OK, this all sounds like a paranoid person talking, but I can understand the identical furniture placement bit. If the apartments have the same layout, it’s entirely plausible that they might have ended up with the same locations for the furniture. I’m thinking of my apartment, and the way I located the sofa, TV, kitchen table, bed and so forth seem to make the most sense given where the walls, doors and windows are.
That’s why people say it sounds psychiatric in nature, because it’s so unlikely that it’s possible. I’ve lived in apartments and visited friends’ apartments where you could hear the neighbor above. Sometimes hearing everywhere they walked around the apartment. But I don’t ever remember hearing someone below me. It’s basically impossible for someone above to keep track of and mimic/stalk the person below, unless they had cameras or other surveillance equipment set up. The other options are a psychiatric break, hearing sounds that aren’t there, or misinterpreting sounds (thinking that he’s tapping because he’s annoyed you’re on the phone, but he’s just tapping his foot because he’s restless).
Once I moved into a new neighborhood, I was convinced that all the neighbors were laughing at me and talking behind my back. Then I realized I was simply being paranoid.
Later on I found out I was right
----Roseanne Barr
Not really. I’ve been both the upstairs and downstairs neighbor. The guy upstairs cannot tell where you are in your apartment. Even more so if you think he’s following you around when his music is loud, there’s no way he can hear you below. The most likely answer, I’m sad to say, is that it’s in your head. Please talk to a doctor.
As everyone has said, it’s basically impossible he’s mimicking you like this. Think about it: you say you run fast and stop suddenly and he’s still able to mimic your movement. That would almost be impossible if he was in the room watching you. Please see a doctor.
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I confess I am fascinating/suspect of the similar breathless, Edgar Allen Poe THE BELLS! THE BELLS! tone in all of these OPs, appearing a pretty far distance apart./QUOTE]
Thank You! Here is part 1 of that poem:
Hear the sledges with the bells-
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
- Edgar Allen Poe
Auditory hallucinations are a very common symptom of schizophrenia, as well as the sort of persecution delusions you are experiencing. I can only imagine it would be a terrifying condition to live with. Obviously we don’t know if you have it or not, but if you do you need to get diagnosis and treatment, as it can help tremendously.
You could test the “following you around” part using a shotgun up through the ceiling. If the noise stops after a few rounds, you’ve eliminated that possibility*
*not actual advice, professional driver, closed course