JB and I started hearing Felipe's voice at night when all is quiet and he is sleeping, did you ever experience something similar? For example, Felipe is on the computer right now next to JB and I am in another room with Jonah but it is like I can hear his voice complaining or giving trouble. I can even hear what he says! but in fact, he is very quiet in the computer. Am I going mad or this is just stress?
I think sometimes we are just so attuned to our children, we hear what we are expecting to hear. I've heard my daughter say "Mom" when she wasn't even at home! I'm always looking for her, even when I know she's visiting somewhere else, or if I'm at the store alone. It's just a "mommy" phenomenon, I think.
This may be related to stress. In our case we are not merely hearing Felipe, but hearing Felipe giving trouble in some way - maybe that is because it is a norm for him to be loud and arguing with us, so we may have made it synonymous with 'hearing' him - sad.
Last night I started dreaming about our interactions with Felipe and they were not positive because it envolved all the "Felipe please do not do that...". "Felipe stop doing that...", "Felipe you will hurt yourself if you do not get down from the table..." and... well you get the picture. It is exhausting. Sometimes I sit at the computer hoping to work and literally freeze, my eyes close and I sleep - I am so exhausted.