I hear distant music in the middle of the night

[Anonymous]

Does this happen to anyone else? Occasionally in the middle of the night (between 1 and 4am) I can't go back to sleep because I hear distant music that sounds like it comes from a boombox or blaring car radio or radio playing in an upstairs neighbor's apartment. We live in a SFH and while our neighbors are close, they are an 80yo woman and a single mom and her 10yo daughter. My husband is asleep and in any case his hearing isn't that sensitive so I'm not sure he'd be able to hear it. Last night at 3:30 am I walked around the house to figure out where it was coming from and couldn't hear it from any other room. It sounded like new age spa music. I'm breastfeeding a 4mo baby who
likes to cluster feed so I haven't slept more than four hours in a row for a long time.

The weird thing is, I've heard the distant music at our old apartment, back when I was pregnant. There it sounded like classic rock.

Am I going psychotic due to sleep deprivation?

[Anonymous]

No just paranoid. Sometimes distant music is just distant music.

Though once this happened to me and it took me weeks to realize a radio was on, on low volume.

[Anonymous]

You might be a cylon!

[Anonymous]

I would check clock radios or see if you mistakenly set an alarm on your iPhone or something like that. While I don't hear music, I don't think it's unusual for you to hear something that's actually in your head. Unless, of course, it's pronounced to the point that toucan identify the tune. That would seem unusual.

[Anonymous]

Could it be your iphone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might be a cylon!

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I feel like I hear music too but when I check it out it's just some normal house humming noises (heater/AC).. I think my brain just tries to make sense of the noise and turns it into something familiar like music.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No just paranoid. Sometimes distant music is just distant music.

Though once this happened to me and it took me weeks to realize a radio was on, on low volume.

Lmao!!!

[Anonymous]

Do you live near warehouses that have underground raves

[Anonymous]

I get this sometimes, too, OP. We live out in the country so it's got to be in my head. Sometimes it sounds like someone's driving down our road with the woofers blaring, but when I look out the window all is quiet. I just figure I'm slowly going batty.

[Anonymous]

This sounds like a really nice problem to have. Enjoy your baby and your mystery music. Hope you can get more sleep soon!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might be a cylon!

Yes, do you have a twin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I feel like I hear music too but when I check it out it's just some normal house humming noises (heater/AC).. I think my brain just tries to make sense of the noise and turns it into something familiar like music.

Yes, same here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I feel like I hear music too but when I check it out it's just some normal house humming noises (heater/AC).. I think my brain just tries to make sense of the noise and turns it into something familiar like music.

Yes, same here.

Me three! I think our brains focus on the rhythmic patterns of the noise and immediately equate it to music.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I feel like I hear music too but when I check it out it's just some normal house humming noises (heater/AC).. I think my brain just tries to make sense of the noise and turns it into something familiar like music.

Yes, same here.

Me three! I think our brains focus on the rhythmic patterns of the noise and immediately equate it to music.

I feel like I hear a radio deejay talking when I lay my head down at night. Sometimes it's just the way DH is breathing through his nose, but sometimes I still can't shake it. So strange. So I sorta know what you mean.

I also think my breast pumps is talking when I'm pumping so I think the sleep deprivation really makes your reality a little skewd.