Have You Ever Been Woken Up By A Noise In Your Dream ?

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Last night at 4:30 a.m. I was woken by my doorbell , I thought wtf and looked out my window and there was no one to be seen. I thought about it logicaly and it must have been in my dream and it's not the first time my doorbell has woken me up at stupid o'clock.

The first time I remember it happening to me was on a pysch ward decades ago when I was just drifting off to sleep but woken up by someone calling my name , I though at least I was in the right place to start hearing voices but it's the only word I have ever heard apart from my inane inner dialogue.

Has anyone else been woken up by a noise in their dream?

I can't say yes with certainty but I have a vague memory of shouting (in my dream) waking me up.

Different but definitely a weird experience, more than once I've been awake/ thought I was awake and felt pressure on my legs and saw a figure at the end of my bed

There's a phenomenon called hypnogognic hallucinations. It can be terrifying, but it doesn't necessarily mean you're going mad. Most people experience hypnogognic hallucinations at least once in their life. For some, it is a regular occurance. Basically, your brain is in a state between sleep and wakefulness, and you hallucinate. It is most often brief, but in some cases, it is prolonged. It can involve any sense.

One of the most common hallucinations is called the Old Hag, in which someone hallucinates an old woman sitting on their body. Sometimes, it is accompanied by paralysis.

I don't know if that's how it is for the doorbell, though. Maybe you were just starting to wake up when it kicked in?

https://patient.info/doctor/hypnagogic-hallucinations

Just lookto r up hypnogognic hallucinations and they DO include auditory hallucinations

I seem to have hypnogognic hallucinations quite often, to the point that in my sleep log I just refer to them as HH. In fact, last night I even had one on going to sleep and one on waking up. (I know the one on waking up has a slightly different name but still HH.) In my case tho they are simply enhanced dreams: vivid colors, more than visual senses involved (usually auditory) but not frightening fortunately.

OP, I would not be too concerned. My understanding is they come with the territory of being AS.

Six year ago when I was cleaning parking lots, it was snowing very heavily outside and I was watching it fall. I knew that I needed to get to sleep, because the whole work crew was going to shovel sidewalks and store fronts the next day. I was just drifting off to sleep, I heard my mum's voice saying, "You can stop barking like a dog any time now!" It was very scary.

I've had similar dreams, but it's also possible that someone actually did ring the doorbell and it just took you much longer to rouse yourself than you thought. Waking up from the deepest portions of sleep can take a while and by the time you actually came to, the doorbell incident may have been over and the person moved on.

I sometimes snap awake at the sound of someone calling my name, and then realising that it was all in my head. I've also seen terrifying shadows on my walls.

A few times, I've had some pretty intense/bizarre H. hallucinations.

Once I saw an incredible rise and fall of an empire of tiny, ghostly people happen on my bedsheets.

One time, I saw my dad's shadow on my wall, and he was sneaking up to me, but he was away on the other side of the world at the time. Then he laughed hysterically and ran away. Next, my teacher appeared on my wall and told me I had failed class. They all dissappeared.

One time, lights started to dance around the room and Casper the Friendly Ghost chased them.

I used to have regular "adventures" where my mattress flies, and I look down at the passing world in my mind's eye. (My eyes were closed, and it's like a mental image, not an actual image. If that makes any sense.) But not anymore.

I'ts been in both my dreams and for real, but it's my own voice. I sometimes wake up suddenly yelling, usually because in the dream I was surrounded by a lot of people and there is noise and chaos and no personal space, and I just can't take it anymore, and then I usually yell "SHUT UP!!", and then I wake up.

I know I don't just dream I was yelling, because one time when my mom and I were on a trip we stayed at a cabin where she heard me yell from my room during the night, and thought I was yelling at her. I was a little embarrassed and told her I wasn't yelling at her at her at all, it was just in my sleep. Mom said that Dad talks a lot in his sleep so she's pretty much used to it.

Just realised it is hypnogogic

not hypnogognic

I've been reading it wrong for years

I used to wake up in the night absolutely convinced that there was a spider in my bed or even near my bed, and I would jump out of bed as quickly as I could and turn on the light, only to realise there was nothing there. It started to happen nearly every night and I hated it. But since I've been on meds (for depression/anxiety), it hasn't happened since, not even once. It probably didn't have anything to do with anxiety or depression, but the meds still have somehow managed to stop those night hallucinations from happening. It would have been embarrassing had I been in a relationship back then.

Not hearing a real sound in the outside world while you were asleep?

But having your own mind generate a sound so loud and sudden within a dream that it woke you up (from that dream)?


No. Dont remember that ever happening.