Something VERY weird happened to me last night!!

[UberScout]

As per usual with my therapy routine of relaxation and meditation before bed, I started the routine off by playing some GameBoy Color games on an emulator on my phone. A little bit of Mega Man Xtreme, etc...

Before I go any further, I should point out that yesterday, I ended up going to the ER after one of our cats caused me to trip and fall down the stairs and hit my head(!!) on the corner of one stair, causing a gash(!). It was quickly taken care of at the ER, staff was very wholesome and friendly to me and very understanding, my mother let them know about my Autism and they responded accordingly. I was given a TDAP and a shot for anxiety and they glued my head shut.

So, after that context, like I said last night i started winding down like I always do, starting with some games on my phone, and ending with an audio file for sleep which I programmed a playlist to end with a 10 hour long recording of some dolphin sounds (VERY relaxing; I fell asleep in minutes).

This is when things got a little weird.


As I laid there, floating with Aloe in my little headspace, listening to her stories about a shipwreck I saw in a dream, at one point when I was imagining what she'd be telling me, I was startled briefly awake by a bizarre beeping sound. It sounded like it was 8-bit in structure, like from an old video game, and rather than being one single beep, it was more of a sound effect; the kind you'd hear on a 1980s arcade game from Japan upon collecting a piece of fruit that gave you points, or bouncing off an enemy's head and stunning them or something. If I was going to describe it phonetically, it would probably be "bluu-WEEDLEEP". I only heard it once.

I knew it wasn't coming from my phone, because I had it next to me while I was laying under my weighted blanket and I would have heard it at full volume in my ear. And it couldn't have come from my starlight projector which doubles as a bluetooth speaker, because I would have noticed the reverb bouncing off the walls of my room, or at least what the vibrations of the reverb would have made it sound like. It couldn't have been from a game on my TV because my TV's not even in my room right now because it got wet and broke.


I have no idea what made this sound or where it came from. And honestly, it kinda scares me a little...

What is happening?!

 

[Misery]

Something that needs maintenance, perhaps?

There's a thing in my basement, a mystery gizmo that Does Something in the utility room, and when it's in need of... er... I've no idea what, it makes pretty much that noise. Fairly loud so that you dont have to be in the utility room to hear it. But oddly, it doesnt like, make the noise every 60 seconds or so. It waits like 50 bazillion years between beep-boop-squeaks, so you kinda have to be in a certain area of the house at the right time to hear it at all.

Seems like silly design to me but I dont get to make the rules here.

I can say though that it doesnt have to be that exact type of machine to produce that spaced out alert noise, other machines can do it too, and it doesnt have to be located in a basement either. Could be anywhere. The sort of device mostly ignored until it starts getting loopy. And then the fun little game called "what the heck is making that sound" begins.

 

[UberScout]

You don't understand.

This sound didn't.... Come from... Anything in my room. I heard it come from.... Sigh, I kinda heard it *in my head*, but not from a thought. I knew it wasn't something i was just thinking really really hard about because i could physically hear it as if it WERE coming from a physically object but if it was, that object wasn't so much producing it through sound waves so much as it was directly projecting it into my head.

As for what it sounded like, it's hard to describe because i only heard it once, but try to imagine a cross between Mario collecting a coin and a Pokemon being caught in a Poke Ball.

 

[Misery]

Even that could have just a normal explanation. Sort of.

I aint normally the skeptical sort, but what you describe sounds *exactly* like the "I'm laying down (or sitting) pondering things and getting near the edge of sleep without quite realizing it and then I hear something but not real sound" experience. I get it frequently, though it's always voices for me, not beeps. Unlike normal sounds it has no "direction".

A bit startling at times, but nothing comes of it beyond that.

In any case it's nothing to be afraid of or worried about.

 

[Knower of nothing]

Yeah, it's likely what Misery described, a type of Hypnagogic Hallucination:

Auditory hallucinations are also common when the body is falling asleep. These hallucinations are more common when a person is under stress. Most common auditory hallucinations are simple and don’t have a real meaning or purpose. Examples include:

• beeping
• high-pitched noises
• random noises
• popping noises
• unclear noises

 

[Luca]

Sometimes I hear a beeping sound or like a static sound when I’m about to fall asleep and it scares the crap out of me.
It’s exactly what Misery and Knower of Nothing said though.
Nothing to worry about!

 

[Aneka]

As per usual with my therapy routine of relaxation and meditation before bed, I started the routine off by playing some GameBoy Color games on an emulator on my phone. A little bit of Mega Man Xtreme, etc...

Before I go any further, I should point out that yesterday, I ended up going to the ER after one of our cats caused me to trip and fall down the stairs and hit my head(!!) on the corner of one stair, causing a gash(!). It was quickly taken care of at the ER, staff was very wholesome and friendly to me and very understanding, my mother let them know about my Autism and they responded accordingly. I was given a TDAP and a shot for anxiety and they glued my head shut.

So, after that context, like I said last night i started winding down like I always do, starting with some games on my phone, and ending with an audio file for sleep which I programmed a playlist to end with a 10 hour long recording of some dolphin sounds (VERY relaxing; I fell asleep in minutes).

This is when things got a little weird.


As I laid there, floating with Aloe in my little headspace, listening to her stories about a shipwreck I saw in a dream, at one point when I was imagining what she'd be telling me, I was startled briefly awake by a bizarre beeping sound. It sounded like it was 8-bit in structure, like from an old video game, and rather than being one single beep, it was more of a sound effect; the kind you'd hear on a 1980s arcade game from Japan upon collecting a piece of fruit that gave you points, or bouncing off an enemy's head and stunning them or something. If I was going to describe it phonetically, it would probably be "bluu-WEEDLEEP". I only heard it once.

I knew it wasn't coming from my phone, because I had it next to me while I was laying under my weighted blanket and I would have heard it at full volume in my ear. And it couldn't have come from my starlight projector which doubles as a bluetooth speaker, because I would have noticed the reverb bouncing off the walls of my room, or at least what the vibrations of the reverb would have made it sound like. It couldn't have been from a game on my TV because my TV's not even in my room right now because it got wet and broke.


I have no idea what made this sound or where it came from. And honestly, it kinda scares me a little...

What is happening?!

There's a legit condition called exploding head syndrome.
Loud noises during or shortly before falling asleep. Likelihood increases with meditation.

 

[Aneka]

As a side note, when I'm stressed, I often experience something else: The feeling of falling in a bottomless pit, floating or if it gets worse, my whole body jerks (feels like a mild electric shock going through your body). And I can't manage to fall asleep. I had this **** going on after surgery last week. Fortunately, my ability to sleep has returned to me, I'm so glad.

I had the sound thing happen to me once, and it was after listening to binaural beats (which can take you on a psychedelic trip without drugs.) I only tried it out once, that was enough, I had the most bizarre dream/ hallucination as a result.

Usually, things like this tend to happen when your body falls asleep before your mind.

 

[Aspychata]

Well, l did hear like a water noise, and it turned out there was a burst pipe under my home. Had to turn off water and call someone to fix. Thank God l didn't blow it off. But l do jerk sometimes when sleeping. And nightmares wake me up.

 

[Knower of nothing]

As a side note, when I'm stressed, I often experience something else: The feeling of falling in a bottomless pit, floating or if it gets worse, my whole body jerks (feels like a mild electric shock going through your body). And I can't manage to fall asleep. I had this **** going on after surgery last week. Fortunately, my ability to sleep has returned to me, I'm so glad.

I had the sound thing happen to me once, and it was after listening to binaural beats (which can take you on a psychedelic trip without drugs.) I only tried it out once, that was enough, I had the most bizarre dream/ hallucination as a result.

Usually, things like this tend to happen when your body falls asleep before your mind.

The floating/falling stuff is vertigo I believe. If it gets very frequent you should tell a doctor, it's a symptom in many things.

 

[Forest Cat]

The last time I heard a mystery sound like that, the battery in my smoke detecetor was low. They beep a little then.

 

[UberScout]

PHEW!