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Doesn't sound the same, but I have the excellently named Exploding Head Syndrome. Could be something related?
Oooooh I also get this occasionally! It's absolutely terrifying, isn't it? Like somebody has hit the "reset" button for your brain..
It's awful when it happens but it's so infrequent for me that it's not too bad. Since having kids though it has evolved from a loud crash or bang to the sound of one of the kids screaming. My partner thinks I'm a complete loon when I go running into the kid's room for seemingly no reason, just to find them sleeping peacefully.
Gosh, that sounds so scary. I get it really bad at night.
Oh wow, I've never heard this was a thing other people experienced. I've had it for a while years and years ago, when I was under a lot of stress from my studies. The loudest, distorted synthesizer fog horn I've ever heard — and it was all in my head.
I have experienced something similar whenever I enter a lucid dreaming state. Sounds like roaring static as my brain switches over from ear input to dream sound input.
Weird. Like someone messing with an aux cord
Exactly! It must be the same sort of thing, as when it happens all outside sound disappears, and after the transition I am in a dream world with only dream sounds.
I've never heard this term but the second I read it I knew exactly what it meant. I get this when trying to sleep. I will be peacefully drifting off to sleep and suddenly I feel like I'm falling down through my bed towards the floor and I hear this loud whoosh/rumble/explosion. The two are so jarring that no matter how many times it happens it can't just be ignored. When it happens over and over in the same night, it actually makes my ears ache. It is the major cause of my insomnia for the last 15 years.
Over the last 3-5 years I've experimented with Polyphasic sleep (short naps rather than one long sleep period) as well as better sleep hygiene (using red light to signal when it's sleep time) and even more recently binaural beats (though sleeping with headphones is awkward at best).
Somehow it feels somewhat validating to know there is a term for this and it's a known phenomena. I wish it was something that could be treated though.
I get this occasionally, but mine always sounds and feels like a speeding train.
I think yours is more specifically hypnic jerk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk
Though I haven't heard of hypnic jerk with the loud sound. So maybe it's a bit of both?
Exploding head syndrome is gonna get me murdered in my bed some day. By this point I've learned to ignore the sound of my front door being kicked in.
Huh wow, this happens to me maybe once or twice a year but it's so memorable when it does.