# Please explain sound I heard in my room **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-sound-i-heard-in-my-room/633958 "2012-09-07T05:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-sound-i-heard-in-my-room/633958/41 "2012-09-08T04:35:47Z")
Do you still live in NYC? Lots of weird noises there. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-sound-i-heard-in-my-room/633958/42 "2012-09-08T04:43:49Z")
Yesterday, I had the day off work, so after I got my 13 year-old son off to the bus stop at oh-dark-thirty a.m., I went back to bed. Just as I was dropping off, I could have sworn I heard his Helen voice\* at my window, going “Mom”. It startled me. Then I realized that that was me snoring. I heard myself snoring. Do you snore? \*I call it his Helen voice, because he voice is changing, and it’s not a kid’s voice, nor yet a man’s voice. It’s the voice of an old lady that has been smoking for 50 years. Helen. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-sound-i-heard-in-my-room/633958/43 "2012-09-08T08:51:19Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Hijack: What’s that old song by some crooner where he sings a verse, rests for a quarter, and signs “Do wah do wah do wah do wah do wah” in an even cadence? It’s not Ooby Dooby or Do Wah Diddy. [It Don’t Mean A Thing.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyf1rPqibjY) Or at least that’s the first thing I thought of. (That’s Ella behind the link there, incidentally, in case you were nervous of clicking.) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-sound-i-heard-in-my-room/633958/44 "2012-09-08T12:55:32Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#): > > You wouldn’t happen to know the statistics for “normal” people to have them once every few weeks? I live alone, and my house has some strange noises (music/things crashing) that I can’t for the life of me figure out. Not really. As I said, the numbers are all over the place, depending on who’s doing the counting and how. If what you’re asking is if it’s “normal” to hear noises that other people can’t hear more than once, then yes, that’s within the realm of normal, and unless it bothers you or you have other symptoms of psychosis or neurological problems, auditory hallucinations are not really something to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-sound-i-heard-in-my-room/633958/45 "2012-09-08T22:53:38Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Not really. As I said, the numbers are all over the place, depending on who’s doing the counting and how. If what you’re asking is if it’s “normal” to hear noises that other people can’t hear more than once, then yes, that’s within the realm of normal, and unless it bothers you or you have other symptoms of psychosis or neurological problems, auditory hallucinations are not really something to worry about. I get the exploding head syndrome, I also can catch myself snoring in that in between sleep time, and I have lived in apartments where the acoustics did screwy stuff. I occasionally get the whole hearing odd stuff even out here on the farm where I have no close neighbors to overhear. [as an example, right now for the past few weeks we have this odd little beepbeepbeepbeep that shows up maybe a couple times a day. It has to be absolutely silent to hear it, and we have checked all the cupboards and drawers for some forlorn battery powered item on its last trickle of power with absolutely no luck. We joke that some ghost is yanking our chain:p ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-sound-i-heard-in-my-room/633958/46 "2012-09-10T22:23:42Z")
Using Occams razor, ie. the simplest explanation is probably the correct one, if you see a ghost, are abducted by Aliens etc. WHILE YOU ARE IN BED, then you are almost certainly experiencing sleep paralysis, also known as a waking dream I believe. Which in simple terms is, you are actually asleep and dreaming but totally believe yourself to be awake. Many years ago while "wide awake " in bed , I felt myself levitate off of the bed . I knew that there was nothing mystical about it and rationalised to myself that I’d got my “sensory wires” crossed and was experiencing an hallucination. I now know that I was actually asleep and dreaming that I was awake when it happened . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-sound-i-heard-in-my-room/633958.md?page=2)