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I feel like I'm missing out on something here.

The most I've hallucinated while falling asleep is occasional swirly patterns. No sounds, ever. Maybe because I've had a tinnitus for as long as I can remember? (constant ~20kHz)

Likewise, nothing when waking up. Once every couple of months or so I "know" that I've been dreaming and at best can remember a person or object from the dream. After a few seconds even that is irretrievably gone.




You may not remember it.

The technical term for this sort of thing is hypnagogia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia); if you want to dig deeper, that's where to look. It's sort the sensory parallel to when you're just starting to fall asleep and suddenly your leg kicks and wakes you up. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk)

I've been on the edge of sleep and thought the gurgling noises from my radiator were mumbled speech outside my window.




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