You gonna believe that story? It’s spacebugs, I’m telling you! Space Bugs!
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It’s the rising tide of The Blood Wave. Which will release us from this cursed world.
Await The Blood Wave.
Welcome The Blood Wave.
Love The Blood Wave.
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It was loud really loud with a bright flash thought my lap top exploded nobody woke up so it wasn’t lightning usually its a pop or a whoosh very disconcerting.
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Phantom noises as you fall asleep or wake up are really common. Most people experience it to varying degrees, according to a science podcast that I listen to. If this EHS mentioned in the article is more than that, then it falls into the established pattern of “every neurological condition is just a stronger version of something that happens to everyone”
I get the tones or bangs pretty often. Many times I have walked around the house first thing in the morning, looking for what fell. It’s never anything. Some of that may be house settling noises also. Hard to distinguish the two.
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When dozing off, if there is a sudden (it doesn’t need to be loud) abrupt noise, like someone across the back fence dropping a pan, I will have a momentary visual hallucination of a brightly lit pattern. AFAIK, the image has never repeated.
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I read the headline as:
…which is far more enjoyable (at least to me)
I know EHS only too well. It plagued me through my twenties. A loud bang with a flash as you’re falling asleep. It happened almost every night; sometimes just a couple of times and sometimes it kept me up till dawn - every time I’m dozing off - BLAM! Scares you shitless and kicks you right back up into beta; there’s no getting used to it. It was always clear to me that it’s a neurological condition, a split-second block party somewhere in the cortex with neurons gone wild. Before I’d heard of EHS I called it ‘microepileptic seizures’. For me, mental exertion and stress were the primary contributing factors. When I’d had a busy day, I knew I was in for a night of 10 shocks minimum. Long hours on the computer were especially bad, whether it was work or gaming. Smoking weed decreased the intensity of bangs but increased their frequency and lowered the threshold (bangs would occur closer to wakefulness). I’m more or less ok now. It still happens occasionally but with much lower intensity and only when I’m under heavy strain. I don’t consider it a problem anymore. But now I sometimes get night terrors. I describe it as waking up soaked in free-flowing fear that permeates your whole being. It’s not a response to something, there’s no preceding nightmare or any kind of dream, just fear set to ON for no good reason. It happens very soon after falling asleep, before deep sleep. It can happen multiple times and under same circumstances as EHS so I suspect there’s a connection. Maybe the parties are more underground now, in the limbic system. Oh, I almost forgot apnea - sometimes my brain decides to give old lungs a rest so I stop breathing and wake up in suffocating terror, gasping like I just broke a freediving record. Great feeling. Just like the terrors and the bangs, it correlates with prolonged intense mental activity. Tl;dr I have shoddy wiring.
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I hadn’t even heard of this condition before this post, but instead, I occasionally experience a sensation of falling when I’m dozing off - enough to make me flail about for a second and try to catch myself.
Scares the crap out of me when it happens. And it has happened perhaps a few times a year, for as long as I can remember.
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Any of y’all experience drastic errors in perceived distance/proportion when extremely fatigued and/or at the edge of sleep?
For me it was more prevalent in childhood, but I still sometimes perceive that things at the other end of the room are RIGHT THERE but my hands are more than ten feet away. The sensation doesn’t alarm me enough to pull me out of near-sleep, but does sometimes seem to keep me there longer than should be possible.
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I’m Darryl Revok, and I endorse this syndrome
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I’ve had that happen too.
Brains are weird. I am glad neither are chronic issues.
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I wonder if the “brain zap” phenomenon that happens sometimes after antidepressant withdrawal is related. I still get them from time to time, mostly when overtired (this is like 10-15 years later). One or more “clicks” or “zaps” that feel like they happen in the middle of my head.
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Fateh Ali Khan-head syndrome sounds much better all right.
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Typically get it when I’m feverish, get a migraine or take benadryl. Though sometimes with other sleep disturbances. Usually in the form of distorted sense of my own body, giant teeth, super long neck etc. Don’t usually have issues with objects. Though sometimes the doors go giant or tiny.
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Hey, thanks! Had no idea it was a recognized thing. It’s so rare that I experience it even a little bit now, but I look forward to reading up on it.
Most of the weird stuff you experience with sleep is. Unfortunately not a lot of them are particularly well understood.
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Does your head blow up good?
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I get that too, the falling feeling, like I’m going down steps and I missed one. Scares the crap out of me too.
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Auditory hallucinations topic delivered by audiobook titled hallucinations, is meta.
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