It’ll be awkward when they discover a new syndrome where your head explodes and the name’s already taken.
Good thing cranial rapid pressurization change syndrome is still available…
Rapid unplanned cranial disassembly
Not catchy enough! Though you can shorten it to “crap syndrome”.
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?
Hypnagogic hallucinations
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
I’ve had this! Idk why they’d call it the exploding head syndrome, but it sounded like a door shutting really loudly
I hear door slams now and then too
I’ve had the door sound too a few times
I don’t know if this qualifies, but I go on call for my job and get woken up sometimes. I use a really annoying alert tone to make sure I wake up. Unfortunately, some times when I’m not on call I hallucinate hearing that tone as I’m dozing off or in a dead sleep and it makes me shoot straight up in bed.
I used to have this during my school days lol
I have ADHD and am a night owl, so that kind of time management was always super stressful for me, to the point that I would set up a dozen or so alarms so I would wake up in the morning. After some time it was so ingrained that I sometimes heard the alarm sound randomly when sleeping, always causing me to be wide awake in the middle of the night with racing pulse.
Me.
It’s an explosion in my head.
Like this : imagine a sound. For example, a cat meow. Meow meow. You doing that? Are you “hearing” that meow in your “mental sound space”?
Now imagine the sound is 500x louder. And it isn’t a meow, its an explosion.
It sounds like the blast of compressed air when you disconnect a compressor fitting.
That’s what it’s like.
It happens in half-sleep.
I’ve had big blasts that make me go “woah” a couple times a month since forever. I had a really big blast that made me go “holy shit!” just a couple days ago.
I heard something a few days ago that sounded 100% like someone crashing a car through my apartment. I jumped up and looked around, and nothing was happening. Sometimes it just sounds like a gunshot next to my ear, but usually it sounds like an industrial crash. Screeching metal exploding.
Wouldn’t you develop PTSD from this kind of thing
Apparently not
I used to have that when I was a teenager. About one out every ten times I was falling asleep just at the moment I drifted off I’d feel this crazy big pop that went from deep behind my right eye to the top right part of my skull. Sometimes it was more like a noise, sometimes it was more like a physical impact, like somebody bounced a golf ball off of my skull. It was really annoying. It started to happen less and less as I got older though. It pretty much went away completely by the time I was in my late 20s.
Always felt like an increasing rush of wind to me. Like falling faster and faster.
Whoa this is so interesting!
I’ve been having them on and off for as long as I can remember. I seem to notice I suffer them more often when sleep deprived and also when playing long hours of videogames (or both).
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.
I get it too but only if I’m trying to fall asleep on my back. 3 weeks ago I got a really strong one, I could still feel the shock in my brain for a minute after.
I have that. I call it “shitty neighbour syndrome”.
Lol
I get this sometimes. Kinda weird, but ultimately not a huge deal.
I had no idea this was a known phenomenon. I had experienced this for a while some years ago. I tried to tell my doctor about explosions in my head while falling asleep, but she had no idea what it could be after ruling out seizures. Mine were like a really loud explosion with a bright flash of light. It was obvious it all took place in my head, but it always came with this sense that I had been hurt even though there was no physical pain after.
Interesting to know there’s a name for this. Thanks for sharing!
Probably otological
It’s sometimes accompanied by a perceived flash of light though.
Pressure can do that
