I have vague childhood memories of hearing my name called by a 'phantom voice' - especially when drifting off to sleep, and at least once when sitting upright in a sort of bored reverie.
The single most striking (to me) instance occurred when I was approximately 21 years old in my college dormitory room. My roommate was gone, and I'd just gotten into bed. Having been working long hours, I was 'wired' and having trouble drifting off.
I was lying on my side, facing the wall my bed abutted and with my back to the open center area of the relatively large room.
I heard a female voice (woman; circa 20's to 40's in age; no specific similarity to any familiar voice) call my name 3 times with 2 to 5 second intervals between each call - each time with a bit more emphasis or urgency. It sounded exactly like a woman trying to wake me up. I got up, checked the room and the hallway outside, only to find nothing.
I lay back down ... I was awake now, fretting about how 'wired' I really was, still lying on my side facing the wall. I'd assumed this first voice event was a 'near-sleep auditory hallucination', but it still bothered me to the point of knowing I wasn't going to drift off to sleep anytime soon ...
Once again, from behind me (apparently a few feet - out in the center of the room) the same voice called my name 3 times with increasing emphasis / urgency. This time I had no doubt I'd been wide awake (I distinctly recalled having been staring at the wall in the moment....). I got up quickly from the bed, checked the hallway first, then minutely examined the room - including looking for a hidden walkie-talkie or some other prank apparatus... Nothing ...
Back to bed ... Back to staring at the wall ... Then a third time the voice called my name. *This* time, however, it called only twice. At the moment the prior pattern indicated the third call should have come, I felt a hand gently grasp my shoulder and give it a shake. My eyes were wide awake at the time, and I was far from sleep. I distinctly felt the individual fingers' pressure points on the back of my shoulder ...
This time I literally sprang out of bed ... Another thorough search showed no one around and no sign of pranking ... Needless to say, I didn't go to sleep for a looooooooong time after that ...
On a not-totally-tangential note ... I've known many people who report perceiving a bright flash of light at the point they 'slide off the edge' into sleep - the same point at which a bedmate typically notices a single 'spasm' or 'jerk'. With me, it's a loud percussive *sound* - never a light. I've compared it to (e.g.) someone dropping a massive book on a marble floor or the 'cannon boom' accent sound in Simon and Garfunkel's _The Boxer_. I've never found anyone else who claimed to experience a sound rather than a light ... I wonder if I'm somehow 'more auditory' at the edge of sleep, and hence more prone to hearing phantom voices ...