Auditory Recognition

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Does anyone sometimes have problems recognising common sounds such as a helicopter or an alarm when it's really obvious what it is?

Sometimes this happens, and I know it's really familiar, but I can't recollect what it is. And then suddenly it clicks and I know what it is

Example:
Helicopter sound
Recogition of sound, but not of origin
Thinking: What is it?...machine...what *is* it?...machine...lawnmower? To loud...machine...motorbike? Going overhead...wait! Helicopter!

Even though it was really obvious to start with.

I can't really put it into words very well.

Also, I had this odd thing happen at college once. Here’s what happened:

I went into a room and saw someone talking to the teacher but he seemed to be speaking with no sound, like the teacher was lip-reading what he was saying. I could hear the voice but was blocked out in the background and was not ‘put together’ with the sight of him talking – it was like the sound ‘cut out’/was 'put to back of my mind’ as background noise. Anyway, I wondered why he wasn’t talking with sound, then my brain suddenly put the sound with the vision and he ‘started talking properly’. It was really weird.

Has anyone had similar experiences?

sometimes.

sometimes I get my "wires crossed" and I experience things like smelling what temperature a room is. :S I walked into Advanced Mathematics yesterday and blurted out "it smells warm in here" :D I feel like a dork now. :S I sometimes get my words muddled too :S like I'll swear that a word means something, even one that I've used hundreds of times before, and I know what it means, I just get confused. :S
Oddly enough, my sense of smell is the only one that gets mixed every so often.

Anyone else?

Yes I do, especially with sudden noises like beeping noises, they make me jump and then I think they are alarms and that they are much louder than they actually are. It normally takes someone else to calm me down and make me realise its something much less sinister.

My words get mixed to.
When someone tells you to say a word over and over until it has no meaning, I find that happening without the repeating.

Every now and then we get this loud droning noise that sounds a lot like a ship (I've confused it with that before). I don't know what it is exactly though. Probably something from a construction site somewhere near.

Sometimes I think cats and children sound alike and get them confused if I can see what's making the noise.

Central Auditory Processing Disorder is common in people with ASDs. It could explain those experiences.