Talk:Exploding head syndrome/Archive 1
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I felt a slap
I've experienced something similar, however it was not an explosion, but what felt like the after effects of a slap across the face. I was watching the late news and dozed off on my back and was awoken a few minutes later, feeling like I was slapped. There was no pain at all, but I could feel a kind of vibrating in my cheek and I sat straight up, adrelanline surging. It's happened once since, but since then, I take care never to sleep on my back and it hasn't happened since. I will say that once when I was twelve or so, I fell asleep, possibly on my back, maybe my stomach, on a bunkbed. While sleeping, I somehow wiggled further and further towards the front of the bed until I fell off and awoke on my back, feeling shock and not being able to move for a few seconds, and some dulled pain. Take that as you will. --PhoenixAvatar2 04:38, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Everleader's experience
Hello. I have expierenced this before. The first time I expierienced it I was at ends. I felt something like an adrenaline rush. I was breathing fast and my heart rate was sky rocketing. My eyes poped open immediatly after and I thought something was wrong. The first thing I did was count then though then moved and talked. I felt like I had to do a "Systems Check". Later I had them once every night for about a week and 1/2 I was getting worried so I told my friends "Tape" and "Duct". Apparently Tape had the same thing going on and she described to me the same thing. I was amazed. We both desribed right at "middle sleep" there would be kinda a body surge and a loud pop like popping your lips kinda but inside our heads. I even got to the point beofre I told them I felt one kinda comming on... so i waited to expierence but thinking bout it it was the worst one I bolted uop and threw myself against the wall by my bed and was about to pass out from breathing. I felt hysterical. It was today the ided of March that we had a free day in science and I got off talking about it and my teacher looked surprised and told me it was called exploding head syndrome. Naturally i thought she was joking, but guess not. Please relay any information on this phenomenon you may have because I am very curious. thank you for you time ~ Everleader
- Everleadr's experience more closely parallels my own than the one below or the description in the article. "something like an adrenaline rush" - yes, I felt my body/brain wanted me to alert and get up instantly. "middle sleep" - well for me it was always just after I was asleep - one to ten minutes after being asleep maybe. "a loud pop like popping your lips kinda but inside our heads" - this is EXACTLY it. It happened maybe a dozen times over a couple of months. It didn't worry me - much. 4.250.198.41 09:53, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I thought I was going to die
Without question EHS (exploding head syndrome) was the most startling event I have ever experienced in all of my 55 years. When I first had an event, I leaped from bed, didn't know where I was, heartrate through the roof, short of breath, complete confusion as to what happened. In short, I thought I was going to die right then and there. I was terrified and was not going to even think about trying to go back to sleep. I went to my doctor and tried to explain what had happened and of course he had no idea of what this could have been (a stroke, a siezure) and was unable to give me a diagnosis. He perscribed Ambien to enable me to get some much needed sleep and has worked beyond my expectations. I now can sometimes foretell an up coming event by my sensitivity to any kind of noise that occurs while I am starting to fall asleep. By sensitivity I mean if a sound or noise startles me when normally it wouldn't. I take an Ambien and all is well!! For those of you that have had this condition more than once, you will be able to feel an event coming prior to it's arrival. My solice to all of you and I'm here to help if I can. Brickyard
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I'm surprized I have ever heard of this,
I belive I have experienced something like this, I've heard an incredibly loud noise that didn't seem to exsist in the first place. I remember it happening a few times, sometimes somthing like a very loud 'gunshot' or 'boom'. I also hear the noise of something like (when in copland movie, when stallon has a gun shot right next to his ear, the sound effect they use of hearing damage) the "hearing damage noise" when I haven't even heard any noises above or even close to any damaging level (in db's)...It's kinda random, but I think it may have something to do with thinking about war and other random thoughts (in bed before falling asleep)
It definitely made me jump.
I'm only 18, and a male.
Mine are also accompanied by sounds of surging electrical current
I have been awakened more times than I can count by the explosion inside my skull. I remember them occuring as far back as seven or eight years of age. I was always frustrated because I could never remember anything about the damn dreams that I assumed I was having. I have even injured myself during those violent leaps out of the bed.
Now, in addition, I often hear the sound of surging electrical current inside the ole skull as well. This only occurs on my way down and prior to rem sleep. I often wrestle with myself trying to discern whether or not I felt those surges as well as heard them. They are very short but crystal clear and always an increasing decibel level, never decreasing.
Wow, I get this (rarely) too!
I'm stunned to see this is a known condition (and, for me, thankfully rare). Since childood I've had the occasional (once every few years) sudden, and quite frightening, shock of this sudden blast of noise. In my dreams it sometimes is accompanied by a visual of a helicopter (although it doesn't sound like one, maybe it's a childhood thing) and it's so loud in my dream that I wake up immediately in mild terror --only to realize that it's quiet in my room and that it was, as surprisingly, a dream. I then calm down after a few moments (again, as others its adreniline) and then go back to sleep fine. These are actually the closest thing I get now to nightmares. Because my mind is in a different state when asleep, this experience feels truly terrifying in a way I've (thankfully) never experienced in real life. Bobak 00:59, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
