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TIL about exploding head syndrome, which causes patients to hear a loud, frightening noise when falling asleep or waking up. Up to 10% of people may have it, but cases often go undiagnosed(en.wikipedia.org)

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Makes me wonder if the sound when falling asleep is similar to an old TV being turned off. 🤔

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Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee
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Its not, its like an explosion

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Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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This happened to me for about a week. I’ve never had it since.

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BobbyShmurda@lemmy.world
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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.

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Sagrotan@lemmy.world
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I have that. I call it “shitty neighbour syndrome”.

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Alice@hilariouschaos.com
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Lol

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DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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I absolutely hate my upstairs neighbors. Even worse when they have a party up until 4 am. The other day though my smoke alarm threw me out of the bed by violently blaring three times. Never had a false alarm before but always thought it would be if I maybe burn something in the kitchen by accident, not when there’s absolutely nothing going on while I sleep.

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phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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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.

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GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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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.

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