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exploding head syndrome is an actual medical condition, a variant of normal, in which people experience abrupt jolts that feel electric in quality and aurally (like a thunderclap) while drifting off to sleep that about 10 percent of the population experiences. It's not known to be related to any medical condition or other situation. It merely make it momentarily difficult to get to sleep.


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I get this often. I'm almost asleep and then it feels like I get an electric shock and I am suddenly wide awake. I realize that I was basically about to fall asleep and lose consciousness, but then I'm jolted back into being awake. I never knew that it was a syndrome. So I can say that I have "exploding head syndrome"? Is that the real term for it?