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I have a weird auditory illusion that happens to me ; I have tinnitus, and a super weird auditory response thing that happens to me occassionally:

So when I cant hear the high-pitched tinnitus squeal (very low volume, but still hear it) - there is something weird that happens which is that I can "hear" some sort of radio station - which plays music in the really faintest and far away sounding volume...

The other thing that happens, is that when laying in bed, attempting to sleep - there are times that when the house makes a "creak" sound of settling or whatever (you know how your wall may 'pop' or 'creak' at times - but the weird thing is that it simultaneously coincides with a pop and a flinch of my body, or 'sound' in my head.

There are times when this happens and I get a bright flash in my closed-eyes...

Anyone know what this is? Sodium defficiency? or aliens?

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The sleep noise could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome.

I read about it on Hacker News, and then later realized I had it... and now I can't un-hear it!

I also hear music when there's white noise around me (white noise maker machines or a showerhead). That one is called Musical Ear Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_ear_syndrome

Uhm is there a community of "us that we hear about"

EDIT HOLY FN SHIT:

>* A similar occurrence is seen with strokes of the visual cortex where a visual field defect occurs and the brain conjures a piece of visual data to fill the spot. *

When I turned 45 (I am 48) - I began seeing "floaters"

Could micro-floaters in vison (in my right eye) perhaps indicate micro-strokes? or future-strokes...

I am serious - need to look into this.

Radio receivers in your head! https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3638/is-it-poss...

Also perhaps most famously: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lucille-ball-fillings-spie...

I don't hear radio stations, you might want to get your antenna checked. But I get the same sounds when I am laying in bed before I fall asleep and they also coincide with twitches or flinches and sometimes visual flashes.

EDIT: I said "radio station" only because thats what most would recognize... its not a radio station its just a really really faint sound of music playing - like jazz or something. its too dim to make out.

ALSO - eveyone should checkout mynoise.net

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Yes!

This literally usally happens right on the cusp of falling asleep...

I equated it to what I had read a long time ago that "in order for one to fall asleep the body shuts down the sensory systems, and the last one to turn off prior to sleep is hearing"

So I thought that it was caused by the creaks hitting my ears at time of turning asleep -- but it happens when even I am not fully asleep.

But the body twitches really freak me out. I'll basically hit 'asleep' and Ill have a flash in my internal vision (white light looking like an iris of an eye is best way to say it) - and a full body twitch, it jolts me back awake.

The morbid thought in my head is that this may be associated with sleep apnia and my body twitching back 'alaive' after stopping breathing ; however - this happens when I am not even fully asleep...

So I am at a loss - I presume it is a vitamin defficiency, so I just bout some multi-Vs this week...

The twitch right as you are falling asleep is known as a hypnic jerk. The flash of light may be related to exploding head syndrome. The faint "music" could be tinnitus, some electric device (speakers, guitar amp, etc.) picking up an AM or shortwave radio station, or just your brain making up (or playing back) music as you drift off to sleep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome

THANK YOU

Hypnic jerk is my thing, and im male - and have all the halmarks such as chronic insomnia, but just started melatonin.

But wow - yeah it scares the heck out of me, yet the wiki says "benign" so that is thankful...

A morbid dark, intrusive thought that has happened to me when these occur is that my heart stopped due to sleep apnia and that I was startling myself back alive...

however these occur even when I am not yet asleep and in twilight mode.

SIDS ;;

This reminds me of what the believe the cause of SIDS to be: a pocket of co2 around the infants breathing-bubble where they are just recirculating the CO2.

So, I wonder if the infants dont yet have the ability to startle themselves back awake... but adults do.

I have had two people close to me who have had SDIS babies, and its horrifying.

A small crib fan may prevent CO2 bubbles...

The flash thing sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

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