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Question about auditory hallucinations

Ok so I posted this in the bipolar board too. (Bipolar 1 with psychosis) I was diagnosed with PTSD as well about a year and a half ago.
Here's what's going on.... for months and months I can't take a nap because a voice always wakes me up. It's almost like sleep paralysis, only when I sit up, the voice still goes on for a second. It's always saying my name. A couple of times it screamed my name. Sounded like it was right beside my head. Very loud. Sometimes it includes "wake up", and once it said "you're gonna die.
So does anyone else experience this? What the fuck is it? It's driving me up the fucking wall. Some kind of weird sleep paralysis, auditory hallucination, or do I need to call the Ghostbusters? (1-800-555-BUST)
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.

S0rt as you can.
I treat my auditory hallucinations like mini-flashbacks. Some folks call the variety which come when you are on the verge of sleep, "Night Terrors." Whatever name works best for you, mine come in sprees. One leads to another and another. . . I sleep with a talisman when I am going through a spree of them. A talisman I just a little doodad that is familiar enough to penetrate a sleep fog. When the hallucination hits, I use the talisman for grounding exercises to get me past the side effects of the gnarly wake up. When I first started using this technique, it took me several tries to remember to do the exercises instead of jolting awake in full combat-readiness stance as I had always done.
Gentle support while you find what works for you.
I have no clue,
It's just so fucking annoying when I haven't slept for days, or have barely gotten any sleep and some dumbass voice wakes me up.
My life has been threatened, but not "you're gonna die", it was "if you tell anyone I know where you sleep...". And sometimes I hear loud shoes in the kitchen, that could be tied to something.
But this voice is one I've never heard. It's the same one every damn time, I have no clue.
Arfie- I have a talisman too. I just constantly lose it. I'm good at that.
I would vote for the preventative, too, but I believe that ship has already sailed and brain surgery isn't that far advanced yet. Working with today's hard facts. . .
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Sleep Hallucinations – Overview & Facts
Sleep related hallucinations are a parasomnia. A parasomnia involves undesired events that come along with sleep. Sleep related hallucinations are imagined events that seem very real. They are mainly visual. They may also involve your senses of sound, touch, taste and smell. They may even involve a sense of motion.
It is easy to confuse them with a state of dreaming. You may not be sure if you are awake or asleep. They may be similar to nightmares. But when you wake up from a nightmare, you are aware that it occurred while you were asleep. It is clearly recognized as a dream. It is not thought to be real.
They generally occur at one of the two following times:
As you are about to fall asleep (hypnagogic)
As you are just waking up (hypnopompic)
If they occur during the day, then they may be sign of narcolepsy. People with narcolepsy may have daytime episodes of the following:
Sleep attacks
Sleep paralysis
Hypnagogic hallucinations