From: janice@mailinator.com   
      
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   david@edenroad.demon.co.uk says...   
      
   >Hearing voices is not uncommon, but doesn't mean anything so long as you   
   >ignore them.  No-one really know why some people hear voices and,   
   >interestingly they're almost always male voices - the hypothesis is that   
   >the female voice is too complicated to synthesise.   
      
   Too complicated in what way?  Female voices have less variability in   
   pitch, tone and character than male voices, at least to my ear.  In any   
   case I hear both male and female hypnagogic voices, and both male and   
   female dream voices.  Some sound old, some sound young, their emotional   
   qualities vary, etc.  No synthesizing difficulties whatsoever.   
      
   To the original poster: there's nothing too unusual about hearing voices   
   when you're falling asleep.  I'd just advise not paying too much   
   attention to them because if you train your mind to it you may end up, as   
   I did, hearing them when you're awake as well, which can get annoying (as   
   well as get out of hand if you're ever in a bad emotional state).   
      
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