Voice calling my name

I get this occasionally. It is nothing to worry about. See this link: www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/hearing-voices/#.WSrUp5LyuM8

I wake up sometimes thinking someone is calling me. Spooky isn't it?!

I get this all the time. It's usually MrA mithering about something he could perfectly well sort out for himself.
Sorry couldn't resist
As you were

Like this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=87bUBB-rwFc

lol

I love the pretend horse movement - hilarious!

I think this is quite common. I have heard my mother calling me. Other people as well. Don't worry about it.

It happens to me too. Something to do with the brain reacting to the body falling asleep.

Thank you I feel better about it now

I ve never heard a voice but I ve been woken up by a very 'real' doorbell ringing but of course it's not it's in my head but it can seem really authentic

I occasionally hear my mothers voice, just saying my name, nothing else. I recognise her voice at once, although in my day to day waking life I can't recall how her voice sounded...she died nearly 30 years ago.

Weird, but doesn't scare me, in fact it's quite comforting in a way even when nothing is amiss.

The brain is a strange thing, name calling, door bells and telephone ringing are fairly common. Think of your brain as a computer which sometimes scrolls through old messages and then re-posts them.

I have woken during the night to "hear" someone knocking on my door, I just ignore it & go back to sleep

The mind does play tricks, I dream about people & situations that seem real but impossible

When my Step dad died I was very upset as I loved him lots until I dreamt that he had phoned me. Couldnt remember what was said but felt so much better. This was a dream as I was waking up.

My dad died when I was 13. A couple of years later I was in the street which was empty at the time and heard him call my name - so real I expected to see him behind me. My mum also has called me too. Like to believe they are there in spirit.

When I visited my sister in austrailia many years ago we both heard an announcement fir my sister (full childhood pre marriage name) to go to the information desk. We stood and listened carefully together at the second announcement. Yes we definitely heard it. We rushed to the desk and the staff looked at us as if we were stupid. It was not us and the name was totally different. We had both heard it. We decided it was a warning and got out of the mall quickly. We decided we weren't nuts but it was either mum or dad having a joke on us from the other side!

I think harrigran is right. The brain operates like computer and goes over things when we are not aware of it. Desires and dreads take a bit of sorting out and we can put them on the back burner for a bit.
Usually, when we hear a voice, it's either welcome or fearful.

This could also account for why we think we have a bad memory, but think of it, you have a life's worth of information stored in your brain and just as the computer works slower when you have too many programmes/apps open and your hard disk is getting full, it is sorting out all the unresolved occurrences in your experience, naturally it takes longer to retrieve the item in question.
But remember. The brain could do everything before the computer. Fascinating.

My mum used to hear a doorbell ringing just as she was waking up. She even went as far as accusing some boys who lived nearby of ringing her doorbell. Eventually she realised that it was not real. Very strange. It only happened after dad died.

I often hear my name being called urgently and rush to ask my slightly disabled husband what he wants, but am told he hasn't called. However, a few weeks back my daughter and I were in the kitchen, my husband said goodbye and left the house to get in the car, which was parked in front of the garage just the other side of a fence close to the back door where we were standing. My daughter and I were relaxed and laughing and BOTH of us heard my name urgently, and loudly, called. I shouted "I'm coming" and ran outside, but the car and husband had gone and no one was outside in the quiet cul de sac at all. DD was quite spooked. So what was that? Mass hysteria?

I think that the brain can do funny things, perhaps if you're feeling tired.
Last night while watching telly I felt a 'presence' rather than a voice - it was a sensation of someone wearing grey trousers standing by the other fireside chair, I looked round but whatever it was disappeared.
Could it have been the previous house-owner just taking a look? Or my dear late husband? I'll never know of course but won't let it worry me. I'll try to look upon it as benign.

Funny enough I woke up to a deep coughing sound and didn't hear it again so went back to sleep. This morning when I got up the cat had been sick and bought up a load of fur. So it was our Oscar bless him poor kitty.

I used to be an asst bar manager. One night I was down in the cellar changing a beer barrel when I very clearly heard someone calling my name. I approached the stairs as I didn't want to put the person calling me to have the bother of coming down. No one was there. I asked when I went back up who'd called me. Nobody had. A mystery, but I still had to go back down those stairs as long as I worked there.

Occasionally i have just been dropping off and have heard the telephone ringing and jerked awake - only to find it hadnt happened.

I have never heard this calling of a name, or a phone or a doorbell ( starting to feel left out)
I did hear a rustling sound near the front door this morning though.Looked around, and outside the door.Nothing.An hour or so later heard it again, thought it was a leaflet coming through the door, again nothing.
Just after lunch, we both heard it and went into the hall, nothing to see, and then a movement from under a chair, it was a baby bird, a Thrush, looking at us in an interested sort of way! DH opened the front door wide and managed to shoo it out, and it flew off.Must have been there since last night.
I think there is a rational explanation for most things tbh.