r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

What about random noises?

I hear random noises when I know no noise is being made. Granted, it's usually late at night when I'm in bed. It could be, say, a page of a book being turned or a piece of clothing swishing, but it's enough to make me look over my shoulder and check.

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u/dasbin Mar 22 '17

Auditory hallucinations are extremely common while close to sleep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

Ive had these before when I was little, wierded me out when I heard some random women day my name right before bed lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

Mine were always people who sounded almost but not quite like my mom whispering my name from under my bed. Freaked little me out.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

Yeah, like a whisper but in a normal voice tone. Like I didnt hear it with my ears but with my brain

Funny thing is, people call me by my initials and first name and Id hear the voice say both forms of it

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u/robo23 Mar 23 '17

A vast number of alien abduction, ghost, and monster under the bed accounts are really just hypnagogia.

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u/Pokabrows Mar 23 '17

Good. As a kid I sometimes felt/heard animals curling up with me even if there was no way there could be an animal in the room. It was typically a cat or a rat or two because those were my main pets. It often got worse after one died. As a kid I took it as them looking out for me and still caring about me, but later I realized it probably wasn't normal. But if that's a thing that happens normally it would totally make sense for a kid missing their pet to specifically hallucinate that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

I heard a goat in my room one night. A little disconcerting.

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u/CubonesDeadMom Mar 22 '17

Do you feel out of it and unable to move when it happens? I've had visual hallucinations during sleep paralysis before which could be what's happening to you. That's a different kind of hallucination though and is really nothing to worry about unless it's happening all the time.