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Sep. 30th, 2025 04:09 pmI hate. Hate. Hate. Medical terminology. So much sometimes.
if you have named a sleep disorder something that requires five out of six searchable sources of information to have something on the order of "Despite the name, the condition is harmless" as the SECOND LINE OF THE ARTICLE, then maybe, JUST MAYBE, you should consider renaming the disorder to something a LITTLE less disquieting than Exploding Head Syndrome!
(It's a parasomnia, a type of sleep disorder involving abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, or dreams. Sleepwalking, talking in your sleep, night terrors, etc. are all parasomnias. Exploding head syndrome just happens to have the worst possible name, because the diagnostic cases involved people waking out of a sound sleep from an auditory hallucination of a SUDDEN AND HORRIFYINGLY LOUD NOISE. From what I've read about the condition it's at least several hundred years old- the oldest recognizable description of it is in a 1691 biography of Rene Descartes, with the definition of the disorder dating to the 1870s and the official naming of the condition being done by a neurologist in 1989. No damage, pain, or other serious issues involved, just an incredibly distressing name.)
(... oh, yeah, long story short, I woke up ten minutes before my alarm went off because my brain decided I REALLY needed to hear the sound of somebody hammering on the doorbell as loudly as physically possible. I've had other cases of my brain doing this to me before, with all kinds of different, singular loud noises. It's been months since the last EHS incident, though.)
if you have named a sleep disorder something that requires five out of six searchable sources of information to have something on the order of "Despite the name, the condition is harmless" as the SECOND LINE OF THE ARTICLE, then maybe, JUST MAYBE, you should consider renaming the disorder to something a LITTLE less disquieting than Exploding Head Syndrome!
(It's a parasomnia, a type of sleep disorder involving abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, or dreams. Sleepwalking, talking in your sleep, night terrors, etc. are all parasomnias. Exploding head syndrome just happens to have the worst possible name, because the diagnostic cases involved people waking out of a sound sleep from an auditory hallucination of a SUDDEN AND HORRIFYINGLY LOUD NOISE. From what I've read about the condition it's at least several hundred years old- the oldest recognizable description of it is in a 1691 biography of Rene Descartes, with the definition of the disorder dating to the 1870s and the official naming of the condition being done by a neurologist in 1989. No damage, pain, or other serious issues involved, just an incredibly distressing name.)
(... oh, yeah, long story short, I woke up ten minutes before my alarm went off because my brain decided I REALLY needed to hear the sound of somebody hammering on the doorbell as loudly as physically possible. I've had other cases of my brain doing this to me before, with all kinds of different, singular loud noises. It's been months since the last EHS incident, though.)
