non-PAP-related clicking disturbing my sleep

But, if it's not coming from the machine.......you're on your own...... Spooks?


Den

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There is a tool available that mechanics use to track down sounds in engines. It is called a "mechanic stethoscope" and I see one at harbor freight for 3 bucks. They use it to locate sounds with a probe. Perhaps this tool will help you locate the source of the sound as it is happening.

It's the aliens waiting for you to fall to sleep.

Or if you're a Doctor Who fan, you're hearing The Silence. Carry a marker and draw a line on your forearm whenever you see one.

Freddy Krueger?

Try timing the time between clicks. How long is it between clicks? Is the timing constant?

If they're frequent enough, try standing by the bed and seeing if you hear it.

Do you have a backup battery in the room somewhere?

Try listening in the morning before you get up and see if the noise is still there. Is it only shortly after you go to bed?

Your impression of where noises like this come from is often drastically wrong. Both that it's hard to locate, and also that once your mind thinks it's in one place, your mind thinks it's coming from there. Try sleeping with your head at the other end of the bed.

Some things to try as an experiment. Some are just "stabs in the dark":

Try raising or lowering the temperature in the room as a test. Turn off the heater/air conditioning for an hour or two before bedtime. Do you turn the heat up or down before bed? This sounds a bit like what happens when something cools down or heats up and changes length or shape.

Try not running any water, especially hot water, for a few hours and see if that makes a difference. Sometimes the pipes heat up or cool down and creep. Check for water drips. Be sure the valve that turns the shower on is off.

The valves in toilets sometimes do strange things. You might try shutting off the water valve and flushing it and seeing if the water goes away.

Go to the electrical breaker panel and turn off all the breakers or at least the ones in the area of your room, and the heat/air conditioning.

Is there anything like an air mattress in the bed? Something that would build up air pressure when you lie down and slowly creep downward as the air leaks out? Anything else in the room that holds air? What kind of bed and mattress?

Put the humidifier in another room and do without it for one night. Take the whole CPAP into another room and go listen long enough to be sure the noise is still there.

Is there any chance it's you? Some joint popping, etc. I'll occasionally get some sort of ticking noise as my sinuses clear out, etc. Could you be relaxing or tensing and making something in or on your body click?

Try not turning on any lights or using the nearby bathroom for an hour or two before bed.

Try lying down in the bedroom in the middle of the day some time and going through the same motions.

You might try getting a noisy clock that ticks all the time and see if that will make your brain forget about the one infrequent click.

Spiders - all jokes aside here in NZ anyways, we have spiders that make a ticking noise that you often hear while lying awake. Well that's what we were told. I am just going to google it to be sure.

Well I have just learnt something - it is actually the humble book louse and no scary spider after all. Read on below -

http://www.amentsoc.org/insects/fact-fi ... ptera.html

"Booklice are wingless and are much smaller than barklice (less than 2 mm). They are most commonly found in human dwellings and warehouses. Many of them are in the family Trogiidae. Most booklice species feed on stored grain, book bindings, wallpaper paste and other starchy products, and on the minute traces of mould found in old books. They can sometimes cause damage to stored museum collections of insects and plants. A few, such as Liposcelis decolor, can be a pest in grain stores.

Indoor living Psocoptera have poor eyesight, and some of them seem to communicate using sound. Such species tap with the end of their abdomens and produce a faint ticking noise, so they have been called 'ticking spiders'. Liposcelis divinatorius is one example of a 'ticking spider' - although of course it is an insect, not a spider!"

Maybe this is the answer to your clicking SleepingUgly - not worth losing any more sleep over one of those little things and it won't be worth your while trying to find the culprit either. Amazing that something so small can make a noise so audible.

Termites, ants, mouse, bees. Those are my guesses.

Do you have a smoke detector near by or anything that uses a battery back up, alarm clock ? Sometimes on items like this, when the battery is going dead, it will making a clicking sound. I had a smoke detector do that to me once, drove me nuts till I figured out what it was.

This is going to sound really weird, but maybe it will be the answer - as I had a problem with 'clicking' too. It always sounded like it was coming from my nightstand - but it wasn't. What I found was that it was my nasal pillow clicking - I don't know why it was clicking, but when I changed it out, the clicking stopped. It's happened once since then, again, I changed the pillow and it stopped. You wear the same mask I do, so my suggestion is to change your nasal pillow to see if there is a difference.

SleepingUgly wrote:

Dreamrobot wrote:Can you record it? This a case for sherlock hose

I don't know about that... I've got literally 3 noise machines and a fan on, and yet, I can still friggin' hear it! I'm like the Princess and the Pea! I think if I tried to record it, you'd mostly just hear white noise...

If it is a regular or cyclical click noise, it could be the fan.

Maybe you have one of those peeping San Bushman at your window when you go to bed?

Do the clicking noises sound like those in the YouTube video below? ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c246fZ-7z1w

I would say it's a baseboard heater powering down... mine do the same thing (drives me crazy!).

Thanks for all the ideas, folks! I will definitely consider them.

Just a few thoughts that come to mind......If you are in a warm climate it could be the night cooling of the rain gutters. They can make a ticking sound as they cool. How about dripping from the gutters? Is your window open at night?

SleepingUgly wrote:I will definitely consider them.

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Veronica
My father in law was in the army, Vietnam era radar operator. He ran into the Greys during that period. Then he married and had little boy — my husband. They were there through my husband’s childhood, his two previous marriages and are now still with us and our 2 children. The abduction phenomena has not bothered me for eleven years, but all of sudden the frequency has increased, we have more needle marks on our bodies, burn marks and my 5 yr old has been implanted on the top of her scalp. I hear them making loud clicking sounds at night and talking to my girl in her room. My dog follows them around the house all night and sleeps all day. Why has the activity suddenly picked up? Used to have “weird nights” once a month, now it’s several times a week. Any ideas?

March 29, 2012 at 11:52 am

While in college, I rented a room in a very old house.
At night I would be awakened by the continual scraping and chewing of large cockroaches eating the wallpaper.
I moved.

carbonman wrote: The truth is out there.

I think we're starting to get to the truth of the matter carbonman.

I just found the following post on the Alien Abduction Help Forum ... http://alienabductionhelp.com/phpBB3/vi ... 86dc#p1201

That clicking sound could have been star people talking to you. It can sound like clicking noises and high-pitched screeches. Maybe it is because they are existing in a higher frequency than we normally do. Most of the time, they communicate telepathically (inside the head) but they sometimes speak with their screeches , beeps, and clicks. It's interesting, because they can sound a bit like dolphins and some of them even have thick "rubbery" skin like dolphins do.

SU ... are the clicking sounds a bit like what dolphins make?

Yeah, before we go looking for extraterrestrial causes let's rule out the more common. I experienced what you describe a few years ago. It turned out to be a carpenter bee setting up residence in the facia board outside the bedroom. Does the click have any sort of repeatable frequency? Does it correspond in any way with your breathing pattern? I am guessing not since you seem to think it is non-PAP related. My best guess is some sort of insect chewing on your house. If it is hindering your sleep maybe have an exterminator have a look see?