What causes the imaginary sounds (bangs, crashes) or sensations (touch) that wake us from sleep?
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I learned about Exploding Head Syndrome from Reddit – apparently not everyone gets woken up by sounds that don’t exist! It’s an amusingly alarming name. https://sleepeducation.org/sleep-disorders/exploding-head-syndrome/
When the human body stays in one position and doesn’t move for awhile the brain will cause a movement or twitch etc to make sure your still alive. This is what I saw on a medical show. Maybe someone with wore knowledge can elaborate.
Does not happen to me. Have you considered that you may have a ghost?
You think it’s all ‘imaginary’? 😉
What causes the WHAT now?
It’s only imaginary in the same way all sound is imaginary. A tree fell in the forest did it make a sound? The answer is it created vibrations in the air but it’s not considered sound unless it is heard. If you hear something, like tinnitus, it is a sound even though the air is not actually vibrating creating that sound.
This literally happened to me last night, I didn’t tell anyone about it. The algorithm, it knows.
Upside-down teleologies.
What I mean by that is that it isn’t the imaginary sounds that wake you from sleep, but the waking from sleep that causes the imaginary sounds. The semi-conscious brain, in searching for an explanation for why you awoke, assumes there must have been some reason, resulting in you imagining one, probably by associating any random noise as having been loud enough to have startled you.
I’m surprised at the amount of people that don’t have this happen to them. I hear a loud “bang” sound a few times a month.
It’s a different sensation than a real sound and It’s kinda hard to describe.
Do you guys see a flash of light when you guys hear a noise when you are asleep?
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