Exploding Head Syndrome (EHS)?

[We Are The Witches]

Just to give a basic definition of what it is that you can also find online:

"Exploding head syndrome is a benign, underdiagnosed sensory parasomnia. It is the sensation of hearing a loud sound during sleep-wake/wake-sleep transitions."

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So one of the things that I've personally experienced in my unruly body is similar to EHS, but I am unsure if it's this or something else. If you have experienced it, you can describe it here.

It is uncommon for me (can probably count the occurences with one hand, during a whole year), not painful and has no side effect. Happens when I'm sleeping/about to sleep, then I hear the buzzing sound (in my mind, has nothing to do with the hearing-sense), almost like machine-made, and then I get relaxed and go to sleep.

I actually have a soundbit from a movie, that sound very similarly like this, so you can hear it and say if this is the same for you if you have experienced it, or anything similar:

 

[Doner Kebab]

Wow, I've heard of this before but hadn't looked into it and didn't realize this is what I was experiencing. Sometimes mine sounds like a person screaming, but most of the time it's like a standard explosion sound effect.

It's similar to that falling sensation you get when you're going to sleep, but this is way worse imo. It sounds so real that I wouldn't know it was just in my head if my husband wasn't still sound asleep.

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

This can be a symptom of changing/going off of medications. CWC described it happening to him some time ago, which he called "brain zaps" and he interpreted them as psychic signals or something equally retarded. (His was probably medication related iirc)

 

[anliteralidiot]

I've had this, and I still have it, but it was worse before my sleep disorder was diagnosed and treated. It wasn't a metal noise for me, but a more literal, muffled explosion noise.
It was similar to the shot in this touhou music:

But deeper pitch.

It always wakes me up, but it's more annoying than anything.

 

[${Sandy}]

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

I had it twice, the first time it was like a large amount of sand falling, the second time it was literally this, it was that very sound effect.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

This has happened to me a couple times in recent years. One time it was the sound of someone pounding on my door. Most of the time it's just random loud sound.wav shit.

 

[weegrumpy]

oh the twice ive had this is like an old car backfiring, or shotgun. I jumped up out of bed wondering wtf it was lol.
Now brain zaps are fucking horrible, even blinking/moving eyes triggers them, that is if I forgot to take or run out of venefaxine.
either thing I would wish on my worst enemy

 

[Pedophobe]

@Lunar Eclipse Paradox something for you to look forward to.

Spoiler: SCANNERS

 

[Crispy Jakes]

@Lunar Eclipse Paradox something for you to look forward to.

Spoiler: SCANNERS

Can Zoomer Youtubers go 15 seconds without raping their video timeline with every single effect and fart noise they can drag onto it?

 

[Törni]

I've had it for a long time. Stress and exhaustion main causes I've noticed. Last one was not too long ago and experienced an explosion. Before it's been either a gunshot or falling sensation. Really uncomfortable and it's hard to get sleep after it.

 

[Troonos]

I've had this for most of my life. Mine usually sounds like someone knocking on a door.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

JFK suffered from something similar.

 

[Justtocheck]

I've asked about it with a psych MD because it sounded strange. She believes it's just a different manifestation of stress and anxiety messing with sleep. Never happened to me, but I was curious when I first heard it because it sounded like a bizarre symptom.

 

[Mr. Pestilence]

Would def recommend getting checked by a doc as EHS can be an indicator of seizure activity or brain bleeding. Experienced it once after having some shrooms, spent the next week jumping out of bed each night thinking I was hearing a shotgun blast whenever I would go to sleep.

 

[Thief of Tables]

Coincidently I got hit with this twice last night. I woke up to what sounded like someone banging on my bedroom door. Then later had a dream my house was on fire and someone was screaming in my ear.

 

[TheRetardKing]

 

[Dr. Henry Armitage]

its happened to me a few times and it always sounds like the door to my bedroom slamming

 

[Brahmin]

I've had these before, sometimes right before I fall asleep I'll hear faint music or unintelligible conversation, occasionally I will hear a very loud instrument or someone yelling and it jolts me awake. My guess is it probably has something to do with your conscious brain fighting off odd sensory stimulation as you drift off into your dreams. It's about as annoying as that falling sensation you get sometimes, so I never paid it much thought.