I can't remember ever having hypnogogic hallucinations, but I've had a few extremely unpleasant hypnopompic experiences which sound very like yours.
I can only recall one auditory hallucination, during a ballet recital in my early teens, when I very clearly heard an adult voice near me saying, "Well, she's not very good!" I realized later that there was no one anywhere near me whose voice I could possibly have heard so loudly and clearly (not to mention, not many adults would so cheerfully trash a young girl in public). It's funny, because it's far from the most stressful situation I've been in, but apparently the only one where the conditions were exactly right to produce an auditory hallucination.
A very, very few times in my life I've had experiences which I conceptualize as hearing from God. These I don't experience as an external voice, but as, if this makes sense, an external thought -- a thought that comes very suddenly and directly into my mind and doesn't *feel* like it comes from me. Obviously, some part of my mind slightly different than my normal articulated thought process is involved; but because of my particular belief system, I do have some lingering sense that something not-me is also involved. Not in any way provable or necessary, of course, and it can easily be neurologically accounted for without a God-hypothesis. (For the record, on the very few occasions this has happened, it has been offering reassurance of a very deep kind.)
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Date: 2013-02-02 03:37 am (UTC)I can only recall one auditory hallucination, during a ballet recital in my early teens, when I very clearly heard an adult voice near me saying, "Well, she's not very good!" I realized later that there was no one anywhere near me whose voice I could possibly have heard so loudly and clearly (not to mention, not many adults would so cheerfully trash a young girl in public). It's funny, because it's far from the most stressful situation I've been in, but apparently the only one where the conditions were exactly right to produce an auditory hallucination.
A very, very few times in my life I've had experiences which I conceptualize as hearing from God. These I don't experience as an external voice, but as, if this makes sense, an external thought -- a thought that comes very suddenly and directly into my mind and doesn't *feel* like it comes from me. Obviously, some part of my mind slightly different than my normal articulated thought process is involved; but because of my particular belief system, I do have some lingering sense that something not-me is also involved. Not in any way provable or necessary, of course, and it can easily be neurologically accounted for without a God-hypothesis. (For the record, on the very few occasions this has happened, it has been offering reassurance of a very deep kind.)