[VYholden]

The other morning I was lying in bed, drowsing about and thinking about getting up. It was that state of mind where you find yourself flipping between being perfectly awake and nodding instantly back into dreamland.

Well after drowsing a bit into my pillow, I was woken up by the most irritating noise... that is to say, I was startled awake. A very loud, chirpy beep went off directly in my left ear. DIRECTLY. Like that's exactly where it originated from. This was pretty puzzling as the sound is what woke me up and was thus unmistakeable as the waking catalyst, but there's no waking explanation for what caused it. The smoke alarm would be too distant, or would still chirp. The clock alarm has a soft, continuous beeping, and it was not set. It was also not directly underneath my pillow. I was not so deeply asleep as to be confused by the sound; it really is like the darn thing just went off in my ear and snapped me out of my daydream. Nothing under my pillow or in the near vicinity to explain the source of the beep other than to suppose it was an astral noise.

My experience in haunted locales is that the earthbound spirits have a bit of limited access to RTZ objects and can use them to the effect of, making noises with them that your astral hearing can pick up on, which takes less energy than affecting them in the physical realm. I was once similarly woken by a roll of coins being dropped on the floor by a friendly ghost waking me up in the afternoon to go to my lab, and when waking found no coins on the floor. My current house is not haunted, but I wouldn't put it past a bit of astral wildlife to have flung that stupid beep at me to have a bit of fun. It was LOUD.

[+++Poguru+++]

Sometimes astral noise is not limited to external sources- sometimes it comes from hypnagogic hallucinations from stuff you've heard before. Once I heard a 'rerun' of a commercial I had just heard the day before. So really, the possibilities are endless, as are the sources.

[YpciJQdo]

once i woke up with a loud BOOM! my advantage is that my brother was already awake and he sayd there was no sound and that i woke up abruptly without any reason...

i dunno what it is, it can be just about everything from a simple halucination to a chakra overloading...

[objennasweene]

there was a time where i experienced sleep paralysis, and instead of hearing the beeping sound (which i normally hear) i heard rock music

[Bobdilan]

i have awaken to many things, many times they confuse me, i have had noises like you, ive had voices tell me things, "nick, it is time to wake up"
the most confusing was a bright white light, it was in the middle of the night, and i was asleep, and in my sleep state i saw a blinding white light, almost as if someone in "real" life was shining a flashlight over my eyes, i slowly slipped out of my sleep state, getting irritated by the light, preparing myself to yell at whoever needed to wake me up so intrusively, i quickly bolted upright to complete darkness...... yet i had felt the light, my eyes, they felt it....no one was awake...

[YpciJQdo]

yesterday in meditaion i noticed that every time there is a shift of state of consciousness (for example when you snap back from trance) there is a sound accompanying it. yesterday it was something like a bird chirping. its hard to notice. i think because shifts of consciousness most of the time occur slowly but it can be quite powerful if theres a shift from sleep to fully awake. so i think the tone is not the reason for the abrupt waking.

[MarlboroCig]

I often get high pitch noises in my ear, i had simply dismissed it as something that happens to everyone every once and a while and didn't think it meant much. sometimes they would only last a few seconds, other times it could be up to 20 or 30 minutes. Now that i have read several threads like this linking it to clairaudio or whatever you call it, I think about it and am not too suprised. I have a non verbal learning disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_ver...rning_disorder it is a rather uncommon learning disability, but my auditory learning is amazingly high. When I was in high school my biology teacher called me the human sponge, because I would just remember almost everything she said, one time I was sleeping in the middle of class, and she thought it was an opportunity to thwart me, she woke me up asked me a question about what she had been teaching to embarass me in front of class, I simply told her the answer and went back to sleep