08-16-2013, 09:22 AM | #1 |
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This is weird
Over the last 6 months or so, I've been occasionally having these weird symptoms at night when I'm supposed to be sleeping and am in a half awake/ half asleep state. Usually it's the middle of the night, or early morning, like 3-4 AM. I'll hear a click coming from inside my head. I figure it's in a dream and try to fall back to sleep, and I'll hear the click again a few minutes later. I realize that I'm not actually dreaming, but then there it is again, the click. Sometimes the click is faint. Sometimes it's a little louder. It sounds a little like a rubber band snapping.
The noise is definitely not outside my head, in the room. The room is dead silent. I can literally hear the noise, but it's coming from inside my head. Usually, I'll just fall back asleep again and forget about it. It's happened a handful of times in the last six months or so. A couple weeks ago, something similar happened, except this time, it wasn't a click. It was a gunshot. Inside my head. Extremely loud. But only one. So after lying there for a while, next to my peacefully sleeping wife, wondering WTF was going on with me, I finally got back to sleep. The next morning, I Googled the symptoms, hoping I wouldn't find that it was the first stages of some mental illness. Auditory hallucinations. And to my surprise, I found it immediately. It's really a thing. And it's basically harmless, although some people don't like it and lose sleep worrying about it. And it has a funny name. Exploding head syndrome. Glatt has exploding head syndrome. Weird, huh? Life is a strange trip sometimes. |
08-16-2013, 09:43 AM | #2 |
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Fortunately, just knowing what it is, and you're not alone, is the key to coping.
I've had the click occasionally for years. But no boom yet. Guess I'm a slow developer.
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08-16-2013, 09:46 AM | #3 |
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that's weird
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Exactly. I was worried I was going crazy. But knowing that it's harmless, I can easily deal with an occasional clicking sound that I hear, but nobody else does. I'll just roll over and go back to sleep.
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08-16-2013, 10:43 AM | #5 |
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But what if it was actually a sound and your wife just didn't hear it?
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08-16-2013, 10:54 AM | #6 |
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It actually is a sound. And she didn't hear it.
One of the theories is that the sound is caused by bones in the middle ear being moved by a muscle spasm and creating noise that way. Another theory is that it is a minor seizure in part of the brain. But it really is a sound either way. |
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Oh wow! I get that from time to time!
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DanaC has exploding head syndrome!
Is yours loud like a gunshot, or quieter, like a click or a snap? |
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A very clear 'snap!'
Weird as fuck when it happens. It's woken me up sometimes, from the halfway dozing state.
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I've had them on rare occasion as well, maybe once a year. Mine are of the deep bass booming variety. Never while dozing, always startling me out of a deep sleep. I always figured they were connected to my temporal lobe stuff, since night is a more common time for seizure activity.
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08-16-2013, 05:43 PM | #11 |
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Wife not hear something? You a funny man, very funny man.
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BEWARE: That is "sort of" how it started for me, only it was an out right
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08-17-2013, 08:01 PM | #14 |
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Oh my, that means we may have the makings of a JBglatt, JBBruce, JBDanaC (good rapper name), and JBClodfobble in addition to JBKlyde. I suppose there's nothing we can do but wait and see if their user names change.
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Did anyone else hear thunder when you read those new names?
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