(KLTV) - Imagine you're relaxed, eyes shut, falling asleep, and then bang! It's called exploding head syndrome and it's a lot more common than you might think.
Yes, that's really a thing. It's not as dangerous as the name makes it sound, but one in five people, according to a recent study, has experienced it.
“I just heard and felt and saw white and I thought it was an explosion. It sounded like an explosion,” Pam Langston said, who experienced the phenomenon three years ago.
She jumped out of bed in a panic running to wake up her son, sure something terrible had just happened.
“You really think that something really happened, but my son was in the living room and he said there was no explosion. It was just me. My head,” she recalled.
That's exactly what it was. It was her head.
“Exploding head syndrome is its real name and it does have this kind of crazy bizarre name,” Dr. Daniel Obesso, a sleep specialist, said.
It usually happens just as a person is falling asleep. It's not a dream, or a nightmare for that matter, but it's also not real.
“We don't know exactly what's causing it. We think it's almost like a neural hiccup or your brain's transitioning to, it's turning off, so it's going into sleep mode,” Dr. Obesso explained.
Researchers believe neurons fire abnormally as they're trying to shut down causing this terrifying sleep phenomenon.
“It tends to be painless. People see a loud flash of light and hear a big exploding noise that really tends to scare them,” Dr. Obesso said.
Though the danger may feel real, physically this disorder is relatively harmless.
“It can very much agitate people, so it can lead to stress, so it'll lead to their heart racing faster,” he said.
In severe cases, anxiety or sleep medication is given, but most of the time a chat with your nearest sleep doctor will do the trick.
“Just reassurance, and letting people know that it can be a normal thing and it's something that happens, and they're not going crazy,” he explained.
“It was just a one time thing and at first I actually thought I had had a stroke or something. It's just really scary,” Langston remembered.
Sleep soundly and know this syndrome with a scary name and scary symptoms is just in your head and nothing more, much like a nightmare. The doctor told us that often patients say they are sleep deprived or stressed when this happens to them. It also usually happens just a few times, and is not reoccurring. Until that latest research, exploding head syndrome was thought to be quite rare, but is now considered a common occurrence.
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