Auditory Hallucinations at night

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I'm wondering if this happens a lot to people at night:

Sometimes, when I'm lying in bed, trying to sleep, I get auditory hallucinations (no not the "Kill...kill...kill" type). For instance, last night, I was lying in bed and trying to sleep when I heard the voices of Tom and Ray from Car Talk on NPR radio (I had listened to it earlier in the day). It sounded like I was still listening to it in my head, yet it wasn't really there O.o

Yeah, lack of stimulation does that sometimes. They say sensory deprivation chambers trigger all sorts of strange visions and sounds for the same reason.

It sounds like hypnagogic hallucinations. Don't worry- they are common and perfectly normal.

I get auditory hallucinations and other kinds of hallucinations all the time. Sometimes I hear FBI agents in my house (I heard them twice today) and heard helicopters circling overhead and no one else heard this stuff. It wasn't at night but rather the morning. I hear things during the day and night as well, but the worst ones are by far the visuals and tactile hallucinations. A few days ago I hallucinated a person running across the street and everyone swears that they didn't see him and I saw him as clear as you can be. It was one of the FBI agents in disguise (not the typical black suits but rather a yellow jacket and I ain't talking about bees! and yes, I've seen the black suit FBI agents in my house as well) I feel things crawling in my brain and all over my body and even smell my brain rotting at times. Hallucinating is so fun.....not! It is scary as hell at times, along with my thought insertion and broadcasting. In stores people stare at me because of the thought broadcasting, they all hear my thoughts.

I get this. Seems to happen when I'm half asleep. Like part of me is going to sleep but I'm still trying to think.

Nice, I never knew there was a term for this.

You mean everybody doesn't hear, ...kill...kill...kill... ?
Seriously, I get very real-sounding auditory hallucinations sometimes upon waking up from a dream. It makes it very hard to get out of the dream state- I keep going back and forth for some time until I figure out which is dream and which is reality.

I dont know if hallucination is the correct word for what I deal with. I just hear things in my head like the thread creator, as in stuff I heard earlier in the day, or sometimes sounds in other apts near mine(needs to be WAY late, at least 1am). But during the day I see things that COULD happen. You could say its fear at its finest. Like If im up on a ladder Ill see myself falling off. If Im going to cross the street I see myself getting hit by a car or bus. Kinda keeps me in check, at least untill someone pisses me off. Then that crap shuts off and anger mode ensues...

Damn that stuff is interesting... (Oh, s**t! )...
It reminds me of (STOP: Anyone who is not ready to get obsessed with another subject, should stop reading here.)

Had to write that..
Well, it reminds me a bit of Lucid Dreaming. I don't know if anyone of you have ever tried it, but it's damn interesting, but can also be frightening.
Go look it up, a good place to start is dreamviews.com, remember to check the forum for good ideas.
Lucid dreaming is, when you inside the dream realise that you are dreaming. It's a very cool feeling and gives a whole other perspective at some things.

I have had hypnagogic hallucinations twice (only seeing things, not hearing things); I also sometimes get auditory hallucinations during the daytime (usually imagine I am hearing my cell phone or a distant radio). This is normal in Asperger's, especially if you also have an anxiety disorder.

My psychiatrist said that as long as you know it is not there (and you don't also have realistic non-existent people coming up to you ad telling you stuff), it's nothing to worry about.

I have had lucid dreams all my life. The night before last night when I realised I had been dreaming, I went back into my dream and had a conversation with a scary guy who had been chasing me in the dream, and he agreed to stop doing it.

I usually hallucinate, but when I am sick I hallucinate even more. It is kinda a way of my brain trying to calm me down. I usually hear doctor who characters, but when I was little I was obsessed with Twilight, thankfully not anymore, I needed to get water because I was extremely dehydrated and I heard the Cullens trying to encourage me to get the water sitting about 4 ft. from my bed. Also, one time when I was about 3 I had a visual hallucination of a Ferbie, very popular toy in the 90s to early 2000s, changing shape. I was immediately sent to the hospital, but I was not sent to a psychiatrist ward. I was once almost diagnosed a schizophrenic because of auditory hallucinations.

Don't worry about these. I get these all the time - sometimes more than others but it seems to be more frequent if I have heard a lot of people talking during the day. I have linked it to both sensory deprivation (it stops if I open my eyes or if there are sounds to focus on - I normally wear earplugs to stop sounds) and to sleepiness, although can be one without the other.

Voices of people saying random fragments of speech - sometimes people I know, sometimes unfamiliar people. If I have been in a noisy place that day I might get several overlapping, like various radios on at the same time. They feel like thoughts (i.e. imagining someone's voice) rather than actual sounds, but are completely involuntary and I have no idea what will turn up next - can be quite amusing sometimes, occasionally annoying if there are lots and I want to get to sleep but never frightening and never about me.

My impression is that these are the brain processing things it has heard/done during the day. When I learn a new technique at work - e.g. dissecting something particularly fiddly, I often get involuntary replays of this when going to sleep, as though the brain is trying to consolidate what it has learnt during the day. I think it is just the 'background noise' of the brain, which happens all the time in everyone, but is generally not consciously percieved. Some people like me and you are more sensitive to what is going on in the brain under the conscious surface, particularly when there is nothing much else in the way of external stimulus (or active thinking - this also stops it temporarily) going on.

I have properly heard voices once - again in bed. This time could actually 'hear' them in my left ear. The experience was quite different, - I did know they weren't real but they were very unpleasant - still saying random things but in a horrible scary hollow voice. I was feeling rather bizarre in general at the time though.

When I lack sleep, I end up ... dreaming while still awake. I think it's basically my brain crying for some time to empty its cache and process the experiences of the day. The best way to deal with it is to relax and just allow myself to fall asleep. (Typically the contents of those awake-dreams stem from that day's experiences, even though I've had sleep paralysis a couple of times, too.)

All the time. I work in the media and often get newscasts in my head during the night. They're not like ordinary dreams because when one starts I'm aware of it as an observer rather than a participant and they follow a logical narrative. I check in the morning but none of them appear to have been related to real events so far.

I also regularly find myself 'in between' where I can be awake but dreaming or asleep but aware of my surroundings.

ya i do i normally fix that by running a radio over night or on the sleep timer. radio is cheaper then a TV

may have postes funny because i am on my boost phone