Good morning 12/13 Hypnopompic Hallucinations
By snowy
@snowy22315 (204175)
United States
December 13, 2025 8:03am CST
So this morning was about the third time in approx 5 weeks I awoke with the noise of a dog emitting a big bark. No dogs around..but it seems very realistic. I wondered if this ever happened to anyone else,and apparently it does, They are hypnopompic hallucinations..usually visual, but also auditory happen sometime between being asleep and just awakening. They differ from a dream because it is usually just one image or sound. It is a bit scary though. Anybody ever experience them?
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@snowy22315 (204175)
• United States
13 Dec
Yep, that is what it was then. The article said it was more common for them to be visual. The same thing can happen if you are getting ready to go to sleep, and something like that happens. They call those hypongogic hallucinations.
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@snowy22315 (204175)
• United States
13 Dec
@LadyDuck It is startling to have something like that happen. What happens to me, when I am going to sleep is sometimes my leg jerks and it wakes me up before I ever get to sleep. 
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@LadyDuck (495161)
• Italy
13 Dec
@snowy22315 - Two days ago, soon after I turned off the night lamp and was going to sleep I heard noises, like a kid who cried.
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@LindaOHio (216056)
• United States
14 Dec
YES! All the time. I'm glad to hear it's normal. I often hear a big crash or noise as I'm drifting off. I think someone is breaking in.
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@snowy22315 (204175)
• United States
14 Dec
Its usually the dog thing here, but one time Iwoke up hearing dragging noises.
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@LindaOHio (216056)
• United States
15 Dec
@snowy22315 I think it's really creepy!!!
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@snowy22315 (204175)
• United States
15 Dec
@LindaOHio It does make you wonder what the neck is going on.
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@RasmaSandra (95164)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Dec
Nothing like that but at one time I awoke singing a familiar song. Then I sat up and thought why do I have this song on my mind and saw the fading view of a small band with my high scool boyfriend who has passed away with it, He had played this song i liked, was there visually in fornt of me, and before it all faded away he siad Goodbye to me,
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@RasmaSandra (95164)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Dec
@snowy22315 it was all before me just as I sat on my bed wide awake,
@snowy22315 (204175)
• United States
13 Dec
It's a little threatening to me, because I wouldn't want big dark barking in the house, especially an univited one.
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@just4him (322454)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
13 Dec
@snowy22315 I agree with you. We have a lot of dogs in the building, so hearing one wouldn't alarm me.
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@snowy22315 (204175)
• United States
14 Dec
It is normal.It is my guess though there my be an underlying anxiety with it.
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@MarieCoyle (55811)
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13 Dec
No, I can't say that I have experienced noised upon awakening--not yet, anyway. My big thing the last year or so is to wake up thinking something has happened to my son. His balance isn't good and he falls sometimes. I think I worry it's him falling, but so far he hasn't fallen in the night--just in the daytime.
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@snowy22315 (204175)
• United States
13 Dec
Maybe if he used a cane..it would help.
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@MarieCoyle (55811)
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14 Dec
@snowy22315
When he is unsteady, it truly would. But he is a stubborn man, and I am more than sure you have encountered those in your life as I have. It can be frustrating, he wants to do everything himself. I try to help without him really noticing...sometimes, that works.
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@snowy22315 (204175)
• United States
13 Dec
I am not sure how common it is, but it does happen.
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@thedevilinme (4890)
• Northampton, England
13 Dec
I have them . Wave my arms around trying to catch them. Very normal
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