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barefootwizard
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"exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics
#21677692 - 05/14/15 05:14 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Last night i ingested a low-medium dose of mushrooms, and had a lovely trip. About 5 hours in i decided to call it a night and go to bed, the trip was dying and i was exhausted. I tried to go to sleep for a long time, as sleeping is often hard for me within 8 hours of ingesting, but i was getting there. I was just drifting off when i heard this bang, like a shout mixed with a gunshot. My head felt like it was being zapped and jolted, like my brain had been shaken arojnd in the brain case and i could literally hear the crunch, i got a hell of a fright. My first thought was "oh my god ive had a stroke, a brain bleed, shit im having a seizure" but nothing happened after that.
Today i googled it and found out its called "exploding head syndome" and is fairly common. However its never hapoened to me before, just last night while on/coming down from mushrooms.
Has anyone had this? Im curious as to whether this wasbought on by psychedelics and trying to sleep when my mind wanted sleep but my body was still a bit wired.
-------------------- “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” - Alan Watts
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: barefootwizard]
#21677794 - 05/14/15 06:07 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sounds like a false alarm. Had your head exploder, you wouldn't be able to write threads.
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: Matt87]
#21677814 - 05/14/15 06:20 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Matt87 said: Sounds like a false alarm. Had your head exploder, you wouldn't be able to write threads.
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: barefootwizard]
#21677988 - 05/14/15 07:42 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've had this sober as well as on various substances. Psychs and weed seem to exacerbate it a lot. It isn't necessarily dangerous, it just scares the shit out of you when you're trying to sleep lol. I'd say you're ok as it's only happened once while on a psych so that really narrows things down.
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: galindoi]
#21678011 - 05/14/15 07:51 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've had it sober while trying to fall asleep years ago. Nothing wrong with it.
At first I thought you were talking about hearing like lighting Thunder booms while on mushrooms. Now I've had that, deep loud sounds, bangs vibrations. Deep robotic tones and beeps boops. Deep voices.
You guys know what I'm satin? That deep voice/noises you get sometimes when trippin mad on muskies. Is that common the same deepness
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: MajickMuffin]
#21679724 - 05/14/15 04:57 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I had this once while going to bed one night after coming down from Ayahuasca. I laid down with my eyes closed for a few minutes, and all of a sudden heard a loud crashing or explosion type sound that also caused a bright green flash of light. I jumped up and nothing was there, looked all over and didn't see anything wrong, so i laid back down to go to sleep, but then a few minutes later it happened again, i heard a loud crash/explosion sound and saw a bright green flash through my eyelids and when i jolted up out of bed i saw a dissipating green orb that looked like it had exploded like a firework and dissipated with trails coming down.
Weird experience, scared the shit out of me, but never had it happen again though.
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barefootwizard
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: Trypto-Fan]
#21679945 - 05/14/15 05:50 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Matt87 said: Sounds like a false alarm. Had your head exploder, you wouldn't be able to write threads.

Oh well thats a relief! I had a feeling my head may have partially exploded but couldnt be sure
Good to know others have experienced this. I was quite reassurd to know its nothing serious, but it was certainly freaky, especially as i was still sort of tripping!
Majikmuffin i can relate to those voices, ive had them on varoius psychedlics, seems to come on when im lying in the dark, deep voices that seem to be speaking gibberish.
Sabnock, i had a bit of a flash also, not green just a quick white flash, like a spark. May have just been me waking up. Maybe youve had a freaky alien encounter! 
I have a feeling it must have been bought on by the mushies, i mean ive had much weirder experiences while tripping so hearing a loud noise certainly isnt too surprising :p
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: barefootwizard]
#21680172 - 05/14/15 06:45 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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In all seriousness I've had this before, not as physically extreme, but more like very loud fictional noises that startle me, and I'm a little concerned for a while, but I always put it down to hypnogogic phenomena.
Never knew it was an actual 'syndrome'
Some very strange things happen in the borderlands between sleep and wakefulness, especially when drugs are involved.
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: Trypto-Fan]
#21680403 - 05/14/15 07:44 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I had no idea either! Until i googled it and found out its not that uncommon. Apparently "exploding head syndrome is thought to be highly connected with stress and extreme fatigue in most individuals." Which i guess makes sense, because while id had a lovely relaxing trip, by the end i was exhausted mentally and psysically, not to mention that day id spent hours walking up and down hills on a mushroom hunt. By the end of the trip i wanted to sleep so bad but i couldnt, so that was stressing me out i suppose.
I do agree, its a fascinating thing. ive definitley had abnormal things happen to me during the night on psychedelics. Only twice have i ever been able to sleep during/soon after a trip but both times were very strange.
-------------------- “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” - Alan Watts
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: barefootwizard]
#21680463 - 05/14/15 07:56 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Matt87 said: Sounds like a false alarm. Had your head exploder, you wouldn't be able to write threads.

Oh well thats a relief! I had a feeling my head may have partially exploded but couldnt be sure
Good to know others have experienced this. I was quite reassurd to know its nothing serious, but it was certainly freaky, especially as i was still sort of tripping!
Majikmuffin i can relate to those voices, ive had them on varoius psychedlics, seems to come on when im lying in the dark, deep voices that seem to be speaking gibberish.
Sabnock, i had a bit of a flash also, not green just a quick white flash, like a spark. May have just been me waking up. Maybe youve had a freaky alien encounter! 
I have a feeling it must have been bought on by the mushies, i mean ive had much weirder experiences while tripping so hearing a loud noise certainly isnt too surprising :p
Yea. The voices don't speak English, but it's so strange.... I recognize the language they speak in, I almost understand what they are saying. So wierd. Often I even go into trances while on mushrooms, for example, staring into the clouds, and I begin to speak in some foreign language. No language I've ever heard, but it sounds just fucking right.
Also, to the guy who said he seen the green flashes, I've had a similar thing happen while on a Mushroom trip. Though it was like a shock of lighting, but I could not see any light. It was just a vibration, like Thunder, as loud as Thunder a few feet away from me. I could see it, but it was like a dark form, I can'treally explain it. Then a while llayter it came and blasted right in my ear. Was playing gGTA 5 online with my bud, who was also tripping at the time. He had the same thing happen to him, at the same time. Holy fuck.
GTA 5 is so fucking glitch while tripping on shrooms
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barefootwizard
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: MajickMuffin]
#21681349 - 05/15/15 12:01 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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The gibberish has become an integral part of my trip now. I speak absolute nonsense in my head but it almost sounds like its something/someone else saying the words, because i know what i want to say but it comes out differently and i cant control. On my last trip where this exploding head thing happened i was feeling so comfortable whatever position i lay in and meant to say in my hesd "every position is the most comfortable" but what came out was "every nunshwag is the nillynonschwinch" and it just sounded right! All the gibberish i speak in my head sounds like my primary language, and english sounds so wrong and unfamiliar. Its kind of cool to replace that constant verbal chatter with just meaningless noises, because after all thats what our language was to us before we learned it!
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Re: "exploding head syndrome" and psychedelics [Re: barefootwizard]
#21682005 - 05/15/15 07:36 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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This happened to me like a week ago! I was up ALL night xtracting and thought I was in the mood to smoke some at like 6 am after a full night of work and being up the whole previous day. I was superrr tired, pretty much falling asleep in-between tokes. My head popped and it was one of those 'headaches' that pulling your hair out of your head actually feels good. Reading how heavy fatigue can cause it and coupling it with something as strong as dmt and it all makes sense now lol
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