barefooter
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For the past year I've been having strange neurological sleep disturbances, that I'm still trying to figure out. They seemed to be related to chronic stress, lack of sleep, and potentially from a few bad drug trips I experienced prior. The main symptoms are that the process of falling asleep can sometimes feel very uncomfortable, both in my body and my mind--kinda hard to describe. Sometimes like a nausea, or sometimes the feeling of falling or spatial disorientation, or just fear for no reason. Also, when I'm laying in bed trying to fall asleep, if there is a startling noise (and it doesn't take much), it's like an electrical current runs through my body. I also at times have minor muscular twitches. None of these symptoms are present during the day.
Now, this isn't an every night thing, but seems to come and go. I was sleeping great for a while, and thought I might be beyond all this, but then a week ago my symptoms started coming back and my sleep has been terrible, which is why I'm investigating more. The more uncommon symptom I have that happens less regularly, is that after falling asleep I wake up very startled, with a sort of buzzing or ringing in my head, and am panicked and breathing heavy, often times can't think straight and may be a bit confused. After doing a lot of research, I thought this could be related to low CO2 causing night time panic attacks, and the brain symptoms were from lack of oxygen.
Last night I had a lot of difficulty falling asleep, and after being asleep for a while, I woke up, and it sounded and felt like fireworks were going off in my head. I was paralyzed for a few seconds, and laid there observing and feeling fearful of loosing my mind. Once I was able to move, and my thinking cleared up, I realized it was similar to other episodes I'd had, and wasn't overly concerned.
Today, I've been doing some research, and I just came across what is known as exploding head syndrome, which sounds a lot like what I've experienced. Does anyone know anything about this, or have any other thoughts on what might be going on?
Now, this isn't an every night thing, but seems to come and go. I was sleeping great for a while, and thought I might be beyond all this, but then a week ago my symptoms started coming back and my sleep has been terrible, which is why I'm investigating more. The more uncommon symptom I have that happens less regularly, is that after falling asleep I wake up very startled, with a sort of buzzing or ringing in my head, and am panicked and breathing heavy, often times can't think straight and may be a bit confused. After doing a lot of research, I thought this could be related to low CO2 causing night time panic attacks, and the brain symptoms were from lack of oxygen.
Last night I had a lot of difficulty falling asleep, and after being asleep for a while, I woke up, and it sounded and felt like fireworks were going off in my head. I was paralyzed for a few seconds, and laid there observing and feeling fearful of loosing my mind. Once I was able to move, and my thinking cleared up, I realized it was similar to other episodes I'd had, and wasn't overly concerned.
Today, I've been doing some research, and I just came across what is known as exploding head syndrome, which sounds a lot like what I've experienced. Does anyone know anything about this, or have any other thoughts on what might be going on?