Have u ever honestly heard voices, right when you re about to doze off to sleep?

Question

Yeah ive heard voices in my subconcious state, and i know i hear something. In my dreams i hear things. Have u ever been all alone and by yourself and thought u heard your name being called? whats your take on schitzophrenia?

Answer 1

These are hypnagogic hallucinations. Normal people experience them. It may mean you're kind of stressed, or you need better sleeping habits. From health-cares.net:

"Hypnagogic hallucination is episodes of seeing and hearing things as one is falling asleep. These dreams can be frightening and can often cause a sudden jerk and arousal just before sleep onset. For example, you may see yourself falling and awaken with a sudden jerk, just before impact. As the subject drifts off to sleep, he/she moves into a state that
combines the environment, of which the subject is still partially aware, with a dream-like state of sleep, in which he might see people and hear them talking. The experiences are often frightening. Sleep deprivation, irregular sleep schedules, and medications all can predispose to occurrences of this phenomenon."

Answer 2

I hear voices a lot when my house is quiet at night. I know a ton of people who do. I always believed that it was white noise. That is when there is a constant but quiet sound and you can hear voices "from the other side". The conditions have to be right but it is a very common thing. At lot of the time you will hear your name too. It shouldn't freak you out.

Answer 3

All disorders are really a matter of degree. Fact is, EVERYONE hears voices sometimes. Everyone. Especially as you're falling asleep. That's kinda nothing to be afraid of. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "what's my take", but I'd say that what you described is really not a sign of schizophrenia.

Answer 4

My personal experience with mental disorder is shi*ty. Not much fun hearing stuff, especially if it wakes me up from a sound sleep. Shizophrenia: a special susceptability to inside/outside confusion, self boundary loss, self alienation/estrangment, uncheckable paranoia lacking prejudice specificity, self-conserving habitual cycles (the splits in personality). Confusing psychic phenomena with real here-now events and temporal-swapping, then is now and now is then.

Yup, it can ruin your day.