Posted on 02/28/2010 1:02:13 PM PST by cajuncow
I am actually glad to finally read a description of this. I had no idea it was a syndrome.
For me, it is a loud, reverberating thud. It happens regularly, just as I fall asleep and will happen again and sometimes a third time before I finally get to fall asleep. I can feel it, as well as hear it. It is like being caught in an explosion.
You are right: annoying!
lmao!!
I had to steal that for my tagline ;)
(Hope it fits :P)
Get a sleep study...........
Most likely your were just experiencing the outer edge of their tractor beam which they were using to haul your neighbor up into the mother ship.
Yes, I was thinking that I probably could have been more vague about the cause of death of these people and still conveyed the important information without introducing this additional alarming topic. (The book I mentioned is interesting though.) The important thing is not to assume that you are going to know when you are short of oxygen. Obviously the majority of people with sleep apnea don't.
I’ve never had the symptoms you describe (or ever been punched in the face, for that matter) and hopefully I will never experience either ! :-) For me, it just sounds like a loud explosion, right next to my ear (so far always my right ear...I wonder what if anything that indicates?) *just* when I’m drifting off to sleep, so I become fully awake , heart pounding, and I can only hope to drift back to sleep in , oh, about an hour and a half, two hours later. Pure torture-grateful it happens only rarely, and I hope it STAYS rare.
Oh, man...I’ve only had it a few times in my entire life! I hope whatever it is that is causing such frequent occurrences for you clears up and soon! (But it is a great comfort to learn that it’s common enough to have a name, and that it’s not anything but annoying.)
I’d say it happens 2-3x/week, on average. The only constant is that it seems to occur when I am really tired and enter sleep quickly. I can’t relate it to anything else.
From the article, it may not be related to anything they know of, yet. I am otherwise healthy and rarely ill, but I am up at 5am or so and by 9:30, I can’t keep my eyes open. The thud happens when I push myself to stay up longer than usual and so, am probably already half asleep when I finally lay down.
Yes, it is reassuring to know it is common and not serious.
hey, I was joking too...ha.
I had a dream last week where Barack Obama was our President.
Sounds more like a nightmare :)
No, that was more like a night terror.
what i should have said was i can tell in my dreams if i've stopped breathing... i also know when i'm dreaming and can manipulate my dreams... it's weird... something triggers during the dream that tells me, "this is not real."
“Sounds more like a nightmare :)”
It was horrible. I saw visions of adoring masses at huge rallies with rapt looks on their faces.
OMG!! Must have been horrible. Did you wake up screaming?
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