it was spoken softly near me. it was very real. what could it be.
2006-09-05 17:25:48 · 25 answers · asked by inday 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Hypnagogic voices (or images) are fairly common hallucinatory experiences generally associated with being in a state of near-sleep. There's a reverse of it too -- where that sort of thing happens when you're waking up, and there's a different name for it.
Sleep paralysis and night terrors are related sort of experiences which are also quite frightening. Hypnagogic phenomena is also associated, as an earlier poster said, with lucid dreaming, which is a specific type of sleep experience where a dreamer realizes he or she is asleep and can exert control over their dreams.
I am a very lucid dreamer in that state of sleep, but before I learned to really control my dreaming, I was often bothered by hypnagogic voices. It can be quite alarming. Sometimes the phenomena is also linked to stress, though there's nothing that definitely says stress is a factor. Some people just experience this sort of thing in their sleep.
I would encourage you -- if you're interested in this sort of thing and want to read more -- to read through some of the forums at the Fortean Times Message Board, where there are extensive discussions of hypnagogic phenomena (and all the resulting theories that people have about it). Do a search for the word "hypnagogic" and you should hit on several lengthy threads.
The most important thing is to realize that nearly 40% (if not more) of people have some sort of experience like this in their lives, so you're not alone. It can be indicative of a sleep disorder, so if you're having this problem in combination with other sleeping oddness, I'd suggest seeing a doctor. But otherwise, it's nothing to be worried about.
2006-09-05 19:05:35 · answer #1 · answered by ReniHana 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you figure it out let me know. I have never seen a ghost and don't know if I believe in them but, I was awake and getting ready for work one morning and thought I heard my wife call my name. She should have still been asleep. I walked into the bedroom to see if she was awake and she was sitting up in bed and asked me who was talking to me. It was 5 am I told her I thought it was her. Two days later I was shot.
3 years ago I again thought I heard the same voice call my name, and 2 days later my father was in a car accident and died of a heart attack in the hospital. An Angel's warning? Ghost? Psychic warning?
2006-09-05 20:01:51 · answer #2 · answered by mark g 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ghost. I've had a similar experience. One time I woke up and saw a person standing over me watching me sleep. I started screaming really loud, crawled out of my bed, clawed at the door and crawled into the hallway, screaming the whole time. My mom came out and about had a coronary. I made her go into my room and make sure nobody was in there. I was 19! I truly believe it was a ghost. Find out about the past of your current home.
2006-09-05 17:28:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what your personal beliefs are. However, I notice that no one yet has suggested that the voice might be divine or beneficially supernatural (such as that of an angel). There are a number of examples in the Christian Bible of people being spoken directly to by God or by one of His angelic messengers.
1 Samuel 3 (the first book of Samuel, chapter three) reports such an episode in almost exactly the same words as you have used...
you might try answering in the same way as Samuel did! :)
2006-09-05 17:34:11 · answer #4 · answered by bardmistress 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's a ghost. I've had it happen to me several times. I don't know what you should do, I moved out of the old house I was living in and it never happened again. I know the eerie feeling though. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
2006-09-06 10:31:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has very seldom happened to me but once it happened to my Dad. He heard his uncle voice calling him (my dad) very desperate so Dad woke up and hurried to his uncle´s room and he found him dying but they could talk for a little while... it is up to you to think what it could be depending on your experience or most of all on your believing if it could be a kind of telepathy or something related with God...
2006-09-05 17:36:47 · answer #6 · answered by AMAYI 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could be your spirit guide. It can be scarry at first (it scared me the first few times) But the more you get use to it and in tune with it the more it will come to you...if you feel the hairs on the back of your neck they are there with you...
2006-09-05 17:39:18 · answer #7 · answered by mysticalmoon1975 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it was your ANGEL. it happens all the time just pay attention.
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2006-09-05 18:35:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
u were probably just dreaming. but dreams are not always fake, the are signs of what u think, what u feel. according to a recent study, dreams can be deciphered and can provide light into what may happen in the future. since thw voice u heard was soft, u were probably dreaming of something nice,,so relax
2006-09-05 17:29:10 · answer #9 · answered by mugdha_coolgirl8 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
a spirit who knows you
and misses you
wants to let you know they are still around
so don't forget them
2006-09-05 17:28:50 · answer #10 · answered by ez-goin 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋