A confused mother was diagnosed with a brain tumour after she reported hearing music for two years that did not exist.
Dawn Clark, 49, thought she was losing her mind when she kept getting spooked by the noises - which sounded like someone had switched on a radio or television.
Doctors initially thought the mother of three had an inner ear disorder, but a later MRI scan revealed she had a brain tumour.
Ms Clark completed two risky operations and radiotherapy to halt the tumour's progress and said it was a relief she could continue with her life.
Dawn Clark (pictured), 49, thought she was losing her mind when she kept getting spooked by the noises - which sounded like someone had switched on a radio or television
She said: 'The tumour will always be in the back of my mind, but I don't think about it so much and I can get on with my life.'
Ms Clark, from Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire., said she first realised something was wrong in December, when the strange sounds began to appear in her head.
She said: 'I heard music and thought it was the radio. When I went to turn it off, I saw that it had not been on in the first place.
'I could still hear it, so I asked my daughter if she was playing music, but she wasn't. I thought I was losing my mind.
'Every three months, I would hear imaginary music or the television. These episodes went on for two years and they really frightened me.'
Her GP first thought the sounds may have resulted from Meniere's disease, an inner ear condition that can cause vertigo, dizziness and hearing loss.
She was referred to the ear, nose and throat department at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in December 2013. But a later MRI scan revealed a shadow on her brain.
She had another scan on December 23, 2013, and the following day, a specialist broke the news to her she had a brain tumour.
Ms Clark said: 'They said it was a low-grade glioma, which was quite deep. They said they could take most, but not all, of it out.
'There was a 20 per cent
