I get this from time to time when falling asleep. It’s really annoying when it happens. Like I’ll be dozing off and then there will be this loud-ass noise.
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.
i just realized i have this. not sounds but “impacts”.
For why this is happening to me, I’ve narrowed this down to the following: snoring (I start snoring as soon as my eyes close), dreams (I have “imaginative” dreams, a lot of nightmares) and the last reason being lack of sleep to which I think I’ve actually heard the explosion but it was a dream.
This happened to me for about a week. I’ve never had it since.
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
Pull request closed: could not replicate
This has happened to me twice very recently and never had it before, scary stuff
I have that. I call it “shitty neighbour syndrome”.
Lol
I get this sometimes. Kinda weird, but ultimately not a huge deal.
For me, it sounds exactly like a wooden screen door slamming shot.
The spring-loaded kind or someone/thing forcibly closing it?
Interesting Q lesbian_seagull. I never got the sense that anyone else was involved, but the sound is definitely slamming shut with a loud thwack. And I suppose the first couple times I thought it was real, but I don’t have screen doors.
Yes. Me too.
I would describe it as the sound of a big quick blast of compressed air. Like when you disconnect a compressor fitting.
Which is pretty similar.
Short loud white noise.
A flash of white light in sound form?
Probably otological
It’ll be awkward when they discover a new syndrome where your head explodes and the name’s already taken.
They could name it Kennedy syndrome or something like that.
Hello, fellow “no shooter” conspiracy theorist!
Good thing cranial rapid pressurization change syndrome is still available…
Not catchy enough! Though you can shorten it to “crap syndrome”.
Rapid unplanned cranial disassembly
When I was deployed in Afghanistan, everyone I knew had the same reoccurring dream- some other dream is happening, and then out of nowhere, you hear a gunshot/explosion, and wake in a cold sweat, absolutely certain that you just got shot or blown up. And the certainty persists for about five seconds after you wake, as you shakily pat yourself down for blood. Good times.
And the certainty persists for about five seconds after you wake, as you shakily pat yourself down for blood.
Unless you also happen to get sleep paralysis at the same time! Happened to a friend who fortunately was in a tent full of very understanding people when he woke us up screaming.
Fantastic combination
Wait, is this my “nightmare sound”? When I have nightmares (fairly rarely, but I’ve gone through times when they were more common) there’s a sound that goes with them, and builds in intensity as the fear comes to a crescendo. It’s like a high-pitched whine that starts as a hum (like tinnitus) and slowly grows to ear-splitting intensity, except it’s more like head-splitting because it feels like the origin is in the center of my head. And I say “feels” intentionally because it’s not just a sound, it feels like my consciousness is vibrating apart.
Often the actual content of my nightmares is mostly abstract (like worrying about why the room is dark, or feeling followed but not knowing by what) and the terror is completely disproportionate to the events, but directly proportional to the intensity of the sound.
Uh, for me it’s firmly inside the dream though, I wouldn’t classify it as a hallucination. When I was taking antidepressants I used to have hallucinations wake me up—like waking up because I heard my mom talking, when she was in a different state—but that felt different. That was like hearing someone in the room with you and having it pull you out of whatever dream you were having. The “nightmare sound” is inside the nightmare, it isn’t what wakes me up.
To me, it sounds like someone screaming into my ear.
This made me double check, but it’s still just that I have loud children.
I’ve had this! Idk why they’d call it the exploding head syndrome, but it sounded like a door shutting really loudly
For me, it generally sounds like something crashing to the ground.
The couple of times I had it, it sounded like a car crash right outside my window.
Me too!!! It sucks especially because I live on a busy road :(
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.
Not for me, oh dear. It’s a legit BOOOOOM
