Can Audio Hallucinations Be A Part Of Did Or Ptsd?

[Jobriel]

I often hear sounds of someone walking around my downstairs at night when there is no one there. Until now, I have convinced myself that I was over-reacting to small sounds and that my imagination was getting away from me. As far as I know, there has never really been anyone in the house. Last night, I was in a state of paralyzed anxiety for nearly the entire night as I heard things being moved around, and the sounds of someone walking with big boots. I just started wondering this morning if I could have been having some kind of hallucination. I don't remember reading about that being a symptom of DID, but I know for certain that I was completely awake and really hearing things last night. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[hodge]

I've had auditory hallucinations, too. Maybe they're also flashbacks of a sort. It's always a man's voice calling up to me from the stairway, just as what happened when I was 11. I usually check with my husband to see if he was calling me, but that's never the case. He always comes upstairs when he wants to talk to me. I'm sorry you're having this. It sounds very disturbing. Sounds also like something to talk to your psychiatrist about, if you have one. I took Latuda for several years which helped with this. But it's quite expensive. Good luck!

 

[shell]

I have had auditory hallucinations while having a flashback but also at other times when I had had continuous lack of sleep for months on end, and was actually totally exhausted from constant nightmares and constant wakings.

I would hear music that wasn't there, a child screaming and crying. Some medications can cause it. I would speak to your T about it. It is very frightening, for me I thought it was a sign I really was going crazy, but as my stress levels have reduced I haven't had any more incidents.

 

[katybug]

I've had auditory hallucinations during flashbacks before. I think may be just a symptom of PTSD. Talk to your T about it!

 

[Toz]

I have auditory flashbacks. Someone else's voice becomes my own.

 

[falling_wave]

I think it can definitely happen during a flashback. I wouldn't know about outside of that but haven't heard of it. I've had it in a flashback but I don't know if I'd say it was a hallucination because yes I heard the voice that was clearly the voice of my abuser but I'm not sure if it was my senses being so hightened by recall of a memory that my memory created it more real than ever. I also think stress reduction reduces likelihood of these symptoms.

 

[Anarchy]

About ten percent of the population hear voices and have no problems.

With sounds like footsteps, vehicles, crying etc. I don't think it need even imply PTSD,

Certainly PTSD doesn't help us with the interpretations we can end up putting on the noises, but, I think the impression of hearing noises is part of normal human experience for a sizeable minority of individuals.

Check out "Hearing Voices Movement" on Wikipedia for some links to some of the grass roots groups for people who experience voices and other sounds. The movement began in the Netherlands, where the local group calls itself Resonance.

 

[Ronin]

A part of D.I.D., diagnosable, it indeed isn't listed as far as I'm aware. Though it's been associated with some forms of D.I.D. clinically, especially with D.I.D. stemming from childhood torture.

Is there a possibility of sensory integration issues? Or mishearing a certain sound / type of sounds and then flashbacking to that experience itself? As far as I know it's perfectly possible to flashback to erroneous perceptions if they're perceived as life threatening, or were so at some point in time. Ditto fragmentary experiences of actually traumatic schtuff.

 

[Stickler]

Heard sitcom theme songs and splashy, trippy jazz music...back when the abuse was happening, and briefly in 08'.
In '08, I figured out I could conduct my hallucinations.
...It's anxiety-related, in my case, soit's possible it'll clear up if you work on lowering your stress in your waking hours...well, if possible.

I do have my (our ) own weird version of DID.

...T'were it me, I'd just go check the house with a weapon in hand, and if there was nobody there, go back to sleep?
...If you had a dog, the dog would only bark at actual intruders, not hallucinated ones...if this really becomes a huge issue, that might help? Or meds. Or motion-sensor lights, but air motion tends to set those off.

I suspect it will clear up without all that, though.