This morning, around 5 am - I woke up to hear the doorbell ringing. I was wondering who was at our door so early in the morning, but had no intention of answering (because it was so early, dark etc.) so I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. But the doorbell kept ringing...and ringing...and ringing...

So finally, thinking it was perhaps a neighbor with an emergency, I crawled (literally) out of bed, to my bedroom door to see if I was really hearing the doorbell and to find out what all the commotion was about. When I opened my door, I realized that the doorbell was not in fact ringing but I could still hear it ringing in my left ear.

I remember being a bit confused about it all, and laying back down but the ringing of the doorbell continued in my head. Knowing it wasn't the doorbell, I began to get a bit anxious (heart palpitations) but I didn't want to get up yet, so I tried to breathe through it. The doorbell sound started to get further and further away, and I noticed that I was only hearing it (the whole time) in one ear (left).

I thought perhaps, that it was just a hypnagogic hallucination but I'm pretty sure I was wide awake when I started getting anxious. By the end of today I concluded that I must have in some way, still been asleep.

Then, tonight I heard the ringing again but it quickly faded (the doorbell "only rang about 3 times") and it was in the same ear. Is this perhaps a ear thing (don't have ear problems that I know of); a temporary thing or what? Only new medicine is citalopram (tomorrow is 4 wks I think) - but hallucinations aren't one of those side effects.

Has this ever happened to anyone?