Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Sleep Snippets

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:50:32 +0000

I recently had quite a bad dream and woke up to find my husband gently shaking me and trying to wake me up in a rather frantic voice. Apparently, I had sat up in bad, grabbed his arm and started asking him the same (strange) question over and over again. He said it didn’t even sound like me.

I have a vague memory of this, and I know it was related to the very bad dream I was having… but I can’t quite remember the context the dream and why it scared me so badly…

By: Araxie

Araxie — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:55:24 +0000

Apparently I’m quite the sleeptalker. I’ve startled (and amused) members of my family on a number of occasions by doing this, often sleep-speaking as clearly as if I were conscious. I keep telling them to get it on tape.

Any other sleeptalkers?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:22:01 +0000

The clinical term for the condition is Jimmy Legs. As in the phrase, “She’s throwing off my whole sleep. She’s got the Jimmy Legs.”

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:19:47 +0000

I get the weirdest exploding head noise… It sounds like the rising cheering of one of those huge crowds at a soccer match, complete w/someone yelling ‘GOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!’.

It’s weird because even though I’ve heard that noise from the news & tv & what-not, I’m not a soccer fan, I don’t watch soccer and I’m not around any soccer fans. It could be worse, though – it could include vuvuzelas.

By: Cyberjar88

Cyberjar88 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:17:45 +0000

I think I experienced the Exploding Head thing once. I was dreaming that I was in the sewers (no, I don’t know why I was in the sewers), when I felt water hit my head. I woke up and it was raining outside.

I’ve also experienced that leg jerk thing. It happens every night as I’m trying to fall asleep. If anyone knows how to make it stop, I’m all ears!

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:21:22 +0000

I’ve experienced the Exploding Head Syndrome. It’s usually my mother’s voice calling me. I hate when it happens because I don’t know for sure if its her calling or not for several minutes. Drives me insane.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:42:18 +0000

I once woke up in the middle of the night terrified because I heard an explosion so loud it seemed impossible to be real. It was like a bomb exploded right next to me. It was stunning just how insanely loud it was. I read about exploding head syndrome and I was just as afraid I was going crazy and it wasn’t real.
Turned out that 5 miles away there was a factory explosion so loud that it was heard 30 miles away. I wasn’t crazy after all.

By: RogerDog

RogerDog — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:54:56 +0000

Re #6: I heard (from an M.D.) that the crusty stuff in your eyes is called “gound.” Hadn’t heard “rheum.”

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:52:55 +0000

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

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:40:00 +0000

Just woke up…and after this happening a few times this week I decided to look up and see what’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’m not part of. My body feels so heavy I can’t move to snap out of it.
I can feel my face twitching and I start to breath very hard.
I’ve been under a great deal of stress the last few weeks. So I’m thinking this is causing it…Any thoughts out there?