Hearing Your Name Called When No One Is Around
Are you hearing your name called but no one is around? You might think you are making it all up or just hearing voices in your head. It can be confusing to understand what is going on. However, there is a good reason why you are hearing your name being called when no one is around.
You may hear your name being called when you are tapped into a different frequency and are using your intuitive senses to pick up on it.
You are picking up on energy that not everyone else can hear. You aren’t making it up or going crazy. You are just on a different frequency where you are able to receive messages from energies in a different dimension.
Hearing Your Name Called – You Are Clairaudient
If you are hearing your name being called when no one is around, you are clairaudient. This is one of the more common clair abilities.
Clairaudient means “clear hearing”. You are able to hear things that are not easily available in the 3D world. You can hear things from other dimensions and from different frequencies. You are tapping into a whole new frequency.
Even if you only hear your name once or twice, it is a sign that you do have these gifts.
We can all be psychic and develop our gifts stronger if we choose to. However, you are likely stronger in clairaudience as one of your more dominant abilities. It might be worth exploring this ability more if you want to.
Signs That You Are Clairaudient:
- You hear angelic music in your head.
- You have songs repeating in your head and they get “stuck” in your head.
- You hear voices when no one is visibly seen.
- You are a good listener.
- You prefer to listen to things more than reading, watching, etc.
- You get buzzing sounds in your ears (downloads).
- You hear details in conversations that other people miss.
- Music and different frequencies make you feel a certain way. They deeply touch your soul in a way that you can’t describe.
- You prefer to learn through listening.
- You are sensitive to noise and loud sounds bother you.
Hearing Your Name Called When No One Is Around
If you hear your name being called when no one is around, you are tapping into another frequency. In this frequency, you can hear things that you can’t in 3D.
You may hear from many people such as a deceased loved one, an earthbound spirit, a spirit guide, an angel, an off-worlder ET, your higher self, or even the astral realm.
Pay attention to how the voice feels. Does it feel safe and inviting or does it feel scary?
If it is safe and inviting, then communicate with it if you want to. Pay attention and notice if you recognize the voice. If it is scary then firmly ask it to leave.
Hearing Your Name Called When Falling Asleep
When you fall asleep you are in a state where you release resistance and open up to new energies more easily. During this state, it is much easier to tap into energies that are in a different dimension.
So, if you are hearing your name called while drifting off, it’s because you are more open to it then.
Someone is trying to get your attention by saying your name. This may be a deceased loved one, a spirit guide, an angel, someone from your soul family or star family, and really anyone that is on a different dimension and frequency.
They might just be popping in to say, “hi, I miss you and want you to know I’m here.” Or they might have a more specific message for you.
When this happens, try talking to them (even in your head as that is called telepathic communication.) Ask them who they are and what they are here for. Find out more if you are open to it.
You can also use your other intuitive senses to feel the energy of them. Do they feel familiar or like a stranger? Do they feel good or bad? Really tune into your intuition to find out more.
Hearing Your Name Called While Sleeping
If you hear your name being called while you are sleeping, you might have a hard time determining if it was a dream or real. You know you were sleeping but did it actually happen? Or maybe you woke up to the sound of someone saying your name.
At night, you are more open to spirit communication as you are more relaxed. This is when information can easily get through. Your mind isn’t blocking spirit communication while sleeping.
So, if you hear your name being called when sleeping, notice if the voice sounds familiar? Is it someone you know or don’t know?
Have a conversation with the voice if it feels comfortable to do so. Ask it what it wants. It showed up for a reason and is trying to get your attention for a reason.
If the voice scares you, ask it to leave. You are in charge. If you set boundaries and are firm it should leave.
A few years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night to someone saying, “Meghan” in a really raspy voice. I had no idea who it was. I didn’t know what to do back then and was very tired, so I just fell back asleep. I have not heard my name called since (although I’ve heard different sounds from spirit). It was a unique experience and during that time I was receiving a ton of spirit communication through other ways. This was just another way of communicating with me. I was staying at my boyfriend’s house so I also think it could have been someone he knew.
Pay attention to your surroundings when you hear your name called while sleeping. If you are in an unfamiliar place or at someone else’s, the spirit might be attached to the place you are staying. It might be a spirit that is around for the owners of the house or a past owner that has since passed on.
If you are staying in a hotel, it might be someone that passed there, they know the owners of the hotel, or they have a message for another guest staying there. Or it could be someone from your spiritual team or your soul family. There are endless possibilities of who it could be.
Hearing Your Name Called in Your Dreams
You might be someone who receives messages in your dreams. If you remember your dreams often and they are vivid, then that is one way you receive messages.
If you are hearing your name called in your dreams, then it’s really important to pay attention to those dreams.
As soon as you wake up, record your dreams and see what messages are in them for you. It’s helpful to go back to them later as well when you are more grounded to receive additional insights.
Your higher self and spiritual team communicate to you in your dreams. They might be saying your name to get your attention even though it appears to come from a different dream character.
Dreams are very symbolic, and the message will come through in the easiest way to get your attention while not scaring you.
For example, if your higher self appears in your dream and looks like you it might feel weird for you to get a message in that way.
Or if your spirit guide shows up as someone you don’t recognize, you might not trust the message as much because you don’t know who they are.
But if your mother shows up in your dream and says your name, it might not feel as scary because you talk to her often anyways. Your dreams get messages to you in the easiest, least resistant way possible.
Hearing Your Name Called Through a Telepathic Bond
You may hear your name as a way to receive a telepathic message from someone. Telepathy is a communication of the mind where no physical words are spoken. You may receive a message as a thought, or it may sound like someone is standing in front of you saying something.
You have these connections with people you are close to and who you spend the most time with. Anyone can be telepathic, and animals especially are really good at telepathy. This is how most animal communicators speak with animals.
Hearing your name may be someone thinking about you, talking about you, or trying to get your attention through telepathy. How clear the message comes through depends on the person sending it as well as the person receiving it. If you are more open to it, then messages can more easily come through.
Final Thoughts
You may hear your name being called for a variety of reasons when you see no one around. It might be someone coming in to say “hi” or one of your spirit helpers coming in to get your attention to something specific. It also might be your higher self communicating with you and guiding you.
One thing is certain, your intuitive senses are opening up. You wouldn’t be able to hear your name being called if they weren’t. You are tapping into a different frequency and may even be able to hear things that are on that frequency.
If you want, communicate with the being that is saying your name. Find out more if you can and use your intuitive senses to feel what is happening.
You can pick up so much more information when you are calm and peaceful. Tap into what is happening through your heart vs your head. Your head will try to analyze it, but your heart will be able to feel the messages in a way that your head can’t.
(Click here to watch on YouTube)
~Meghan
I work nights in my pistachio orchard irrigating the trees sometimes when its needed and one night I was flushing out the hoses on the end of a row with only the light of my headlamp illuminating the area. There was no moon so it was as dark as it gets all around except for right in front of me where the light was shining. Suddenly i heard something say my name very definitively in a raspy womans voice in the dark. It was incredibly frightning and gave me the feeling that i needed to get the hell out of there so i sealed off the irrigation line ran over to my car and left as fast as i possibly could. There was most certainly nobody out there but me and since then i have a much harder time working in that orchard at night. What do you think this could mean and what do you think it might have been?
Thanks for sharing. I hope you can get it figured out and find some peace while you work. I don’t know who it is or what it could have been. There could be so many possibilities of who and why.
You can ask the person who they are if you feel comfortable doing so and you can ask them to leave. Be assertive and tell them that you don’t want them there. Sometimes it’s as easy as letting spirit know that you don’t want them around. If they don’t leave you can try some protection techniques (there are many suggestions online), or go to a psychic medium who can communicate directly with the spirit to get more info and get it to leave.
105 OR 1=1
When I was a kid I often heard my Mom call my name and I’d get up and go to her and she’d say “I didn’t call you.” She also said the same thing happened to her as a child. I figure it’s pretty innocent, but I also had an unusual sleep routine. As I was trying to fall asleep, my mind would be hyper and I’d toss my head back and forth on my pillow. I would hear a multitude of undefinable male voices chatting/murmuring until I was almost asleep then one would shout my name clearly and kind of startle me. That was my cue I could then fall asleep in peace. I outgrew the pillow thing, but the voices carried on into young adulthood until I learned to reject it/control it and I no longer have these episodes. I’ve also had experiences like the previous gentleman where I would wake up or sometimes get certain feelings that was something was going to happen. Then I would get a call my favorite cousin was in an accident or such. My Aunt had a dream as a child that her Grandmother died, shortly before she did, with no preconceived notions. She was maybe 3 or 4. She believed it prepared her for the real event as she loved her greatly. I know a lot of stories like this but people don’t talk about them for fear of ridicule or worse. It’s a shame. Thanks for sharing this. It helped me feel better about my experiences.
Thanks for sharing. That is very interesting! It’s great that you’ve learned to control it. It sounds like these abilities are in your family line as well. Yes, there are many people who’ve had these experiences who don’t openly share them. I’m glad it helped 🙂
P.S. Sorry I didn’t reply sooner, I didn’t see this comment until today in my inbox.
Just weeks ago I lost a very close friend of mine and well somehow yesterday I’ve heard my voice but, I felt calm talked back and didn’t get a response to see if it was that person who spoked my name. So I guess I’ll learn and look into more.
I’m sorry to hear about your friend Gloria. Yes, absolutely keep practicing to get more information. It may come in when you are least expecting it. Blessings to you.
~Meghan
This evening, My 14 year old son left the house to go hang with a friend and it’s just my 7 year old son and I sitting in the living room watching a Christmas movie. About 15 – 20min later, I heard my 14 year old say, “Mom!” As if he were going to ask me something or tell me something. I just watched him walk out of the front door and I knew for certain he wasn’t home. I surely wasnt going to ask my 7 year old if he heard it, but my 7 year old looked over at me and says, “Did you just hear that?” I said, “Hear what?” He says, “I just heard my brother say Mom?” I looked at him and said, “Yes, I heard it too!” What does this mean? Why was my 7 year old able to hear it at the same time?
Hi Shauna,
My first thought is that it might be a telepathic connection. You will have these connections with people you are close to and who you spend the most time with. It may have been your son thinking of you or talking about you and both you and your other son might be in a telepathic bond with him to pick it up. Young children are more open and can receive a lot of information.
Think of it like a group chat where one person sends a message and everyone else in the group receives it.
I can’t say for sure this is what it is, but it is what popped into my intuition when I read your comment.
~Meghan
Thank you for your reply! Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
You’re welcome! Thanks and happy holidays to you as well 🙂
In my early 20s, I would hear my dad or my brother say my name as if they were standing beside me and we were on different sides of the state. It would always freak me out that I was hearing my name called. But then I also get feelings that something is gonna happen and it does. Last year I woke up with a heavy heart in the middle of the night and couldn’t stop crying so I hopped on Facebook and saw a notification that my aunt had passed away. Any insight to what this is would definitely be appreciated.
That’s very interesting Julie, I can see how that would freak you out. My thoughts are maybe that your dad and brother were thinking about you and you were picking up on their energy and perceiving it through sound.
Everyone picks up energy differently, some people see things, other people feel things, and some people hear things. Even if they weren’t necessarily speaking to you, your intuitive senses received it as sound. That is just one thought that popped into my head. See if it resonates with you.
To me, it sounds like you have a very strong intuition. So, you picked up on something happening while it was happening before anyone told you about it. You are very tuned into energies and it sounds like you are very connected to your family members as you pick up information from them.
If you don’t want to pick up on these things, you can set the intention to do that and ask your spirit guides for help. You can put colors around your aura to protect you from other people’s energy (whatever color feels right to you) and imagine a wall or some sort of shield between you and them. I know people who have completely shut off their psychic senses because of the information they were getting. It’s a choice that is completely up to you what you want to do with it. Intention is powerful.
If you’d like to explore it more, you can practice tuning into different energy and opening up your senses even more. I find practice helps because it gives you more control over when intuitive information comes in. Classes and workshops are helpful for practicing with other people who are interested in these things as well. I’ve taken many workshops in my local community that were very beneficial and helped me to understand these abilities much better as well as develop them further.
See what feels right for you and what you’d like to do. I hope this helps.
~Meghan
I have been hearing my name called my entire life I am now 57. I always knew the voice, last night Oct. 14,2022 I let my pups out and I heard someone call my name…..it sounded male, and I did not recognize it. I am fairly new on my awakening journey so perhaps it is connected to that.
Very interesting Shelley! It absolutely could be connected to that.
My first thought is that the name you don’t know could perhaps be a new spirit guide coming in. We all have spirit guides. Our main one is with us our entire lives but other ones can pop in and out depending on where you are on your journey and what you need at that time. Since you said you are new to the awakening journey, maybe he is here to help you with that.
Or possibly you are opening up your clairaudient abilities even more and hearing an earthbound spirit or even someone from your soul family.
Those are just a few thoughts, but see what resonates with you. If you feel comfortable you could even try speaking with it.
As a child when sleeping I would hear my name called. It sounded like my mother (she was alive at that time). Now, to this day, my named called is by many voices, some familiar, some not, but I am comfortable with the sound. Today, I am frequently hearing a faint voice calling my name and I am awake. Like you mentioned, I have sometimes asked not to call my name when sleeping, as it wakes me up.
That is so interesting Maureen! Yes, you are allowed to set those boundaries. If it’s a benevolent spirit (which it sounds like it is) it will respect your wishes to not wake you up.