Ulukai on 3/8/2009 at 10:00
I have decided that any future racehorse I buy is to be called 'Magnanimous Strumpet'
Matthew on 3/8/2009 at 11:00
Quote Posted by Starrfall
I've been so excited by the fact that I can read for fun again that I've been dithering about
what to read and so have selected nothing from my many options and am instead reading the internet which doesn't really count.
Also I've been playing Pirates! a lot and taking great pleasure in naming my awesome doom ship of horror and death things like "Fairy Butterfly"
Playing Pirates! to de-stress is the
best thing.
BEAR on 3/8/2009 at 20:26
Putting a half-pound of salmon in the fridge to marinade B)
Renzatic on 3/8/2009 at 23:28
I just discovered there's a name for something I've been...err...suffering from since my teenage years. The grandly named (
http://www.sleepassociation.org/index.php?p=explodingheadsyndrome) Exploding Head Syndrome.
It happens at least once a week, ususally when I'm about 3/4ths of the way towards deep REM sleep. The noise I hear isn't anything nearly as dramatic as a bomb going off or a gunshot, rather a loud electronic ZZZTK or a sound similar to someone plunking a deep bass guitar string in the center of my head. It's strange, but never stressful.
All this time I thought I was crazy. Now I figure out I've just got a bog standard syndrome. Damn. :(
37637598 on 3/8/2009 at 23:42
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Wow, I wonder if there's a name for my odd brain freak out... Whenever it's slient around, I hear what sounds like 1,000 voices yelling things at me, but I obviously can't pick anything out most of the time, and when I can it's just simple things like my name, or something short that means nothing to me. It's like a white noise of raging familiar voices. Sometimes it's so loud that it keeps me up for hours, some times it helps me sleep. When i focus on it, other sounds around become harder to notice, such as a clock ticking, or my dog walking around, and when I hear a voice say my name, It grasps my attention so much that the voices stop and my hearing becomes very sensitive to such noises as my dog or clock. That's the part that keeps me up at night, my whole body gets a sudden anxious burst of energy.
This is no sign that I'm crazy because I know it's just chance that the white noise sounds like voices, but it's still something I've wondered about.
Renzatic on 4/8/2009 at 00:05
If you're hearing things over an extended period of time rather than a quick little soundbite, then it's probably a form of hypnogogia. Basically a more pronounced form of what I experience.
I've gone through similar experiences, though only a few times in my life. To have it happen on regular occasions is apparently pretty rare, though I don't think it's harmful beyond the initial OMG scare.
pavlovscat on 4/8/2009 at 04:13
Drinking scotch & listening to an assortment of bad 80s music while laughing at this thread.
Snake on 4/8/2009 at 08:23
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Originally Posted by RenzaticExploding Head Syndrome
That sounds cool. Do you have spare heads or something?
D'Juhn Keep on 4/8/2009 at 10:15
Quote Posted by thefonz
Wading through True Blood Season 1
Not as good as you hoped, is it?
