No outside sounds during waking up - sign of progress or not?

**Iluzjusz** · 06-07-2023 01:36 AM

Sometimes when I'm falling asleep or waking up I hear no sounds from outside. I'm always listening music when I'm going to sleep so I have good experiment sample. So - it looks like I'm "deaf" 2-3 sec before I fully wake up especially when it is near nREM phase. In that period of time I'm partially aware, and when I'm fully awake then everything is normal. I think it can be sign of progress, because during sleep brain just ignore senses from outside and I think my awarness is rising faster than other processes during waking up.
What do you think?

**Lang** · 06-07-2023 05:34 AM

Um, I'm not sure. It may be a form of hypnopompic hallucination.

**susdung** · 06-07-2023 02:42 PM

Never experienced that, could it be normal?

**Iluzjusz** · 06-07-2023 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Lang

Um, I'm not sure. It may be a form of hypnopompic hallucination.

Silence as hallucination? Interesting point of view

btw I didn't even knew it is more types of hallucinations than hipnagogic xD

**theshirecat** · 06-07-2023 07:40 PM

I haven't experienced something like that before. I've heard extra things that aren't there, like a dog barking when I know there aren't any nearby. I can imagine a scenario where this works in reverse though. After all, our vision goes black/blank, why not hearing as well?

**Box77** · 06-07-2023 08:22 PM

I may relate to this.

Long ago, during my student times, had some noisy neighbors in the house I was renting a room. From time to time there were parties which last to the next day. Usually it was the owner of the house who had to come up to stop the party.
Going to sleep during such days was very annoying. Sometimes I was so tired that fell asleep while hearing the hypnotic noise coming from the party in the background, until some loud noise coming from the show woke me back to realize I was hearing nothing just before that and no much time passed since I was hearing the noise of the party which clearly didn’t stop.

**Lang** · 06-07-2023 09:11 PM

Yeah, Everyone experiences sleep-related hallucinations differently but, I have also dreams too where I experienced as though there was no sound, Like being in a void or can't hear my DC simply because I had the music too loud when I fell asleep.

Was your music too loud? In that case, you may be more aware of your surroundings than you even know.

**Iluzjusz** · 06-07-2023 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by Lang

Was your music too loud? In that case, you may be more aware of your surroundings than you even know.

Not really. My music usually is so quiet that in day I don't hear it bc of car traffic. But at night it is perfect balanced. But yea sometime when I'm falling asleep I randomly wake up because of my thoughs "Wait? Where is music?"