Who Just Said My Name?

[Amobailar]

Since I was about 18, I have been hearing people say my name when I am about to go to sleep. The first time scared the crap outta me! It was as if someone had put their mouth to my ear and yelled my name! You can imagine if someone did that to you when you were drifting off how much it would scare you. I jumped up and started crying because it had startled me then after realizing no one was there, it scared me even more. I looked in the closet, under my bed, even under my pillow!

I'm 29 now and it has happened several times since then but it doesn't scare me anymore and it's always as I'm drifting off. Sometimes I recognize the voice but most of the time I don't and until recently, it has always just said my name. However earlier tonight I was doing a visualization from William W. Hewitt's book, Psychic Development for Beginners and I'm not sure if I was falling asleep or if I was going into a meditative state , but I heard someone say "She's seeing a therapist" and I visualized an old man saying it. I have NO idea what that means--it means nothing to me. It was almost as if I had overheard a conversation but upon "hearing" that, I woke up or came back to waking consciousness.

I just want to know what this is. Could this mean I'm clairaudient? Why do I hear people saying my name and overheard conversations only when I'm drifting off to sleep? Am I actually "hearing" this intuitively or is it just my imagination?

Thanks,
Brandi

[bluestar]

Well I have had the same thing happen too. Sometimes I can recognize the voice (ie my Aunt's voice, or a friend, or my mother etc) I am not entirely sure what this is. I tried to get feedback about it, and asked the person if they were thinking intently about me at so-and-so time.
The results were not conclusive. Sometimes they said yes, sometimes no -they were asleep, or doing another thing and not thinking of me.
It could be (and I always do treat it as such) -a subconscious contact with that person, and real in its own way, and valuable. So I am fulfilling it in a way, merely by calling them on the phone to discuss it....re-connecting with that person.

But if it's a voice I don't recognize, then of course I can't tell what or who it is.

There is a phenomenon known as the hypnagogic state which is the state just as one is about to fall asleep. I have heard the oddest phrases in these moments. Very often the phrases make no sense, yet at the same time seem vivid. I do believe that particular phenomenon is frequently brain-induced (brain waves changing) and may mean little in the way of psychic events etc.
Paradoxically, it also can be the state where the intuition is acutely focussed.

[Joebenz]

i have the same kind of things happening to me too. But only when i'm just waking up. Three days ago, right when i'm waking up, i hear my sister calling me and knoking on my door. When i fully woke up, i checked the house and none was there. She was at work during that time.
I don't know why it's always eather when falling asleep or waking up. Very strange...

Here maybe this can help:
Hypnagogia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Len walker]

Originally Posted by Amobailar

I just want to know what this is. Could this mean I'm clairaudient? Why do I hear people saying my name and overheard conversations only when I'm drifting off to sleep? Am I actually "hearing" this intuitively or is it just my imagination?

Hi, I'm afraid in my experience, this phenomena is unlikely to point to you being clairaudient, it's much more likely you take a sharp dip into Theta very quickly when you fall asleep, and that you are actually dreaming, it will seem like only moments since you close your eyes but it's probably minutes.

The above may seem like bad news as far as your aspirations towards your psychic development is concerned, but in actual fact it's probably good news!

If I'm correct, it means you move into the slower brain rhythms quickly and easily, the best psychic work is done in these states. So I would suggest, you attempt to consciously develop your natural tendency towards slipping into the slower brain states, and then develop your psychic skills from that starting point. Believe me this will allow a huge leap forward in your development, clairaudience and all the other psychic skills develop easily and quickly once the brain moves into the correct rhythm.

Len.