This kinda thing happened to me once, I was asleep and I heard this girl having a conversation on the phone and I heard her sitting in the chair and the chair scraping against the floor every time she moved around. I didn't recognize the voice as being anyone I knew...and the weird thing was that I was fully aware of her conversation..not like a dream where you see it happening it was like being awake somewhere else but not being able to see anything. Like knowing that your eyes are closed and your layiing on your bed but being able to hear a conversation somewhere else. So when I actually woke up, I remembered the experience but I don't remember what she was talking about. My theory on this was that I was tuning in to another frequency or something like that. Im not really sure what it means. I've experienced sleep paralysis but this was completely different and I've been searching for an answer, is this normal?

[edit on 4-11-2007 by trisana]

Originally posted by fiftyfifty
yeh i know what you mean, it gets annoying at night. I find it hard to switch off. Just out of interest.. do you visualise what you think as well as hear?

Here;s the cure: Get yourself a little walkman and tune into something good, or half way interesting. And i mean talk, not music.
This is what i do so i dont have to deal with unwelcome incoming thoughts which live in my head and will NOT go to sleep when i want to.

I'm serious, you will never be bothered by your own thoughts again.

i have this problem, where i feel people r talking in quite situations, and they do nothing but lie, one of their names is samantha, one is taylor, and i dont know the others name, and one claims to be my ex girlfrtiend, once i broke up with my ex, i was super super super lonely and she was cheating with a guy directyl upstairs from out apartment at the end, his name was taylor, and now we dont speak talk nothing for 9 months, and there always saying leave him alone samantha, then taylor will come in an just say shut the # up right now, if you say one word, ill beat the # out of you , and my ex will tret me like # (in my head of course) and the other day i started a new myspacxe page and earlier i was checkin a site an girls had messaged me and i went to my page and there was already a bulletin posted saying "easy girls want Me"

is this #in real? if it is, these people are the most EVIL sedisitc mother#drs in the world, i also say, call my cell phone and talk to me if this is real, cuz im very lonely after we broke up i dont have any friends and i geyt made fun of constantly constantly, im scared #less, so i got on risperdal and it went away and i ran out the other day and they came back, mind u only in quiet situations, im also an audio engineer so im listening to mixs alllll day long writing music , editing music, cutting up audio etc...

Go have a hearing test done. Some people might have the ability to hear certain frequencies that the normal person can not. The little bones that make up your ear could be different then others. You might have more hairs (sensors) inside your cochlea.

very interesting....

This happens to me occasionally. Usually while falling asleep. I'll wake up suddenly and realize that these people are having a conversation and I know it's not a dream. I've always felt it was just my own mind unwinding from the day only because I didn't know what else to think of it.

I urge readers here to get the book "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind," by Julian Jaynes.

There you will find not only some perspective on the "inner voice," and the vocal hallucination if you will, that may shed light upon your inquiry.


[edit on 26-11-2007 by SkipShipman]

Originally posted by SkipShipman
I urge readers here to get the book "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind," by Julian Jaynes.

There you will find not only some perspective on the "inner voice," and the vocal hallucination if you will, that may shed light upon your inquiry.


[edit on 26-11-2007 by SkipShipman]

Thanks, that sounds interesting, I may just have to look it up.

Like I said, I was hoping to take more notice of these voices and try and work out some relevance but I just can't. It seems to happen at quite a deep conscious level which works simultaneous with my conscious mind. I'm finding that it happens quite often while I am in the shower.. maybe the water has amplifying properties if it is external or maybe it is just because my mind relaxes while I am in there? Whatever the reason, It stops when I notice it and what I have heard is just totally random and out of context of anything relevant or related to my own thoughts.

Does anyone else experience it more under any certain conditions?

This afternoon I decided to take a nap because I was dead tired, as I got 2 hours into sleep I thought I heard my roommate come in with someone so I tried to wake up and realized I was having another sleep paralysis episode. I could breathe but I couldn't move. I could hear them having a conversation. So I tried to push my self out of it...once out of the sp I looked around my room and no one was in it but me. what I can't figure out is...it was always my belief that during sp your mind awakes before your body but this time I thought my mind was aware of my surroundings but that can't be true because my roommate wasn't actually in the room. Does that mean that my mind made up the conversation? I don't understand it.

I hear voices talking in my mind all of the time. It has really gotten ugly over the past 9 months. They just don't stop. It's kind of creepy because it involves religious characters, which has made it hard to dismiss, so I keep on feeding the conversations because
I feel that they are necessary out of fear of dying or going to hell. The conversation is this.... I will hear voices whispering this girls name who I work with. The voice that whispers it and the mental dialog seem to be of religious authority from spiritual beings of heaven. I don't see them, but I can visualize them in my imagination. It is like a constant obsession that my mind has a hard time getting rid of. This wouldn't be a big deal if I was actually attracted to this girl, but thankfully I am not, so I know that the dialogs will eventually pass. It would be nice if the voices would speak of pretty, gorgeous women, but this girl is far from that in a very unattractive way. She is just not my type, but the voices say that she is, and try to convince me to believe a lie. I will talk back to them, telling them off, to leave me alone and let me live my life how I want . The problem is that when I do tell them off and say that I will only date girls that I find attractive, I am told that I am being satanic, and that I will suffer from cancer, death, hell, and many of the other curses that you might find in the bible. They frequently say that the only way to get to heaven is to suck it up, deal with it and be with this hideous looking girl who I have to see twice a week at work. I am very close to dismissing all christianity and selling my soul to the devil, in exchange for whatever I want, whenever I want, for all eternity. That way I can be freed from this horrible curse in my mind and will accept that one day I will die. That will motivate me to live life fully, each and every day, and if there is a heaven, then I will get to go there for as long as I want, because I will have sold my soul for whatever I want, whenever I want. If there really is a God, I don't like him, and I do not appreciate his non helping hand, even though I have prayed for specific help. We don't need religious influence to know right from wrong. Please don't think that if I sell my soul, that I will lose my sense of morals or desire to honor the golden rule. It is just a cure for a terrible mind f--k. This all happened when I had finally done too many drugs, and I thought that I was going to die because I saw a hallucination that scared the s--t out of me. In a panic, a day or two after this incident, I prayed to God and pleaded with him for my life, and I said that if he spared it, I would marry any girl he chose. So this girl at my work stood out in a way that made me fear that she is the one that God chose. So ever since, I have struggled with this dialog based on fear. What makes this more difficult is that I know this girl likes me, I think she might even be a little obsessed with me, and that's even more of a turn off. Stay away from drugs people, at least don't abuse them, and don't do anything illegal. Psychedelic drugs and religion are a bad combination! I almost went crazy from this, but thankfully, I realize that I still have a say in how I live my life. I no longer read the bible, go to church, or pray. I do miss prayer though, because it feels good to send out positive love intention toward others, but I cannot feed the source of these thoughts anymore. Sorry that this is pretty off topic, but I really wanted to get this out. Any comments are welcome, especially ones that are encouraging in ways that will help me sever this curse from my whole being. : )