Auditory hallucinations when falling asleep?

Does anybody else have auditory hallucinations while falling asleep? I’m not really sure what brings this on but I have them from time to time. Tonight I came home stressed out from work so maybe stress is a factor but sometimes when I’m extremely tired or about to doze off I hear voices or noises when falling asleep. They are very random kind of like just hearing noise when you’re walking down a busy street and hear peoples conversations. When it first started I was going through postpartum anxiety and OCD and I thought I was going “crazy” or schizophrenic and it caused me a huge amount of stress. I had a therapist explain to me that it was just auditory hallucinations and I should be fine. Just wondering if anyone else experiences this?

Mark.The.Canuck

Date posted: 2y

I’ve has it many times recently also. And I know people that aren’t OCD and have it. In all of our cases it’s when we’re about to fall asleep and it’s some loud white noise or just a random shout. Like a loud car alarm, a person saying “Hey”, or a ring bell.

adom88

Date posted: 2y

Omg! I first realized mine by hearing a voice say "hey!" and it made me jump up and turn to my husband to ask what that was. Once I realized it was in my head I went into a full blown panick, thinking that I was going "crazy" or schizophrenic. Ever since I have had bad anxiety or what may have been OCD I have had a fear of losing it, so the auditory hallucinations was just the icing on the cake. Not to mention I was a few months postpartum when they started happening and I was already running on little to no sleep and was having a really hard time with the postpartum anxiety and OCD. Thank you, for your response. Even though I don't wish these things on others, it does give me some comfort knowing I'm not the only one.

cha069

Date posted: 2y

well i did. psychotic ocd used to be my theme. it started when my auditory hallucination occured while falling asleep. ofcourse, i freaked out because what ive heard was not normal, i mean, i was literally hallucinating. so , my anxiety increased and went to google immediately for reassurance. honestly, searching for google just made it worst😅 and so is reddit. i literallly thought that im becoming a schizophrenic. i was so hypersensitive with tiny sounds. my compulsions was, covering my ears to check if the sounds i hear was real or not, same with checking the sounds outside the window, reading google articles about psychosis and schizophrenia. i was so sleepless before 🤣 dont ya worry, youre gonna be fine. i figured that im not psychotic or schizophrenic when i stop diverting all my energy and attention to that psychotic obessesion theme. it always feels real because the anxiety you feel is so extreme to the point that you cant even distinguish whats real or not. auditory hallucination while falling asleep is normal. you can also research what is it called. ive also had it numerous times recently but i just shrugged it off. youre gonna be fine. 😁

adom88

Date posted: 2y

Oh yeah, last year I was the google queen and it definitely made times worse when looking for reassurance. Thank you for your response, it really helps to know I'm not the only one.

Anonymous

Date posted: 30w

@cha069 Did you ever have mind pops/earworms when you had psychosis ocd? Going thru this rn

Mark.The.Canuck

Date posted: 2y

Yeah a lot of people have it. My cousin isn’t diagnosed with anything and has that. A friend told me he has that too. If you’re sleep deprived your mind might play tricks on you when you’re on the verge of falling asleep. If you look over the symptoms of people who have narcolepsy they experience that. I would only worry and see a professional for that topic if I would hear things often while I am wide awake and others around me say they didn’t hear it.

Anonymous

Date posted: 14w

Is schizo ocd a thing?

I have been having these fears about developing schizophrenia, it reached a point where i am starting to almost hear things or the smallest sounds and my mind tells me you're schizophrenic, and i feel this weird sensations in my ear as if someone is whispering yet i can barely hear them, the thing is i am not diagnosed yet because i never work with an OCD therapist but i study psychology so i just used what i learnt to give a meaning to my suffering, many themes of this fear have been happening before and this schizophrenia fear is the last one. I want to know what advice you can give me or ways to make my brain calm down a little bit, i also don't have and can't afford a therapist that's why i am here in the first place I also want to know more informations or experiences with this theme if anyone habe experienced it and what helped you with it I remember feeling better for a while but than i collapsed back, but i am hoping to get better soon too or anytime in the future, I don't want reassurance so make sure you be as real as you can, and thanks 🙏🏻

CrazyLizardLady

Date posted: 11w

Does anyone struggle the worst at night?

I feel like it’s just me. But at night when I start to fall asleep, play on my phone, or watch TV; I’ll get major intrusive thoughts and a butt load of anxiety. Has anyone felt the same about this? How have you managed it? It’s getting exhausting and even causes me to sleep-less.

Estelle_11

Date posted: 8w

If your mind keeps making you hear something

As you try to fall asleep, what exactly are you supposed to do? Most advice would be “just allow it but don’t engage” ok that sounds great but if it pulls you right out of sleep just as you’re drifting off, it’s hard not to engage. It’s like another person waiting for you to just fall asleep and then they purposely wake you up. Just let it keep happening? And yes, my mind is doing it on purpose. 🙏?

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