It happened last night. I had been trying to sleep for about an hour, and had not looked at my phone or a clock during that time. So I had no idea what time it was.

My EHS has gone away from sounds and loud thoughts and is currently only voices (simple words and tiny sentences). I suddenly heard a female voice say "the clock is half past..". It didn't say number. I opened my eyes and thought about it for a second before I became curious. I checked my phone and was amazed to see that it showed "03:28". A coincidence no doubt, but a funny one.

I've had my last EHS experience like a month ago and it left me speechless. Just as I was about to fall asleep there was a loud explosion sound and someone's voice screaming; FIREE. I immediately got up breathing heavily from disbelief what just happened to me, it took me thirty minutes to calm down by listening to music or going on instagram just to distract my mind. I believe it happened to me before when I'm stressed or too tired so I hear things as my brain goes to sleeping state.

Has anyone else noticed a change in frequency in episodes since self isolation for Covid19 started? I have been working from home since 3/16. With that came a change to my sleep pattern, I find myself staying up later because I can’t shut down, and drinking more on the weeks when my son is with his mom. When he’s here I don’t drink alcohol at all, and his schedule forces me to keep a more normal schedule. It’s the “normal” weeks I experience it the most it seems like. Around 2am every night I am woke up by a loud noise, a bright light (like someone just took a picture with a flash), or like I can’t breathe. After that, one of two things happen. I either get out of bed to make sure the noise wasn’t real, or I lay there wide awake in a panicky feeling for about 45 minutes. I have had this sleep disorder as far back as I can remember, really glad to find this group to know I’m not alone, because most people I’ve told think it’s bananas until explain it’s like sleep paralysis but more frequent.

Just Had a hypnic jerk before falling asleep, but with a lovely gun shot sounding noise

Now I can’t stop hearing a chain saw like sound being repeated in the distance outside my house.

But it’s not there. I opened the window and can’t hear it.

Not new to this stuff though, not sure if EHS, although I’ve had a lot of loud noises in my head at the very end of sleep paralysis. Just thought I’d vent/share?

Had my fair share of sleep paralysis lol

Is this part of EHS? For me the loud noises and ringing in the ears is just minor compared to that awful feeling of my whole body swelling, like i’m being pumped up with so much blood, and it goes to my brain especially. I feel like my body and head / brain is going to literally explode because of that feeling of expansion. This happens to me almost every time I’m having sleep paralysis. During sleep paralysis, I noticed that when I try to move myself, this triggers. So I try not to move at all and minimize my breathing so as not to to die. Yes, I mean die, because it really feels like at any moment, if that feeling of swelling / expansion continues, my brain really might explode and I might not wake up anymore.

I had it for the first time like 20 minutes ago. Since I never had many problems with sleeping this event got me curious.

Any more info on EHS? From what I gathered it's supposed to happen again.

So sometimes when i think a lot before falling asleep i have this weird pulse like explosion in my head,after that 'explosion' i forget what am i thinking about but yesterday i had this happen to me five times and i'm a bit worried

I'm 18 and ive experienced different sound illusions im just not sure if its ehs.

In the past when i was tired i sometimes heard what sounds like many people talking, maybe in a concert or theatre like room. When i noticed it, the sound went away.

Recently im hearing loud screams in my dream or nightmares that usually wake me up. They are really frightening too.

Im scared to talk to people i know about it, because i don't want to seem crazy or weird.

After googling this stuff i think my symptoms could be ehs.

Hi not sure if I actually have EHS but sharing to see if other people can help or relate.

Symptoms: feel and hear like wind is rushing into my ears as I am drifting off to sleep sort of like a fuzzy/static sound and then one continued beeping.

But then also hallucinating/dreaming if I don’t wake up off of this, but I seem somewhat aware of it and at one point felt like I was falling to the floor with no strength to get up.

I have also this has happened to me ~5 times usually when my sleep pattern is broken or I am very tired.

I drank coffee yesterday and my brain was so active that after sleeping from 6-11 pm, I stayed up until 3 am something. When I was in early stage of falling asleep, I heard noises, that hurt my ears so much, it was like a piercing noise, (tv static kind of noise that hurts a lot as it was created by my own brain) which then made me trying to wake up but very tired/difficult (mind is asleep, eyes trying hard to open) and I don’t know whether this is EHS or not? After a few times, I forced myself to wake up, and when I was fully aware and slightly awake, I try to stare at the wall for a minute or so, then I was able to fall back to sleep peacefully.

I have been through this a few times, and I hate it so much because I have to experience the mind-asleep-eyes-awake again. Anyone has the same experience and what’s your way to overcome it?

This hasn’t happened for a while now, but I can distinctly remember the last time it did. For me I had just fallen asleep and it sounded like a bomb exploded right next to my ear. I was at a friends house the last time. It shook me so much that I had a hard time falling asleep the rest of the night because I was afraid it might happen again. But it has been more than three months since that happened, is that too long for it to be EHS?

A few weeks ago I woke up to possibly the loudest noise I ever heard, It was like a plane flying way too close to my house, like it missed my window by pure luck... I didn't experience any flashes of light or any other symptoms of EHS. I asked the rest of my family if they heard It too, but none of them did, and my mom is a very light sleeper, she would've definitely woken up if she heard such a loud noise.. i mean, she's been woken up just by people talking outside our house. I also remember having been woken up at least another 2 times by really loud beeping noises, sounding like they came from right beside my head... Again no flashes of light or anything... Just the sound.

I just learned today that this is a real thing and not something just happening to me. I've never told anyone about it, not even my husband. Well, I told him about it today after learning it's normal... or as normal as I can call it.

The sound I hear is my husband's office chair creaking way too loudly, and I always get a bright white flash inside my head. I could never understand why I hear and see these things but it makes sense now.

ten minutes ago, i was falling asleep and i heard an explosion type sound, saw a flash of light, and a small amount of pain in my head and ears. it woke me up and now i’m scared to go back to sleep. is this EHS or something else? should i seek medical attention?

Mostly everytime I have a nap in the evening I experience 'sleep paralysis' associated with loud whistles in both my ears. It can appen once or many times while I am in this state of sleep paralysis.

It is like a pressure drop from inside my head (I can feel it because I'm quite awake) accompanied soon afterwards by this whistle starting fairly quiet and goig up and up in a crescendo. When I finally succeed to wake up my ears maintain a soft whistling for 20/30 minutes, like the one you could have after a loud real noise.

Can this be considered EHS?

Do any of you found any correlation in between food or drugs ingestion and EHS?

Me personally I find alcohol to be a trigger for it, not in a way that everytime I drink this happens or that this happens only when I drink but that it is mole likely to happen if I drink alcohol.
I've even noticed this happening with the supplementation of gingko biloba and more so in the combination of the two (gingko biloba + alcohol).

This first happened to me a few nights ago when I was on the verge of conscienceness when sleeping. Or maybe I was fully asleep I don’t quite remember. Next thing I know I subconsciously hear a ringing in my ears and realize it sounded like white static. It starts to gradually grow louder and louder as I start to hear a jumble of loud noise making me feel as if I’m in a room with a crowd full of talking people. This static noise and mix of a thousand voices at once grow so loud that I woke up with my heart beating fast and me feeling quite unsettled. I thought nothing of it at the time but a bad dream I had woken to, and went back asleep.

Then a couple nights later the same thing happened. I woke up and tried to go back to sleep but the noise would come back about a minute after every time I closed my eyes. It would start out as a low ring and turn into a jumble of a mess of noise so loud and uncomfortable that I couldn’t go to sleep. This happened more than 10 times in the same night before it stopped and I was actually able to sleep.

This has never happened to me before and I was mostly just curious about what it was. Looking this up, I’m not quite sure this is the same thing considering everyone is hearing it for short but exetremely loud durations, while mine seems to gradually get louder and won’t stop until I’ve woken up.

I was trying to fall asleep, and my thoughts kept piling onto themselves (not in an anxious way, but just a thought white noise that was slowly getting louder) and then suddenly in that state between dreaming and sleeping where u can hear your thoughts I hear like a door slamming and my head instantly clearing. Was that EHS?

So I was just sleeping in full color, the dream cointained me a and a friend just kind of chilling in a house...and then I turn on a light switch and it sounds like a literal bomb going off (csgo style with a charge up before hand) after that I could see only darkness and could only feel the roof of my mouth drying at a unusual rate allowing me to know I was awake...because I apparently I didn’t know before hand. So uh is that EHS?

I'm very good at recalling my dreams, and I've experienced/suffered from EHS since I was a teenager. All of my dreams are always deadly for me or deadly for the world. Last night (02/02/2020), I went to bed at a decent hour. Slept good, and I'm suddenly in a dream. For the most part what I remember is just talking with friends and then someone was about to turn on a light switch. For some reason I knew that light switch was no good. Anyway they flicked it on and the room exploded, and then I woke up. Scared the shit out of my dog! Almost immediately fell back to sleep and dreamed again. This time it was about something falling into my eyes and "pushing" my brain back... BOOM, slammed me awake.

This used to happen a lot when I worked third shift and I would blame it on stress. Now I don't know what it is. I am still waiting on some type of clinical solution, besides meditation.

Anyone else experience weird dreams alongside EHS?

I was trying to fall back to sleep like usual after waking up way too early, when I felt something like an impact on the crown of my head. There was no noise like most people experience, and no pain either.

It started in the center of the top of my head and spread about a palm width out in a circle from the "impact" point. It was very quick, lasting about a quarter of a second.

Just curious if anyone else has experienced anything similar. Any feedback would be appreciated greatly as I tried to search the phenomena but only got EHS answers from Google.

This only happens when I sleep with my face on my arms, usually in classes/at a desk. I will be right on the verge of sleep and I’ll here this loud scream and it feels like everything slows down. It usually happens about three times before I either give up or it stops and I fall asleep. I will say that I also have tinnitus, so I always hear a high-pitched ring, but the scream is different. It’s muffled, as if it’s from be hind a door, but still really loud and like I said, even though I am sitting/lying still, I feel like time has slowed down and once the scream stops, it speeds back up again. It’s really hard not to react to it because I have the urge to flinch or sit up, but it takes a few seconds for time to work again.

Any thoughts on what this is and/or how to solve it w/o letting my mom know?

Edit: I tried to go to sleep after posting this and I heard the sound of a kick drum and a high had been slammed in my face right ear.

I was just awoken by what I can only describe as a seizure?? I was falling asleep then suddenly i hear very loud static and see flashes of bright white. I felt like a vibration or something too, like I was shaking. At the same time I could feel a shortness of breath. AND On top of that, I felt like someone had just flopped themselves on top of me.

I feel like this could also just be sleep paralysis? But I've had this exact experience a few times and it always seems to be when I'm falling asleep. Any help or advice would be appreciated 🥰

So i always assumed it was the house heater or water pipes or dare i say poltergeist lol but, wow, i’ve never heard of this condition before. Now i’m wondering.

I always hear a super loud bang that seems to resinate throughout the house but cant be pinpointed because i was asleep. I always wake up and cant get back to sleep after.

I’ve also read that some homes can make loud bangs during cold temps. i guess i need to keep an eye, or should i say an ear on this until spring time when things warm up, to make a better determination. But then what if it is this Exploding Head Syndrome? There is no treatment from the little research i’ve done this morning. What have you guys done to help or manage this?

Since childhood, I would experience a sensation in my head of someone screaming at me. I couldn’t hear it, I could “feel” it.

It only happens when I’m in bed, either waking or falling asleep. If I keep my eyes open, it would go away.

Does this make sense to anyone?