I am suddenly up at 3:19 am because I am totally freaked out. I was thinking about ghosts while in bed in my?

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dark room, and every time I get intense chills of fear, something in the room snaps or cracks, or makes some other sharp, prominent sound. The funny thing is, when I stop being suspicious or scared there are absolutely no sounds. When my mind goes back to spooky thoughts and the chills pervade my body, the sharp sounds start again!!! I just got out of bed almost in panic, and I had to turn on the lights and write this. I am not crazy; nor do I see or hear "things". I am a serious person, and I am very skeptical by nature. Do you think what I witnessed is, maybe, the power of the brain causing these sounds (a sharp breaking of a pencil sound, and sometimes the sound of like a fingernail striking a wall)? How can this be explained?

Answer 1

I believe when a person gets fearful there is the chance his/her senses maybe become more acute as a result of chemical changes resulting from the fear.

Chances are you are either paying more attention to the noises or else hearing what you wouldn't otherwise notice or else, too, there's the chance it is just coincidence.

Any chance there's a mouse (or more than one) in the house, and when you get quiet it gets active; but if you're up and around and putting lights on it hides again?

I get noises in my house even when I'm not "thinking spooky". They just happen - humidity changes make noises start, walls sound like they're cracking, etc. Heat coming on after not being on makes all kinds of noises.

As long as you can rule out animals or people, just assume your walls are cracking or else the heat is doing something and relax. (You're right to stay up and get yourself out of the spooky frame-of-mind, though.)

Any chance your heat gets lowered before people go to bed, and the house has gotten colder, so the heat kicks back on a little around the time you're trying to sleep?

Answer 2

The mind can certainly play some amazing tricks on us, especially at night when there's little stimuli except what's inside of them. Kind of like an isolation tank. The slightest sound can take on mammoth proportions.

Last winter I was in bed and I could've sworn I heard 2 or 3 guys outside the house discussing the possible starting lineups for the Super Bowl. I thought, "What the hell are those guys doing there discussing football strategy at 2 in the morning?!" And in my driveway, no less.

I got up out of bed and walked toward the sound. As I got closer and closer to where I thought it was emanating from, I began to hear the wind chimes from outside the driveway door. "OMG," I thought. What I thought were voices just seconds before, were actually coming from wind chimes. My mind had simply taken the far-off sounds and re-interpreted them to something more familiar that was probably in my subconscious at the time.

So I wouldn't sweat it. But if you're really concerned, try to discern every sound that's coming either from or into your bedroom from outside of it, and write them down on paper. I'd also put a tape recorder on, if you have one, just to verify objectively later on whether these sounds were real or simply imagined.

In that way, you can tell whether these are real sounds, hallucinations, or simply your imagination.

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Answer 3

You-alone are freaking yourself out! Everyone can do it, so take a deep breathe and go back to sleep. Means you have a good imagination and should put it to good use. You'd be a good book writer or something of that sort. We cannot control what comes into our mind, ONLY how we deal with the thoughts. So that should give you more comfort!!!! Sleep tight!!

Answer 4

Be a detective and find where from those sounds come. As you said it is only heard when you are afraid. so do not afraid of anything and try to find out where from those sounds come.

Answer 5

its all bcoz u are very much depressed about something or mentaly tortured!better consult a doctor who can help u.

Answer 6

you seem to have an active imagination why dont you write a story?....

Answer 7

IS YOUR IMAGINATION AND INDEED IS YOUR BRAIN POWER YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON TO OVERCOME THIS. IGNORE IT AND MOVE AHEAD.

Answer 8

omg i dunno but it happens to me to
also wake up to the sound of slamming doors
starting to get dark here now...scared...scared