crying as they had no qualms about whacking that poor little boy of theirs really hard willy-nilly with their back door and living room windows wide open.

I keep having fantasies about getting in a boxing ring with both the bloke and the woman, especially as they seemed like child-beaters and also husband/wife-beaters and see how they like being beaten black and blue, even though I never have any actual intention of doing such a thing as I'm not really a violent person.

Mind you, I had a few wallops off my own parents (especially my mom) back then; sometimes for seemingly the most trivial of things and my grandma also told me that they went through a phase of having a lot of domestics themselves back then around 1978-1980. My dad admitted to me recently that he and my mom didn't really know any better back then regarding both smacking children and domestics in general and were going by a lot of the prevailing attitudes of the time, but probably would have done things different had they known back then what they know now.

Anyway, that gobsh1te family next door to us at our previous house moved away (to Germany) when I was about 3 1/2 and a tamer family thankfully moved in after them.