I have it.
I wake up with a start when a gunshot explodes next to my left ear. I check to see if someone is in my room, but when I see no one, I worry that somebody is in the house and perhaps shot my daughter. It takes just a few minutes before I realize that it really wasn’t a gun. But where did the sound come from?
A bomb goes off in my room, apparently on top of my bed. I’m startled, and fortunately, the sound was just in my head. The shock was such that I find it hard to go back to sleep. My body reacts as though it was real.
As I duck under a large branch of an old oak tree, I bump my head hard on the huge branch. A loud thudding sound is emitted like my head might have burst open. I reached to touch my head to make sure I’m in one piece.
Somebody slaps me across the face with a loud slapping sound. I involuntarily jerk my face away, and I’m suddenly awake but feeling no sting from the hand that hit me.
I’m falling, and I’m falling hard, and I roll on the ground. My real body reaction wakes me with a shock as I keep myself from falling off the bed!
This is real.
In the beginning, before I knew what was happening to me, I was afraid I was having a stroke or was something bursting in my brain? Or was something even more serious happening? Was I dying? Was I going crazy?
Before I panicked, I decided to do some research and look up my symptoms on the internet. This was as easy as ABC or 123.
You can’t imagine my relief when I found that this was Exploding Head Syndrome and that it was not attached to any serious illnesses. However, it is a sleep disorder. It is not painful. This condition might last only for one incident or a few times or longer-term, but it comes and goes of its own volition. There really is no treatment or cure.
It is startling and disconcerting. The loud noises seem as real as real can be. Real gunfire or bombs going off is frightening enough. But having it happen right in your bed and in your head is very unpleasant. But that’s as bad as it gets.
I’ve attached a link that has more information if you’re interested in more details or maybe you have this syndrome yourself. I hope this doesn’t happen to you. But if it does not to worry, you’re fine..
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