Does anyone hallucinate the sounds after they stop?
This might sound absolutely crazy, but it’s happening right now and I have to ask. I mostly get triggered by the sound of our familys Dyson vacuum and my parents snoring. When I hear the vacuum, I like to just plug my ears with my hands. I’ll plug them for let’s say 15 minutes, and I’ll unplug them to find out the vacuum stopped 10 minutes ago. But I SWEAR I heard that high pitched bastard through the whole 15 minutes. Another example: My parents snore in the room next to me, and they “are” right now. Both of my parents are at work and there’s no way that that’s what I’m hearing. BUT I HEAR IT. It’s 6:32 am and I’ve been fully sobbing for 5 hours because I can’t sleep. It’s like my ears are picking up any slight vibration and my brain is perceiving it as the snoring and it’s unnecessarily triggering me. Does this happen to anyone else? Even if I have my white noise machine AND fan on, it’s like my ears and brain are looking for this noise, like my brain is saying “THIS NOISE IS BEING MADE RN” and I can’t stop thinking about it until I actually hear it. Then I hear it and lose my absolute shit. Then I hear it long after it’s gone. I literally slept in the backyard yesterday because I was about to genuinely start screaming.