I think I’m having auditory hallucinations...

Swear to god it isn’t the neighbors it’s 5am and it keeps stopping when I go into my hallway which is where it sounds like it’s coming from.

It's called musical ear. It happens to me a lot.

They’re like 85 years old they’re always asleep. I’m worried it might have something to do with my bipolar or something? Shit is fucking weird. It’s happened once before months ago, but then it was clearly voices. This is just fucking bizarre.

Why arnt you asleep? How much sleep have you been getting? Hallucinations are normal, huge proportions of the population have small hallucinations like you're describing. Everyone hallucinates if they dont sleep/are stressed enough/sick enough

At least I’m not alone I guess. Shit is weird.

I’ve been awake for like maybe 24 hours. Maybe that’s it. I’m googling the musical ear shit and it sounds like maybe it’s that. Incredibly unsettling though.

If it's quiet and I have a fan running I can hear shit like a opera going on but not very clearly it's interesting

You're in an apartment. That means theoretically, noise from outside could be propagating in. Considering the time and where you live, its possible you're hearing music from somewhere else. don't get too paranoid buddy...

hearinglosshelp.com/blog/musical-ear-syndrome-in-people-with-normal-hearing/

I’m probably just freaking out and it’s probably the musical ear. Maybe I’ll just go for a walk and get a coffee or something. Thanks for the help guys.

could also be from the floor above/below

AM radio on the power lines coming through your fan motor/transformer

smart answer damn

I've done this before stay in a Pitch black room for 3 days. Yes your mind will play games and you have hallucinations.

You can look up more online how about staying in a black room for more than 24 hours and what it will do.

I thought about that too. I just don’t get why it stops when I get up to try and find the source.

Perhaps it's the location? Like you can ONLY hear it laying in bed? or on the computer? The AM radio from power lines coming in through electronics is an interesting answer. Perhaps flip the breakers in your apt. and see if that changes anything?

i love that you give actual solutions

It probably wouldn't change anything. It could be the spot ur laying in is reflecting or focusing the radio waves just right. If you have am coming through a guitar amp, moving around or turning can make it go away. You could try moving the fan and then going back to your laying spot and see if it goes away. Listen to your pipes too, maybe two doors down somebody is blasting some Beethoven.

Maybe? I have an electrical outlet next to my bed and a pretty big metal lamp plugged into it. I tried unplugging it and it didn’t do jack. I’d flip the breakers, but to be totally honest with you I’m staying in someone else’s apartment and I have zero clue where the box is.

Some neighbor that has left a radio on.

You could look at a map of radio transmitters and see if any strong ones are close, then listen to their feed on the internet and see if it's the same shit you're hearing.

If you sit in the hallway for 10 minutes, does the noise come in? How about laying on the ground? If you can isolate it to a room(s), to when you're standing, sitting or laying down, that can be useful. If you're sitting absolutely still for like 5 minutes in another room and you can't hear it, but you come back into the room you hear it in, sit down and hear it, then there is definitely something you're hearing and it's not in your head.

I got up and got a snack and juice and came back and I still hear it. It seems like it’s localized to near my bed, but only when the fan is facing me. If I move the fan it moves the direction of the sound so I think it was the fan. When I turn it off it seems to either stop or get really quiet. I think possibly the fan is somehow getting a nearby radio tower. It’s gotta be either that or the musical ear syndrome.

if you put the fan in the other room and you can't hear it, it's the fan. This was a fascinating thread and I'm glad I read it. Didn't know AM signals could go through power lines and be heard through stuff like an electric fan, etc. It makes sense, but I figured you'd need an amplifier/electronic device of some sort to hear it, not just copper windings but considering they make crystal radios which are pretty much exactly that, it makes sense when you think about it.

This is a common phenomenon. It has to do with our brains desire to organize random things into patterns. White noise tends to do this easily for whatever reason, so your brain will organize it into music. It’s happened to me my entire life. It’s weird as shit, but harmless. You aren’t crazy.

Yeah it doesn’t seem to be happening If I put it in another room. It must be picking something up. That was some bizarro shit, but definitely interesting

Learn to read the thread you god damn mother fucking faggot piece of shit head mother fuck.

and to think if I didn't post in this thread, OP would have left thinking he was fucked in the head or had some disorder.

No u

welcome to the world OP.
nothin left to do but go schitz

Audio apophenia. Welcome to the hearing loss club. What?
>or maybe it IS the jooz

It's the fan. Shitty motors or transformers or leaky capacitors in the device can create an amplifying oscillation and if that oscillation is near the frequency of a nearby radio station, you're going to hear it from the windings of the inductors.