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Right - I don't think I'm losing it or anything, but I could swear someone has just whispered my name in my ear.

There is NOBODY around me right now who could have done it - the office is pretty busy but nobody is close enough. This has happened before when I was alone. Just the once, my name. In my ear.

I'm starting to become afraid of hearing it again, in fact i'm working myself up into a bit of a frenzy here. What if it happens again???

― psswhisspsss, Monday, 24 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Excessive Ying Yang Twins listening will do that to ya.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but I have a name that sounds like lots of things that people do randomly say. (The number of times someone has said "OK" and I thought it was my name...)

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

I always hear my name. Any old grunt sounds like "Beth." As far as hearing odd whispers, if it doesn't keep happening I'd chalk it up to a neurological hiccup. It has happened to me, too.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't worry, most likely a ghost mucking around with you.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad I'm not alone in this.

I was beginning to think I was being contacted from Beyond The Grave.

― psswhisspsss, Monday, 24 October 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

When I'm trying to fall asleep I often hear my name, usually as voiced by one of my parents. The weird thing is that their voices are so much more REAL than if my conscious memory was supplying them, it really sounds like my mom is in the room or whatev. It does make me really tense, though.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Aaargh!!! X-POST!!!! Too Spooky!

― psswhisspsss, Monday, 24 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

This could really drive a person crazy. Damn Mind Tricks!

― psswhisspsss, Monday, 24 October 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

As long as they don't tell you to k1LL the pr3z1d3nt.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

If you think that's weird, wait until you're way out, a dozen miles from nowhere, all alone and you hear the song of the Lorelei coming from the river. (It sounds a lot like the theme to the original Star Trek on tv.)

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

That's just the theremin-playing hobo jungle down by the railroad tracks.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

...and then my mind spilt open (squall of feedback)

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

i reckon it happens more often if you're tired?

nah don't worry. sound can play tricks with the mind at any time.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Of course, all of the answers on this thread could be a very well coordinated response to a social experiment where we observe your actions. And maybe this message is just to make you wonder more about if you're being watched, to see how you react. maybe.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.elca.org/assembly/03/images/cwa_davey_goliath.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1007241/photo_03_hires.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I used to have a record that whispered "Fuck off G3rry" to me, but only when listened to with headphones.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Excessive Ying Yang Twins listening will do that to ya

Haha. After your name, did the voice whisper "I'm gonna beat that cat witha dog"?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

trailer trash by modest mouse, has this bit where someone shouts "you're all fake", and I always think it's my dad shouting up to me.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 24 October 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I always think movie cell phones are really ringing in my living room. I always look around.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 24 October 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

You should see what my dog does anytime a doorbell rings on television.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 24 October 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Ooo, Laurel, I get that too! Also when randomly walking around. I'm not sure if it's an actual sound that's accidentally touching off some instinctive parent-calling-you sensor, or whether it's totally internal, but geez, yeah.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 October 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

If it isn't obvious enough, this is very much what spirit contact is like.

― Ze Fred, Monday, 24 October 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

That's just the theremin-playing hobo jungle down by the railroad tracks.
-- Beth Parker

Rach actually rang me at work to say her theremin was talking to her a few weeks ago. I came home to check if she was insane - and I heard the voices too! Turns out the theremin was picking up a talk radio station.

― moley, Monday, 24 October 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Has this ever happened to you: opening a bottle of beer and you shatter the glass somehow, causing the entire neck off the bottle to break off? btw I am weak as a clam

― Walter Melon (Abbott), Friday, 30 April 2010 00:52 (sixteen years ago)

wait, that may not be the best simile

― Walter Melon (Abbott), Friday, 30 April 2010 05:50 (sixteen years ago)

The record player I used as a teenager picked up Armed Forces Radio once. There was no radio or anything with a radio attached to it at the time.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 30 April 2010 06:23 (sixteen years ago)

my boombox used to pick up airplane chatter when I switched on the FM radio on and turned the dial all the way to the right. when I turned it all the way to the left, it picked up a TV broadcast (ABC, I think).

― screamin' lord sufj (unregistered), Friday, 30 April 2010 06:29 (sixteen years ago)

computer speakers picking up radio transmissions is a common phenomenon, Christine, so maybe your record player was acting on the same mechanism, i.e. the wiring was acting as an antenna.

― screamin' lord sufj (unregistered), Friday, 30 April 2010 06:31 (sixteen years ago)

That's what I figured was happening.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 30 April 2010 06:39 (sixteen years ago)

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