1 in 10 seven- to eight-year-olds hear voices

[clockworkgirl21]

Sometimes, when I'm seconds away from sleep, I can swear I hear someone yell "Hey!" I jump up in bed, but of course, the entire house is asleep and couldn't have been them.

[ironbite]

Yay for hearing things!

Ironbite-this might be a more widespread problem then I thought.

[Deimos]

I have an urky feeling that the Raptards who read this, are going to interpret it as the voice of God

[secretsquirrelsock]

Jan 26, 2010 2:13:01 GMT -5 clockworkgirl21 said:

Sometimes, when I'm seconds away from sleep, I can swear I hear someone yell "Hey!" I jump up in bed, but of course, the entire house is asleep and couldn't have been them.

hypnagogic jerk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

[chad sexington]

When I was that age, I used to hear voices in the wind. I don't remember anything about them, because it was so long ago (except it was like being in a room full of invisible people all whispering), until the day my dad was calling me for something, and I thought he was just another of the voices. When I told him that he just sneered then belted me for not coming when he'd called, and I stopped listening to them

[Amaranth]

"I hear voices in my head
They talk to me, they understand..."

You're not alone, Orton.

[hathor]

Jan 26, 2010 4:15:23 GMT -5 Deimos said:

I have an urky feeling that the Raptards who read this, are going to interpret it as the voice of God

You would be wrong, they have a thread and figure it's demonic activity:

rr-bb.com/showthread.php?125189-Many-children-hear-voices-most-aren-t-bothered

[Paradox]

I hear voices occasionally. Usually someone calling my name, but when I ask them what they want they said they never said anything to me. It's been like that as long as I can remember. I've never paid it much attention.

[Tiger]

Jan 26, 2010 10:46:58 GMT -5 Paradox said:

I hear voices occasionally. Usually someone calling my name, but when I ask them what they want they said they never said anything to me. It's been like that as long as I can remember. I've never paid it much attention.

Me too. I thought it was God when I was little and became confused when he never said anything else.

[Amaranth]

Jan 26, 2010 10:46:58 GMT -5 Paradox said:

I hear voices occasionally. Usually someone calling my name, but when I ask them what they want they said they never said anything to me. It's been like that as long as I can remember. I've never paid it much attention.

I hear noises occasionaly, and sometimes something as I'm going to sleep. nothing else, and it's not like the occasional word or two I get dozing off does anything disruptive or disturbing, so I always figured it was just a normal effect of the subconscious.

Though I'm pretty sure Satan doesn't need to convince me to be a bad person.

<.<

[keresm]

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[Jedi Knight]

I guess it is interpretation, the brain tries to find recognizable patterns in unidentified sounds.

[RavynousHunter]

I hear shit all the time. Of course, there are times I can't tell when its just me, and its usually someone calling my name or saying a few words that barely make any sense. I never say anything back except the occasional "Eh?"

[Elly]

Weird! Does this refer to hearing all-out schizophrenia-esque voices around you, or is it more of an "I thought that sound was a bunch of whispering" thing?

The most I ever heard as a kid was my mom calling my name when she really wasn't. Of course, even now I accidentally interpret a random sound as my name.

[Sleepy]

Since the children in this study were only 7 or 8 years old, I suspect some of them answered "yes" about hearing "one or more voices that only you and no one else could hear", referring to an imaginary friend or something similar.