Hearing voices

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This is very strange. I heard my mum's voice as I drifted off to sleep last night. She said, "You can stop barking like a dog any time now, Shelby!" It's the first voice that I've heard of it's kind and I don't understand why the voice told me to stop barking like a dog. I guess that I have been barking on about certain problems on WP. I wonder if the contents of the words had to do with that. I was up and down the rest of the night, after that. It really freaked me out. I wonder what it all means. I'm not going to tell my mum about this one. I'm keeping it between WP and myself.

I would check with a psychiatrist if I were you. Voices can be quite serious.

Have you been having enough sleep lately?

A neurologist may help as hearing voices is also a symptom of complex partial or temporal lobe epilepsy.

I wouldnt make it a big deal. around 2-4% of people hear voices and thats just those who admit it.

Personally I would go on with my life, waiting for other phenomenon if such appear. Some people just take it with a hint of humor, some ignore the voices, some reach out for help in terms of psychological or medical, but in the end they are just voices in your head, right?
The moment they start telling you to kill your parents or people, or their suggestions seem very negative, I would take measures. however, if they are harmless, they are harmless?

The fact that you heard it while drifting off to sleep suggests that it was a hypnagogic hallucination, which isn't serious. Basically, it's just a dream that crept over the border of sleep into the nearly awake. In other words, it's not something to worry about too much. If you start having hallucinations when you're properly awake, that's more serious.

I'd get some sleep. I personally have issues w/ hearing voices due to tiredness combined w/ the fact that all my memories are coded as sound.

As the brain slows down the imagination can become more active and auditory and visual hallucinations are more probable. I don't hear voices as in speech but occasionally hear faint whisper like sounds and when I wake up in the morning, almost every morning when I am half asleep visual things like piles of clothes, things lying against the wall etc can look like faces, objects etc.

See a psychiatrist if you want but do not let them stick you on pills over something which sounds as if it is not effecting your day to day life. If it continues to occur I would think about supplements like melatonin or gaba.

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+1 for the insomnia / sleep explanation.
I started hearing a lot more during an extreme insomnia period a few years back. Now I regularly hear faint music when falling asleep ... wierd but nice! As others have said, see if it happens in the day before you get too worried, but a decent doc should say what's been said here & put your mind at ease.

I can totally relate to your experience, and for me, the most important thing is not to see it as scary but rather as a part of yourself and not something to try and get rid of. At least that's worked fine for me over the years that I have experienced things like this. This happens to me quite regularly and I've had stuff far, far more detailed than this. I've experienced full commentaries, conversations, even a couple of arguments. It's not something outside of yourself though, just remember that it is part of you. It's more of a metaphorical commentary or metaphorical bits of advice.

Oh, and yeah it happens a little bit for me during the day as well. Just my name and stuff though then, mostly. Sometimes, I'll kind of hear sort of subtle, muffled whispers as well. Sometimes, but not too often and not lately, I'd get them semi-vividly if I was up for a while

Hearing voices is pretty fine but there are times when you shouldn't listen to them because they tell you certain things. I would avoid them if they say: 1) That you should kill someone, 2) Encourage any kind of violent act against somebody else, 3) Suggest taking or doing drugs, 4) Encourage any kind of violent act against yourself.

Getting more sleep or using Melontonin would help to make them disappear more.

My first guess is that it was just a dream, but it felt strange because it occurred while you were falling asleep (kind of half in, half out of consciousness). I have had such dreams before myself, and they can sometimes be confusing as to whether it was a dream or real.

I would only become concerned if it happens again, when you are definitely awake.