Can you hear noises in your dreams?

The researchers discovered that sounds featured often, being reported in 80% to 100% of each participant's dreams. Most often, the sounds consisted of other people speaking. (There were even five instances described as speech in a foreign language that the dreamer did not understand.)
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Can a sound in a dream wake you up?

The former is a type of hypnogogic hallucination, and the latter is a type of hypnopompic hallucination. Although they're only hallucinations, which are imagined, the noises in exploding head syndrome feel very realistic at the time they occur. These noises may jolt you awake and keep you from falling back to sleep.
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What is an auditory dream?

Auditory hypnagogic hallucinations generally involve background sounds. For example, common auditory hallucinations include sounds of a phone, the ringing of a doorbell, people's voices talking, or animal noises. Again, these sounds aren't usually associated with a story like they would be in a dream.
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How do we hear voices in dreams?

Voices as you fall asleep or wake up – these are to do with your brain being partly in a dreaming state. The voice might call your name or say something brief. You might also see strange things or misinterpret things you can see. These experiences usually stop as soon as you are fully awake.
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Why do I hear noises in my room at night?

The many materials that make up your house — wood framing, plywood, glass, metal ducts, nails, plumbing pipes — all expand and contract at different rates. When a house cools at night, these materials may move slightly, rubbing against each other and making noises. Occasionally, they'll contract with an audible pop.
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Is it normal to have 2 voices in your head?

While hearing voices can be a symptom of some mental health problems, not everyone who hears voices has a mental illness. Hearing voices is actually quite a common experience: around one in ten of us will experience it at some point in our lives. Hearing voices is sometimes called an 'auditory hallucination'.
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What is the difference between a dream and a hallucination?

Sleep hallucinations are often confused with both illusions and dreams. They occur in the state between waking and sleeping, although the person is considered to be technically asleep during these hallucinations. This is in contrast to dreams or lucid dreams, which occur while the person is asleep.
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What is hypnopompia?

Hypnopompic hallucinations are hallucinations that occur in the morning as you're waking up1. They are very similar to hypnagogic hallucinations, or hallucinations that occur at night as you're falling asleep. When you experience these hallucinations, you see, hear, or feel things that aren't actually there.
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Why do my dreams feel so real?

Dreams feel real because we use the same brain to process them! Parts of the brain that process “real” sensory information in wakefulness are active in REM sleep. The more rational parts of our brain only switch on in wakefulness. This is why dreams play out like any “real” experience!
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Why do I wake up every night at 3am?

People whose sleep is disrupted by waking up at 3 a.m. can try following healthy sleep tips to sleep through the night more consistently. Avoid caffeine and alcohol: Both caffeine and alcohol are associated with disrupted sleep, especially when they are consumed later in the day.
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What does Exploding head sound like?

It may sound like fireworks, a bomb exploding, or a loud crash. Some people have described it as a gunshot, cymbals crashing, or a lightning strike.
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Why do I hear footsteps in my house at night?

Just not a ghost. If you have an unfinished attic, odds are those footsteps you hear come from some rowdy ducks, mice, a cat or even a wily raccoon. Maybe they are looking for food or – perhaps – to escape from becoming food. Or maybe they are looking for an easy route inside your home.
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What happens when you kiss someone in your dream?

A kiss to a friend indicates reconciliation with enemies. A kiss among a married couple symbolises harmony in domestic life. Kissing someone on the neck suggests a romance is in offing. Kissing in the dark signifies danger in your routine life.
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Can you feel pain in dreams?

Although some theorists have suggested that pain sensations cannot be part of the dreaming world, research has shown that pain sensations occur in about 1% of the dreams in healthy persons and in about 30% of patients with acute, severe pain.
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What's the most common nightmare?

The list of common nightmares
  • Your teeth falling out. The first common nightmare on our list is dreaming about your teeth falling out. ...
  • Being chased. Another common nightmare on our list is being chased. ...
  • Falling. Another common nightmare many have is that of falling. ...
  • Running late. ...
  • Unable to find a toilet.
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What is cataplexy?

Cataplexy. This sudden loss of muscle tone while a person is awake leads to weakness and a loss of voluntary muscle control. It is often triggered by sudden, strong emotions such as laughter, fear, anger, stress, or excitement. The symptoms of cataplexy may appear weeks or even years after the onset of EDS.
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Can you be asleep and awake at the same time?

Hypnagogia meaning

Hypnagogia is the transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. It's the opposite of hypnopompia, which is the transitional state that occurs before you wake up. During hypnagogia, it's common to experience involuntary and imagined experiences.
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What does it mean when you feel a presence while sleeping?

“Felt presence” is a phenomenon where you feel that someone or some entity is near you, sometimes accompanied by an actual hallucination of some form. The phenomenon occurs in sleep paralysis (see this blog post) but also in certain neurological conditions. It can even be induced in healthy people while they're awake.
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Why do I feel like someone is touching me when I sleep?

Tactile Hallucinations

Tactile hallucination is the experience of being touched when you're not. It's one of the most common aspects of sleep paralysis. Many people say they feel pressure or contact. It's like something or someone is holding them down.
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Can you feel touch in dreams?

Your senses come alive when you lucid dream. You can taste, touch, smell, hear, and sometimes even feel like you would in real life.
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Why do I wake up every 2 hours at night?

What Causes Waking Up in the Middle of the Night? Most people wake up once or twice during the night. Reasons this might happen include drinking caffeine or alcohol late in the day, a poor sleep environment, a sleep disorder, or another health condition.
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What does the Bible say about hearing voices?

From the cloud a voice is heard: “This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!” (Mark 9:7), “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!” (Matthew 17:5), and “This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!” (Luke 9:35) After the voice has spoken, the disciples find themselves alone with Jesus.
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What do schizophrenic voices sound like?

They can sound more like a murmur, a rustle or a beeping. But when a voice is a recognizable voice, more than often, it's not very nice. “It's not like wearing an iPod”, says the Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrman. “It's like being surrounded by a gang of bullies.”
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How do you tell if you are hallucinating?

You may have hallucinations if you:
  1. hear sounds or voices that nobody else hears.
  2. see things that are not there like objects, shapes, people or lights.
  3. feel touch or movement in your body that is not real like bugs are crawling on your skin or your internal organs are moving around.
  4. smell things that do not exist.
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Why do I keep dreaming about the same person every night?

Dreaming can help our brains sort through information while we sleep. Dr Mayer also said that dreaming about someone over and over again shouldn't be interpreted in a literal way. That person might actually be symbolising a certain stress or anxiety we are going through.
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