Sorry that this is pretty lengthy. I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post to, but I have a few concerns. Last year, I seemed to be making some noticeable progress mentally. I wasn't breaking down as often, etc. Then something in July took place that caused a rapid decline in my mental progression. To keep it brief, I went to wake my boyfriend whom I live with from a nap, and I believe he sat up quickly because he was startled. I heard him make the initial "startled" sound, but that quickly progressed into a series of yells until I thought he was truly possessed. He got out of bed and grabbed my arm which is when I started screaming from the tops of my lungs, thinking I was being attacked, and ran out of the bedroom so fast that I fell onto the tiled ground and busted both my knees open. He told me all that happened was that I walked into the room and soon after started screaming out of nowhere, and that he'd grabbed my arm while telling me to calm down. A friend who witnessed it also told me my boyfriend never started yelling at all.

Ever since then, I have been more stressed, and more paranoid. Nothing like that ever happened again, but I've been noticing very subtle changes that have been bothering me. Throughout the past 2 or so months I've occasionally heard strange dripping sounds throughout my house, as though there was a leak, while I was lying in bed. They always made me anxious and I'd get up to check the whole house for the source, but could never find any. At first I thought it was possibly the heater, but the last time it happened was about 2 weeks ago and my heater wasn't even on. The loudness of the dripping sound also stayed exactly the same no matter where I was in the house which was particularly frustrating.

My head has always been pretty noisy. I've always heard random snip-its of conversations, music, etc. all internally, and never anything negative or directed towards me - basically, pretty normal stuff. But 2 weeks ago one or two of those voices directed their attention towards me and said "Hey, hey Pastel Kitten. There's a good Pastel Kitten, and a bad Pastel Kitten." (Except they said my real name). This unsettled me and as soon as they finished saying that, I heard those annoying dripping sounds start up again.

Last night, something even scarier happened to me which is why I'm posting this. I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep and was feeling pretty stressed. I noticed my head was particularly noisy at that moment for whatever reason. The volume of whatever I was hearing, music, people, etc. was louder than normal. It got to the point where I heard two men yelling at each other very loudly. They were fighting. It got so loud that I thought for sure the neighbors upstairs were hearing this, even though I knew it was coming from in my head. This became louder and louder until I heard someone start screaming out of nowhere, very briefly. I went into some dream-like state (I say dream-like because this didn't feel like a dream, especially since I knew I was still lying in bed, listening to what was going on in my head.)

I saw a whole bunch of visuals, like what you would see in a dream, of people shooting each other, throwing granades, hearing them scream, and finally I saw these two sorcerer-looking guys fly off into the woods. I followed them there, and some witch lady grabbed my arms hard and started telling me really negative things, loudly. I no longer saw her. I was lying in bed hearing her and other voices loudly (externally) telling me horrible things all at the same time. The ones that weren't speaking were laughing. Then I snapped out of it (or woke up...I can't even tell). I was shaking for quite some time and had to call my boyfriend on the phone to calm down.

I don't know what to make of this. I can see how, to some, this would seem like a vivid nightmare but I have had vivid dreams/nightmares for all of my life, and I have never had something like this happen..especially because I know for a fact I was awake when it began. I actually thought they were in my bedroom. This combined with the other things I mentioned really worries me. Are these really auditory hallucinations? Everything worrying that's happened to me (other than these dream-like visuals which I'm not as concerned with) has been auditory in some way. I'm 20 years old, by the way. Any advice is appreciated.