[Alokin]

I'm laying in bed, unable to sleep, hearing very faint piano. I'm in the boons, I know my closest neighbors don't have a piano and I never hear a peep from them. WTH?!!!!

[~Christina]

Breathe ...... Honestly its a common thing .. I hear crap all the time . Do some self grounding , trying listening to your own music that often turns off the the auditory hallucinations

My Husband is MI free and he gets the music crap all the time ...

Just breathe , try some meditation also .. self soothing goes along way

[Emotionally Dead]

Try to get your mind off it. Chatting here with us is a good start. It's scary when you're alone and you hear/see stuff. Not sure if you're alone right now or not, but I hear and/or see stuff all the time. Then I scare myself and just make it worse. Definitely common, even for people that are completely "normal"!

[IndieVisible]

I hear things like monks chanting, electric motors, foot steps, many voices talking at the same time, and all in addition to my full time Tinnitus which never stops the sounds of a continuous high pitch tone that you would hear in a hearing test. This is constant 24/7 and some times I get other tones in addition to that, one ear at a time. After 3 months of that I am starting to really go crazy. The other stuff stops, comes and goes, and I don't have to be trying to sleep to hear the darn chanting. But at least I get breaks from those sounds. Last nite I swore I could hear a electrical motor sound, I got up to try to find it then I noticed no matter which direction I walked in the sound never changed! I've gotten up other times thinking some one left the TV on too. Sounded like people talking in the living room, naturally you think has to be the TV. Nope. I just want one peaceful relaxing nite with no sounds at all.

[OutlawedSpirit]

I hear things often, I just try to not worry about them too much. Probably the most common thing is sounding like the tv is on in the other room, or that there are people talking in the other room. Just mumblings that can't be made out, but you can tell people are talking. I also hear bells a lot. Maybe it's the wrong way to look at a hallucination, but sometimes I just embrace them. I happen to like the sound of bells, so I enjoy it while I hear it. I think listening to the sound of a piano could be nice

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[tigersassy]

I hear things sometimes to. Not often... But sometimes. I don't tell people though because I really don't want to be hospitalized again and they don't bother me unless someone else knows then I freak out about that

[vans1974]

I agree with outlawedspirit- just embrace them. I think listening to the sound of a piano could be nice. Best of luck!

[Jcon614]

Originally Posted by Alokin

I'm laying in bed, unable to sleep, hearing very faint piano. I'm in the boons, I know my closest neighbors don't have a piano and I never hear a peep from them. WTH?!!!!

I hear things too, mostly music. I have tinnitus with which I hear loud roaring sounds which I am familiar with. But sometimes I hear soft music. I don't think this makes me crazy. Often I try to find where it is coming from, but I cannot. It could be our mind playing tricks on us, but I don't worry about it. I sort of just go with it.

[~Christina]

Just because you have these rather benign auditory hallucinations doesnt give you a one way ticket to inpatient .. My favorite one is hearing faint voices in another room and it sounds like my father .. He passed away in 97 .. So I love it.

[BipolaRNurse]

I had both visual and auditory hallucinations during my most recent manic episode. The music was like bits of classical tunes I've never heard before, played on piano and harp. It freaked me out because it was 3 AM and we don't live near enough to anyone that we could hear music from their houses, both our phones were off, and there were no radios playing.

Happened several times, too. It didn't help that I was totally paranoid at the time and not wanting to call my pdoc because I thought he'd put me in the hospital. I did end up calling the next day though because I was so manic that I was actually frightened. A couple days of Zyprexa fixed that, and three more weeks on it kept the weirdness away.

I have that kind of thing a lot too. Talking, music, radio/tv stuff mostly. It never really freaks me out, though sometimes it is pretty disconcerting and I'll go looking for the (non-existent) source. Haha. One time psych asked me, "If you know they're not real, why do you go looking for them?" Uhhhhhh, dunno! (It's 'just to be sure', but the question remains.) She says do not worry. They're not talking to me or telling me to do anything. The first time I inquired about it, she asked if there had been a fan or something running. There was, and that sort of thing is very common "source" (though not necessary). Generators really bring it on strongly for me and I used to work next to one. Hours and hours of "conversation" happening behind my back was quite annoying. My theory is that it's our brains trying to make sense out of random sounds.

[TheJettSet27]

I tend not to hallucinate. Then again, I only go hypomanic. Sometimes, though, when I'm really depressed, I can hear things. Those sounds only last for a few seconds, though, and then they fade.

[Themeanreds]

For me it usually sounds like someone is playing music on the radio in the neighborhood, or somewhere else in the house. I can never make it out. This happens when I am having a mixed episode.

[Moose72]

I hear and see things too. I find it entertaining.

[OutlawedSpirit]

Originally Posted by Moose72

I hear and see things too. I find it entertaining.

I agree moose. Sometimes it can be entertaining. It once allowed me to touch cold fire and that was pretty neat. I saw a burner on the stove on even though it was turned off. And yes I am one of those people that have to touch the fire to see if it's hot.

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[IndieVisible]

I don't know why I hear monks chanting but I really do not mind that at all and hope it never stops as it does help relax me, the piano music might be nice too. The other stuff I could live with out

[Alokin]

Originally Posted by Themeanreds

For me it usually sounds like someone is playing music on the radio in the neighborhood, or somewhere else in the house. I can never make it out. This happens when I am having a mixed episode.

It was a lot like this.

Thank you all for your words…..I decided to embrace it and breathe like you guys suggested. It was a little tough because I was straining to hear it, but I decided it was a sleepy time song they were playing just for me. Worked like a charm! Thank goodness for all of you!

[wotchermuggle]

Originally Posted by Moose72

I hear and see things too. I find it entertaining.

Me too, actually.

Hearing music, for me, is sort of a wake up call that things are a little haywire. Either I'm super stressed or really depressed/anxious and I think my mind tries to calm it with music. It's funny though because I run around checking the radio, the tv, the phone....and none of them are on!

[medicalfox]

I'm glad a lot of people enjoy their hallucinations and that they are pleasant; no one deserves to be scared or threatened by their symptoms. I suffer from a variety of hallucinations including negative voices, music that can be creepy or classical music like the piano, and other sounds. If this hallucination does not progress into anything more serious and you enjoy it then it can be no cause to be alarmed.

On a side note, if you are experiencing olfactory (smell) hallucinations and hearing classical music you could be experiencing temporal lobe seizures. The neurologist I saw said that the classical music and smell hallucinations I experienced could be from seizures so I have a follow up in a couple of months for most likely another eeg.

(Not to derail thread, but would that be experiencing them simultaneously, medicalfox? And classical music specifically??)

[wotchermuggle]

That's weird. It's always classical music for me too.

[medicalfox]

Originally Posted by Innerzone

(Not to derail thread, but would that be experiencing them simultaneously, medicalfox? And classical music specifically??)

Yes I believe so and both the pdoc and neurologist at the hospital told me just classical music. Not everyone who experiences classical music auditory hallucination are having seizures, but it is a common symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.