The Chit-Chat Thread v3: Electric Potpourri

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

I have something really weird that happens to me sometimes when trying to sleep. I hear a voice talking and it doesn’t stop until I make myself wake up. I can never remember what it says (if it’s anything intelligible at all) but this time I know it was a man’s voice.

I don’t even know where to start to find out why this happens or how to stop it.

This is when you're trying to fall asleep, or during your sleep/dreams ?

I did some research into sleep in a previous life, so who knows, I could be of help !

I think it's when I'm trying to fall asleep, but I'm not positive. It's like just suddenly I start hearing it and creeps me out because it's really like someone's there in my room with me.

If you're not positive, that would probably come from the latter stages of falling asleep, when you're on the brink, and your memory doesn't encode much.

Are the voices anyone you recognise ? Often our mind likes to replay the day either visually or through sound as we're sleeping. So if you've spent your day talking to the same people, their voices may be recalled from your memory as a garble while you're still conscious enough to perceive them. This process usually happens when you're asleep, but it's perfectly common also when you're going to bed. As you fall asleep, your inner voice becomes more pronounced, as there isn't anything else currently contending with it.

Your brain is probably just kicking in too soon, which sometimes happens when you're particularly tired (think of it as the brain being impatient to start replaying !)


If you can't move while you hear the voices, it's likely sleep paralysis, and that's a different kettle of fish, and also easy to avoid :)