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Old 02-14-2007, 01:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Something weird happened to me...

This happened to me last night and it is the second time in my lifetime that it has occured.

Last night as i was falling asleep, i was very close to being asleep but was then julted awake by a VERY loud explosion sound. the sound sounded like a bomb going off inches away from my ear. it was so loud that i jumped at it and woke up. it could have been my imagination, but it felt as if my entire room shook in the process. the only thing is, the explosion wasn't real.

If there were an explosion that loud, my parents would have easily heard it and would have asked what i did. also, my dog and cat would have gone insane at such a noise. I know this explosion wasn't real, so did i imagine it? How could i imagine a sound so incredibly loud? This is the second time this has happened and it is very scary.

On a side note, i live in a house that was built by a hunter. He made my room, a guest room, and a living room. We have added on since, but those rooms remain. The hunter died in his sleep in the guest room that is right next to my room. Just thought i would share.

Any ideas?
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Old 02-14-2007, 03:45 PM   #2 (permalink)
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yeah, you fell asleep and dreamed that you heard an explosion
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Old 02-14-2007, 08:35 PM   #3 (permalink)
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can a dream be that powerful though? my ears were ringing due to the loudness.
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Old 02-14-2007, 09:43 PM   #4 (permalink)
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it certainly can. there was a case (I wanna say it was in Minnesota) where a guy was dreaming he was playing football. Woke up surrounded by shattered glass. He'd tackled the mirror in his sleep.
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Old 02-14-2007, 09:56 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Dreams states can be extremely powerful (see the countless threads here on lucid dreaming or sleep paralysis). In fact taking an afternoon nap today I was in an awkward sleeping state and I started listening to some outdoor vehicle noise (some horns and some beeping) then as I started to fall into sleep my head was filled with the most awful extreme static/electronic/screeching noise. I was honestly in pain and so in shock I just became stiff. It pry online lasted a few seconds before I awoke fully, but it felt like minutes.

Anyway, point is that at certain points in the sleep cycle some very strong (and sometimes very crazy or even frightening) things can happen. It's actually very interesting and the up-side to this experience is that if you are a person who has this sort of thing occur to you naturally then you are in an ideal position to learn how to use these experience and train yourself to make a lot out of them (again read up on lucid dreaming).
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Old 02-14-2007, 10:16 PM   #6 (permalink)
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can a dream be that powerful though? my ears were ringing due to the loudness.
It could be, something happened in your head to make your ears spontaneously start ringing. (That sort of thing is common enough.) When that happened, your subconscious incorporated that ringing sensation, bringing it into your dream and transforming it into the sound of an explosion. Then when you woke up, your consciousness registered the actual ringing sensation.

It's fascinating, how elastic time is within a dreamstate. Your sleeping body can subconsciously register an actual sound in the real world and incorporate it into your dream; and, within dream, stretch out the duration of the sound and the events involved with it, making them seem to last for several minutes; even though, in reality, the actual sound lasts for only a few seconds.
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Old 02-15-2007, 06:36 PM   #7 (permalink)
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wow, very interesting stuff.

thanks for the responses.
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Old 02-15-2007, 07:33 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Occasionally I will hear a loud noise from within my head. It is a very loud burst, brief....and it is inside my head. I just ignore it.....though sometimes it might startle me. I just write it off as some kind of internal discharge.
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Old 06-18-2007, 12:05 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I have a similar and fairly common experience. It's not noise, but it's a jarring awakening. Often, just as I'm slipping into sleep, I'll have a psuedo-dream of falling a great distance. When i realize I can't stop myself I jerk awake, literally bouncing in my bed. I'd say this happens maybe 2 or 3 times a month.
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Old 12-13-2007, 06:26 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I'll resurrect this thread to share a similar experience that happened to me last night. Now, I've had come-and-go sleep paralysis for years, thought it has always been far from textbook symptomatically. Anyway, it's been a good long time since my last episode, pry over 6 months, but I had an episode again last night. Despite the length of time since it last happened I wouldn't normally write anything down about it, but this was by far the most bizarre episode that has ever occurred.

First, I was in the middle of my nights sleep when it occurred. This is extremely asymptomatic, as sleep paralysis almost categorically sets in as one is drifting off to sleep or waking from it. This time, however, is was after about 3 hours of normal dream-state sleep and I was pulled from my dream into the state of paralysis. Well, as odd as that was, I gradually worked my way out of it and right as I was about to break out of it completely I woke up again! That's right, that sleep paralysis, which woke me from a dream, only woke me into another dream in which I was suffering from sleep paralysis. Even more odd though is that this waking also found me waking up 3 hours into my evening's sleep and into a state of sleep paralysis; this time a real one. While I gradually worked my way out of it again and got up. I found my way to a glass of water and then back to bed.

Now, I've had repeat instances of sleep paralysis before in which I would be drifting off, work out of it, and then have it hit me again as I was drifting off again. I've even woken from dreams into other dreams, though extremely rarely and never into a sleep paralysis state. Whatsmore, I've never double-woken into sleep paralysis twice! Anyway, I'm not necessarily making any paranormal claims just saying that this is the most abnormal case I've ever suffered of it and I remember that there were a few here on the board that occasionally experienced the phenomena as well, so I thought I'd share with you all and get your thoughts, if you have any that is.
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Old 12-13-2007, 06:49 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Happened to me all the time as a kid.
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Old 12-13-2007, 06:54 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I sometimes snap out of falling asleep because of a feeling of falling into a dark pit akin to hell. Scares the crap out of me, but in hindsight, I always thought it was pretty cool. The mind always amazes me.
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Old 12-13-2007, 06:56 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I actually had a similar thing happen to me last night. It has been years since I last experienced sleep paralysis. What you experienced was very real to you because your mind and body registered all of the reactions it would have had if such a thing had happened - all you were missing was the initial trigger (the explosion).
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Old 12-13-2007, 07:01 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Not odd at all. I often wake up with my arms wrapped around my torso, feeling like my insides were about to rip open and fall out.
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Old 01-12-2008, 11:54 AM   #15 (permalink)
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something like that happened to me. i was sleeping and it was thurdering out. i woke up after a particularly loud thunderclap and i didnt know it had been thundering. what i heard in my head was an explosion that didnt sound anything like thunder, so i was really confused
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Old 01-12-2008, 01:16 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Just be glad you were not having a night terror. I figure I had one of those once. Once.
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Old 01-12-2008, 03:47 PM   #17 (permalink)
 
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I asked a doctor about this.
Myoclonic jerks..can cause that snapping loud sound..
A synapse overload of sorts, almost as if we build up
a static charge that needs to be released,
or simply an electrical glitch for an unknown reason.

It happens to me at times when I am overtired or stressed.
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Old 01-12-2008, 03:52 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Old 01-12-2008, 04:55 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Often, just as I'm slipping into sleep, I'll have a psuedo-dream of falling a great distance. When i realize I can't stop myself I jerk awake, literally bouncing in my bed.
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I sometimes snap out of falling asleep because of a feeling of falling into a dark pit akin to hell.
Interesting.. I get a version of that too sometimes. I don't dream that I am falling down, but I dream that I miss a step somehow, or that the ground is lower than I expect at some point (so I'm putting my foot down but not reaching the ground when I expect to). Then my leg physically jerks as if that was actually happening, and I wake up.
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Old 01-12-2008, 09:33 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Old 01-15-2008, 08:50 AM   #21 (permalink)
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I get a similar thing on occasion. Its a loud buzzing sound that gets me, as if a bee or fly has flown into my ear, and i jerk awake. It always seems to happen as im drifting off.

I remember someone telling me it was that Myoclonic jerk thing.

This thread has also reminded me that i had a nightmare last night, and for the life of me i cant remember what it was about
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