WEBVTT - What is exploding head syndrome? 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:04.800 Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuff Works 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:14.360 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.360 and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry Jerome 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.520 Roland over there. Uh, and this is stuff you should Know. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.400 For a second there, I thought you said Jerry the 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.639 drone Roland, and I was like, what a weird nickname? 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:32.120 Jerry talked like, oh as in droning. I was thinking 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.559 she was like a remote controlled playing with a camera attached. No, 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.440 that's not what I meant. Or that she was bombing 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:42.440 women and children. No, not that either. I didn't even 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.159 say that, I said, Jerry Jerome. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Okay, 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.600 you're feeling all right today? Yes? You? How is your sleep? 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:56.760 You know, dude, I have all but stopped drinking lately. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:01.800 Oh yeah, lately. Okay, And so I'm sleeping like a champ. Yeah, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.080 and waking up like a champ too, I imagine, right, 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.760 makes a big difference, especially at our age. Yeah, I've 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.920 only had the alcohol once in the past two weeks, 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.160 and um, I'm sleeping so good. I'm kind of like, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.960 I mean, I'm not quitting drinking. Let's be honest. I 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.280 mean it doesn't sound like you need to know, but 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.000 I it's uh, it just one day became two became three, 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.200 and I was sleeping like a champ. And this is 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.720 after a couple of nights of bad sleep due to 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.200 too much booze. So I'm like, man, that's kind of nice. Yeah, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.759 you're like, oh, yeah, life is enjoyable. I forgot. Yeah. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.400 So anyway, I think it's super healthy too. And you know, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.160 I have talked about this before. I think it's super 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.200 healthy to do at least a month out of the 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.840 year straight through where you're just like I'm not having 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.320 a drop. Oh yeah, yeah, this is good for you. Yeah. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.440 I had a couple of years ago. I went exactly 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.120 one month without a single drink and I still ate 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:03.280 like crap, didn't not exercise, and I dropped like thirteen pounds. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.920 Oh yeah, just from not consuming alcohol from beer. No, 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.280 I don't drink much beer, that's right. But I mean, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.040 you know gin and tonic, that's a ton of calories. Yeah, 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.799 that's I drink diet tonic when I haven't. You get 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.120 used to it, and there's good diet tonic out there, 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.040 Like you just have to treat yourself. I guess so, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.440 I've never diet tonic really tastes gross, like the swill 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.120 that they have in like the little Leader bottles. That's diet. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:31.959 That's what's good. Like the handmade brand fever Fever Tree. Yeah, 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.520 like the crafted stuff, like like artisan tonic. Yeah, tonic 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.760 for rich people. Yeah, the tonic made by a guy 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:43.120 who's mustaches waxed. We'll have to try that then, I 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.799 think you should. And yeah, it is expensive, but I 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.720 just don't. Don't drink eight gin and tonics, you know, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.800 or Jins and Tonic. What would Williams Sapphire say, Jen's 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.120 and Tonics? Probably. I told Emily the other day, I 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.640 was like, I wish you could drink into your mouth 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.600 and taste it and have a nice little effect afterwards, 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.600 and have it just leak out a tube in the 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.880 side of your body. I think that's called like a stoma, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.920 so you don't get the calories or the you know, 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.919 the lingering effects. And she said, yeah, it's probably good 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.880 that you're not drinking. You're like, no, really, let's flush 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.000 this out, Like there's gotta be a way to do it. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.639 So um, anyway, a long way of saying I'm sleeping 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:29.440 great I'm glad. I'm glad. Have you ever been falling asleep? 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:34.360 And uh, right as you were about to enter the 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.640 land of slumber, get your saw out, putting it to 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.720 a log. You haven't started sawing yet, but you're about to, 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.680 and then all of a sudden, boom and you ship 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.160 bowled up right. You're like, what what was that? I 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.760 don't think so I can tell you for a fact 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:52.960 that's never happened to me. Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.760 sure it's never happened to me. But um, unless I'm misremembering, 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.160 I just don't see how you could forget some thing 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.520 like this. It seems pretty significant, you know what. I agree. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:08.440 So we're talking about exploding head syndrome, which before we 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:13.040 started recording, you were angry. You weren't angry. I'm always angry. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.000 It's so not true. You were. No it is. I 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.440 need help. You were picking at the the name of 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:26.960 the syndrome because it's very overblown, to say the least, 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.040 exploding head syndrome. Uh what'd you say? It should have 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:39.040 been called? Uh? What crazy sound, sleepyhead, loud noise? What what? 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:44.320 What syndrome? Or I'm trying to sleep without work in 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:49.719 the morning syndrome, stupid brain. I could do this for 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:54.280 an hour. Maybe we should releast it as a blooper reel. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:05:01.240 So exploding head syndrome is a a nighttime hallucination. Also, 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.159 you can classify it as a parasomnia. Did we do 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.760 one specifically on sleep paralysis or just talk about it? 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:12.039 Aloe and Buddy? It deserves its own I can't believe 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.440 we haven't done it yet. I know we talked a 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:18.440 lot about it in sleepwalking, sleepwalking and cranial magnetics simulation. Yeah. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.400 I think we did one on sleep period too, didn't 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.839 we Or did we? I think so? It's hard to 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.880 recall we Yeah, but for the most part we have 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.600 skirted around it, and I think we should continue to 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.960 because I think it definitely deserves its own, its own episode. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.920 So we should continue to skirt around it. Yeah, by 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.640 not doing it? No, no, no no, I mean in this episode. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.160 You know what I mean? Yeah, I think it deserves 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:47.880 its own, freestanding, standalone, vertically integrated episode called, uh, what's 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.240 the deal with sleep paralysis? You got it? So this 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.920 is a nighttime hallucination or a parasomnia, like I said, 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.560 of which sleep paralysis is as well. That's all I'm 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.559 gonna say. Don't give it away. Uh And here's the deal. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.760 Like you described, you're either already asleep or I think 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.240 a little more typically falling asleep. Yeah. And you hear 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:15.919 a loud, loud booming sound like a gun or an explosion, 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.680 symbols crashing. That's a good one, something that catches your attention. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:24.000 What else? Um falling down the steps, A big person 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.680 carrying a drum set falling down the steps, right, one 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.080 of those one man bands falling down some status totally, 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.039 which everybody wants to see. Even if you don't have 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.920 like a meme bone in your body, you still kind 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:36.880 of want to see something like that, just for just 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.760 to see how it sounds and crazy. Yeah, it might 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.880 play a little tune you never know on the way down. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:48.800 Yeah right. Uh so it's just a genuine disorder. And 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:53.240 I did a little Facebook survey. Yeah, hats off to you, man, 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.159 you're basically a citizen scientist. Now we're did did were 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.960 with the Were the respondents all weird? Know? Were they weird? Stuff? 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.640 You should know? Followers? So they're I know what you mean, 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:11.360 the acronym weird both ways? Okay, they were neither no, 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.720 we have like a very wide demographic. It's great. Yeah, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.360 it is good. Uh. And basically I just said, has 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.760 anyone ever been afflicted with exploding head syndrome? Then I 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.360 explained it because a lot of people, as will find like, 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.720 responded with, oh my god, that's a thing. Yes, I 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.680 have it. That's really cool. That showed up in one 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.240 of the articles that we researched. Yeah. Um, and I 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.960 got about a hundred and fifty by the time I 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:43.040 cut it off respondents that said yes and wait him out. Huh, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.119 you've got a hundred and fifty yes responses to whether 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.280 or not, a hundred and fifty total responses including like 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.880 comments on responses, and I would guess probably a hundred 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:58.600 of those were affirmatives. That's amazing, and about seventy of 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.760 those are women. Did you notice how much reached that postcott? 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.680 Can you figure out, like roughly what percentage of people 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.960 who saw that responded? Well, we could, but I didn't 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.920 not take the time. Okay, this is still it's an 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.280 amazing response. Yeah, I mean, that's a lot a lot 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.560 of continent. That really wasn't that hard. But I think 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.120 it's neat shows a lot of initiative. It is neat Um. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.320 I got a lot of responses. Um. Meredith said, it 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.160 used to happen a lot, but now not so much. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:33.360 It's even worse when the baby is sleeping. Interesting because 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.880 she's worried that the baby's fallen out of the bed. Caitlin, 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.440 it happened only once. Um, yes, I have it frequently. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.080 From Melissa. Man, this is so bizarre, Lawrence said. I 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.320 tried to explain it to my family and they thought 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:50.280 I was crazy. Uh. It's more of a distant exploding 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.080 noise for me, though, doesn't startle, so that may not 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.559 be it. And a few of these made that might 0:08:55.600 --> 0:09:02.000 be the mining operation off the A County. Uh, Sue. Yes, 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.160 it sounds like a gunshot, no paint or anything like that, 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:08.440 but it is startling. Most people in here. Crack of 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.200 a baseball bat hitting a ball from Christie Anne. Yeah, 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.240 you're right. They are mostly women. Huh. Yeah, I mean 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.400 there's dudes in here too. I'm just not reading those. Um. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.760 Here's a guy, Adam. Not well, not exactly, Jonathan, Yes, 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:27.240 I live near a train all right, guys. Let's Jeffrey. Yes, 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.480 I have it. I thought there was something seriously wrong. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.079 With me. But then I heard the term on a 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.120 radio story and I realized what was happening. It's a 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.680 huge relief. So what what all these people are saying? 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.480 And this is this is astounding, right like it is. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.760 What you're reading directly reflects what we found in our 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.400 research for this article. Right. They has been published here. 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:53.080 They're very scatter shot in um in medical journals and 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.040 look for Chuck study. By the way, in the lance 0:09:55.080 --> 0:10:00.120 at this fall um that that this is the or 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.960 and this is the description or the experience of exploding 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:07.400 head syndrome. Yeah, no pain, no, nothing more than an 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.160 inconvenience really other than I guess I could like trigger 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.560 a heart attack. Yeah, and and that's one of the 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.440 associated symptoms. So you're falling asleep, you're almost about to sleep, 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.800 suddenly there's a very loud, sharp noise in your head, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.240 but it's just in your head, but it wakes you, 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.959 arouses you very suddenly and usually scares the but Jesus 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.200 out of you for techycardia or very faster I regular 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.480 heartbeat is is one of the reported symptoms um of 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.760 exploding head syndrome. Yeah, they can. It can go on 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.320 a bunch of knights in a row. It can be 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.400 very sporadic, can happen once once, it never happened again, 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:49.520 yea one of those. Yeah. Yeah, and it's unusual that, um, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.440 a few people said it happened when I was a kid, 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.160 because it seems like it does not happen that often 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:59.120 with children. No, there's but it can one reported at 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.080 least one report in case of a ten year old. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:05.480 But apparently it mostly seems to on set in the 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:10.480 fifties person's fifties, and that women tend to be at 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.720 a higher risk for it, as your findings suggest. Yeah, 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.240 and I did not, Um, I didn't like be a 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.559 creep and trying to determine how old these people were. Okay, 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.560 I wasn't like cool this. This dude looks like he's 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.840 his lady's got to be sixty. Just left that one alone. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:29.520 You know, I thought you were gonna say like you 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.080 weren't going to be a creep by being like you 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.679 smell nice to like every response. This guy can't tell 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.000 because he just has an avatar of Immortal Kombat character, 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:44.319 which means he's like forty oh ouch, should we take 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:56.600 a break? Yeah, all right, let's do it, all right? 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.680 Where does all this come from? Sir, comes from your head? 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.040 Where was his first described? Sir? Oh, back in the 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:09.960 I think eighteen seventies. There's a guy for standby for 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.120 the most eighteen seventies name you'll here today, Silas Weir Mitchell. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.240 And he was a physician who apparently was a magnet 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.720 for exploding head syndrome. Well, he described several cases of 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.079 his among his patients. Um and he was, as far 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.520 as anyone knows, the first in the medical literature to 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.440 describe exploding head syndrome. He didn't call it that though, 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.839 he called them sensory discharges. But way he described is 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.560 clearly what we now understand is exploding head syndrome. Yeah, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.240 he had one patient called Mr V. That's who he 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:46.640 called it. It him right. The guy's real name was 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.280 Mr V spelled v E, but he abbreviated his Mr VU. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.439 He said he experienced a quote sense of a pistol 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.720 shot or a blow on the head end quote and uh. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.400 He complained of a noise in my head, which is 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.640 sometimes like the sound of a bell which has been 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.319 struck once or else I hear a loud noise which 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.600 is most like that of a guitar string rudely struck 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:14.320 which breaks with a twang. And I presume he did 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:21.240 not live above a folk singing cafe. Man, you know 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.120 what you do when you live above one of those? 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:28.439 You move? Yeah? Uh so like you said, um Silas 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.800 went on to say, it's a snapping of the brain. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.959 Then a little bit later and well a little bit, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:40.280 that's a lot of it. Neurologists from uh the UK 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:45.599 named John MS Pierce of Whole Royal Infirmary. Man, that 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.160 is a super British and in the Lancet. Yeah, one 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.959 of the great medical journals. Uh, he is the one 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.880 I believe that gave it its name. Correct. Yeah, we 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:59.680 can really lay the misunderstanding at this guy's feet forgiving 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.360 it this awesome name. He was like, that's I'm gonna 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.360 celebrate finishing this paper and naming it Exploding head Syndrome 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:13.440 by watching Miami Vice. That was still one. I don't know, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.480 did you watch that sometimes? It was a little a 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.760 little old for me, Yeah, probably, Like I was like, man, 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.680 that boat is so fast. Man, that guy's blazers so pastel. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.840 That was about the extent of Miami Vice for me. Yeah, 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.760 that was kind of the extent of the show. It 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.720 wasn't it was good? I watched it. It was Michael Mann. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:38.200 Wasn't it like a Michael Mayn movie every every week? 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.760 That's pretty awesome. Yeah, I mean he I think he 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:45.400 got it going and then oh state executive producer. It 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.480 might be wrong. I don't know, who knows. I think 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.000 he did the movie version to like the remake years 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.840 surely he did, which I did not. I mean, it's 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.840 got him written all over it, so I think that 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.040 was his best point. Oh yeah, good movie. Although did 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.240 he do to Live in Diane l A? I don't know. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.040 I love that movie though. If he didn't, he should have. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.080 But that's a great movie. I think that might have 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:10.840 been him. You're correct or no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Chuck. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:12.760 I know that this is a tangent. I'm trying to 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.920 avoid it, but I just can't let it stand. I 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:21.760 think that Michael Man accused whoever did to Live and 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:26.280 Die in l A of ripping him off somehow. Yeah, 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:32.400 is that correct, I'm pretty sure, which means not necessarily. Well, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.280 I had a great theme song, I know that. Yeah. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.320 Wang Chung Baby. They were one of those bands from 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.760 the eighties where you're like, oh, these guys were actually 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.320 way more talented than their decade. Give him credit for 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.360 It's not Michael Man. Okay, so Michael Man accused whoever 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.320 did that of ripping him off for some reason. William Friedkin, 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:55.400 he didn't. He direct The Exorcist all over the place. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:16:01.080 He's got some cajones after Billy Freakin. Um, how do 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:05.800 we get on that Miami advice? So let's go over 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.400 some stats. It was a study in of BO we 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.600 talked about bad studies, two hundred and eleven college students. Okay, 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:20.280 so your study already trumps this one sort of. Actually yeah, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.520 not even sort of. I would say legitimately the study 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.640 you conducted is better than the one you're about to 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:30.040 talk about. Eighteen percent of people experienced it um according 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:35.040 to this survey, But most experts say that's probably high 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:39.200 because um, these are college students. They don't get a 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.520 lot of sleep, and that can affect you know, whether 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.040 or not you have this disorder or think you have it. Yeah, 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.640 people who are sleep deprivate are more likely to have it. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.120 I think. Yeah, psychiatric patients UM tend to have a 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:55.080 little more and more. If you're talking about ten percent 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.960 which is I think what generally people have settled on, 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.760 you know, yeah, but just a little more like three 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.600 percent more four percent more than the average healthy population. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.400 You know, something I thought was very weird that I saw, um, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:14.800 people with other sleep disorders have it less frequently. Yeah, 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.240 it's about ten percent of people with sleep disorders have 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.960 exploding head syndrome, but like tenot eight percent of the 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.760 general healthy population has it. So if you suffer from 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.800 the one that we dare not speak its name, then 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.480 you are less likely to have this I guess so. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.720 But apparently it does happen in conjunction frequently, just not 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.760 as frequently as people in the general population who have 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:41.320 just exploding head syndrome. Uh what else? There's some people 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.720 describe a physical sensation as well, like an electrical shot 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.600 of sorts. Yeah, we should say, I don't know if 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.040 we said it really explicitly enough, Like when you have 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.560 this sound that wakes you up as you're about to 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.240 fall asleep, and it is very clearly the sound of 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.919 an explosion or symbols crashing or a gun shot like again, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.880 and you're you're not there's no associated pain, right like 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.520 very most frequently the only physical symptom is your heart 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.960 pounding because you're scared to death. It would just be 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.600 like if someone came in with symbols in your bedroom 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.280 and smash them together, but you would wake up and 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.680 say you're a jerk, but you wouldn't be in pain. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:24.960 Go back to bed, Stanley. But I think like there's 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.159 not even the attendant like pain in your ears. I 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.600 think it's strictly in your head. So there's like almost 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.879 no physical sensation except for the electrical thing you're about. 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.600 The electrical shock just that, and that's only in some people. 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.879 And it's literally just a feeling of a current that 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:47.159 starts at your torso or so and torso or so 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.560 I didn't even mean that, uh and it travels up 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:57.040 to the head, but again not everyone. Uh So. I 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.520 think it's the interesting part of this. I mean, that's interesting, 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.159 but is where this possibly comes from? And like the 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:21.919 process of going to sleep? All right? Friend? Oh, we 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.000 definitely I think did a show on sleep, but as 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.760 a recap, we we did. You're right, Um, it must 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.040 not have been very memorable when you're when you go 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:36.080 to sleep, it's not an instantaneous thing. As you likely know. 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.639 You fall asleep and they call it that for a reason. 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.000 It's a it's a process. Yeah, if your body kind 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.399 of shutting down. This has never really thought about that before, 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.320 but that's that's a pretty accurate description. Otherwise they would 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:53.040 call it, Yeah, what were you going to finding yourself asleep? 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.520 I don't know. That's probably not right either, or just 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:05.280 becoming sleep, Yeah, there's inst to sleep. Are we doing 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.280 good on this one? And not so much? All right? No, 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.200 we are. We're fine. We're getting the facts out, we're 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.879 just in in cloaking them with a lot of bs. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:19.240 That's fine, all right. So when you fall asleep, your 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:25.159 your your body slowly shuts down. Um, and the brain 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.080 is is kind of closing down each little store. Yeah, 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:33.680 if it's a let's say your brain is a small town. Okay, 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.560 it's closing each store. Your brain is Sam the night 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:43.720 Watchman from Today's Special walking around shutting lights out? Right? Yes? 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:47.000 Do you remember that show? Now? It was probably way 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:52.199 too young for you. It's called Today's Special, Kitch And 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.640 what was the idea that every day Special? Uh? There 0:20:55.720 --> 0:21:00.080 was like a mannequin that came alive and just it 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.680 was weird. Yeah, that sounds like a nightmare. It took. 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.560 It was set at at night in like a department store. 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.000 I think, Oh okay, so I guess today's special might 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.400 have been like what was on sale? I was kind 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.320 of young. That reminds me of my favorite book as 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.800 a child that I read, The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper. 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:21.440 Well I don't I never read that one. It was wonderful. 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:25.760 It was about three, I think three mice in New 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:29.560 York City that broke into Macy's department store and lived 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:33.359 there and had great adventures in the department store overnight, 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.000 and Santa was kidnapped, and it's up to these mice 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.480 to solve the crime. Oh wow. And it was my 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:43.280 first like book, you know. It wasn't a ten page 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:45.959 picture book. It was a book book, of course, one 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:47.920 I really read and was like, wow, this is amazing. 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:50.640 Were the mice up to the challenge? What do you think? 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:59.240 I don't know. No, Santa died. I totally forgot about 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.320 that book. What a great memory. That's why I'm glowing 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:08.720 right now. Um, And you can enjoy it because you've 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:10.840 been off the sauce for a little while, you've been 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:14.719 getting good sleep. I'm lucid. Uh So when you are 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:18.359 making that transition into sleep from being awake. Your your 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:20.600 brain is closing down the little shop stores one at 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.840 a time. And when you have exploding e h s. 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:27.919 That is, there's there's something that happens. There's a glitch 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:32.240 in the matrix essentially where somewhere along that path of 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:34.920 your brain walking around shutting it down, it just sort 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:38.680 of trips up. Yeah. Um. So the part of your 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:42.120 brain that is responsible for shutting things down bit by bit, 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:47.680 region by region, it's called the brainstem reticular formation, very 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:51.680 ancient part of your brain, right, um. And they think 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.720 that something goes wrong, like you're saying, when it's going 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:58.120 through its duties and there's a glitch. And but the 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:02.480 glitch that happens is the alpha waves that are associated 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:07.639 with the beginning of relaxing for sleep are are suppressed, 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:13.520 and suddenly there's a huge burst of neural activity in 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:19.320 the region associated with hearing. So your your brain has 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:21.840 a glitch. Your brain stem has a glitch while it's 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:26.800 shutting your brain down for sleep, and you hallucinate a 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:30.880 very loud sound that startles you awake. That's exploding head syndrome. 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:35.159 Right as far as total hallucination, it doesn't exist, that 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:39.919 you're the neurons in your in the region associated with 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:44.119 hearing going haywire. Yeah, it's crazy. It is. What's crazy 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:47.399 to me, though, Chuck, is that it's a glitch in 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:52.359 in your system. But that's it. It can happen in 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:54.439 different people. It's not like one person is like a 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:58.440 malfunctioning like part of their brain stem. Like that process 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:01.720 can malfunction and exact actually the same way across people. 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:04.879 It says something about the architecture of the brain. What 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.800 it says I don't know, but it surely says something 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:11.480 that that that glitch can happen in different people in 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:14.119 the same way. I just think that's fascinating. It totally is, 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:17.320 And that theory that we talked about is well, first 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:19.960 of all, they don't know for sure because it's so 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:25.840 rare and it's such a non uh. I mean it's invasive, 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:29.880 but it's not threatening. Uh. Yeah, that they You don't 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:31.560 spend a lot of time studying stuff like this if 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:34.800 it's not super threatening. No, but they used to think 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:38.520 it's rare. They don't necessarily know if it's rare any longer. 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:42.480 It's just it hasn't been studied for like there's been 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:46.280 basically four five papers on it, so no one cares 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:50.400 apparently not because it's not life threatening at all. It's 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:53.440 not even harmful. It's a benign condition. It's just very 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:56.159 surprising and apparently people learn to live with it at 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.600