Exploding Head Syndrome
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Sometimes. Once I felt like I got hit on the back of the head while sleeping. It would only happen if I slept in a certain position. Usually when I am sleepy I see a flashes like two eyes right in front of me.
Oooooh! That explains it a bit, I mostly get it if I start to fall asleep on the bus after schoolderelict said:
That's an irregular sleep rhythm, right?
I didn't know there was an actual term for this. And yes I do suffer from it every now and then. Infact, one realy scared the shit out of me not 3 weeks ago
i get that spinning feeling sometimes, i have also, a few times woken up because the air felt too thick, almost loud, if that is an accurate description, but in those cases i was not the only one in the house that felt it as well. i have experiences this syndrome, all the time in fact, although it does not distress me, usualy i hear a knocking, like on my window, but it's not possible. sure it's in my head. i also sometimes hear old console nintendo music, like someone is playing an old nintendo game downstairs as i am trying to fall asleep. these things do not distress me. i have also seen ghosts, and although startling, not really inducing any dread. i think of the noises, in whatever form they choose to be manifested as some sort of internal alarm, although i am a very light sleeper, and have been known to wake up because someone was looking at my door, yelled out what? and they would respond something along the lines of ... nothing, i was just looking at your door... strange? perhaps. frightening? no. hell, even as a child i used to have nightmares, and the nightmares themselves would console me, like one night: i was 4, i dreamt of a vaampire entering my room, looked like grandpa from the munsters. i was afraid, he put his arm around me, told me not to be afraid, gave me a toy of himself, and started talking... well shop... wierd. that same night my little brother had a dream that he was eaten by a big dog.arc101 said:
Yep, EHS is also related, either of them tend to happen during periods of sleep deprivation. Although, in people with normal sleeping patterns, you can usually deliberately cause hypnic jerk by sleeping on your back, gives you the feeling of falling through the bed.MrBacon said:Oooooh! That explains it a bit, I mostly get it if I start to fall asleep on the bus after schoolderelict said:
No, but sometimes, right as I'm falling asleep and my brain is still in that in between brain wave state, I have a dream where I'm running. As I'm running, really fast, too, I step into a hole. My body is actually convinced that I am running, then falling, and my stomach does that inertia thing where it seems to lurch. The sensation wakes me up, and I sit up in bed, panting from the exertion of running, and my heart is pounding. The dream is always exactly the same, and it's the most vivid dream I've ever had. When I wake up, it takes me a second to realise that I wasn't running, and remember that I had gone to bed.
There is a name for this, and it's not EHS. It's called a hypnic jerk. A hypnic jerk is your brain reacting to your body quickly falling into a state of rest. The brain gets confused and thinks that you aren't just going to sleep, but that you are dying. The response is a muscular spasm and a small shot of adrenaline.Amnestic said:
I also get this often.
