Exploding Head Syndrome (EHS)?

For me, it's more like my tinnitus developing into a very loud PING. Think what an active sonar would sound like out of water.
 
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Brahmin said:
It's about as annoying as that falling sensation you get sometimes, so I never paid it much thought.
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Do you ever get a dream with that? I've noticed that I'm always dreaming before I wake up from that feeling. Maybe that's the difference between these two problems, dreaming or not.
 
I usually hear a beeping sound or something similar to a sigh or whisper.
 
I've had something like this but it hasn't happened in years. It feels like something the size of a pebble exploding in the middle of my head. It never lasts longer than a fraction of a second and it's nothing I ever even think of asking a doctor about, but sometimes startling enough to make it hard to go back to sleep. It often seems to happen in lieu of that feeling like you're falling just as you're half asleep. I've never been on any psych drugs, though I was under a bit of stress when they would happen.
 
anliteralidiot said:
Do you ever get a dream with that? I've noticed that I'm always dreaming before I wake up from that feeling. Maybe that's the difference between these two problems, dreaming or not.
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I usually get the falling sensation when I'm about to drift off to sleep like the exploding head syndrome thing. I've had dreams before where I jolted awake the same way after falling and hitting the ground, but I thought those were more like when you die in a dream and wake up in general. I don't usually jolt awake the same way when it's not from falling now that I think about it, falling might just be a more shocking sensation, who knows. I think it's just a part of our brain that shoots off a panic signal right before drifting off because we're still halfway conscious to feel we're drifting off to some different reality that isn't where we last knew we were, like a response to that pseudo-amnesia you get when you think the dream is totally normal.
 
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