Exploding Head Syndrome

[theunreliablecritic]

only on tuesdays in march if i`m in a good mood...(i.e. nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo)

 

[Doktor Merkwurdigliebe]

I personally think that the only acceptable expression after reading OPs' post would be "lolwut".

 

[p3t3r]

i don't think it ever happ-BOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!

 

[ZeroMachine]

... Huh. There's a name for it and everything?

I mean, it's only happened to me like three times that I can remember, but it has happened. Interesting.

Sometimes, not often. Once or twice it was even a voice speaking to me. That was weird.

When I'm nodding off I'll generally jerk awake, but there's no noise. Just an instinctive reaction that I'm not allowed to go to sleep yet.

That's a myclonic jerk, and you're exactly right. It's the brain sending a small shockwave through your body to try and wake it up because part of it misinterprets you falling asleep for death. It's nothing to worry about, though, unless it happens when you're not falling asleep or very tired.

 

[arc101]

I get it quote a lot. I also have chronic vertigo. When i lay down, at times i get a sensation of spinning whilst i am stationary in my bed, like you get after spinning around for 20 minutes. I found this more unsettling that the Exploding head

 

[WinkyTheGreat]

I've had it happen maybe twice in my life. Considering that I'm nearly 22, it's not a common occurrence.

 

[Voodoomancer]

Not really. But my hearing seems to get like 75% better when I'm about to fall asleep. Doesn't keep me from falling asleep though, but it's a good warning to shake my head and not fall asleep in the middle of a lecture/wedding/funeral/etc.

When i lay down, at times i get a sensation of spinning whilst i am stationary in my bed, like you get after spinning around for 20 minutes.

Yeah, I get that too. I'm about to fall asleep, and then it's like I'm parachuting in my bed, weird (and fun too, IMO, wheeeee)

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Do you suffer from it?

E.H.S occurs usually when you are just abot to nod off to sleep.

The sufferer experiences a sudden loud noise of some sort seemingly originating from within their own head. Sometimes there is a visual jolt as well. They are nearly always harmless, but distressing and shocking.

I get it sometimes, when I'm just about to drop off to sleep. If I'm daydreaming and there's a noise in my daydream, it might suddenly explode in volume for a split second, frightening the hell out of me.

Do you get this as well?

A guy I met in a recovery room last time I was in hospital told me he gets this. He told me the doctors told him it was due to electrical charges building up in his brain and then discharging as he was entering sleep.

 

[Gardenia]

Not as serious as this, but I have felt as though I were being shocked sometimes... And if I fall in my dream, I often wake to myself giving a MASSIVE jolt.

Me too! It's always preceded by a dream where I suddenly, and with no warning fall through the floor and smack back in my own bed. The transition is seamless, and had it not been for the outrageous nature of my dreams, I would have had trouble telling if I had been dreaming or not.

 

[Lenny Magic]

I used to get the feeling of falling before falling asleep, or when I dreamt of falling. It was just scary, and I really get uncomfortable around balcony now.

I don't get it any more, but strangely I don't appear in my dreams any more, perhaps I died to much...

 

[JoshFTL]

Yeah I get this quite often, its usually a VERY loud digital-like explosion noise. Its rather annoying but somehow cool at the same time.

 

[derelict]

Not as serious as this, but I have felt as though I were being shocked sometimes... And if I fall in my dream, I often wake to myself giving a MASSIVE jolt.

That's known as hypnagogic jerk. Lookie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogic_jerk

EHS is technically a syndrome, but it can be on random case too, and is related to the hypnic jerk.

 

[orangebandguy]

Yes I get them alot, it's like a wierd dream that's not quite a dream yet and then it ends like that. It's usually a sudden or violent motion that triggers it for me. we were going over dreams yesterday in philosophy but I couldn't quite explain it.

 

[Fniff]

I often get a sound or a song stuck in my head.

The noise helps,or a minor injection of Duck Tales.

 

[IronDuke]

Brain all over my helmet man... I can't begin to describe the adverse effect it's had on my sex life as well.

R.I.P Sarah.

 

[Ryuk2]

I don't have it, but i remember hearing it 2 times when i was 10 and 12 years old.

 

[A random person]

I think I may have had volume increases while daydreaming, so maybe. Otherwise, though, I sleep rather soundly.

Spoiler: And unfortunately (or fortunately), it has nothing to do with this:

 

[Monocle Man]

Sounds useful for Monday mornings, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Friday afternoons.

I've never experienced such a thing, to be honest.

 

[DisturbiaWolf13]

Yeah, scary as hell occasionally.Not to mention annoying.