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3:27pm May 22, 2014
ookami-kaze asked: Hey, so I was wondering if anyone else has had this experience: Sometimes at night, before I've even started falling asleep, my head gets full of absolute gibberish words and phrases, like small snatches of many, many conversations being had all at once, and sometimes a single word or phrase will suddenly be so loud inside my head that I can almost literally hear it. I have no idea what this is.

mentalillnessmouse:

This happens often to me but it’s usually right before I fall asleep. I don’t know what causes it. I can speculate and come up with a few ideas but I don’t know that any of them would be accurate. Unless it’s causing you distress I wouldn’t worry to much about it, I don’t believe it’s a symptom of anything but If you’re concerned it would be good to speak with your doctor and get their opinion.

Anybody else experience this?

- Q

It’s a hypnagogic state.  It’s actually within the realm of normal experience (i.e. not even considered a mental illness or anything), but it can be made worse by certain conditions like narcolepsy.  Look up hypnagogia, hypnagogic, or hypnagogic hallucinations.  The equivalent state upon waking up is called hypnapompic.

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  1. facetowardsthewind reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  2. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from thetigerisariver and added:
    Oh holy crap exploding head syndrome? I always wondered what that thing was because I hear a loud pop or crack inside my...
  3. thetigerisariver reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    hey, noneofthisisplausible remember when we talked about this? It has a name! (also in my case, definitely this...
  4. fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    !!! I always have words and gibberish as background noise in my head. It just gets louder when I’m falling asleep, but...
  5. chocolate-lies said: are just gonna pop up into your head when you try to sleep. Don’t look for a doctor, look for a gestalt psychologist, they do very well with dream interpretation. Hope it helps!
  6. chocolate-lies said: This is totally human and normal, we’ve all got a subconscious, and if we repress tons of stuff, there are still going to be there. Dreams tells us what we don’t want to hear, so if you you ve been escaping moments, people, emotions, thoughts, they
  7. mossbody said: I’ve had this for years as part of my BPD’s psychotic side; usually its me hearing echos of the hallucinations that day, ex: friends saying violent/harmful things to me, conversations that never were heard. I try to listen to audiobooks at night!
  8. doublechinqueer said: This happens to me quite often. Even more so when I’ve talked on the phone for long periods of time. Pretty sure this is something common and nothing to be worried about. :)
  9. hellovigilante reblogged this from mentalillnessmouse and added:
    (I couldn’t finish this in my reponse) Anyways it’s something called hypnogogic hallucinations and it’s actually pretty...
  10. hellovigilante said: I have these too! I get auditory hallucinations before I go to sleep and they’re usually saying things that make no sense, and sometimes it’s in the voices of people I know. I’ve looked into it before and I think we experience something called…
  11. kiradax said: My sister and I both had this as kids and the doctor said it was ‘tinnitus’ or we were hearing snatches of convo from things that had happened that day. We still don’t believe that’s what it was, though. I still get it sometimes.
  12. truth-or-happiness said: I get this most nights, or occasionally during the day if I’m not focused on a specific task
  13. fillemort reblogged this from mentalillnessmouse and added:
    This is completely normal! It’s basically your subconscious thinking you’re asleep, and going commando. I literally hear...
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