Voice calling my name

Goldengirl - Some people believe that small children are particularly sensitive to such experiences. Since I've no first hand evidence I keep an open mind.

I too have heard the doorbell! It's reassuring to know that I'm not alone. However, 4 of my GC have seen a man in the hall and asked me who it is! This was on separate occasions when each was a toddler so don't know the explanation for that one

I heard my grandma call my name one night, the next day I learned she had died the night before!!!

I agree with harrigran your brain is a complex computer. It works hard all day. When we rest (or try to rest) our brains shuffle all of the information and file everyone away into the correct directories and folders. It's only natural that in the process of doing this things can get a bit jumbled up.

Does this happen to anyone else? I am woken up by a loud bang. I feel panicky but gradually realise it was inside my head.

Happens a lot to me. Where I used to work is a good example. Every few days I heard my name being called in the ladies department of the store. Always quite clear but nobody to be seen. Then one day as I was leaving to go home I stopped abruptly as I saw someone was stood in front of me. There was nobody there though. Never heard the voice after that....

On the original topic though I have been frequently woken by imagined phone calls and door bells since moving here 4 years ago. I'm getting quite used to it now

Not quite the same but back in the 70's I'd just moved house and had a phone installed. About 2am one night I heard the phone ringing and flew downstairs to answer it (my mother was ill at the time). Just as I was picking it up I was telling myself it couldn't be her as she didn't have a phone then. Imagine my anger when a chirpy male operator told me this was my early morning alarm call! I never knew who'd set that up but it spooked me and the next evening I rang the exchange and told the (female) operator I had not booked any alarm calls. She took all the details then assured me I wouldn't be receiving any more. I felt a bit guilty if the man had lost his job but I slept better that night.

BlueBelle, you've made my day, the doorbell ringing thing has happened to me on several occasions, and I've been so convinced that I've got up, gone downstairs, opened the front door to have a look to see if I've missed the posty, but absolutely no sign of anyone. I thought I was going loopy at the time, so it's good to know I'm not the only one.

It's good to know I'm not the only one. A few years ago, alone in the house and getting ready for bed, I heard a clear voice behind me say my name. Just once and it hasn't happened again.

Bluebelle i've had exactly the same thing happen to me several times, and I've even got up and looked out of the window and waited to see if anyone walked up the path but they never do. I find it a bit scary if it's still dark outside.

relieved

I too have been woken by a phantom doorbell in the past (we nor our neighbour have one)- relived to hear it's not just me.
When we were younger we lived an old house in which we just had re-plumbed - lots of bashing about by the workman. I had tidied as best I could because I was expecting a lovely (but ultra-posh) lady visitor. Half-an-hour before she arrived I heard a strange little clicking noise and walked over to check if there was something amiss with the kettle perhaps. At which point a large section of the (very heavy plaster) kitchen ceiling fell on my head. Really hurt but I was more concerned with quickly clearing up as much of the mess as possible - never let that plumber back in our house.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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?

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 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.

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!

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 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.

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