Yes. Several times over the past several years I have awakened suddenly with the feeling my name had been called. There has been a dog in my bedroom, actually two different dogs at different times, that have remained soundly asleep, and all was quiet. Both dogs would have gone ballistic if there had been an actual noise. I attributed the incidents to vivid dreams, but I couldn't recall them. I was able to go back to sleep right after the incidents.

Just after my husband passed, I heard him calling my name to wake me up. I must have stopped breathing while I was sleeping, He did that when he was here.

Joann, I am so sorry. {{{{{Joann}}}}}

• Yes, kathsgrdn, I have experienced that on occasion. It can feel so very real. More apt to be when I am short on sleep, very tired, dozing.

Auditory hallucination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_hallucination

Not ever had my name called, but have heard a loud bang but once I wake up all is quiet. I've also had that weird feeling that there was a cat at the end of my mattress walking around and getting comfy, but there's no cat there...and that's before I go to sleep.

I have had that happen, too. Have heard my DH's voice calling my name, and once my

Mom's. Both were quite awhile after they had died. The voices were clear and

exactly theirs. I have also "heard" my old lovey Cat meow, and even felt him jump on

the end of the bed.

Often wondered if it is dreams, or "wishful thinking" or what. My DD has told me that she

has heard her Dad call her name too.

Yes, it’s usually your name being called, or a loud noise.

If you’re hearing a conversation and join in and there is back and forth conversation, and the voices are telling you to do things, well…. Best to hang up.

I’ve had that cat on the bed sensation. Heartbreaking. I miss my furries.

I have woken up suddenly thinking I heard someone call my name. Then I realize DH is sleeping soundly next to me and my attack cat is also sleeping. It seems so real but it is a dream. I remember it was hard to get back to sleep because I had that creepy feeling.

Nope never have had my name called out in a dream, but on very rare occasions have been jolted awake when trying to say something out loud. My only recurring dream (not that it matters) is being on a business trip and for various stupid reasons I miss my airline flight to get home....and I haven't taken a business trip since 2002, plus been retired for 14 years. I hate that dream, too Weird

Those who awake with banging noises might want to look up exploding head syndrome. Yep, I kid you not. Exploding head syndrome. I've had this a couple times.

I rarely dream. Well, at least I don’t remember them if I do.

I do remember one that I had not long ago, though.

I dreamt that I went to the fence to check on my two horses and one of them wasn’t there. In his place was another horse, sort of a buckskin colour. I looked further into the pasture and there was a group of Mennonite/Hutterite looking people walking hand in hand. I called out to them and they just ignored me.

My MIL who loved to interpret dreams would have had a field day with that one. 🙂

I used to get the loud bang. It sounded like someone dropped a very large book on the floor but when you see your cats fast asleep you know it was in your head. I have occasionally heard other sounds. The cats sleep through that too. It is when you wake up and the cats heads are up on alert that you should get anxious. Get a cat. Or a dog for the doggier people.

I 'had' a renter who claimed my house is haunted. She heard her name being called, opened her bedroom door....no one there. She wasn't asleep. She said she used to "ghost hunt" as a hobby before she moved here.

When I had a cat I sometimes felt that he was trying to freak me out bc he would stare at something that i could not see. when my dogs bark at nothing I’m sure that they are on my side. cats probably step back to watch the axe murderer in action.

I can tie almost all my dreams to things I recently saw, heard, or read about. Must be my brain filing memories away, and getting a bit sloppy with the playback.

lisaam, you seem prejudiced against cats. Cats aren't going to be on board with Ax murderers.

Our brains are so fascinating. I've awoken suddenly a number of times because I thought I heard someone speaking to me - or the loud report that others describe. The ones I recall most clearly are hearing a voice say 'Mom', long after my son was grown and living elsewhere.

Once, long ago, I dreamed I turned over in bed and saw my own back, myself, laying next to me in the bed and was overwhelmed with a feeling of terror as I reached out to touch this other me, and of course I immediately woke up. That was one of the eeriest nightmares I'll never forget.

Nope none of that and I seldom if ever, remember my dreams. I have a friend who remembers all of her dreams.

However, years ago I used to go to aerobics classes (remember those?) and at the end of the class the custom was to clap as a thank-you to the instructor. I went faithfully every class but one night I just didn't feel like it and felt a little guilty for not going. Anyway, during the night I woke myself up clapping and I was like "what the heck?". I must have felt really guilty.

When my mother was in college, she and some friends rented a beach cottage for a short holiday.

One evening all the others went out and Mom stayed behind to go to bed early. She woke up hearing what she said was her (deceased) father’s voice calling her name. Getting up to find the source of the voice, she found that her friends had not locked the door when they departed.

Mom’s late father was apparently a stickler for locking the doors at night.

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Author Spider Robinson claimed in one of his books that when cats stare at "nothing", they're really watching these alien creatures called "muskies" who can't be seen by human eyes because the light frequency the muskies are coloured by is wrong for humans to see them. Like when you have to use infrared glasses because our eyes can't see infrared light.

I have been awakened several times by ”my door bell” ... but it only rings once and no one is there.

I've had an experience, but not of being awakened by a voice

I was in bed, getting ready to sleep, when I clearly heard a voice say "Pray for (my ex)". Not like a voice from in the house, but a distinct voice all the same. Turned out that was the night he passed away.

There is a famous case of a rapist who was attacked by the woman's cat and driven off. He was identified in court by the DNA match of the cat's claw that he had had imbedded in his scalp. My Cat Edward used to scare the fool out of people coming to my door when I wasn't home. He would launch himself onto the door's windows and scream. I cant imagine what he would do if I was there.

Our brains are capable of all sorts of aural and visual hallucinations. As a vivid dreamer I am not particularly disturbed by these. I often get visual hallucinations as I drift off to sleep. They differ depending on where I am sleeping because my brain is trying to make sense of the last thing it saw. Often startling until I get used to them. In my present bedroom it looks like someone is standing next to the bed. It is always the same.

DH got me a book on directed dreaming which I made the mistake of reading and it messed up my dream world for years. I don't want to control my dreams. My brain is better at it than I am. Hmmm, that doesn't sound right does it.

Re seeing one's own back, I did have an out of body experience one night decades ago...it was very strange moving about while my body lay flat in bed. I used to try and repeat it, but it never happened. I know of several people who reported the same thing...one was a friend who said she would be able to be outside her body and watch herself as she was walking along or cooking or whatever....one was my MIL who was out of her body as she was close to death from a severe hemorrhage, said it was my FIL who chucked her chin and said, "Keep your chin up" that brought her back...one was my Grandmother who had a TIA and said afterwards she lost any fear of dying as she knew what a pleasant experience it was during that stroke.

I have heard my name being called clear as day many times. Anne! Sometimes I thought it was my sister who was in another room and I answered "what" She said she never called my name