Hallucinations?

[frogthroat]

I'm going to get right to the point. My apartment doesn't make loud sounds. I know what the sounds from outside are and they're far away. The middle duplex is empty and the lady on the end isn't loud and I know what it sounds like when she enters and leaves.
Lately, I've had a couple of bad nights where I wake up and it sounds like a big man is knocking 3 to 5 times hard on the inside of my shower. Last night there was a moaning that sounded like someone was in pain accompanying it that faded out. I was too afraid to get up to use the bathroom so I went back asleep. I'm not sure I was ever awake.
I seem to be having a problem with hurting myself sexually in my sleep as well. Has anybody experienced this? I don't even know how to talk to my T about it.

 

[Friday]

I'm not sure I was ever awa

There’s a place between waking and sleeping where your mind can register dreams as real life. Not totally dissimilar to flashbacks, except there’s no reality needed. They’re usually fairly simple things, like noises, or smells, or a sense of what’s in the next room (the way you know things in a dream that you don’t/can’t know in real life)... rather than “waking up” in a jungle, although that can happen, too. It’s simply more common for small elements of your dreams to bleed over into real life. Which is part of what makes them feel so real. It’s hardwe to believe you woke up in Narnia, than it is to believe there’s someone banging on a wall.

The middle duplex is empty

It’s possible though, too, that someone was having sex in the shower? A workman fixing up the place who brought his girlfriend over, or a new tenant, the teens a block over who know the place is empty came through the window for some privacy etc.?

 

[frogthroat]

It’s possible though, too, that someone was having sex in the shower?

Nobody's fixing anything up in that one right now and the bathroom is on the opposite side of mine in that apartment. Plus, sound was coming from my bathroom and there was no sign of a break-up or disturbance.

 

[Sideways]

At some point, anxiety over what this might be is going to become a bigger issue than the anxiety related to getting up and checking it out if it happens again.

“I heard a strange noise during the night...” - honestly, any suggestions coming over the web from strangers who weren’t there, don’t understand your housing situation or your symptom situation? Is pure speculation.

As a person that lives alone? I totally get how scary it can be to hear noises I don’t recognise during the night. But the only way to find out what it is, and if I should be concerned? Is to get out of bed and check it out. Letting my head go crazy with all the possibilities of what it could be? Is just gonna drive me crazy.

 

[frogthroat]

As a person that lives alone? I totally get how scary it can be to hear noises I don’t recognise during the night.

That's true. It's probably just anxiety during the night. Hearing sounds when I wake up out of an anxiety fueled nightmare probably seems a bigger deal then it is.

 

[Abstract]

I truly hope you manage to discuss with your t all aspects of what has been happening in your sleep.

 

[HealingInProcess]

That's true. It's probably just anxiety during the night. Hearing sounds when I wake up out of an anxiety fueled nightmare probably seems a bigger deal then it is.

Hallucinations can happen related to the trauma and you can have sensory experiences related to the trauma as flashbacks that can be visual, smell, sound, touch and hearing. I'm not a psychologist but I'm just saying what you're experiencing it not out of the possibility of those who have suffered from trauma.

I'll share that I sometimes smell smells that are not there like cigarettes or perfumes or the like. As far as seeing things visual hallucinations are possible in between sleeping and waking states, particularly with those who have suffered trauma.

 

[whiteraven]

Hallucinations can happen related to the trauma and you can have sensory experiences related to the trauma as flashbacks that can be visual, smell, sound, touch and hearing. I'm not a psychologist but I'm just saying what you're experiencing it not out of the possibility of those who have suffered from trauma.

There is also a sleep disorder during which, on waking, you hear loud sounds or your name being called, sometimes even music. I have it and I often wake to a loud banging that sometimes sounds like someone banging on the door or the wall. I also occasionally hear music - same thing each time, a Russian men's choral group.

 

[HealingInProcess]

There is also a sleep disorder during which, on waking, you hear loud sounds or your name being called, sometimes even music. I have it and I often wake to a loud banging that sometimes sounds like someone banging on the door or the wall. I also occasionally hear music - same thing each time, a Russian men's choral group.

It's interesting that you hear the same sound each time. I'm not sure exactly what the significance of that is but maybe it's triggered by something.

 

[whiteraven]

It's interesting that you hear the same sound each time. I'm not sure exactly what the significance of that is but maybe it's triggered by something.

Neurologically, it's common for this particular disorder.

 

[HealingInProcess]

Neurologically, it's common for this particular disorder.

Ah gotcha.

 

[Innordinate]

sleep disorder during which, on waking, you hear loud sounds or your name being called, sometimes even music.

does it have a name, the disorder?