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I had a period in my life where I suffered from so called Exploding Head Syndrome as well as sleep paralysis. I'd definitely attribute it to stress/anxiety and
by homulilly 12y ago
I had a period in my life where I suffered from so called Exploding Head Syndrome as well as sleep paralysis. I'd definitely attribute it to stress/anxiety and insomnia or the medication used to treat those problems. Exploding Head Syndrome seems like the auditory equivalent of a hypnic jerk and never bothered me too much. Sleep Paralysis is extremely unpleasant though.
- brazzledazzle 12y ago>Sleep Paralysis is extremely unpleasant though. Perhaps an understatement. It's increased by stress and it increases your stress levels while falling asleep creating a nice cycle of stress, fear and panic. I'm so glad it happens rarely now.
- JimboOmega 12y agoReminds of the cycle of insomnia - where you are tired because you didn't sleep, so you stress out more about getting to sleep, so you have more trouble sleeping, in a loop. There's a term for it, though I've forgotten it. It's supposed to be self-limiting (Because the tiredness is supposed to win out and make you sleep), but it doesn't always seem that way. I'm so glad that I'm hardly ever in that space any more, myself. Never had sleep paralysis, but sleep difficulty of any type is not fun.
- meric 12y agoOnce that happened to me I told a friend in the morning advised me to go for a run. I ran till I was exhausted and came home to collapse in sleep. I couldn't fall into sleep from mid night to 7am in the morning.