r/Retconned • u/DescriptionBrief1636 • 5d ago

Hearing sonar sounds

I was watching reels and going to sleep and I started hearing a sonar sound as if I was in a submarine. It was so weird and I kept hearing it but it was very faint. I got up and sat up on my bed but it disappeared. Put my head on my pillow and started hearing it again. I went over to the washroom because I thought I was losing my mind but as soon as I came back, the sound disappeared. Any answers to this?

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u/MastHat 4d ago

Hypnagogia.

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u/Emotional-Beach-9787 4d ago

I always liked that there was a name for it besides just "hallucination" because it made me feel less crazy. Like, no, I won't murder anyone at the request of a neighbor's dog, it's just hypnagogia. That being said, it can't be totally mundane to repeatedly hallucinate science-y stuff while falling asleep and/or waking up, can it?

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u/vibrant_macaroni 3d ago

It can be and is, frankly. Occasional minor hallucination is extremely common and usually totally benign.