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		<title>By: Michael</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18732/comment-page-1#comment-222485</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hear a short digital ring tone just before I wake-up.  Happnes just when I am coming out of sleep.  I think it is from listening to AM radio at night and falling asleep with it still on.  AM has a lot of digital sounds that are mixed into there transmition. The brain picks it up.  I have head the bang in the head also.  going to stop falling asleep with the radio on.  Cound be the Am advertisers do this to keep us awake to hear the commercials!  LOL</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hear a short digital ring tone just before I wake-up.  Happnes just when I am coming out of sleep.  I think it is from listening to AM radio at night and falling asleep with it still on.  AM has a lot of digital sounds that are mixed into there transmition. The brain picks it up.  I have head the bang in the head also.  going to stop falling asleep with the radio on.  Cound be the Am advertisers do this to keep us awake to hear the commercials!  LOL</p>
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		<title>By: Jenny</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18732/comment-page-1#comment-146843</link>
		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just woke up...and after this happening a few times this week I decided to look up and see what&#039;s going on with me.
I see white flashing and the noise is so loud...it sounds like a chirping cicada bug living inside my head instead of a tree. 
I can hear the TV and everything going on around me almost like a heighten sense...word for word conversations that I&#039;m not part of. My body feels so heavy I can&#039;t move to snap out of it. 
I can feel my face twitching and I start to breath very hard.
I&#039;ve been under a great deal of stress the last few weeks. So I&#039;m thinking this is causing it...Any thoughts out there?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just woke up&#8230;and after this happening a few times this week I decided to look up and see what&#8217;s going on with me.<br />
I see white flashing and the noise is so loud&#8230;it sounds like a chirping cicada bug living inside my head instead of a tree.<br />
I can hear the TV and everything going on around me almost like a heighten sense&#8230;word for word conversations that I&#8217;m not part of. My body feels so heavy I can&#8217;t move to snap out of it.<br />
I can feel my face twitching and I start to breath very hard.<br />
I&#8217;ve been under a great deal of stress the last few weeks. So I&#8217;m thinking this is causing it&#8230;Any thoughts out there?</p>
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		<title>By: chezzo</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18732/comment-page-1#comment-134841</link>
		<dc:creator>chezzo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get the head bangs almost every night, alot of paralysis almost every night as well. They seem to switch off every few nights. I only seem to get the bangs like a alluminum(spelling?) bat hitting me in the right side of my head and it just pounds at my head it seems to the point i wake up with a bad headache but only on the right side.

And on nights where I dont have the bangs i get that paralysis feeling, and i hear a quiet whispering in my ear for the first few months of these whispers it made me kinda nervous since the guy who lived in my house before we moved in hung himself. But after awhile i tried desperatly not to be affraid of it since nothing bad actualy happened. Still unsettling, but now i try to listen to the whispers but can ususaly only make out a few words. Thing is the words i do manage to actualy make-out and rememeber are sometimes just freaky. I feel like something is standing above me watching me sleep, one night when i slowly peeped my eyes open i saw a shadowy man with a old fashioned hat standing there leaned over me. When i was younger i started to freak me out to the point i started sleeping on the living room couch since i didnt get these just odd feelings. But now it seems kind of comforting, now that ive been up for about 48 hours i started looking to see if I was alone with these sleeping &#039;disorders&#039; and stumbled on to this, good to see im not purly crazy or something. Creepiest thing of it all is when i hear the whispers i always die in my dreams but dont wake up just stare at my dead body until i wake up. and just jerk out of sleep when i do wake up for no reason.

Sorry for the long comment but its kinda complex for me to even describe, i still dont think i got it down right. The one thing i remember really profound from these whispers is &#039;when will it end?&#039; is what is whispered into my ears, but now i almost dont want it to end. Seems better then my average dream before these of sitting in a black blank room staring at a grandfather clock until i hear the tone to wake up, after 4 years of the exact same dream anything is kinda releaving. Doctors found nothing after tons of very strange tests after the MRI&#039;s and such. it just seems to strange for my liking. I got like 30 pages of lines i remember from these odd whisper dreams. Also my temples are getting really big to the point i can fit my entire fist in the soft spot now. Again sorry for the long comment but any ideas on just what the hell is going on? its starting to creep me out</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get the head bangs almost every night, alot of paralysis almost every night as well. They seem to switch off every few nights. I only seem to get the bangs like a alluminum(spelling?) bat hitting me in the right side of my head and it just pounds at my head it seems to the point i wake up with a bad headache but only on the right side.</p>
<p>And on nights where I dont have the bangs i get that paralysis feeling, and i hear a quiet whispering in my ear for the first few months of these whispers it made me kinda nervous since the guy who lived in my house before we moved in hung himself. But after awhile i tried desperatly not to be affraid of it since nothing bad actualy happened. Still unsettling, but now i try to listen to the whispers but can ususaly only make out a few words. Thing is the words i do manage to actualy make-out and rememeber are sometimes just freaky. I feel like something is standing above me watching me sleep, one night when i slowly peeped my eyes open i saw a shadowy man with a old fashioned hat standing there leaned over me. When i was younger i started to freak me out to the point i started sleeping on the living room couch since i didnt get these just odd feelings. But now it seems kind of comforting, now that ive been up for about 48 hours i started looking to see if I was alone with these sleeping &#8216;disorders&#8217; and stumbled on to this, good to see im not purly crazy or something. Creepiest thing of it all is when i hear the whispers i always die in my dreams but dont wake up just stare at my dead body until i wake up. and just jerk out of sleep when i do wake up for no reason.</p>
<p>Sorry for the long comment but its kinda complex for me to even describe, i still dont think i got it down right. The one thing i remember really profound from these whispers is &#8216;when will it end?&#8217; is what is whispered into my ears, but now i almost dont want it to end. Seems better then my average dream before these of sitting in a black blank room staring at a grandfather clock until i hear the tone to wake up, after 4 years of the exact same dream anything is kinda releaving. Doctors found nothing after tons of very strange tests after the MRI&#8217;s and such. it just seems to strange for my liking. I got like 30 pages of lines i remember from these odd whisper dreams. Also my temples are getting really big to the point i can fit my entire fist in the soft spot now. Again sorry for the long comment but any ideas on just what the hell is going on? its starting to creep me out</p>
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		<title>By: GTT</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18732/comment-page-1#comment-99380</link>
		<dc:creator>GTT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I´m so glad I´m not the only sleep-freak out there!  I´ve had them all...  Head explosions at least once a month... Usually sound like a loud BANG that wakes me up all freaked out until I realize it´s just me being crazy again...  The leg twitch (hypnagogic jerk??) is a nightly occurence as I try to fall asleep.  It always happens in that tween time where I´m half asleep and half awake.  It´s so common that it doesnt even wake me anymore!

But by far, the most frightening experience is the sleep paralysis.  I´ve (thankfully) only experienced this a couple of times but each time left me shaken for a very long time (last one was like 5 years ago and I still shudder every time I think about it).  I was in a hotel room with my mom and I woke up in the middle of the night comepletely unable to move.  I remember looking around and registered every single detail of the room as I desperately tried to scream to my mom for help.  I dont know how long it took but the scream finally came and with it the ability to move.  I spent the rest of that night crying and willing myself not to fall asleep.  

Good times...

recaptcha: time shaken</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I´m so glad I´m not the only sleep-freak out there!  I´ve had them all&#8230;  Head explosions at least once a month&#8230; Usually sound like a loud BANG that wakes me up all freaked out until I realize it´s just me being crazy again&#8230;  The leg twitch (hypnagogic jerk??) is a nightly occurence as I try to fall asleep.  It always happens in that tween time where I´m half asleep and half awake.  It´s so common that it doesnt even wake me anymore!</p>
<p>But by far, the most frightening experience is the sleep paralysis.  I´ve (thankfully) only experienced this a couple of times but each time left me shaken for a very long time (last one was like 5 years ago and I still shudder every time I think about it).  I was in a hotel room with my mom and I woke up in the middle of the night comepletely unable to move.  I remember looking around and registered every single detail of the room as I desperately tried to scream to my mom for help.  I dont know how long it took but the scream finally came and with it the ability to move.  I spent the rest of that night crying and willing myself not to fall asleep.  </p>
<p>Good times&#8230;</p>
<p>recaptcha: time shaken</p>
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		<title>By: sarah</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18732/comment-page-1#comment-99314</link>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@kieran - I used to get bad leg cramps/charlie horses when I was asleep too, I have been told it is either an iron or a sodium (salt) deficiency, so you could try getting a suppliment to see if that helps.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@kieran &#8211; I used to get bad leg cramps/charlie horses when I was asleep too, I have been told it is either an iron or a sodium (salt) deficiency, so you could try getting a suppliment to see if that helps.</p>
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		<title>By: DCM</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18732/comment-page-1#comment-99313</link>
		<dc:creator>DCM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have head &#039;splody regularly.  I&#039;m jerked awake for no good external reason.  Blah.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have head &#8217;splody regularly.  I&#8217;m jerked awake for no good external reason.  Blah.</p>
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		<title>By: Anzi</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18732/comment-page-1#comment-99301</link>
		<dc:creator>Anzi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh wow, I experienced Exploding Head Syndrome for the first time two weeks ago!

I was sound asleep and dreaming about talking with a friend when suddenly they leaned forward and shouted/screamed right in my ear. I woke up with a start and lay there with my heart pounding, trying to figure out what had happened. It was like nothing I&#039;ve ever experienced. It&#039;s interesting to know I&#039;m not the only one, but I hope it never happens again!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh wow, I experienced Exploding Head Syndrome for the first time two weeks ago!</p>
<p>I was sound asleep and dreaming about talking with a friend when suddenly they leaned forward and shouted/screamed right in my ear. I woke up with a start and lay there with my heart pounding, trying to figure out what had happened. It was like nothing I&#8217;ve ever experienced. It&#8217;s interesting to know I&#8217;m not the only one, but I hope it never happens again!</p>
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		<title>By: kat</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18732/comment-page-1#comment-99273</link>
		<dc:creator>kat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the other night my boyfriend fell asleep on the couch. i was in the bed room having a nightmare. i dreamt that a car blew up and and that very moment my boyfirend thought he heard a loud explosion which woke him up and he came running into the bedroom waking me up. nothing had exploded.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the other night my boyfriend fell asleep on the couch. i was in the bed room having a nightmare. i dreamt that a car blew up and and that very moment my boyfirend thought he heard a loud explosion which woke him up and he came running into the bedroom waking me up. nothing had exploded.</p>
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		<title>By: buddz</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18732/comment-page-1#comment-99238</link>
		<dc:creator>buddz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I read somewhere (or dreamed it?) that the jerk happens because your body is relaxing, but your brain hasn&#039;t caught up.  It&#039;s probably a leftover reaction to when we lived in trees -- your mind is signalling for you to wake up QUICK before you fall off the limb.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read somewhere (or dreamed it?) that the jerk happens because your body is relaxing, but your brain hasn&#8217;t caught up.  It&#8217;s probably a leftover reaction to when we lived in trees &#8212; your mind is signalling for you to wake up QUICK before you fall off the limb.</p>
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		<title>By: Leggy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leggy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Huh. I wonder if the buzzing I hear/feel behind my top right molar every night is Exploding head. I&#039;ve never had sleep paralysis, but I do have vivid dreams and sometimes wake up yelling.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Huh. I wonder if the buzzing I hear/feel behind my top right molar every night is Exploding head. I&#8217;ve never had sleep paralysis, but I do have vivid dreams and sometimes wake up yelling.</p>
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