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According to my research, no less than 50% of those surveyed have reported hearing similar voices at least once in their lives when falling asleep. Moreover, they remember hearing recognizable albeit imaginary voices. We’re not even taking into account that all of you have heard unreal sounds hundreds of times when falling asleep and upon awakening, but thought nothing of them, as you thought that they were real (assuming them to be neighbors talking or sounds from outside the window). This is all normal for when consciousness is fading out or coming back on again. (Goodman) ...I decided to lie down at about 2PM. About 2 minutes later, after I had just started lying in bed, I heard a voice. I somehow sensed that someone was sitting on the chair next to the couch... (Slider) ...Literally just seconds before I fell asleep, it was as if someone was calling me... Please note that I was not yet asleep. At first it was a normal “voice”... then it got bossier, and then it started ordering me about. And then it was as if something was pulling me into the bed... There is even a special technique for inducing such sounds and using them to exit the body. It is called the technique of listening in. There are many variations to it. They include trying to hear someone calling your name when you are falling asleep, and especially upon waking up. If you hear your name called, you can separate from the body. Practitioners usually set themselves goals other than meeting God. On the other hand Samuel received a clear order from his mentor to do just that: (“Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth.”) Now it’s time for the next two biblical passages. They are both very similar. For no less than a third of us they recall a completely familiar situation that we have found ourselves in at one time or another: sleep paralysis (sleep stupor,