Season 6 ~ Episode #41 - - - What is Exploding Head Syndrome?

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Permalink Reply by R.Data Soong on September 9, 2014 at 10:30am

I really liked this episode, I love when Rhet&Link talk about something that most people don't know.

My mother has sleep paralysis, a bad version, besides the common symptons she has distressing hallucination and involonatary moviments, it's scary even to see. I and my brother had it sometimes but, like Rhett, we only cannot move and we think that somebody is in the room (it's scary anyway but my mother has a real problem).

What about you?

Permalink Reply by Ramsey (Quinkin) on September 9, 2014 at 12:48pm

One of my cousins experiences the same paralysis as your mother, where he'll hallucinate and sometimes convulse. When he was about ten one of his hallucinations was so bad that he snapped out of the paralysis screaming and launched himself from the top bunk of his bed and slammed his face into the frame of his brother's bed and broke his nose. He ended up staying overnight at the hospital, but we all pitched in to get him a toy helicopter to cheer him up.

Thankfully, he doesn't suffer from it as much now that he's older, I'm sorry it's so bad for your mom :c

Permalink Reply by R.Data Soong on September 9, 2014 at 3:32pm

The problem is that the doctors don't listen her, it's frustrating for her; there are some medicines that could help her but she need a diagnosis first.

Anyway thank you

K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on September 15, 2014 at 9:34pm

I've experienced sleep paralysis twice in my life -- the last one was fairly recent, in about the last year or so, but I don't remember it as well as the first time because it was relatively brief and I at least knew what was happening.

The first time, I was still pretty young and had fallen asleep on the couch. When I woke up, I was fully conscious but I couldn't move and I couldn't speak; I was overwhelmed with the need to yell for help yet I was completely unable to make any sound at all. Eventually I regained movement...it felt like it took a really long time, but I'm not sure. Like Rhett said, it's completely bewildering and terrifying.

I'd say at least 10 years passed between the first instance and the second. No idea what prompted either of them.