cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2659121
It’ll be awkward when they discover a new syndrome where your head explodes and the name’s already taken.
Sometimes sound, sometimes an impact. Either way it’s pretty disruptive. I thought this was very common.
Yes, I get the sound version but it’s more likely for me to just be walking in a dream, fall flat on my face, and wake up. But it’s more jarring than it should be.
Apparently it’s more common in people with sleep paralysis, which I have.
The falling thing is a hypnic jerk. I get both too though the nose one tends to be rare and more often when I’m sick.
Hmmm, never really thought about this, but I have this happen every now and then. From what I remember it sounds like a sudden snap or click, but I don’t have concrete memory of the sound. Also with a bright flash of light. Just a sudden sensory spike. I don’t have good memories of it, because it usually happens just when I really start falling asleep and at that point memory usually isn’t working well. It’s also often accompanied with my muscles suddenly activating, basically jolting me awake. Heart rate spikes as well, but I cannot really remember any instance where it was more than a small nuisance. I always assumed that it was just a bit of a race condition in the transition to the deeper sleep state
Maybe time to write an issue to the development team for the brain OS :p
Wow! Now I have a cool name to this phenomenon. Doesn’t happen every night and there are also times I can ignore it because it’s typically not scary, just disruptive. I also see the flashes of light and that can be scary sometimes. I’ll think somebody tried to come in while I’m sleeping or that a nuclear bomb just went off. Or that a cosmic ray hit my eyeball.
Now, is there a phenomenon about seeing random faces in my head while falling asleep as well?
I used to have all this as a chronic weed user, if you’re the same maybe try stopping and see if they go away. The only one I still have is the flashing lights, but it’s rarer.
I’ve had this! Idk why they’d call it the exploding head syndrome, but it sounded like a door shutting really loudly
The couple of times I had it, it sounded like a car crash right outside my window.
Mine goes ShhhhshhiINNKK!!! Starts kind of static like and within the same second makes a sound like if you flicked a really thin glass really hard, but with a metallic finish. I also see a flash of purple/green/silver color on my eyelids when it happens.
Really difficult to describe.
