Waking up to a Noise that isn't really there? Audio Hallucination?

Question

For the past four years, I have been waking up to the sound of Kncoking. Three knocks in a row, on a wooden door.

When it first started, I would check the door, but no one was there. It took me a bit to realize the sound wasn't really happening.

Is this a sign of anything? Does anyone else have this problem? I hear the knocking about 3-4 every week anymore, and it's very irritating.

Answer 1

It's probably not a reason to be alarmed, but it's a good idea to get an MRI and x-rays just in case. It is possible that a tumor can be causing these symptoms but very unlikely ( but do get it checked out anyway).

If you only hear the noise after/during sleep, then I doubt that it's a hallucination per se.

I'm guessing that you are experiencing something similar to sleep paralysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
You don't have to be frozen still for you to be "awake in your sleep" although you usually are. It's usually caused by a different sleep cycle. Everyone gets paralysis once they are asleep, but in this case you wake up before your body is awake - so you can be dreaming while you are totally conscious (which can be absolutely terrifying for some!).

You can overcome it but it'll take a strong mind. Every night just as you are falling asleep close your eyes and visualize having a normal waking routine without hearing the knocking - or try visualizing doing somehthing about it like opening the door. That helps some people.

It's very unlikely that it's "meaningful" and whatnot. It's just your brain activity playing tricks on you. It's not that weird. I've experienced hearing my name called out to me just like someone REALLY THERE was calling to me. It went away eventually, but I never did figure out what it was exactly. Spooky though!

So...hmm good luck to you!

Answer 2

I had the same thing - three loud knocks- so real that I sat up in bed and looked toward the door. It was early in the morning. I listened as my heart pounded like crazy. I had dreamt it.
When someone DOES knock, it is usually in 3s.

Answer 3

very nicely so, once you circulate to sleep, your total physique shuts down, anticipate for the needs that save you alive, of path. So, meaning which you will no longer truly opt for once you awaken or no longer, its in basic terms a element that occurs of course. once you nod off, you frequently would have a extensive quantity of desires, although you do no longer understand this, considering you will no longer actual remember them, the only desires you do remember are frequently the main frightening, so it makes sence which you do no longer understand what your dreaming approximately. Now, with the being held down section, that would desire to be simply by fact your blankets are to tight? or you may desire to be imagining those thoughts on your sleep simply by fact they link up with a nightmare your having. And as for a fashion it in basic terms happens at your mothers homestead, that would considering you have had undesirable studies there, or there's a foul negetive vibe. wish that helps.

Answer 4

Sounds like 2 me that it's something in yur dreams making u wake up 2 the knock.R u wikaan?Or,do u mess w/spirits?

Answer 5

I used to hear a very loud explosion that would wake me up yelling, I don't know what it was, it has happened a few times to me over my life, I think I hear a big explosion like a plane crash or something, I jump up screaming, it has NOT happened in a while, it's scary for a few seconds, so I know what you mean.

Answer 6

I'm not sure what to tell you, as I'm not sure what it could be. If you were religious, I could suggest it is the demons, but I hardly doubt that answer myself. If you are not mentally sick with any kind of hallucinations whether it be audio or visible, then it probably isn't that either. So I don't know, your guess is good as mine!

Answer 7

http://personal.boo.net/~dpfago/obsessions.htm
http://joshuakane.diaryland.com/older.html

The first step is to learn to recognize your obsessive thoughts and compulsive urges as symptoms of a disorder. To do so, it is important to increase your mindful awareness of this pathological process at work. Some have referred to this awareness as the "Impartial Spectator" or the "Observing Ego", which is the capacity that resides in each of us to observe our behavior and recognize what is "real" as distinct from what is not real, or just a symptom. The capacity to distinguish between real needs and pathological symptoms allows us to fend off pathological urges until they begin to recede and fade. The goal of Step 1 is to learn to RELABEL intrusive thoughts and urges as obsessions and compulsions, and to relabel these assertively. It will serve you to refer to these urges in these terms - use the labels "obsession" and "compulsion". Train yourself to say, "I don't need or want to do this behavior; I'm merely having a thought that I need to do this." You must learn to recognize these intrusive, obsessive thoughts and urges as the symptoms of a disorder, and as such distinguish these from desires that are healthy for you to satisfy, and behaviors that will enable you to feel better over the long term. You must come to recognize these intrusive, obsessive thoughts and urges as symptoms that help keep the disorder in place. You might consider the urges you experience as similar to the irrational thoughts of the compulsive handwasher who believes that he must constantly wash his hands to be free of harmful germs and bacteria.

Answer 8

It is a fear you have yet to identify consciously, but is hiding in the part of your brain that will not forget. Until you face it (by choice or not) it will persist. I speak from experience.

Answer 9

sometimes, people think they are wide awake but in reality, they are still dreaming. maybe u should see a doctor or a phyciatrist

Answer 10

might be dreaming, or developing a psychosis