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_Lizard23_ said:..I And was awoken a further THREE times by the sound of someone saying my name, the one I introduce myself as (it's not my full name) in a strangely androgenous, calm but firm voice just by my right ear.
It definitely seemed to be coming from outside my head, a real voice, not a thought, and the intonation was exactly the sort you would use if you were trying to wake someone up quickly but without scaring them half to death...
I've had the same experience quite a few times, but mainly on falling asleep rather than waking. The voice is as you describe it, neither male or female, almost generic and is said, softly but firmly and coming from a place I would locate as next to my left ear.
I am in the habit, when falling asleep, of 'watching' my thoughts drift by without attaching any feeling or emotion to them, and as a result I get a lot of hypnogogic hallucinations, but they generally don't have sounds attached to them, and are, as far as I can make out, either completely mundane (staring at a bus stop), utterly nonsensical (dipping my finger into a jar labellled 'Ptweego') and very occasionally prophetic (seeing an old friend I then bump into the next day, or get a phonecall/email from).
I also used to hear a bell..it sounded like the triangle percussion instrument and would sound three times regularly. Not had that happen for a while, though I've got a sneaking suspicion that, were I to ask it to come back..it probably would...