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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 77649" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Tinamarie, just to reassure you - rabbits COULD be responsible - when alarmed, they thump their hind feet, very fast and hard. Sometimes it's only an isolated thump - just one - or sometimes a rabbit will thump in a moderately rapid sequence. It's an alarm signal for them, it's to warn other rabbits to be alert, the thumping rabbit thinks there is danger. But a solitary rabbit will do it too. And it's a really hard thump, it can sound very loud and also sound like it's coming from somewhere else.</p><p>Our house is on a concrete slab, on sand, and yet if there is roadworks or any jackhammering within a couple of km we can feel the vibrations in the house - a rabbit thump will travel the same way, so if it is under your house, it will really resonate. You can even get the drumming sound 'reflected' from other solid objects which are more inclined to resonate - I've sat with drummers, holding a drum which I wasn't beating, yet I could feel my drum vibrating in sympathy with the others.</p><p></p><p>And the voice you've heard - it's a fairly common phenomenon when you first fall asleep. In fact, as we fall asleep we pass through several pre-sleep and then sleep phases of which we are unaware - if roused at that point, we would swear we had not been asleep, but brainwave measurements taken at the same time (commonly used in sleep studies) would argue differently. I've been woken in a similar manner by the phone ringing, desperate to get to the phone before husband gets woken by it, only to realise within a couple of seconds that the phone is NOT ringing after all. Blasted annoying, though - by that stage I'm wide awake, much more so than if I had merely thought someone had spoken to me.</p><p></p><p>While I'm not ruling out psychic phenomena, I believe that there are many more rational explanations than supernatural ones.</p><p></p><p>And at our place, the knocking on the door wouldn't be attributed to a rabbit, husband would be saying, "Get that blasted possum off the roof!" Although they don't knock, they just sound like the roof is being attacked by a herd of elephants.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 77649, member: 1991"] Tinamarie, just to reassure you - rabbits COULD be responsible - when alarmed, they thump their hind feet, very fast and hard. Sometimes it's only an isolated thump - just one - or sometimes a rabbit will thump in a moderately rapid sequence. It's an alarm signal for them, it's to warn other rabbits to be alert, the thumping rabbit thinks there is danger. But a solitary rabbit will do it too. And it's a really hard thump, it can sound very loud and also sound like it's coming from somewhere else. Our house is on a concrete slab, on sand, and yet if there is roadworks or any jackhammering within a couple of km we can feel the vibrations in the house - a rabbit thump will travel the same way, so if it is under your house, it will really resonate. You can even get the drumming sound 'reflected' from other solid objects which are more inclined to resonate - I've sat with drummers, holding a drum which I wasn't beating, yet I could feel my drum vibrating in sympathy with the others. And the voice you've heard - it's a fairly common phenomenon when you first fall asleep. In fact, as we fall asleep we pass through several pre-sleep and then sleep phases of which we are unaware - if roused at that point, we would swear we had not been asleep, but brainwave measurements taken at the same time (commonly used in sleep studies) would argue differently. I've been woken in a similar manner by the phone ringing, desperate to get to the phone before husband gets woken by it, only to realise within a couple of seconds that the phone is NOT ringing after all. Blasted annoying, though - by that stage I'm wide awake, much more so than if I had merely thought someone had spoken to me. While I'm not ruling out psychic phenomena, I believe that there are many more rational explanations than supernatural ones. And at our place, the knocking on the door wouldn't be attributed to a rabbit, husband would be saying, "Get that blasted possum off the roof!" Although they don't knock, they just sound like the roof is being attacked by a herd of elephants. Marg [/QUOTE]
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