Auditory oddities

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Does anyone else hear what sounds like faint whispering voices after going to bed and waiting to go to sleep? I used to assume the voices were just sound carrying from nearby rooms or other houses, but where we live now there are no other buildings anywhere near us. I have tinnitus and don't know if it is related to this or related to aspergers or something else?

I also find some high pitched sounds painful. At Christmas we had visitors who brought a blow-up bed with them. They had a little electric pump to blow it up and the noise was so painful I had to go into another room and shut the door and wait until they had finished. I think they thought I was being "weird". Vacuum cleaners also emit a similar tone which I find very uncomfortable.

Yes I hear the faint whispering or actually speaking voices when I am either half asleep or half awake....also, bits of music and other sounds...

I know this. I've not found an explanation yet.

I had this every single night since I was about 3 years. Nowadays, I usually hear music before drifting off to sleep and thus cannot report as to whether this happens every night still. I 'hear' these whispers (it sounds like many far-away voices) though whenever I go to sleep when it is absolutely silent inside and outside the apartment.

This auditory phenomenon seems to be exclusively linked to myself without any connection to my surroundings.

I have sounds in my ears sometimes, but no idea whether this is tinnitus? I had this all my life. High pitched sounds, though the frequency wavers. It's only a real bother when I'm drunk, sick or took any meds, 'cause then the loudness and duration drives me nuts.


The second paragrapgh sounds like typical auditory issues autistic people tend to display. But I have yet to read about a connection between this and the mysterious sounds as described above.

They are probably just typical hypnogogic hallucinations, a common phenomenon that occurs when falling asleep.

I hear sounds of video games sometime if i play them for several hours, lasting quite long afterward depend how long i played.

I considered that for me, but I also get this auditory phenomenon while I'm wide awake. At rare times, also during the day. But the atmosphere of the day is rarely ever as silent as the night. It must be ultimately silent for it to start.

Yup, those are hypnagogic hallucinations. The particular situation that you describe is related to the "Tetris effect." It's been shown that even amnesiacs, after they have spent a long day playing Tetris, even though they will not remember playing the game, will experience hallucinations of falling blocks as they are going to sleep. Cool, huh?

Hey, I think I've experienced that; one day, after playing a lot of Aliens Versus Predator 2, I was going for a walk and for a split second I thought I had heard an Alien!

I'll really have to listen out for voices before I go to sleep tonight- I've never paid attention before. I used to hear a high ringing sound when i was younger, almost like a dial tone, but it was fairly rare and would only last a minute at a time. Yeah, I get the same effect when I play NWN2, or sometimes if I'm listening to a band at the same time as playing the game, I'll always remember the game when I hear that music again... ('Breakfast in America' by Supertramp always reminds me of the Neverwinter sewer system )

I sometimes hear what sounds like mumbled conversations or music when i am going to sleep. glad to know other people have this going on.

Very often, I hear loud yowling meows coming from the back yard. I think I'm going crazy, but then my mom tells me there were indeed cats out there.

"You're cutting me up!"

I heard this from my parent's bedroom when I was very young. I am almost certain it was a hallucination, because it was a strange voice and it cut off too abruptly. I kind of wish things like that happened more often.

when I'm half asleep my mind starts to wander and starts to say random sentences and not always in my voice(but this only happens when it's dead silent in my room thats why I always keep a fan going whenever I go to sleep.)

I have the "Tetris affect" with any video game I play, no matter how simple or complicated. The weirdest is Text Twist, where you try to find words you can make with six given letters... when I play the game obsessively (which is usually how I do it) I will have the game play whenever my eyes are closed, but with new words.

I don't hear voices, but I do have problems with high-pitched noises. When I was a kid I couldn't even stand the fan in the bathroom.

I wouldn't worry, unless the voices start to tell you to DO things.

Hypnagogic hallucinations and hypnopompic hallucinations are considered normal phenomena. Hypnagogic hallucinations can occur as one is falling asleep and hypnopompic hallucinations occur when one is waking up. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination

Though I was raised in Canada, I find that British accents are easier for me to understand, than north American accents.