Reading a Something Awful topic about lucid dreaming in APES, I stumbled upon a post asking about what a certain symptom was, which happened to perfectly describe what’s happened to me a few times when sleeping:
“Sometimes when I’m really tired and trying to fall asleep, I’ll feel a little confused and suddenly get these powerful bursts of static noise in my brain that end up shocking me back into consciousness.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
(what an awesome name for a medical item)
“Exploding head syndrome is a rare condition first reported by a British physician in 1988[1] that causes the sufferer to occasionally experience a tremendously loud noise as if from within his or her own head, usually described as an explosion or a roar.”
Well damn, describes it perfectly.
“The cause of exploding head syndrome is not known, though some physicians have reported a correlation with stress or extreme fatigue. “
“Attacks appear to increase and decrease in frequency over time, with several attacks occurring in a space of days or weeks followed by months of remission.”
Even more perfectly. They seemed to happen more often during Junior year and the first semester Senior year, a few times a week, then nothing for a month or two. Conveniently timed around the most stressful period of high school with junior year’s hard schedule, followed by college applications…
It hasn’t happened for a while now, but it’s nice to know that I’m not that crazy 
<3
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