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[โ€“] Mahlzeit@feddit.de 34 points 1 year ago

Yes. Or maybe you dreamt it and were a bit confused on waking up. Perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.

Maybe relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

[โ€“] huginn@feddit.it 26 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Whatever you do, DO NOT buy one of those bedside sleep sound recorders. There's just too much iffy shit you hear on those, if you listen closely and you hear stuff you can't ever forget. I tried it once. The one I had would skip to the places where there was noise.

I heard my snore stop suddenly, like my breath stopped or a hand over my mouth silenced me, and then I hear a clear whisper "Don't wake up!"

I don't know if it was me talking or what, but I'd rather not know the noises in my room at night! Never again for me.

[โ€“] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh oh, r/writingprompts is leaking! (Is what I'm telling myself)

[โ€“] ajyflt@feddit.ch 9 points 1 year ago

This seems like it could be turned into a r/nosleep story

[โ€“] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 15 points 1 year ago

I could never use one of those unless it also had a camera with it. If shadowmen are going to mess with me in my sleep, they'll have to live with having their images captured on camera.

[โ€“] aebrer@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Creepy story! Do you still have the recording?!

[โ€“] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might seem stupid but I didn't want any connection to it. I actually ended up burning it

[โ€“] norbert@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Luckily you didn't wake up, that could've been very bad.

[โ€“] w00@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I need you to wake up now.

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[โ€“] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So a while back, the smoke alarm in the kid's room directly below mine started going off for no apparent reason at 3 AM. Got up, went downstairs to silence it, checked everything in the house, smelled for smoke, looked at all the outlets, etc. Dug through drawers to find a new 9V battery and figured it was either a battery issue or a literal bug set it off. Never really got back to restful sleep after that, and the next day I kept worrying I had missed something and a shorted wire was quietly smoldering away in the wall somewhere.

Next night, around the same time, I was again jolted out of sleep by a loud beep, but by the time I had gotten downstairs, there was no alarm going off, just my ears ringing. Asked everyone else if they heard an alarm, they said no. I must've hallucinated it, but I was also experiencing the most intense tinitus I have ever had. I don't usually get tinitus at all, but my ears were ringing so loudly I couldn't get back to sleep for a half hour afterwards.

I believe I had a major psychosomatic event, which manifested tinitus. It's either that or the timing of the random tinitus that woke me up was a bizarre coincidence.

[โ€“] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Exploding head syndrome only a beep? Brains do weird shit.

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[โ€“] kambusha@feddit.ch 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you lose a tooth recently?

[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Turns out we've been getting invisible IOUs for centuries, and she's finally turning a profit. OP got the first visit

[โ€“] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Do you have a window open somewhere? Or have a bathroom fan on?

Sometimes the negative pressure at my house on a windy day when the window in my room is open can cause the bedroom door to close so fast it practically slams.

[โ€“] EponymousBosh 8 points 1 year ago

Yep, hypnogogic/hypnopompic hallucinations are extremely common and generally nothing to worry about. If they happen to you a lot, it might be a sign of a sleep disorder, but they aren't connected to mental health issues.

[โ€“] adhocfungus@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This happens to me almost every night. Usually while coming out of sleep, but sometimes while I'm still trying to fall asleep. It used to only happen when I was stressed about work, but once I had a kid it became very frequent.

I hear/see the door open, hear my son's door open, see giant spiders on the wall, hear someone rummaging through the fridge, hear my son screaming, etc. If I get up to check it's always nothing.

[โ€“] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds very bad actually.

It's usually not scary, it just jolts me up and out of bed, which interrupts my already limited sleep. It's definitely not great. I'm hoping it'll calm down as my son gets older, but I won't hold my breath.

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Possible, but also: ghosts?

[โ€“] ivanafterall@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Let's not be too quick to rule out good old-fashioned demons.

[โ€“] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Temperature differences between rooms can cause enough wind to close a door. Nothing creepy happening

[โ€“] SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Hopefully you have a carbon monoxide detector.

[โ€“] ani@endlesstalk.org 1 points 1 year ago

Do you have cat or a dog? My cat is able to open/close doors, so likely your pet has done it for you.