I can't be the only one who gets this...

Sometimes I'll hear a voice, look around, and not be able to find the source of it. So then I start to feel panicky inside, and wonder if it was an auditory hallucination. And then the source of the voice comes up, and I feel a large amount of relief inside! Same goes with false alarms of visual hallucinations.

Can anyone relate?

[SmokeyPoole2012]

I've experience hearing voices but only on two occations when I was dealing with extreme emotional trauma. The sound was distant and that of a baby crying (both times) and I not only panicked I freaked out mainly because for some reason I suspected the noise to be unreal.

[venusss]

yeah, it happens to me.

I live at dorms and last year I been hearing dog barking. I thought I was going psychotic, because pets are not allowed here. Well, turns out there was a dog. Teeny weeny barky thing.

[Smurf&Turf]

Originally Posted by SmokeyPoole2012

I've experience hearing voices but only on two occations when I was dealing with extreme emotional trauma. The sound was distant and that of a baby crying (both times) and I not only panicked I freaked out mainly because for some reason I suspected the noise to be unreal.

I've heard a baby on multiple occasions but still can't figure out whether it's real or not

[Nixi]

I get that quite a lot. Just recently I heard a recorder playing, but it wasn't, saw a man and daughter who disappeared. Hearing the phone is a big one for me. It's such a huge relief if it is actually happening but not nice having to constantly worry whether or not I'm getting poorly!!

[Chihuahua]

Jip, the baby crying thing!!! So I'll rush to the room and nope bebe still sleeping (had this though before baby came along) and then when I vacuum I hear people
talking, Freaky!! Or sometimes a noise like a cough or snort (male mostly) thought my dad might be checking up on me! (He passed away in 2007)

[BNLsMOM]

Sometimes when I walk into the house and I know that no one is home, I will hear the TV, very softly in the living room. When I get there to check if someone left it on, it is usually off. Then I check the one we have in our bed room and it is off as well.

When I was pregnant with my first son I lived and a very old apartment in an old historic house and I would often hear what I named, "The Phantom Baby". I was undiagnosed and completely unaware that I had bipolar, so I believed it was a ghost. Looking back, it could have been an auditory hallucination.

[Moose72]

I have these too.

[Chihuahua]

What's up with the baby????? Scary!!!

[greylove]

I found myself repeatedly talking on the phone that was on a nightstand next to my bed. It always happened in the early morning. Then I would come to realize I wasn't holding the phone and that it hadn't even rung. Weird.

[Secretum]

I can relate, Melissa. I usually look for a source when I hear something, and it's a relief to find one. When I can't find one, I get kind of creeped out, knowing that I'm hallucinating.

Once, I was in a coffee shop when I looked outside to see a bush on fire. The fire didn't grow, and the bush did not appear to be burning. It was really weird, and I thought that I was having a visual hallucination. Then I realized that the fire was actually just a reflection in the window glass from the shop's fireplace! Haha.